Congratulations, graduate! There is a big, scary, exciting world out there and it's yours to do whatever it is you'll do next!

Maybe you're moving to a new city—maybe you are moving back home. Maybe you are looking at several different career paths—maybe you already have a job lined up. Maybe you're just glad that school is over for good—maybe you are really thinking about going back. Chances are you'll find that the public library is a good place to spend some time until you figure things out. We have wi-fi for your laptop or tablet, lots of tables and chairs, and books (and ebooks) on our shelves that can help you determine what's next.

Famous Commencement Speeches: Now in Book Form

• Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness by George Saunders (watch video on YouTube)
• This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on A Significant Occasion, About Living A Compassionate Life by David Wallace Foster (read Billy's thoughts on DFW's speech)
• If This Isn't Nice, What Is? The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By by Kurt Vonnegut
• Onward! 25 Years of Advice, Exhortation, and Inspiration From America's Best Commencement Speeches
• Go Forth and Do Good: Memorable Notre Dame Commencement Addresses
• The Make Good Art Speech by Neil Gaiman
• What Now? by Ann Patchett
• You Are Not Special... and Other Encouragements by David McCullough (watch video on YouTube)
• 10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said by Charles J. Wheelan
• Whatever You Choose to Be: 8 Tips for the Road Ahead by Ann Romney
• Now Go Out There (And Get Curious) by Mary Karr
• The World is Waiting for You: Graduation Speeches to Live by from Activists, Writers, and Visionaries / edited by Tara Grove and Isabel Ostrer
• Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits Of Failure And The Importance Of Imagination by J. K. Rowling

NPR has hand-picked over 300 of the "Best Commencement Speeches, Ever" that you can search by name, school, date or theme at apps.npr.org/commencement.

Find more addresses and who is speaking where this year at graduationwisdom.com.

How to Be a Grown Up

• Life After College: Ten Steps to Build a Life You Love by Tori Randolph Terhune and Betsy A. Hays
• Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want by Jenny Blake
• Life's Missing Instruction Manual: The Guidebook You Should Have Been Given at Birth by Joe Vitale
• Gradspot.com's Guide to Life After College written and edited by Chris Schonberger with Stuart Schultz
• No One Ever Told Us That: Money and Life Letters to My Grandchildren by John D. Spooner
• Were You Raised by Wolves? Clues to the Mysteries of Adulthood by Christie Mellor
• Show Me How: 500 Things You Should Know, Instructions for Life From the Everyday to the Exotic by Derek Fagerstrom
• How to Be A Grown up: The Ten Secret Skills Everyone Needs to Know by Stacy Kaiser
• The Defining Decade: Why your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay
• Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood by Alida Nugent
• Adulting: How to Become A Grown-up in 387 Easy(ish) Steps by Kelly Brown Williams

Expert Advice

• Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life From Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
• Break These Rules: 35 YA Authors on Speaking Up, Standing Out, and Being Yourself
• Dear Teen Me
• The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives by Katie Couric
• A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen
• Choose the Life You Want by Tal Ben-Shahar
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (watch video at Carnegie Mellon University website)

Creativity

• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• Show your Work! 10 Ways to Share your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon
• Who's your City? How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of your Life by Richard L. Florida
• Do Cool Sh*t: Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business, and Live Happily Ever After by Miki Agrawal
• The Renaissance Soul: How to Make Your Passions Your Life—A Creative and Practical Guide by Margaret Lobenstine

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First Job

• I Got My Dream Job and So Can You: 7 Steps to Creating your Ideal Career After College by Pete Leibman
• I Just Graduated... Now What? Honest Answers From Those Who Have Been There by Katherine Schwarzenegger
• They Don't Teach Corporate in College: A Twenty-something's Guide to the Business World by Alexandra Levit
• Getting From College to Career: Your Essential Guide to Surviving in the Real World by Lindsey Pollak
• The Unemployed College Graduate's Survival Guide: How to Get your Life Together, Deal With Debt, and Find A Job After College by Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder
• Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job by Emily Bennington
• Lean in: For Graduates by Sheryl Sandberg

But Everything You REALLY Need To Know You Learned in Kindergarten

• Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr Suess
• Everything I Need to Know I Learned From A Little Golden Book by Diane Muldrow

Do you have any suggestions for recent or soon-to-be graduates? Share with us in the comments.