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General Recommendations
The Mix At SFPL Recommends
Created on:
Feb 13, 2015
22 items
The Mix At SFPL is an AWESOME new Teen Center at the Main Library.
The books on this list are recommended reads from the teens...
1 like
General Recommendations
SFPL One City One Book Selections
Created on:
Jun 09, 2016
18 items
SFPL has been selecting One City One Book titles for our citywide reading program for the past 15 years. Here is a look at our ...
4 likes
General Recommendations
Oscars 2022: SFPL
By:
SFPL_StaffPicks

Created on:
Jan 31, 2022
26 items
2022 Academy Award nominations (winners indicated). DVDs, and books they were based on, and music offered by SFPL.
3 likes
General Recommendations
Transgender Fiction at SFPL
By:
SFPL_KevinD

Created on:
Jul 23, 2018
11 items
Recommended fiction featuring transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming characters, written by transgender, non-binary...
1 like
General Recommendations
Black History Month SFPL 2018, Teens
Created on:
Dec 29, 2017
10 items
In honor of Black History Month, here are some books that speak of the black experience in America. Most of these titles are av...
Topic Guide
SFPL Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2017
By:
SFPL_JohnG

Created on:
Mar 16, 2017
10 items
SFPL adult books on Asian Pacific Americans
1 like
General Recommendations
What SFPL Staff Is Currently Reading
Created on:
Jul 07, 2015
18 items
Want to know what the members of the SFPL Readers' Advisory team is currently reading? Check it out here!
4 likes
General Recommendations
SFPL One City One Book Selections
By:
SFPL_joanl

Created on:
Jun 18, 2015
11 items
SFPL has been selecting One City One Book books for our citywide reading program for the past 10 years. Here is a look back at ...
General Recommendations
SFPL One City One Book selections through the years
Created on:
Jun 11, 2015
13 items
SFPL has been selecting One City One Book books for our citywide reading program for the past 10 years. Here is a look back at...
General Recommendations
2015 SFPL On The Same Page / One City One Book
Created on:
Jul 07, 2015
6 items
Join San Francisco's biggest book club. Here are our On The Same Page Picks for 2015!
General Recommendations
New LGBTQIA Fiction - 2020
By:
SFPL_KevinD

Created on:
Nov 03, 2020
29 items
A selection of some of the most interesting queer fiction titles published in the past year. All titles are available to check...
General Recommendations
Previous Selections 2021: On the Same Page
By:
SFPL_StaffPicks

Created on:
Apr 05, 2021
8 items
Every other month SFPL chooses a book--with the help of your suggestions--to encourage San Franciscans to read and discuss the ...
1 like
General Recommendations
Previous Selections 2020: On the Same Page
By:
SFPL_StaffPicks

Created on:
Feb 27, 2020
10 items
Every other month SFPL chooses a book--with the help of your suggestions--to encourage San Franciscans to read and discuss the ...
General Recommendations
Previous Selections 2019: On the Same Page
By:
SFPL_StaffPicks

Created on:
Feb 22, 2019
5 items
Every other month SFPL chooses a book--with the help of your suggestions--to encourage San Franciscans to read and discuss the ...
General Recommendations
Archived Staff Recommendations
Created on:
Nov 06, 2017
95 items
SFPL's West Portal Staff recommendations.
General Recommendations
SFPL presents One City One Book 2022: Longlist
Created on:
Feb 18, 2022
25 items
This is a list of books read and discussed by the One City One Book selection committee.
6 likes
General Recommendations
SFPL's Weird Pets - Fiction about something OTHER than cats and dogs
By:
SFPL_LisaF

Created on:
Mar 13, 2020
19 items
Here's a selection of novels about all the other types of pets we humans sometimes have - birds, fish, various wildlife! All av...
General Recommendations
SFPL's 15TH ANNUAL ONE CITY ONE BOOK 2019 SHORT LIST
Created on:
Feb 14, 2019
13 items
San Francisco's One City One Book candidates for 2019.
2 likes
General Recommendations
Audiobooks You Can Really Sync Your Ears Into [SFPL]
By:
SFPL_Adults

Created on:
Oct 13, 2016
23 items
Yes, listening to books counts as a type of reading, at least in this librarian's "book." Of course, it really matt...
5 likes
Genre Guide
Experimental Fiction Selection from SFPL
By:
SFPL_LisaF

Created on:
Mar 12, 2015
20 items
These books all play with what we think of as a 'novel,' using experimental narrative, structure, language, etc... They are oft...
9 likes
Genre Guide
SFPL's Favorite Western Novels
Created on:
Mar 04, 2015
18 items
A compilation of classic and contemporary stories about the West
2 likes
Topic Guide
Jewish Fiction - an SFPL Booklist
By:
SFPL_NancyS

Created on:
Jan 27, 2015
12 items
Some classics, some new titles, all good reads.
1 like
General Recommendations
New Fiction - 2020
Created on:
Dec 08, 2020
31 items
Sadly there's no in-person browsing at this time. In the meantime, take advantage of some virtual browsing. Here is a sampling...
1 like
General Recommendations
Celebrate Friendship this Valentine's Day
By:
s
SFPLBernal
Created on:
Jan 31, 2022
27 items
Celebrate your friendships on Valentine's Day. The books on this list have friendship as a central theme - some fiction, some n...
1 like
Topic Guide
Novels that Take Place in San Francisco
By:
s
SFPLBernal
Created on:
Jan 23, 2022
16 items
San Francisco has been celebrated in some excellent novels. Here's a list of some of the best novels set in San Francisco that ...