Building an equitable, budget-friendly collection has never been easier. Get the latest popular titles in your readers’ favorite genres delivered monthly to your library—in a more accessible format. Large print standing order plans are an ideal solution to expand and refresh your collection.
The best large print strategy for your library is the one that supports the needs of your readers. We revamped our most popular plans with a more intentional collection development approach to help you choose options that fit your community.
Connect readers to bestsellers, buzzy debuts, up-and-coming authors, nationally renowned book club picks, and books-to-screen.
Featured Authors: Robert Crais, Janet Evanovich, Jodi Picoult, John Sandford
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 4 | 4 titles a month | 48 a year | $1,413
Tier 6 | 6 titles a month | 72 a year | $2,061
Tier 8 | 8 titles a month | 96 a year | $2,709
Fill your shelves with high-octane reads, including our top picks in suspense, adventure, thriller, horror, sci-fi, dystopian, gothic, fantasy, and crime.
Featured Authors: Robin Cook, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Nora Roberts
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 4 | 4 titles a month | 48 a year | $1,413
Tier 6 | 6 titles a month | 72 a year | $2,061
Tier 8 | 8 titles a month | 96 a year | $2,709
Share untold stories, relationship reads, and insights into daily life with this collection of historical fiction, domestic suspense, romance, family life, realistic fiction, and similar genres.
Featured Authors: Mary Balogh, Susan Mallery, Fern Michaels, J. D. Robb
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $1,080
Tier 5 | 5 titles a month | 60 a year | $1,746
Want to expand reading options for everyone in your community? These standing order plans help you add titles to your collection that represent a range of diverse experiences
Connect readers to curated titles that highlight Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Indigenous, and Latinx/Hispanic experiences. This collection includes highly acclaimed and well-reviewed fiction spanning a variety of genres and representing a balance of diverse authors and content throughout the year.
Featured Authors: Kathryn Ma, Nick Medina, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Luis Alberto Urrea
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $630
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $945
Share the most beloved work by bestselling, award-winning, and popular contemporary Black writers. Titles in this collection focus on relationships and experiences of Black women and men through the ages, told in a mixture of genres, including well-reviewed fiction, memoir, and biography.
Featured Authors: Connie Briscoe, S. A. Cosby, Mary Monroe, and Carl Weber with La Jill Hunt
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $630
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $936
Tier 4 | 4 titles a month | 48 a year | $1,233
Amish fiction has long been a popular choice among large print readers. These stories celebrate a simpler way of life, sweet romances, strong faith, family bonds, and community spirit. Titles are G-rated and wholesome, with storylines for evangelical and secular audiences. Complements Christian and Clean Reads plans.
Featured Authors: Amy Clipston, Shelley Shepard Gray, Charlotte Hubbard, Cindy Woodsmall and Erin Woodsmall
AVAILABLE TIER:
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $891
An outstanding mix of bestselling and well-reviewed biographies and memoirs—including historical biographies, celebrity biographies and memoirs, and inspiring narrative memoirs relating fascinating and compelling experiences of intriguing people.
Featured Authors: Andrew Morton, Mary Pipher, Christie Tate, Nina Totenberg
AVAILABLE TIER:
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $639
Christian fiction is a very popular genre with a range of readers. These titles are engaging, well- written, and wholesome, with Christian themes and messages that appeal to all ages. Many of the top Christian bestselling authors are found in this list as well as a mix of subgenres, such as mystery, historical fiction, and romance.
Featured Authors: Colleen Coble, Suzanne Woods Fisher, Beverly Lewis, Kim Vogel Sawyer
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $639
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $945
Tier 4 | 4 titles a month | 48 a year | $1,242
Tier 5 | 5 titles a month | 60 a year | $1,539
A mix of engaging, clean romances that are appropriate for all ages. These are well-written, compelling, and entertaining romances with a Christian message that will delight readers.
Featured Authors: Mary Connealy, Julie Klassen, Sarah E. Ladd, Tracie Peterson
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $612
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $909
Tier 4 | 4 titles a month | 48 a year | $1,206
General fiction, family life, cozy mystery, and romance titles. These are stories without graphic violence, explicit sexuality, or strong profanity. Entertaining and appealing, this is a collection full of encouragement, warmth, and humor that you’d be comfortable sharing with your grandmother.
