1) The Reader's Advisor Online: By finding Laurell K. Hamilton in the Author list alphabetically, and clicking on her, a list of her books was returned. This brought me to the Anita Blake series, which was already listed in numerical order. This made it easy for me to locate the fourth book in the series, The Lunatic Cafe.
2) AllReaders.com & Amazon.com: This was a tricky one! I really didn't know where to begin to answer find a book for this scenario. I started with AllReaders.com, and found it really helpful that it provided a Review, Plot & Themes, Setting, Writing Style, and Related Titles. However, I couldn't pin point a way to search for more fast-paced books. So I found my way over to Amazon and started my search with Prodigal Summer and looking at related books who other customers liked, reading their descriptions, and reading the reviews that people left. Based upon all of these factors, Kingsolver's book, The Lacuna: A Novel is an option which is written in the same style, as the patron wanted, but is gripping and exciting.
3) The Reader's Advisor Online & LibraryThing: Well, I thought the last one was tricky! I am quickly learning how much searching goes into just one recommendation. I used The Reader's Advisory Online to search Historical Fiction and narrow that down by Asia. I then looked for books written about Japan and which were characterized by sweeping and visual descriptions of Japan. I would suggest The Tale of Marusak, which is an historical autobiography that delves into Japanese Culture and History. Based upon further investigating this title in LibraryThing it comes well recommended and seems as though it would fit the readers needs.
4) AllReaders.com: After putting Well Schooled in Murder in AllReaders.com I found several related titles, notably Something Wicked. This is also a murder mystery but like the patron's example, includes only 10% violence, and will likely not to be too creepy.
5) AllReaders.com: I used World War Z to search for related zombie books, and after sifting through duds that were described as boring, I found, The Rising to suggest.
Personally, I tend to find books to read in several main ways: Goodreads, recommendations based upon my reading trends from Amazon, Buzzfeed Books, The New York Times book lists, personal recommendations from readers that I trust, and last but not least, the sheer joy of walking into a library or bookstore and taking a hefty amount of time to get lost in the shelves and allow titles and covers to call to me!
Thank you Erin for sharing that comprehensive list of RA Resources! I am excited to have so many different options for helping patrons find what they are looking for :)
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