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Have you ever found a book you really like? A book that has transported you to a special world with engaging and fascinating characters that you are disappointed to have to leave at the closing of the final chapter?

Authors understand how almost devastating that can be; and so to help their readers out (and also to sell more books!) they often write books as parts of series. If you come in in the middle of a series you often want to read more, and it's best if you can start at the beginning most of the time.

It is often harder than you might think to work out which order the books were written - series are often not numbered, and books are even written and published out of order. We've all heard of prequels!

A librarian recommended a website to me the other day, which is designed by Kent District Library in Michigan specifically to help out with reading in series. It's called What's Next?: Books In Seriesâ„¢ Database of Kent District Library.

It says, "Our What's Next?: Books In Seriesâ„¢ database helps you search series fiction. A series is two or more books linked by character(s), settings, or other common traits." It is searchable by author, title or series and you can further limit searches by Adult or Youth and by a wide variety of genres. Search results list books in the order they occur in the series, so it's easy to start at the beginning and read in the "proper" order.

I'm going to put a link in my list of recommended sites and leave it up there for you for a while. Check it out! It's free and Kent District Library welcome links to their site.

Labels: Kent District Libraty, series fiction, What's Next