See also: Holiday and Seasonal Mysteries
and Holiday and Seasonal Romance.
- Atmospheric Fiction (The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, OH)
- Author and title for about 20 books about weather events, such
as floods, drought, global warming, tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards; from All around Me Peaceful by Kent Nelson to
Typhoon by Joseph Conrad.
- Holiday Reading Ideas (MyShelf.Com)
- Book suggestions for New Year's, Valentine's Day,
St. Patrick's, Easter, Mother's and Father's Days,
Independence Day,
Back to School, Halloween, Thanksgiving,
and Christmas (including Christmas Mysteries,
Christmas romances,
and other Christmas fiction).
Books for adults, teens, and children. The plot of the books might be centered on the holiday or the holiday may be in the background.
Author and title provided for most of the lists (few summaries).
- It's Spring! (Susan Higgins, Wolfner Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Jefferson City, MO)
- A list of about 25 books set in the springtime, with author, title, and summary
for each book, as well as notation concerning sex, language, and violence.
From The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald to World's Spring,
edited by Vladimir Gakov. Compiled March 2003, updated Jan. 2007.
- Shamrock Suggestions (Johnson County Library, KS)
- Irish fiction for St. Patrick's Day. Lists title and author for about 45 books (no summaries).
- My Shelf: St. Patrick's Day Fiction (MyShelf.Com)
- Author, title, summary for about 10 books, mostly mysteries, set around St. Patrick's Day.
- My Shelf: Easter Fiction (MyShelf.com)
- Author and title only for 7 titles. Also Easter
mystery (10 titles) and Easter
romance (about 10 titles).
- About Mothers... (Marilyn Starenko, Evanston Public Library, IL)
- Author, title, publication date, summary for each of 25 works of fiction and 9 works of either
poetry, essays, or short stories. Compiled May 1994.
- Oh Daddy, Daddy (Evanston Public Library, IL)
- Author, title, publication date, summary for each of 12 works of fiction,
16 memoirs, and 11 books of essays. Compiled June 1993.
- O My Papa (Lake County Public Library, Merrillville, IN)
- Stories about fathers. Author and title listed only for about 25 works
of fiction featuring dads and 7 non-fiction books.
- Fiction Featuring a Wedding (Johnson County Library, KS)
- Author, title, summary, webcat link, and genre indiction (if applicable) for about 55 novels, from
Jessica Adams' Tom, Dick and Debbie Harry to Mark Zubro's Here Comes the Corpse.
- Books Set in Hot Climates (Northbrook Public Library, IL)
- Excellent list, with separate categories for fiction, mystery, adventure, and non-fiction.
Author, title, summary of each of 90 books.
- My Shelf: Independence Day Fiction (MyShelf.Com)
- Fiction for the Fourth (9 titles). Also Independence Day
mysteries (9 titles) and Independence
day romances (about 15 titles). Author and title listed only.
- Labor Day at Your Library (C. Lee, Des Plaines Public Library, IL)
- Fiction about labour, big business, and unions. List of 13 books, with author, identification of genre, and summary of each.
From James Lee Burke's Sunset Limited to Irving Stone's Adversary in the House.
- Labor Day Fiction (Wolfner Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Jefferson City, MO)
- Lists 'books of a lighter nature on the American worker and the labor movement.'
About a dozen listed, with author, title, summary for each, from
The Desert of Wheat by Zane Grey to Wabash by Robert Olen Butler. Compiled Aug. 2002.
Labor Day
- Working Stiffs (Johnson County Library, KS)
- Author, title, and webcat link for about 30 novels featuring labor and workers,
in sections: Industry's Effect on the Working Class; Strikes; Labor Policy and Labor Unions;
The Great Depression' Migrant Farmworkers; and Women Garment Workers.
Halloween
See also Horror/Gothic section.
- Halloween Fiction (Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, MA)
- Author and title, with links to catalog info, for about 50 scary Halloween books from Kingsley Amis's The Green Man
to Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's vampire books.
