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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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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
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 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
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
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
Friday Bookends 2023 Selections
Created on:
Nov 29, 2022
13 items
Reading through the year together
General Recommendations
Give me mystery but make it cozy!
By:
SFPL_danielay
Created on:
Jan 24, 2024
14 items
Want to stimulate your little gray cells with a murder mystery? Here are some recent ones that you can enjoy with a nice cup of...
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General Recommendations
Romance: Adults and YA
Created on:
Dec 15, 2023
10 items
This SFPL librarian created list explores love's complexities and joys with these romance reads! If you’re a fan of love at fir...
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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 ...
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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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General Recommendations
Book Club: West Portal 2021-2022
Created on:
Aug 23, 2021
19 items
Join SFPL staff & Ms. Christine as she meets virtually with West Portal neighbors to discuss a fiction or non-fiction selec...
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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
From Page to Screen: Books Being Adapted Into Films in 2020
By:
SFPL_SherryW
Created on:
Jun 23, 2020
20 items
Do you read the book before watching the movie? If so, this list is for you. All these books have recently been released or a...
General Recommendations
"Big Books" to tackle now that you have time
By:
SFPL_danielay
Created on:
Mar 24, 2020
14 items
With busy lives "big books" - not only classics but any long book - can be intimidating to tackle but if other entert...
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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...
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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 ...
4 likes
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.
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
Created on:
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...