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Just for You! -- Circe Readalikes & More
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Created on:
Jun 07, 2022
7 items
If you're a fan of Madeline Miller's Circe, enjoy compelling stories with strong female characters or just like well-written bo...
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VPL - Books Just for You - Desert Island Books
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Aug 06, 2025
14 items
This is a personalized booklist for someone who wants to read people's "desert island" books. Enjoy!
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VPL Picks: Thrillers
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Apr 10, 2026
20 items
The genre label 'thriller' describes books that give readers feelings of heightened anxiety, suspense, anticipation, and surpri...
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VPL - Ghost Stories
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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...
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VPL Picks: Time Travel, Time Slip and Time Loop
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May 22, 2022
27 items
In a time-travel novel, a character uses science to deliberately visit another time.
In a time-slip novel, a character accide...
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VPL - Books Just For You - Mystery, Thriller, Science Fiction & General Fiction Books
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Mar 18, 2026
15 items
Selected by a VPL reading specialist. For a patron who likes: "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir, the Amazon Prime TV s...
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VPL - Books Just For You - Historical, General, Dystopian & Thriller Books & Downloadable Audiobooks
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Sep 11, 2025
14 items
Selected by a VPL reading specialist. For a patron who likes: "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, "Remarkably Bright ...
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VPL - Books Just For You - General Fiction, Literary Fiction & Memoirs About Grief & Loss
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Feb 15, 2024
15 items
Selected by a VPL reading specialist. For a patron that wants books that make you cry.
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VPL - Books Just For You - Award Winning, Inspiring and Funny Novels and Short Stories
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Mar 04, 2021
10 items
This list was created for a patron who enjoys the work of Khaled Hosseini, Rick Riordan, Dan Brown, and John Green. They also l...
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VPL - Books Just for You - Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thrillers, Adventure, Classic & General Fiction
Created on:
Oct 04, 2019
9 items
Created by VPL's reading experts, this list was compiled for a reader who has enjoyed Game of Thrones, Frankenstein, Murder on ...
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VPL – Books Just for You – Literary Fiction, Mystery, New & Popular
Created on:
Jan 08, 2026
14 items
This list was prepared by VPL's reading experts for a reader interested in literary fiction, mystery, and new & popular. Fa...
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VPL – Books Just for You – Mysteries
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Sep 05, 2025
16 items
This list was prepared by VPL's reading experts for a reader interested in mysteries, including historical detective stories. F...
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VPL - Books Just For You - Fantasy, Romance and Reality TV Spoof Books & Downloadable AudioBooks
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Jul 22, 2025
15 items
Selected by a VPL reading specialist. For a patron who likes: "The Hunger Games" book by Suzanne Collins, and the tv ...
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VPL - Books Just for You - Fiction & Mysteries
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Nov 26, 2024
11 items
Created for a reader who likes Jodi Picoult, Agatha Christie and the TV series "Criminal Minds". Selected by VPL staff.
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VPL – Books Just for You – Horror and Literary Fiction
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Jun 18, 2024
17 items
This list was prepared by VPL's reading experts for a reader interested in horror and literary fiction, including cozies. Favou...
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VPL - Books Just For You - Thrillers, Fantasy, and Humor
Created on:
Jan 08, 2024
16 items
Selected by our wonderful team of reading experts, this list was created for a reader who requested books from the Thrillers, F...
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VPL - Books Just For You - Renowned Titles with Darker Themes
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May 17, 2023
10 items
This list was created for a VPL reader looking to explore darker themes. They are interested in international fiction/nonfictio...
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VPL - Books Just For You - Historical, Mystery, Thrillers and More
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Dec 13, 2022
10 items
This list was created for a reader looking for Historical fiction, Classics, Mystery, Science Fiction and Thriller eBooks. This...
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VPL - Books Just For You - General Fiction including Short Stories, and LGBT2S+, Non-fiction including Biography, and Memoirs
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Sep 14, 2022
16 items
For a patron who has enjoyed the works of Joy Harjo, bell hooks, J.R.R. Tolkien, Rohinton Mistry, and Richard Van Camp.
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VPL - Books Just for You - Mysteries, Science Fiction, Thrillers and World Fiction
Created on:
Jun 27, 2022
11 items
Created for a reader who likes Dan Brown, "The Heights", "The Kite Runner", Sherlock Holmes and "Stran...
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VPL - Books Just For You - Post-Apocalyptic Worlds, Horror, and Historical Fiction
Created on:
Dec 21, 2020
14 items
This list was selected for a reader who enjoyed The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Lolita, The Handmaiden, It, and the Game of Th...
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VPL - Books Just For You - New and Popular Historical Fiction, Horror, and Thrillers
Created on:
Nov 16, 2020
10 items
Some new and popular books for a reader who is interested in horror and historical fiction. They are a fan of Jane Austen's &qu...
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VPL - Books Just for You - Mystery Audiobooks
Created on:
Oct 25, 2019
11 items
Created by VPL's reading experts, this list was compiled for a reader who has enjoyed John Connelly, Jeffrey Archer, James Lee ...
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VPL Books Just For You : Readalikes for "The Sisters Brothers" and dark humourous fiction - Nov 2012
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Nov 15, 2012
6 items
A personalized list of dark humourous fiction created by the VPL Readers Cafe Staff
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VPL - Contemporary Epic Read for Long Nights
Created on:
Nov 05, 2022
22 items
The nights are oppressively long and getting longer. Don’t despair! Amuse yourself by reading a lengthy book or two. The librar...
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