- Halloween Booklists for Adults (MyShelf.Com)
- Halloween Fiction. Also Halloween
Mysteries and Halloween
Romances. Author and title listed only. About 70 books listed, most in the Mystery category.
- Halloween Fiction (The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, OH)
- Author and title of fiction books in these categories: Haunted Places (12 books), Creepy Creatures (15 books),
Halloween Night Novels (12), and Scary Short Stories (over 50 anthologies); from The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red by Ridley Pearson
to A Whisper of Blood: 18 Stories of Vampirism ed. by Ellen Datlow.
- Halloween Horror (Addison Public Library, IL)
- Author, title, brief summary, webcat link for a dozen books in two categories, Classic Chillers (5 books) and
Modern Monstrosities (7 books). Compiled Oct. 2000.
- Halloween for Adults (Arapahoe Library District, CO)
- Author, title, and summary for about a dozen books, from Acceptable Risk by Robin Cook
to Witches Hammer by Jane Stanton Hitchcock.
- Halloween Horrors (Addison Public Library, IL)
- Title, author, summary, and webcatalog link for 5 classic thrillers and 7 modern monstrosities.
- Ghostly Tales for Spooky Fall Nights (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- Authors, titles, summaries of 10 spooky books. Compiled Oct. 2000.
- Halloween Books Halton Hills Public Library - Ontario, Canada)
- Author, title, webcat link for about 15 novels with a Halloween theme (includes mysteries).
- Ghosts, Ghouls, Vampires, Witches, And Werewolves (Des Plaines Public Library, IL)
- Author and title only, for about 25 mysteries and about 25 fiction works
featuring these spooky creatures. Compiled 2001.
- Things That Go Bump in the Night (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- Authors and titles only (no summaries) of over 20 ghostly stories, including
Beloved by Toni Morrison, Madeleine's Ghost by Robert Girardi,
Margaret's Peace by Linda Hall, The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti,
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan, and Wings of Fire by Charles Todd,
among others. Compiled Sept. 1999.
- The Treat's on Us (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- 'Spooky tales for Halloween.' Authors and titles only (no summaries) for about 20 novels, from
Post-Mortem Effects by Thomas Boyle to All Hallow's Eve by Charles Williams. Compiled
Oct. 1997.
Veterans' Day
- Salute to Veteran's Day (Carol Mathews, Wolfner Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Jefferson City, MO)
- One of Wolfner's bibliographies, a list of about 15 titles, with authors and summaries
for each book, as well as notation concerning sex, language, and violence. Compiled Oct. 2002.
- Fiction Honoring Our Veterans (Des Plaines Public Library, IL)
- Title and author only for over 50 books about veterans and war service. Compiled 2001.
Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving Fiction (Leane Ellis - Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, MA)
- Author, title, publication data, and links to catalog information on each of 10 novels or mysteries.
- Fiction with a Thanksgiving Setting (Mary Rindfleisch, Ridgefield Library, CT - Fiction-L List)
- Compiled Nov. 2000. About 15 books listed, many mysteries.
- My Shelf: Thanksgiving Fiction (MyShelf.com)
- Author and title only for 6 titles. Also Thanksgiving
mystery (14 titles) and Thanksgiving
romance (over 15 titles).
Winter and Snow
- Below Zero: Stories of Cold and Snow (Teri Room, Skokie Public Library, IL)
- Author, title, pub. year, webcat link for more than 25 novels that use the cold to tell their stories,
from Elizabeth Arthur's Antarctic Navigation to William T. Vollmann's The Ice-Shirt.
Updated Feb. 2006.
- Winter Holiday Fiction and Literature (The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, OH)
- Author, title, and summary of Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year's fiction,
poetry, drama, etc. 3 Hanukkah books, over 85 Christmas books (sub-categorised),
1 Kwanzaa book, and 4 New Year's books.
- Spotlight On Ice, Snow and Winter (Montgomery County Library, MD)
- List of 10 fiction and non-fiction 'wintry' titles with author, title, publication year, summary, and
webcat link for each. Fiction titles include Audrey Schulman's The Cage,
Kerstin Ekman's The Snow and Jill Bialosky's House Under Snow.
