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Libraries Word Search

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Libraries word search puzzles with shelf and quiet-reading English for adults — stack, catalog, browse and calm room words. Easy to hard plus large print. No publisher brands.

Libraries puzzles

Easy · 10×10 · 10 words

Libraries: Quiet Stack

Easy · 10×10 · 10 words

Libraries: Shelf Browse

Easy · 10×10 · 10 words

Libraries: Soft Path

Hard · 15×15 · 18 words

Hard Libraries: Full Archive

Large print · 9×9 · 8 words

Large Print Libraries: Soft Shelf

Medium · 12×12 · 14 words

Libraries: Catalog Hour

Medium · 12×12 · 14 words

Libraries: Reading Room

Medium · 12×12 · 14 words

Libraries: Side Shelf

Part of our Reading word search collection.

What words are in the libraries word search?

Shelf and quiet-reading English — no publisher brands. Companion to Reading.

The full libraries word bank has 49 words. Each puzzle picks a set from this list, so no two grids are quite the same:

AISLE · ANNEX · ARCHIVE · ATLAS · AUTHOR · BINDING · BOOK · BORROW · BROWSE · CARD · CARREL · CATALOG · CHAIR · CHAPTER · COVER · DESK · DUE · EDITION · ESSAY · FICTION · FINE · FOLIO · GENRE · HISTORY · HOLD · INDEX · LAMP · LOAN · NOVEL · PAGE · POEM · QUIET · READ · READER · READING · REFERENCE · RENEW · RESERVE · RETURN · SCIENCE · SEARCH · SHELF · SILENCE · SPINE · STACK · STUDY · TITLE · VOLUME · WING

Who is this theme good for?

Calm room vocabulary for seniors' hours.

A solving tip

Long words such as CATALOG and ARCHIVE stand out.

How these puzzles work

Every puzzle is free and plays in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Drag across a word, or tap its first and last letter. Easy grids are 10×10 with words across and down; medium grids are 12×12 and add diagonals; hard grids are 15×15 with words in all eight directions. Press Large print above any grid for bigger letters. Progress is saved on your device, and there is never a timer. New to word searches? Read how to play.

Sources & notes

Word lists on Words at Rest use American English spelling (for example color, not colour). Merriam-Webster records colour as chiefly the British spelling of color. Merriam-Webster: colour.

“chiefly British spelling of color”

— Merriam-Webster

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