Twelve

I've used Novelist a lot but I'd never noticed the series title button before. I tried several mystery series but didn't come up with any results. Finally, I typed in "Perry Mason" and got the ever-so extensive list of Mr. Erle Stanley Gardner's works, such as The Case of the Grinning Gorilla, The Case of the Haunted Husband, and The Case of the Negligent Nymph. Classy stuff indeed. The Book Lush regrets to say that she has actually read some of this appalling tripe, and it's not too bad. Next, I looked David McCullough in author read-alikes, and was given Stephen Ambrose, Nathaniel Philbrick, Joseph Ellis, and Caroline Alexander as reasonable facsimilies. Finally, I went to Recommended Reads and found some interesting subgroups of memoirs: the addiction memoir, the mental illness memoir and the moving-to-the-country memoir. This could actually be quite useful if a patron came in and wanted to read something like James Frey's A Million Little Pieces (only factual, of course). Then our helpful library staff could look under addiction memoirs and find something appropriate. I like Novelist because you can read reviews of books, and even search for "starred reviews" items.