Books

The Library owns over 800,000 books for all ages, most of which you may borrow.

Books for Adults

• Adult fic­tion (pri­mar­i­ly novels)
• Pop­u­lar books recent­ly published
• Adult non-fic­tion
• Graph­ic novels
• Large print books
• Paper­backs

For more infor­ma­tion on books, includ­ing the lat­est best-sell­er lists, and infor­ma­tion on pop­u­lar authors, check out our Shelf Help pages.

Books for Young Adults:

• Young adult fic­tion (nov­els for grades 9 – 12)
• Young adult non-fiction
• Graph­ic novels

Books for Children:

• Board books (for babies and toddlers)
• Pic­ture books (most­ly for preschool­ers through 3^rd grade)
• Easy Read­ers (for begin­ning readers)
• Juve­nile non-fic­tion (for all ages)
• Juve­nile fic­tion (chap­ter books for grades 2 – 8)
• Juve­nile paper­backs (all ages)
• Juve­nile graph­ic novels
• Reada­longs
• Large print
• Check out our Kids’ Page for rec­om­mend­ed titles.

Books in Oth­er Languages:

Sev­er­al branch­es have small col­lec­tions of books in lan­guages oth­er than Eng­lish. These col­lec­tions include both adult and chil­dren’s titles.

• Span­ish: Avail­able at all locations.
• Chi­nese: Cham­blee, Decatur, Dorav­ille, Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams
• French: Clark­ston, Decatur