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Staff Picks
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Genres
Named Reading Lists
These are short, named reading lists created by Forbes Library Staff. Most of these started as handouts and focus on a single theme. You can also suggest a new reading list topic.
- African American History
- Alien Contacts
- Alternate History
- American History Novels
- The Ancient World
- Angles, Saxons, Celts, Britons: Children of a Common Past
- Anthropological Science Fiction
- Battling The Demons Within
- A Biographical Alphabet
- Biotechnology
- Books About Food
- Both Sides Now
- Catch the Beat: Fiction
- Catch the Beat: Nonfiction
- Chick Lit
- Chilling Tales for the Coldest Nights of Winter
- The Civil War
- Classic Fantasy Novels
- Colonial India
- Contemporary Queer Fiction
- Cozy Mysteries
- Culinary Fiction
- Cyberpunk
- Dark Fantasy
- Deafness and Deaf Culture
- Fiction with International Flavor
- For the Love of Horses
- Garden 2012
- Gardening Books
- Good Thin Books
- Green Living Books
- Heartwarming Fiction
- Holiday Cookbooks
- The Immigrant Experience
- Inspiring True Stories: Memoirs and Biographies
- Irish Reads
- Knitting
- Love Stories
- The Middle Ages
- New Year, New You
- Nordic Noir
- Post Apocalyptic Fiction
- Prehistory
- Read Us if You Dare
- The Renaissance
- Rock Widow Booklist
- Science Fantasy
- Sci Fi: Other Worlds & Parallel Universes
- Science Fiction Classics
- South Africa Under Apartheid
- Space Opera
- Sports Fever 2010
- Sports Fever 2011
- Steampunk
- Stress Reduction
- Summer of Women
- Taking a Year
- The Things They Carried
- Tis The Season
- Top Dog Books
- Traveling Through Time
- Turkey Day Reads
- Twentieth Century China
- Urban Fantasy
- The Victorian Era
- The Wild West
- Women of the Middle Ages
- Women Who Rule
- World War II
- Young Adult Fantasy Classics
Title Readalikes
- If you liked Animal, Vegetable, Miracle...
- If you liked Dirty Tricks...
- If you liked The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...
- If you liked The Glass Castle...
- If you liked The Help...
- If you liked The Inn at Lake Devine
- If you liked Into The Wild...
- If you liked The Namesake...
- If you liked Operating Instructions...
- If you liked Outwitting History...
- If you liked Pillars of the Earth...
- If you liked A Thousand Splendid Suns...
- If you liked Three Cups of Tea...
- If you liked Water for Elephants...
Author Readalikes
Reading Maps
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