Hooking the Moby Dick of library patrons: Males in their 20s & 30s

It’s no secret that the younger male demographic is the one who tends to frequent the library the least. We wanted to help out with this issue and so we’ve created a number of lists designed specifically to help reach those tough to capture users.

In addition to adding some of these great lists to your digital library we suggest creating curated collections for your home page related to some of the pop culture phenomenons these lists are based on. If you would like assistance creating these collections simply email your OverDrive Collection Specialist!

TV Shows

• American Horror Story: Asylum Read-Alikes
• American Horror Story: Coven Read-Alikes
• American Horror Story: Freak Show Read-Alikes
• American Horror Story: Murder House Read-Alikes
• Big Bang Theory Read-Alikes
• Breaking Bad Read-Alikes
• Game of Thrones Watch-Alikes
• House of Cards Read-Alikes
• Sons of Anarchy Read-Alikes
• The Walking Dead Read-Alikes
• True Detective Read-Alikes
• The Wire Read-Alikes

Movies

• American Sniper Read-Alikes
• Wes Anderson Read-Alikes
• Inherent Vice Read-Alikes
• The Hobbit Read-Alikes (Scholastic series)

Books

• The Martian by Andy Weir Read-Alikes
• Stephen King Read-Alikes
• If you like J.D. Salinger, check out these titles…
• Jonathan Franzen Read-Alikes

Media/Other

• Mark Zuckerberg’s Year of Books: The End of Power Read-Alikes
• Mark Zuckerberg’s Year of Books: The Better Angels of our Nature Read-Alikes
• A Year of Books-Mark Zuckerberg Reading Challenge 
• Out of This World Space Travel Books
• Audio Books for Road Trips
• Climate & Eco Science Fiction
• Scary & Shocking Reads
• Humorous Biographies and Memoirs 
• Books Becoming Films 2015
• Don Draper Reading List
• Pulp Fiction
• Cult Classic Reads
• Pop Culture History

Adam Sockel is a Social Media Specialist II at OverDrive. He is an avid male library user in his 20s…