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VPL - 2025 Booker Prize Longlist
Created on:
Aug 07, 2025
15 items
From the Booker Prize Website:
"The ‘Booker Dozen’ features five British authors, while also encapsulating a vast range ...
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VPL - Top 5 Staff Picks - June 2025
Created on:
May 30, 2025
6 items
VPL staff choose their top five favourite books read this past month. Compiled by our librarians, bibliotherapists, and avid re...
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VPL Picks: 2SLGBTQIA+ Fiction
Created on:
Apr 04, 2025
35 items
"2SLGBTQIA+: An acronym (sometimes also called an initialism) used to refer to Two-Spirit (2S), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Tr...
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VPL - Top 5 Staff Picks - June 2024
Created on:
Jun 07, 2024
6 items
VPL staff choose their top five favourite books read this past month. Compiled by our librarians, bibliotherapists, and avid re...
1 like
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VPL Picks: New Adult Fiction
Created on:
Nov 21, 2023
26 items
"New Adult" is a literary genre that offers stories that resonate with the unique challenges and experiences faced by...
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VPL - Top 5 Staff Picks - October 2023
Created on:
Oct 04, 2023
6 items
VPL staff choose their top five favourite books read this past month. Compiled by our librarians, bibliotherapists, and avid re...
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VPL - 2023 Booker Prize Long List Nominees
Created on:
Aug 02, 2023
14 items
From the Booker Prize website:
"The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has br...
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VPL - International Booker Prize Longlist Nominees, 2023
Created on:
Mar 15, 2023
15 items
"The International Booker Prize 2023 longlist has been announced. It features work from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin Ame...
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VPL Picks: Science Fiction
Created on:
Feb 22, 2023
21 items
The genre label "science fiction" applies to novels that cross entertainment with science speculation. Alternative wo...
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VPL Picks: Fantasy
Created on:
Nov 13, 2022
22 items
The genre label "fantasy" applies to novels whose plots, themes or settings feature supernatural phenomena and magica...
4 likes
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VPL Picks: World War II Fiction
Created on:
Oct 06, 2022
44 items
Covering a wide range of perspectives and genres, these historical novels tell stories of soldiers, spies, and ordinary people ...
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VPL - 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist
Created on:
Sep 06, 2022
14 items
"Now in its 29th year, the Scotiabank Giller Prize highlights the very best of Canadian fiction. This year, 138 works of l...
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VPL - Dublin Literary Award Short List 2022
Created on:
Mar 22, 2022
13 items
This list offers both physical and ebook copies of the 2022 Dublin Literary Award Short List nominees. Vancouver Public Library...
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VPL - Top 21 Staff Picks for 2021
Created on:
Nov 02, 2021
22 items
We made it to the end of the year and as a special treat we've collected 21 of our favourite books published in 2021. Compiled ...
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VPL Picks: Ontario Fiction
Created on:
Feb 07, 2021
10 items
A selection of titles set in the Canadian province of Ontario. Enjoy the flavor of Eastern Canada with these domestic, mystery,...
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VPL Picks: Literary Lesbian Reads
Created on:
Nov 04, 2020
26 items
A survey of lesbian literary fiction. While the genre can be traced back to the Greek poet Sappho on the Island of Lesbos in 63...
11 likes
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VPL - Fictional Accounts of Real Life Stories
Created on:
Sep 26, 2020
20 items
Unlike biographies or memoirs, these stories take inspiration from real-life events and people. Some are meticulously researche...
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VPL - 2SLGBTQ+ Fiction
Created on:
Mar 18, 2020
25 items
Fiction novels that feature 2SLGBTQ+ characters or are written by 2SLGBTQ+ authors.
Get started with these titles carefully se...
2 likes
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VPL Picks: Up Lit & Gentle Reads - Empathy, Kindness, and Hope in Darker Times
Created on:
Mar 05, 2020
19 items
Up Lit and Gentle Reads main emphasis is on empathy and family bonds, acts of kindness to strangers, the human spirit, gentler ...
5 likes
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VPL Picks: Contemporary Literary Fiction
Created on:
Mar 01, 2020
31 items
In publishing, literary fiction novels are regarded as having more literary merit than most commercial or "genre" fic...
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VPL Picks: Asian Canadian Fiction
Created on:
Feb 25, 2020
27 items
A select list of new, popular and acclaimed fiction titles by Canadian writers of Asian descent.
Asia is interpreted based on ...
6 likes
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VPL Picks: Fiction to Inspire
Created on:
Nov 19, 2019
19 items
Any good book can be an inspiration, but the books selected below include fictional characters who either overcome adversity or...
4 likes
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VPL Picks: Bildungsroman, or "Novel of Formation"
Created on:
Jun 14, 2019
20 items
Bildungsroman ("novel of formation") is about the formative years of a person, who is often struggling against the o...
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VPL - New Adult Fiction
Created on:
Aug 24, 2018
20 items
Hallmarks of New Adult fiction:
- protagonists usually between the age of 18-25, often attending college
- emotionally-intense ...
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VPL - Books Just For You - including Biography and Memoir, Inspiring Books, Historical Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
Created on:
Mar 08, 2022
13 items
For a reader who has enjoyed such historical fiction as "The Nightingale", and "A Thousand Splendid Suns" a...
