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VPL - What Vancouver Is Reading, Spring 2023

The City of Vancouver is a city of readers. Vancouver Public Library asked what our residents are currently reading, and received responses that span genres, time periods, and continents. If you're looking for own voices sci-fi, books on decolonization, memoirs from Canadian film makers, popular science, or a classic, it turns out of the people of Vancouver have recommendations for you. Get started with on your reading journey with these incredible titles. If you would like a personalized reading list, please use our Books Just for You service at https://www.vpl.ca/readnext.

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25 items

  • Babel

    or the Necessity of Violence : An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

    Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.)
    Fantasy fiction and alternative history. Subjects: Anti-imperialism, 1800s, China and England.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Harper Voyager, [2022]
  • Nonfiction. Subjects: Indigenous peoples, human ecology, sexual minorities, autobiography.
    Book, 2022Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, [2022]
  • Fantasy fiction. Subjects: Fate and fatalism, gods, brides, and storytelling (Korean).
    Book, 2022New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2022.
  • The Song of the Cell

    An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

    Mukherjee, Siddhartha
    Nonfiction. Subjects: Research, cytology, microbiology.
    Book, 2022New York : Scribner, 2022.
  • The Angel Makers

    Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring

    McCracken, Patti
    Nonfiction. Subjects: Women serial killers, Hungary, 20th century.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
  • Science Fiction. Subjects: City and town life, summer in Illinois, teenage boys.
    Book, 2006New York : William Morrow, 2006, c1999.
  • Historical fiction. Subjects: Murder, 1940s, small town life, British Columbia.
    Book, 2017Victoria, BC : TouchWood Editions, [2017]
  • China Unbound

    a New World Disorder

    Chiu, Joanna
    Nonfiction. Subjects: China, Politics and government, economic conditions, social policy.
    Book, 2021[Toronto] : House of Anansi Press, 2021.
  • Historical fiction. Subjects: Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, court and courtiers.
    Book, 2009New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2009.
  • Chick lit. Subjects: Publishers and publishing, San Francisco, interpersonal relations.
    Book, 2022Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2022]
  • Run Towards the Danger

    Confrontations With a Body of Memory

    Polley, Sarah
    Nonfiction. Subjects: Actors, psychic trauma, memory.
    Book, 2022Toronto : Hamish Hamilton Canada, 2022.
  • Nonfiction. Subjects: Services for homeless persons, care for homeless persons, Boston.
    Book, 2023New York : Random House, [2023]
  • Nonfiction. Subjects: Creative ability, creation.
    Book, 2023New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
  • Fantasy fiction. Subjects: Women hunters, quests, impersonation, imaginary kingdoms.
    Book, 2021New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2021.
  • Fantasy fiction. Subjects: Caribbean-Canadian authors, near future.
    Book, 1998New York : Warner Books, c1998.
  • Oscar Wars

    a History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

    Schulman, Michael
    Nonfiction. Subjects: Academy Awards (Motion pictures), history.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]