Graphic Novels Core Collection

Graphic Novels Core Collection, (5th Edition, 2024) highlight 2,100 recommended fiction and nonfiction graphic novels, including content descriptions and quotes from selected reviews. The graphic novels in this collection cover a wide variety of genres including adventure, biography, fantasy, superhero, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction, and more.

Young Adult Fiction Core Collection

Young Adult Fiction Core Collection, (6th Edition, 2025) highlights more than 3,000 recommended titles for young adult readers. This extensive coverage of Young Adult Literature makes easy work of locating the best of the best titles to potentially add to your collection, or to find titles that can be weeded out.

Children's Core Collection

The Children's Core Collection, (26th Edition, 2023) is a comprehensive guide to 12,000 recommended books for children from preschool through grade six. In this information-packed volume, users will find bibliographic data,content descriptions and reviews of 12,000 highly recommended titles, including Picture Books & Easy Readers, Story Collections, Fiction Books, Nonfiction Books, Biographies, and Graphic Novels.

Fiction Core Collection

Wilson's Fiction Core Collection (22nd Edition, 2024) provides the busy librarian with expert collection development advice on the most highly recommended works of classic and contemporary fiction. Over 7,500 titles are included—all are popular works deemed to have lasting value to readers as well as new literary and genre titles that have been recognized as significant achievements in their respected areas of literature.

Middle & Junior High School Core Collection

Middle & Junior High School Core Collection, (16th Edition, 2023) is a guide to nearly 5,000 fiction and nonfiction books recommended for children and young adolescents, grades five through nine. This volume is designed to address the unique needs of younger adolescent readers and help school media specialists and young adult librarians locate highly recommended titles to strengthen their collection.

Public Library Core Collections: Nonfiction

Wilson's Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction (20th Edition, 2025) is designed for acquisitions librarians, reference librarians and catalogers. Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction is a reliable guide to building and maintaining a well-rounded collection of essential and recommended nonfiction books for adults.

Senior High Core Collection

H.W. Wilson's Senior High Core Collection (24th Edition, 2024) identifies the best, most highly recommended material available for high school libraries and young adult collections. It is a helpful guide to over 4,200 essential and recommended fiction and nonfiction titles for adolescents and young adults.