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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
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
Previous Selections 2017: On the Same Page
By:
SFPL_StaffPicks
Created on:
Jul 03, 2017
5 items
Every other month, the SFPL chooses a book--with the help of your suggestions--with the intent of getting San Franciscans to re...
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
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...
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General Recommendations
New Fiction - 2020
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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
Excelsior Branch Book Club 2021/22 Titles
By:
SFPL_danielay
Created on:
Jan 29, 2021
22 items
The Excelsior Branch Book Club meets - currently virtually - at 7pm on the fourth Tuesday of the month. Please contact SFPL's E...
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...
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General Recommendations
Pride 2020: LGBTQ+ Fiction Picks
By:
SFPL_KevinD
Created on:
May 12, 2020
10 items
A short list of recently released LGBTQ+ fiction for a literary Pride month. Sci-Fi, mysteries, high-brow, low-brow, this list...
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Top Picks
NaNoWriMo Inspo: Successful NaNo Books
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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...
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General Recommendations
New LGBTQ+ Fiction Fall 2018
By:
SFPL_KevinD
Created on:
Dec 13, 2018
39 items
New additions to the LGBTQ+ Fiction Collection at the Main Library of SFPL from Fall 2018.
General Recommendations
Merced Book Club - Reading List
Created on:
Jan 22, 2018
71 items
The Merced Branch Library Book Club meets bimonthly, and new members are always welcome. For more information, please contact ...
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Genre Guide
Historical Fiction for Teens
By:
SFPL_JenW
Created on:
Jan 08, 2017
13 items
Travel back in time with these popular historical fiction titles. Recommended by a SFPL Teen Librarian.
K-12 Study Guide
Teen essentials - suggestions from @SFpubliclibrary Instagram followers
By:
SFPL_Teen
Created on:
Sep 13, 2016
24 items
We recently asked our @SFPubliclibrary Instagram followers to suggest books they recommend for all young people to read. This ...
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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...
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General Recommendations
Remembering Books: Raschka Reads
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Apr 09, 2015
10 items
Did you miss the 2015 Effie Lee Morris Lecture? These are the titles Chris Raschka mentioned in his talk "Remembering Book...
General Recommendations
Books San Franciscans were reading in 1915
Created on:
Mar 17, 2015
10 items
The Fair opened on February 20, 1915 and closed December 4, 1915. These are some of the most popular new books in order of de...
Genre Guide
Historical Fiction
Created on:
Feb 26, 2015
18 items
A compilation of classic and contemporary novels where the plot is set in the past. Check them out at SFPL.
3 likes
General Recommendations
West Portal Book Club: Great Reads from the Past
Created on:
Feb 17, 2015
49 items
Past selections for West Portal Book Club. Recommended by a SFPL Librarian.
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General Recommendations
World Literature Book Club
By:
SFPL_JohnS
Created on:
Jan 12, 2016
100 items
Our group meets on the first Thursday of each month, 6:00-7:30 p.m. We are meeting online, using the Zoom platform, unless othe...
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