Featured Authors: Lauren K. Denton, Peggy Ehrhart, Amanda Flower, Jean Stone
AVAILABLE TIER:
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $891
Titles featuring the best of the Old West, a mixture of today’s contemporary writers and those of yesteryear. This plan delivers historical, action- packed, and traditional Westerns by the best-known authors in the genre.
Featured Authors: Ralph Compton, William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone, Elmer Kelton, Nate Morgan, John Shirley
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 1 | 1 title a month | 12 a year | $297
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $594
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $882
Tier 4 | 4 titles a month | 48 a year | $1,170
Features bestselling and popular event-based historical fiction, including time periods and historical figures popular with large print readers. These are the stories of previously untold perspectives that shine a light on unsung heroes.
Featured Authors: C. W. Gortner, Madeline Martin, Jeff Shaara, Alison Weir
AVAILABLE TIER:
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $648
The mystery genre remains a perennial favorite and is often the most popular genre in a library. Titles in this plan are meant for a range of mystery readers with a mix of all the mystery subgenres: classic whodunits, hard-boiled investigators, cozies, police procedurals, true crime, and adventure/suspense. This plan includes many of the highly acclaimed and unique mystery titles that enter the market.
Featured Authors: Donna Andrews, M. C. Beaton with R. W. Green, Andrew Childs, Craig Johnson
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $954
Tier 5 | 5 titles a month | 60 a year | $1,548
Features bestselling and popular nonfiction titles that are highly engaging and have a broad appeal to many readers. Titles in this plan cover a wide spectrum of nonfiction subgenres—including armchair travel, popular science, pets and animals, popular culture, humor, history, current events, biographies and memoirs, and other standouts in narrative nonfiction.
Featured Authors: Tom Clavin and Bob Drury, Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, Annie Proulx
AVAILABLE TIER:
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $648
Romance at its best. Get titles from every popular subgenre of romance, in styles from chaste to spicy. This subscription offers selections for every romance reader and a mix of top-selling contemporary authors.
Featured Authors: Christine Feehan, Lori Foster, Mary Jo Putney, Jodi Thomas
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $639
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $936
Tier 4 | 4 titles a month | 48 a year | $1,233
Looking for simultaneous publications? Each year, Thorndike Press publishes 200+ large print bestselling titles simultaneously with the publishers’ regular print editions. Offering large print copies at the same time as the standard print releases ensures your readers have the format they want, reduces hold lists on popular titles, and brings attention to large print. The deluxe tier adds Christian Fiction and Christian Romance simultaneous publications.
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Standard | 15 titles a month | 180 a year | $5,418
Deluxe | 17 titles a month | 204 a year | $6,108
Note: Your library qualifies to receive multiple copies of all our simultaneous publications automatically if you’re enrolled in at least two of the following Thorndike Press plans: Top-Shelf, High-Octane, and Dynamic Drama.
Includes some of the most sought-after and high- circulating titles of the moment for pulse-pounding, adventurous reads in which heroes face down villainy against overwhelming odds.
Featured Authors: Elizabeth Day, William Kent Krueger, Eric Van Lustbader, Clare Mackintosh
AVAILABLE TIER:
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $999
Ease the transition from easy-reader books to chapter books with large print copies of today’s bestselling middle-grade authors and beloved characters. This plan offers the best of children’s literature in large print, designed for middle readers in hardcover format. Interfile these books with the standard print edition and see which option kids reach for—you may be surprised! Titles in this plan are appropriate for grades 3–8, ages 9–14.
Featured Authors: Sara Pennypacker, Angie Thomas
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $450
Tier 5 | 5 titles a month | 60 a year | $1,125
Teens who struggle with reading can benefit from a larger font size. Changing up the format they read may be just enough to keep them from feeling frustrated and quitting. This plan offers the best of young adult literature in large print, designed for grades 8–12, ages 14 and beyond. These are high- appeal titles with adult crossover potential.
