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Reading lists
Book Prizes & Promotions
- Arthur C Clarke Prize 2015
- Surrey Children's Book Award 2016
- Costa Book Awards 2014
- Desmond Elliott Prize 2015
- Folio Prize
- Green Carnation Prize 2015
- Impac Prize 2016
- Prizewinners' Collection
- Royal Society Prize
- Titles from author talks
- Wellcome Book Prize
- Wodehouse Prize 2015
- Women's Prize 2015
Reading Well
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Books to lose yourself in
- Chronic Fatigue
- Dementia
- Depression
- Eating Disorders
- Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and the Menopause
- Obsessions and Compulsions
- Pain
- Panic Attacks
- Phobias
- Pre-Menstrual Tension
- Relationships
- Self Esteem
- Shelf Help - Books for Young Adults
- Sleep
- Stress
A selection of themed junior reading lists
- Books about penguins for the under 5s
- Picture books without words
- Poems and books in rhyme for National Poetry Day
- Quentin Blake a celebration
- Story sacks - for staff use only
Domestic Abuse
- Abuse in LGBT relationships
- Books for Professionals working with victims of domestic abuse
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Abuse and children
- Domestic Abuse fiction for children
- Domestic Abuse fiction for teens
- Domestic Abuse non-fiction for children and teens
- Emotional Abuse
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Forced Marriage
- Honour-based violence
- Information for men who are in an abusive relationships
- Perpetrators
- Talk about domestic abuse
Dyslexia and reluctant readers - Information for parents, carers and readers
- Information about dyslexia for dyslexic readers
- Information about dyslexia for parents and carers
- Reluctant teen readers
- Little Gems - for interest ages 6-9
- Interest ages 8-12
H G Wells
Alternative Histories - October: Black History Month
- Biographies and Memoirs
- Children and Young People
- Fiction titles
- Non-Fiction and Essays
- Short Stories, Poetry and Drama
Life Matters - Drugs, alcohol and gambling
- Alcohol - Fiction
- Drugs - Fiction
- Talk about alcohol
- Talk about drugs
- Talk about gambling
- Talk about smoking
Life Matters - Family and relationships
- Absent parents
- Bullying
- Dealing with manners and emotions
- Divorce and separation
- Fostering and adoption
- Guides for parents
- Health and relationships
- New baby
- Siblings
- Talk about differences
- Teen relationships
Life Matters - Grief and Bereavement
- Coping with loss
- Death of a child or young person
- Death of a Parent or Grandparent
- Death of a pet
- Grief in special situations
- Practical funeral information
- Serious Illness
- Talk about death
Life Matters - New experiences
Life Matters - Self harm
Out Lit - Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender virtual collection
Read Hear - children's story books with audio CDs
- Read Hear - for teenagers
- Read Hear - interest ages 10 -14
- Read Hear - interest ages 8 - 12
- Read Hear - interest ages 9 - 12
Reading Group suggestions
SESDA
Spooky reads...fun stories for dark and gloomy nights
- Real life spooky reads
- Spooky reads for older children
- Spooky reads for teens
- Spooky reads for younger children
Surrey Libraries' Commemoration of the Great War