Novels and recreational reading
Find novels and children's fiction in hardcopy and as ebooks.
Novels
The majority of the Library's hardcopy novels are located at the Kelvin Grove Library on level 3, where they are arranged by country of origin, e.g.:
- 813 - American novels
- 823 - English novels
- A823 - Australian novels (shelved between 829.9 and 830)
- NZ823 - New Zealand novels (shelved between 829.9 and 830)
- 833 - German novels
- 839.73 - Swedish novels
- 895.13 - Chinese novels
- 895.63 - Japanese novels
Graphic novels can be found at 741.59.
To search for novels across all hardcopy and ebooks:
- Open Library Search - Advanced search.
- Under Search filters select Subject, contains the term/s and enter fiction.
- In the next line change the Any field drop down as appropriate and enter a desired keyword, author name or subject.
- Change the Format drop-down to Books & ebooks.
Children's and young adult fiction
Children's and young adult fiction in book and ebook format are discoverable via Library Search's Classroom resources search.
Search the Curriculum Collection and selected Library databases for children's and young adult literature.
Ebook collections
These ebook databases mainly include novels, including fiction for children, teens and young adults:
