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General Recommendations
James Joyce Biographies & Letters at SFPL
By:
SFPL_JohnS
Created on:
Apr 27, 2022
38 items
The Irish author James Joyce published his groundbreaking modernist novel Ulysses in 1922, an event that profoundly influenced ...
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.
4 likes
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...
1 like
General Recommendations
What are you reading? Right Now
Created on:
Jul 29, 2022
24 items
This is what SFPL staff are reading Right Now!
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General Recommendations
Archived Staff Recommendations
Created on:
Nov 06, 2017
95 items
SFPL's West Portal Staff recommendations.
General Recommendations
The Orphan Master's Son Read Alikes
Created on:
Jan 05, 2016
10 items
Welcome to this first Read Alike list of 2016. SFPL invites you to explore these items - similar to The Orphan Master's Son in...
General Recommendations
SFPL-Chinatown Branch Library Staff Picks for Summer 2023
Created on:
Jul 26, 2023
12 items
Summer is still here, dive into a good book! Checkout our Staff Picks by Chinatown Branch Library.
General Recommendations
SFPL-Chinatown Branch Library Staff Picks for Spring 2023
Created on:
Feb 24, 2023
20 items
Check out these Spring 2023 Staff Picks by Chinatown Branch Library staff. Your next great read is just around the corner!
Genre Guide
SFPL's New Adult Graphic Novels from Spring 2016
By:
SFPL_LisaF
Created on:
Jun 01, 2016
15 items
Here's a list of some new Graphic Novels San Francisco Public Library added to our adult collection the spring of 2016.
3 likes
General Recommendations
Toward a Black Aesthetic: Black Women, Style and African Liberation
By:
SFPL_AACL
Created on:
Jan 09, 2024
22 items
The street photography of Kenneth P. Green Sr., the first Black photographer at the Oakland Tribune, captured the style and res...
3 likes
General Recommendations
NoName Book Club Selections 2023
By:
SFPL_AACL
Created on:
Sep 28, 2023
18 items
Noname’s Book Club, started by rapper Noname (Fatimah Warner) is “an online/irl community dedicated to uplifting POC voices.” T...
2 likes
General Recommendations
Fil-Am 2023: On Identity
Created on:
Aug 16, 2023
8 items
A variety of Filipinx American titles that explore knowing and living one's truth and history. (And a culinary mystery just for...
General Recommendations
West Portal Branch: Staff Recommendations 2023
Created on:
Feb 10, 2023
45 items
Items selected by SFPL staff at West Portal Branch Library during 2023.
2 likes
General Recommendations
Literature in Translation
By:
SFPL_CDO2
Created on:
Dec 30, 2022
52 items
World Literature Today posted a list of 75 notable translations of 2022. Broaden your reading horizon in 2023 and check one out...
3 likes
General Recommendations
NoName Book Club Selections 2022
By:
SFPL_AACL
Created on:
Sep 12, 2022
15 items
Noname’s Book Club, started by rapper Noname (Fatimah Warner) is “an online/irl community dedicated to uplifting POC voices.” T...
6 likes
General Recommendations
¡VIVA! 2022: Must Reads
Created on:
Jul 22, 2022
18 items
Get these must-read fiction books by Latinx authors, available at SFPL.
5 likes
General Recommendations
LGBTQIA+ reads
By:
SFPL_ParksideLib
Created on:
Jun 24, 2022
14 items
SFPL Parkside branch's LGBTQIA+ book recommendations for teens and adults. Books range from the 1800s through 2021 and include ...
3 likes
General Recommendations
Total SF Book Club: The End of the Golden Gate
Created on:
Jun 28, 2021
20 items
Total SF Book Club with Daniel Handler and Gary Kamiya, "The End of the Golden Gate" – Aug. 24, 7 p.m.
San Francis...
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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
Best Cinematography Winners (Oscars)
Created on:
Dec 21, 2020
97 items
ONLY DVDS
These are the movies that won the Oscars for Best Cinematography (black & white and colored)
Work in progress /...
1 like
General Recommendations
Jólabókaflóð - A Book for Everybody
By:
SFPL_CDO2
Created on:
Dec 03, 2020
27 items
Jólabókaflóð is the Icelandic holiday tradition of giving books as presents. In this spirit, here are some recommendations from...
1 like
General Recommendations
More Than a Month 2021 - Adult
Created on:
Nov 22, 2020
45 items
Contemporary books, fiction and non-fiction written by Black author available at SFPL. More Than a Month is SFPL's Black Histor...
2 likes
General Recommendations
DVD Selections
Created on:
Nov 15, 2020
100 items
Recent DVD releases at SFPL (Movie descriptions via IMDB)
5 likes
General Recommendations
Author Talk: Ruha Benjamin, 8/5/20, 4PM
Created on:
Aug 02, 2020
18 items
SFPL presents Ruha Benjamin. Reservations required: https://bit.ly/RBenjamin8-5-20
Topic Guide
Read Around Africa
By:
SFPL_danielay
Created on:
Jun 04, 2020
40 items
A trip through literature around Africa's 40 most populous countries. Books are available from SFPL mostly in eFormats. Pick a ...
3 likes