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1 Five Things to Know in Top Genres Kaite Mediatore Stover, Director of Readers Services, Kansas City Public Library Becky Spratford, RA for All Rebecca Vnuk, Editor for Collection Management and Library Outreach, Booklist

2 Why this Program Exists Sometimes, we just need quick answers for patrons who want a good book. Having a brain full of books in different genres makes the RA experience a lot less intimidating!

3 SEE: PLA 2010, 2012, 2014,

4 Today s Categories Are Of course, there are any number of genres we could have decided on as top genres. For today s program, we present: Thrillers Horror Science Fiction

5 5 things to know in each genre Must-Know Authors Must-Know Books Up-and-comers Top trends Our personal favorites!

6 Thrillers: Five Must-Know Authors Michael Crichton Science is out to get you. Tom Clancy The Military is out to get you. John le Carre Interpol is out to get you. Gillian Flynn She s out to get you. John Grisham--Corporate lawyers are out to get you.

7 Thrillers:

8 Thrillers: Five Must-Know Books

9 Thrillers: Five Must-Know Books

10 Thrillers: Five Up-and-Coming Authors Mary Kubica Laura McHugh Holly Brown Susan Crawford Wendy Walker

11 Thrillers: Top 5 Trends Get Gone, Girl

12 Thrillers: Top 5 Trends Get Gone, Girl

13 Thrillers: Top 5 Trends Family Nightmare

14 Thrillers: Top 5 Trends Family Nightmare

15 Thrillers: Top 5 Trends Have Passport, Will Thrill

16 Thrillers: Top 5 Trends Have Passport, Will Thrill

17 Thrillers: Top 5 Trends Audio Originals

18 Thrillers: Top 5 Trends Audio Originals

19 Thrillers: Top 5 Trends Historical Thrillers

20 Thrillers: Top 5 Trends Historical Thrillers

21 Thrillers: Five of Kaite sfavorites

22 Thrillers: Five of Kaite sfavorites

23 Horror: Becky Spratford

24 Stephen King Dean Koontz Anne Rice H P Lovecraft Ramsey Campbell Horror: Five Classic Authors

25 Horror: Five Must-Know Books

26 Horror: Five Must-Know Books

27 Horror: Five Up-and-Coming Authors Joe Hill Jonathan Maberry Sarah Pinborough Jonathan Janz Paul Tremblay

28 Horror: Top 5 Trends Weird Fiction

29 Horror: Top 5 Trends Science Fiction and Horror Team Up

30 Horror: Top 5 Trends Horrific Women

31 Horror: Top 5 Trends Return to a Pulp Sensibility

32 Horror: Top 5 Trends Horror on Audio

33 Horror: Five of Becky s Favorites

34 Horror: Five of Becky s Favorites

35 Science Fiction: Rebecca

36 Science Fic: Five Classic Authors Philip K. Dick Isaac Asimov Arthur C. Clarke Ray Bradbury Kim Stanley Robinson

37 Science Fic: Must-Read Books A Twist Rather than 5 books, try 5 stories from each of these anthologies, and you ll be up to speed on the basics of SF. (You ll probably find yourself reading more than 5, even.) (Coming July 2016)

38 Science Fic: Five Up-and-Comers Daniel O Malley Dexter Palmer Holly Jennings (debut 2016) Steve Toutonghi(debut 2016) Elizabeth Bonesteel(debut 2016)

39 Science Fic: Top 5 Trends Techno-Geeks

40 Science Fic: Top 5 Trends Diversity

41 Science Fic: Top 5 Trends It s the End of the World as We Know It

42 Science Fic: Top 5 Trends YA SF

43 Science Fic: Top 5 Trends Genre-blending SF/Thrillers

44 Science Fic: Five of Rebecca s Favorites

45 Science Fic: Five of Rebecca s Favorites

46 Using Novelist for Genre Help

47 Using Novelist for Genre Help

48 Using Novelist for Genre Help

49 Using Booklist for Genre Help

50 Using Booklist for Genre Help

51 Any Questions?

Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation series. His other major works include the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series.

Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation series. His other major works include the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series. Isaac Asimov was a professor of biochemistry and one of the most prolific writers of all time. Along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, he was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction