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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
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
Audiobooks You Can Really Sync Your Ears Into [SFPL]
By:
SFPL_Adults
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
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
Topic Guide
Jewish Fiction - an SFPL Booklist
By:
SFPL_NancyS
SFPL_NancyS
Created on:
Jan 27, 2015
12 items
Some classics, some new titles, all good reads.
1 like
General Recommendations
2021 SFUSD Recommended Summer Reading, Grades 9-12
By:
SFPL_Family
SFPL_Family
Created on:
Apr 30, 2021
15 items
Step into the shoes of a rising soccer star, a powerful activist, a rock and roll band and much more in these incredible books ...
2 likes
General Recommendations
85 Notable German Novels of the 20th and 21st Centuries
By:
g
ggvadultlib
Created on:
Feb 10, 2021
85 items
Notable German-language novels written roughly in the last hundred years. Some are also available as ebooks or in German at SFPL.
4 likes
General Recommendations
New Fiction in Translation
By:
SFPL_danielay
SFPL_danielay
Created on:
Aug 21, 2020
40 items
Travel to other countries in these new fiction titles translated into English - no foreign language skills required. Check them...
General Recommendations
A Touch of Magic -- Books on Magical Realism
By:
SFPL_LorettaC
SFPL_LorettaC
Created on:
Jul 15, 2020
15 items
These books at SFPL will shuttle you into a world between fantasy and reality.
3 likes
General Recommendations
New eBooks You May Have Missed
By:
SFPL_CDO2
SFPL_CDO2
Created on:
May 26, 2020
17 items
Some eBooks new to SFPL which you may have missing in April. All can be checked out from our Axis360 eBook platform.
1 like
General Recommendations
LGBTQ+ Fiction by Black authors
Created on:
Dec 04, 2019
16 items
A collection of recent and older Fiction titles by African American authors, featuring LGBTQ+ themes. All available for checkou...
1 like
Top Picks
NaNoWriMo Inspo: Successful NaNo Books
By:
s
SFPLBernal
Created on:
Sep 16, 2019
47 items
These writers started their books during NaNo. If they did it, so can you. SFPL has materials in multiple formats - book, ebook...
1 like
General Recommendations
FOGUST
By:
SFPL_LisaF
SFPL_LisaF
Created on:
Jul 24, 2019
16 items
Books to cuddle up with during those cold San Francisco summers. All books are owned by SFPL, and have a winter theme.
3 likes
General Recommendations
Queer Fiction by Queer Writers of Color
By:
SFPL_KevinD
SFPL_KevinD
Created on:
May 20, 2019
53 items
Extensive, yet by no means comprehensive, list of queer fiction written by queer writers of color. All titles are recommended ...
7 likes
General Recommendations
Grown up books juvenile readers can enjoy
Created on:
Oct 18, 2018
25 items
Perhaps you are or know a young reader that maybe has read all the good books in the kids section (or at least it feels like it...
3 likes
General Recommendations
Mysteries at Milk Memorial book club
Created on:
Sep 16, 2018
25 items
[returned from Covid 19-related hiatus in January 2022 as an online program. Resumption of in-person meetings TBD.]
Are you my...
2 likes
General Recommendations
Merced Book Club - Reading List
Created on:
Jan 22, 2018
58 items
The Merced Branch Library Book Club meets bimonthly, and new members are always welcome. For more information, please contact ...
3 likes
General Recommendations
UK Guardian Readers' Decolonized Reading List
By:
SFPL_danielay
SFPL_danielay
Created on:
Oct 27, 2017
14 items
UK Guardian readers suggested books by black and ethnic minority writers that should be studied as part of Cambridge University...
1 like
Topic Guide
Celebrando la cultura literaria de América Latina
By:
SFPL_AdrianaP
SFPL_AdrianaP
Created on:
Aug 30, 2016
21 items
SFPL recomienda esta lista si te interesa leer libros escritos por famosas figuras literarias y si te gustaría aprender un poco...
4 likes
General Recommendations
Mission Bay Book Club
Created on:
Aug 01, 2016
55 items
Join the lively Mission Bay Branch book club! Mission Bay book club meets bimonthly on the last Wednesday of the month from 6:3...
1 like
General Recommendations
April 2016 Top 10 Fiction Titles
By:
SFPL_CharlotteS
SFPL_CharlotteS
Created on:
Apr 22, 2016
10 items
See what fiction your fellow SFPL patrons are checking out in April, 2016.
1 like
Top Picks
Top 10 Fiction Ebooks September 2015
By:
SFPL_CharlotteS
SFPL_CharlotteS
Created on:
Sep 28, 2015
10 items
See what your fellow SFPL patrons are downloading.
1 like
Top Picks
July 2015 Top 10 Downloaded Fiction Ebooks
By:
SFPL_CharlotteS
SFPL_CharlotteS
Created on:
Jul 31, 2015
10 items
Here's what your fellow patrons at SFPL are downloading in July. These titles are available in both Axis and Overdrive.
Top Picks
July 2015 Top 10 Adult Fiction Titles
By:
SFPL_CharlotteS
SFPL_CharlotteS
Created on:
Jul 30, 2015
10 items
Curious to see what your fellow patrons are reading? Here are SFPL's top 10 circulating adult fiction titles for July 2015.
