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You may want to browse the shelves in Bizzell without a specific author in mind. 

Unlike a bookstore, the library doesn't have broad categories such as Mystery or Science Fiction, but the following guides will help if you just want to come to the third floor and look around. Note that an author's work and literary criticism about an individual author or work are mixed together. So, you will find Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club in the area around PS 3566 .A4554, but you will also find an edition of essays about Palahniuk's work in the same area. 

If you are looking for a specific title or author, use Discover Local, the library's catalog.

American Literature

Anthologies by format; novels, short stories, poetry, and plays of individual authors; and works of literary criticism, autobiographies, and biography about writers from the United States.

Anthologies and Eras

Call No. Range

Collections, anthologies--General

PS504-572

Collections, anthologies--Poetry

PS580-619

Collections, anthologies--Drama

PS623-635

Collections, anthologies--Prose

PS642-659.5

Colonial period (17th and 18th centuries)

PS700-893

19th century

PS991-3390

1900-1960

PS3500-3549

1961-2000

PS3550-3576

2001-

PS3600-3626

Creativity and Craft

The library has several books on the craft of writing and on honing creativity. Browse the stacks in Bizzell around the call number:

  • PN 3365 for work on writing fiction
  • PN 1059 for work on writing poetry
  • PN 1996 .Fxx, PN 1996.Gxx for work on writing screenplays.

English Literature

Anthologies by format; novels, short stories, poetry, and plays of individual authors; and works of literary criticism, autobiographies, and biography about writers from the British Isles and certain former British colonies and dominions.

Anthologies and Eras

Call No. Range

Collections, anthologies--General

PR1101-1116

Collections, anthologies--Poetry

PR1170-1228

Collections, anthologies--Drama

PR1241-1273

Collections, anthologies--Prose

PR1281-1309

Anglo-Saxon through Middle English

PR1490-1799.2

English Renaissance (1500-1640)

PR2199-3195.22

17th and 18th century  (1640-1770)

PR3291-3785

19th century

PR3991-5990

Late 19th, early 20th century

PR6000-6049

Mid- to late 20th century

PR6050-6076

21st century

PR6100-6126

Graphic Novels, Comics

Graphic novels (fiction and nonfiction), collections of comic strips, and work about graphic narrative, regardless of time period or creator's nationality, can be found in at PN 6727-6790.