Featured Authors: Angeline Boulley, Melissa de la Cruz, Marissa Meyer, Ruta Sepetys, Angie Thomas, Jacqueline Woodson
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 1 | 1 title a month | 12 a year | $252
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $504
This plan combines the Middle Reader and Young Adult plans, plus it provides up to 50+ additional titles appropriate for grades 3–12. The deluxe plan makes it even easier to build your youth collection and offer an equitable format to readers of all ages.
AVAILABLE TIER:
Deluxe | ~7 titles a month* | 84 a year | $1,669
High-demand titles in an accessible paperback format.
AVAILABLE TIER:
Tier 1 | 2 titles a month | 16 a year | $240
Available August 2024 – March 2025.
Not sure which plan to choose? We’ve curated additional standing order plans that contain a mix of titles from our most popular subscriptions. These alternative plans are ideal for smaller libraries or those with genre-specific needs.
An economical‚ convenient way to automatically receive the hottest new titles in large print. Our editors search our top bestselling plans to find the new titles most likely to show up on your reserve list. Most titles are simultaneous publications. This plan contains titles from Top-Shelf, High-Octane, and Dynamic Drama.
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 1 | 1 title a month | 12 a year | $418
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $836
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $1,181
Tier 4 | 4 titles a month | 48 a year | $1,574
Tier 5 | 5 titles a month | 60 a year | $1,968
Tier 6 | 6 titles a month | 72 a year | $2,332
Tier 7 | 7 titles a month | 84 a year | $2,697
Tier 8 | 8 titles a month | 96 a year | $3,090
Need a streamlined plan that delivers popular genre titles? This plan is curated from our Mystery, Romance, and Western standing order plans and includes one title from each genre every month.
AVAILABLE TIER:
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $1,017
Subscribe to two bestsellers every month. These titles typically include the hottest “buzz” books from the Top-Shelf, High-Octane, and Dynamic Drama plans.
AVAILABLE TIER:
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $666
As a special service to our customers, we distribute large print titles from other publishers through our catalog, offering more convenience to order from one source. This subscription contains a mix of both hardcover and softcover titles from publishers like Random House, HarperLuxe, and Hachette Book Group. Duplicate titles are not included in any other standing order plan.
Featured Authors: Bernard Cornwell, James Patterson, Karin Slaughter, Danielle Steel
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $864
Tier 4 | 4 titles a month | 48 a year | $1,152
Tier 5 | 5 titles a month | 60 a year | $1,440
Tier 6 | 6 titles a month | 72 a year | $1,722
Tier 7 | 7 titles a month | 84 a year | $2,015
Deluxe | ~150 titles a year | $3,600
Need a budget-friendly option for bookmobiles, book groups, and outreach programs? Softcovers extend a library’s budget and hold up to high circulation. Thorndike Press chooses popular titles to publish in large print softcover after the original publisher releases their softcover version.
The top New York Times bestsellers in a durable softcover format. Titles send 8-12 months after the hardcover large print publication date, always after the standard print softcover.
Featured Authors: Mary Kay Andrews, Nelson DeMille, Janet Evanovich, Lisa Jewell
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $331
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $497
Tier 4 | 4 titles a month | 48 a year | $662
These quick reads are lighthearted in tone and involve amateur sleuths solving crimes. They feature lovable characters and amusing dialogue with no graphic sex, violence, or profanity.
Featured Authors: Ellery Adams, Kate Carlisle, Krista Davis, Sally Goldenbaum
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $756
Tier 4 | 4 titles a month | 48 a year | $1,008
This plan offers a touch of humor and heart. It features a mix of lighter-fare women’s fiction, romance, and general fiction—perfect for those who enjoy escapist reads. It includes bestselling, well-known authors and strong new voices in fiction.
Featured Authors: Meg Cabot, Emily Henry, Amy Meyerson, Colleen Oakley, Amy E. Reichert, Jennifer Ryan
AVAILABLE TIER:
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $756
Features classic Western writers and introduces new and exciting authors for all your Western fans in softcover format.
Featured Authors: William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone, Steve Kelton, Preston Lewis, Matthew P. Mayo, Larry D. Sweazy
AVAILABLE TIERS:
Tier 1 | 1 title a month | 12 a year | $252
Tier 2 | 2 titles a month | 24 a year | $504
Tier 3 | 3 titles a month | 36 a year | $756
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