- Novels of Snow and Cold Weather (Carol Elmore, Newnan-Coweta Public Library, GA - Fiction-L List)
- Compiled Nov. 2000. List of about 110 fiction works and 15 non-fiction. Provides only author and title.
- Books Set in Cold Climates (Northbrook Public Library, IL)
- Excellent list, with separate categories for fiction, mystery, adventure, and non-fiction.
Author, title, summary of each of 100 books.
- January Curl-Up-Under-An-Afghan Reading (Double Hook Book Shop)
- Author, title, summary of about 10 wintery novels.
- Deck the Halls with ... Books! (Lynne M. Kennedy, Sachem Public Library, Holbrook, NY)
- Christmas fiction (novels and short story collections) in sections: General (39),
Romance (21), and Mystery and Suspense (32). Author, publication info, and summary for each.
- Christmas Fiction, Romance, and Mystery (Skokie Public Library, IL)
- Author, title, pub. year, webcat link for about 110 fiction, mystery and romance novels, and a few anthologies. Updated March 2006.
- Noel! Selected Yuletide Fiction (Chicago Public Library, IL)
- Attractive page. Author, title, publication date, one-line summary for each book.
Sections on Fiction (42 books) and Mysteries (16). Updated Nov. 2000.
- Christmas Reading 2000 (Wolfner Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Jefferson City, MO)
- One of Wolfner's mini-bibliographies, a list of 15 titles, with authors and summaries
of each book. Some adult, some juvenile. Submitted by various library personnel, so
a variety of tastes and sensibilities represented.
- Holiday Fiction (Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, MA)
- Books 'with a Christmas, Hanakkuh, or Kwanzaa theme' listed as General Fiction (25 books), Mystery (50 books), or Romance (7 books). Author, title,
publication data, with links to catalog information on each.
- Christmas Books Halton Hills Public Library - Ontario, Canada)
- Author, title, webcat link for about 80 novels with a Christmas theme (includes mysteries).
- Holiday Reads (Vancouver Public Library)
- Author, title, publication year, summary, and webcat link for
about 15 Christmas books (about half are mysteries), from Michael Allin's The Christmas kid to
Donna VanLiere's The Christmas shoes. Compiled Nov. 2002.
- Holiday (Christmas) Fiction (Des Plaines Public Library, IL)
- Title, author, and summary for 12 adult fiction works and 6 mystery selections.
- ‘Tis the Season: Novels, Mysteries and Stories With a Christmas Theme (Madison Public Library, WI)
- Author, title, and publication year. General Fiction titles: 60;
Mystery
titles: 58; and 16 Short
Stories.
- Holiday Fiction: Christmas (Tulsa City-County Library, OK)
- Provides authors, titles, and webcat links for 30 novels or collections
with a Christmas theme; over 50 Christmas mysteries;
and 4 Christmas romances.
- My Shelf: Christmas Fiction (MyShelf.com)
- Christmas sci-fi/fantasy, general fiction, non-fiction. Also lists of
Christmas mysteries and
Christmas romances.
Author and title only.
- Open Anytime You're in a Holiday Mood! (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- Authors and titles only (no summaries) for about 20 Christmas mysteries, by authors
including Susan Wittig Albert, Andrew Greeley, Jeanne Dams, James Patterson,
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Maeve Binchy, Sandra Brown, more. Compiled Nov. 2000.
New Year's Day
- My Shelf: New Year's Day Fiction (MyShelf.com)
- Author and title only for 5 titles. Also New Year's
mysteries (about a dozen titles) and New Year's
romances (about 15 titles).
Presidents Day
See Biography / Autobiography - Presidential Fiction.
Valentine's Day
See also Romance section
- For Your Valentine (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- Annotated list of 23 books (plus another 20 or so without comments) that have the
words rose or chocolate in them.
- My Shelf: Valentine's Day Romance (MyShelf.com)
- Author and title only for about 60 Valentine's Day romances. Also
about 20 Valentine's Day
mysteries.
