Learning Hub

Reader's Advisory

Hunterdon Central's library fosters a love of reading for a variety of purposes and for lifelong learning.  The library staff offers one-to-one help in choosing texts in addition to providing booktalks for various classes across the curriculum.  Check out some of our online resources for selecting reading materials.


Use NoveList to help find the books you love!
Find reading recommendations for fiction and non-fiction, as well as book discussion guides and read-alikes.

Check off "Local Collection" to see titles located at Hunterdon Central.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence.  If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

HC Book Trailers

Historical Fiction Booktalks

Online Book Selection and Reviews

YALSA's Book Awards and Booklists
New York Times Book Reviews
New York Times Best Sellers
Booklist Online
Barnes and Noble Studio
Amazon Books

Select Books by Lexile or Reading Level

Barnes and Noble: Select a book
Lexile Framework for Reading:  Select a book
 

County Libraries

Hunterdon County Library
Flemington Free Public Library 
Raritan Valley Community College Library

Magazines @ IMC

American Heritage
American History III
American Interest
Art in America
Art News
Better Homes
Billboard
Bon Appetit
Booklist
Brides
Business Week
Car and Driver
Ceramics Monthly
Consumer Reports
Dance Magazine
Deutschland
Dirt Bike
Discover
 Eating Well
E:  The Environmental Mag
Ebony
Family Handyman
Farm Journal
Field and Stream
Good Housekeeping
Guitar World
Health
Hunterdon Review
Latina
Library Media Connection
Macworld
Martha Stewart Living
Modified
Motocross Action
Multicultural Review
Motor Trend
National Geographic
National Wildlife
Newsweek
Outdoor Life
Parents Magazine
PC World
People
People En Espanol
Popular Mechanics
Popular Photography
Popular Science
Prevention
Psychology Today
Seventeen
Skateboarding
Smithsonian
Sports Illustrated
Star Ledger
Teacher Librarian
Time
US News and World Report
UTNE Reader
Vogue
Voya

IMC New Materials List

  1. Visit the online catalog and click on "HCRHS - Instructional Media Center"
  2. Click "Resource Lists" on the left sidebar.
  3. Click the tab "Public Lists" on the right side of the page.
  4. Click on the "Date Last Updated" link.  Click on the list you'd like to see.
  5. You will see a list of all new materials in call number order.  Fiction (FIC), memoirs (MEM), graphic novels (GN), short stories (SC), videocassettes (VC), DVDs, and paperbacks (PB) will be listed at the end.
  6. Click a title to access the item's summary and availability

Virtual Bookshelves

Goodreads
LibraryThing
Shelfari