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VPL - Books Just for You - Detective Mystery Fiction
Created on:
Mar 06, 2024
10 items
This is a personalized reading list for a patron who enjoys Slow Horses by Mick Herron, Agatha Christie, Anthony Horowitz, and ...
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VPL Picks: Cozy Mysteries
Created on:
Apr 19, 2023
25 items
The genre of cozy mystery is a subgenre of mystery that often takes place in a small town or close-knit community and downplays...
2 likes
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VPL - Ghost Stories
Created on:
Oct 12, 2022
22 items
Ghost stories belong to supernatural fiction and feature ghosts or unseen forces that characters in the story believe are manif...
4 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 - Books Just for You - Canadian and General Fiction
Created on:
Nov 02, 2022
11 items
with Award Winning, Indigenous and World Fiction.
For a reader who likes, Helen Humphreys - Machine Without Horses, The Bean ...
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VPL – Books Just for You – Canadian & International Fiction
Created on:
Jul 24, 2022
13 items
For a patron who likes Julio Cortázar, Juan Rulfo, and Louise Penny, who wants a mix of Canadian and World fiction, with some h...
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VPL - Adventure Bound: Books about Road Trips
Created on:
Jul 08, 2024
13 items
Hit the literary highway and embark on a thrilling road trip through fiction, exploring diverse landscapes and captivating narr...
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VPL – Books Just for You – Classics, Horror, Literary Fiction
Created on:
Nov 19, 2025
18 items
This list was prepared by VPL's reading experts for a reader interested in classics, horror, and literary fiction. Favourite re...
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VPL - Books Just For You - Detective Mystery Initiation
Created on:
May 29, 2025
10 items
A booklist for someone that loved "Murder on the Orient Express" and "And Then There Were None" and are loo...
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VPL - Books Just For You - Locked Rooms, Closed Circles, and Dark Academia
Created on:
Feb 21, 2025
16 items
This list was prepared by VPL's reading experts for a reader interested in locked room and closed circle mysteries, as well as ...
1 like
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VPL – Books Just for You – Cozy, Slice of Life Fantasy, Humour, and Fiction
Created on:
Apr 09, 2024
13 items
This list was prepared by VPL's reading experts for a reader interested in some cozy reading. Favourite reads include Legends &...
4 likes
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VPL - Books Just For You - Literary Fiction
Created on:
Jul 15, 2023
6 items
This list was prepared by VPL's reading experts for a reader interested in award winning and literary fiction. Favourite author...
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VPL - Books Just For You - Biography/Memoir, Canadian Fiction, Graphic Novel, Literary Fiction and World /International.
Created on:
May 07, 2023
15 items
This list is created by a VPL staff for a fan of the movies Shallow Grave and Everything, Everywhere, All At Once, and a fan of...
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VPL - Books Just For You - Tales of Grit, Darkness, Resilience, and Exotic Locations
Created on:
Apr 05, 2022
15 items
Our wonderful team of reading experts at the Vancouver Public Library have curated a book list for readers who enjoy Mario Puz...
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VPL - Books Just for You - Fiction Page-Turners
Created on:
Oct 25, 2021
13 items
Carefully selected by the reading specialists for a patron who wanted fantasy, mystery, historical fiction and some titles avai...
2 likes
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VPL -Books Just for You - Descriptive authors
Created on:
Oct 10, 2020
9 items
eBooks with a touch of autobiography, historical, mystery & popular fiction. Created by VPL reading experts.
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VPL - Books Just For You - Mysteries and Historical
Created on:
Jan 23, 2020
8 items
This book list was created for a reader who enjoys the work of Laurie King, Arthur Conan Doyle, and David Mitchell, among others.
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VPL - Books Just for You - Literary, Classics and World
Created on:
Dec 05, 2019
10 items
This list was created by the VPL reading experts for a reader who enjoys literary novels, modern classics and world fiction.
1 like
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VPL - Books Just For You - Thrillers and Others.
Created on:
Jul 05, 2018
10 items
This list of books was prepared by VPL's reading experts for a patron who wanted some suggestions for mysteries, thrillers, non...
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VPL - Novels with Unusual Narrators
Created on:
Aug 20, 2022
25 items
Are you charmed by offbeat and unconventional narrators? The reading specialists at the Vancouver Public Library have created a...
3 likes
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VPL - Books That Engaged Us in 2018
Created on:
Dec 11, 2018
100 items
"If you work in a library, you must really like to read." Well, some cliches contain larger grains of truth than othe...
4 likes
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VPL - The Fiction Titles that Engaged Us in 2017
Created on:
Nov 08, 2017
96 items
We asked our social media followers and fellow staff members to nominate the fiction titles they read in 2017 that engaged and ...
2 likes
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New Fiction Releases: July 2025
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Created on:
May 28, 2025
100 items
Summer is here! There's no better time to grab one of these brand new titles.
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What I've Read 2024
Created on:
Jan 11, 2024
65 items
All the books I finished reading in 2024 roughly in order of how much I liked them.
This year I started and stopped reading 31...
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International Day of People with Disabilities
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Created on:
Nov 02, 2020
38 items
Enjoy these fiction titles featuring persons with disabilities.
