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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 ...
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General Recommendations
Oscars 2022: SFPL
By:
SFPL_StaffPicks
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
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
SFPL_JohnG
Created on:
Mar 16, 2017
10 items
SFPL adult books on Asian Pacific Americans
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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!
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General Recommendations
SFPL One City One Book Selections
By:
SFPL_joanl
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...
Topic Guide
The LGBT Community in Germany, Before and During the Holocaust - An SFPL LGBT Resource Guide
Created on:
Feb 12, 2015
22 items
There was a well-developed LGBT subculture in urban areas of Germany before the rise of the Nazi Party. However, gay men, in pa...
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Topic Guide
Cross-Dressing - An SFPL LGBT Resource Guide
Created on:
Feb 11, 2015
22 items
Men and women have cross-dressed over the years for a variety of reasons. While some of them live full lives as the opposite ge...
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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
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...
Top Picks
Indigenous Voices for Children & Tweens
By:
SFPL_Family
SFPL_Family
Created on:
Oct 30, 2020
24 items
Check out these recent titles by Native authors, about the Native experience, from board books to novels to nonfiction. All ava...
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General Recommendations
Previous Selections 2019: On the Same Page
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SFPL_StaffPicks
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
The Gods of Tango Read-a-Likes
Created on:
Nov 17, 2016
8 items
If you enjoyed reading The Gods of Tango, SFPL's November-December 2016 On the Same Page selection, you also may enjoy these ti...
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General Recommendations
Juneteenth at SFPL
Created on:
Jun 14, 2020
26 items
Juneteenth commemorates the day the last enslaved Black lives were emancipated in the United States on June 19, 1865. It was on...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
General Recommendations
Bay Area points of historical interest with literary tie-ins : for students
Created on:
Dec 01, 2021
42 items
A school librarian had a great idea: they read the Port Chicago 50 and then took the students there to visit the site. Then the...
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General Recommendations
The Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2021
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s
SFPLBernal
Created on:
Nov 30, 2021
10 items
If you like checking out curated "best of" lists, here is the New York Times list of best fiction and non-fiction boo...
2 likes
General Recommendations
Excelsior: Winter Holiday Books
Created on:
Nov 19, 2021
44 items
A list of winter holiday books available at SFPL to accompany the Youth Art Exchange 2021 holiday window project. They reflect ...
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