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Adult & teen booklists by category

• Adventure
• African-American authors
• Animals
• Audio books
• Award winners
• Best sellers
• Biographies
• Book group suggestions
• Chick lit
• Classics
• Everybody Reads selections

• Fantasy
• Food
• GLBTQ
• Graphic novels
• History
• Horror
• Humor
• If you like these authors. . .
• If you like these titles. . .
• Multicultural

• Mysteries
• Nonfiction
• Oprah's Book Club selections
• Oregon and the Pacific Northwest
• Prize winners
• Romance
• Science fiction
• Staff picks and favorite reads
• Teens
• Thrillers

Adventure

• Adventure Thrillers
• If You Like Patrick O'Brian
• Ship Ahoy! Nautical Adventures NEW!

African-American authors

• African American Erotic Fiction
• African American Love Stories
• Black Resource Collection - Archives
• Black Resource Collection - Featured Works
• If You Like Zane
• Urban Fiction and Beyond

Animals

• Fiction for Cat Lovers
• Fiction for Dog Lovers
• For the Birds! Books for Bird Lovers
• Nonfiction for Cat Lovers
• Nonfiction for Dog Lovers

Audio books

• Audio Books for Family Listening

Award winners

• Prize-Winning Fiction

Best sellers

• New York Times Best Sellers
• New York Times 10 Best Books of 2008
• Pacific Northwest Bestsellers

Biographies

• Basics II - History and Biography
• Favorite Biographies and Autobiographies

Book group suggestions

• Everybody Reads Selections
• Oprah's Book Club Selections
• Oregonian Book Club Selections

Chick lit

• If You Like Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary

Classics

• 100 World Fiction Classics
• Basics I: World Fiction Classics
• Basics II: Nonfiction: Fine Arts
• Basics II: Nonfiction: History and Biography
• Basics II: Nonfiction: Performing Arts
• Basics II: Nonfiction: Philosophy and Religion
• Basics II: Nonfiction: Plays
• Basics II: Nonfiction: Poetry
• Basics II: Nonfiction: Sciences and Social Sciences
• Read the Classics NEW!
  • Greece and Rome
  • Middle Ages
  • 1600s & 1700s Novels
  • 1800s Novels
  • Russian Literature
  • Philosophy
  • Antiquity
  • Non-Western: 900s to 1700s
  • Reading the Classics and Other Lists

Everybody Reads selections

• Everybody Reads Selections

Fantasy

• Fantastical Fiction—Anthony to Zelazny
• Time Travel

Food

• Food in Fiction
• Food in Nonfiction

GLBTQ (Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer)

• GLBTQ Fiction Updated 6/2008

Graphic novels

• Graphic Novels

History

• Ancient Egypt
• Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation
• Historical Fiction in Series
• History and Biography
• Soldaderas: Women Revolutionary Fighters in Mexico and Around the World
• Surprising Histories: How Small Things Have Changed the World

Horror

• Beyond King and Koontz
• If You Like Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series...

Humor

• Humorous Reads
• If You Like David Sedaris

If you like these authors...

• Jean Auel
• Maeve Binchy
• Dan Brown
• Janet Evanovich
• Helen Fielding
• Arthur Golden
• Thomas Harris
• Jan Karon
• Barbara Kingsolver
• Elmore Leonard
• Terry McMillan
• Patrick O'Brian
• Chuck Palahniuk Updated 9/2008
• David Sedaris
• John Updike
• Rebecca Wells
• Stephenie Meyer
• Zane

If you like these titles. . .

• Bridget Jones's Diary
• The Da Vinci Code
• The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Silence of the Lambs
• Terrorist
• Twilight

Multicultural

• Asian-American Fiction
• The East Indian Experience
• Hispanic Voices in Fiction
• International Voices: The Muslim World
• Irish Voices in Fiction
• Japanese Voices in Fiction
• Jewish Voices
• Latin American Voices in Fiction
• Native American Authors
• Native American Fiction Writers (pdf)
• Urban Fiction and Beyond

Mysteries

• Global Gumshoes: Detective Beyond Borders
• If You Like Janet Evanovich . . .
• If You Like Elmore Leonard . . .
• Women Sleuths (pdf)

Nonfiction

• Ancient Egypt
• Armchair Journeys (pdf)
• Early Oregon
• Favorite Biographies and Autobiographies
• Food in Nonfiction
• For the Birds! Books for Bird Lovers
• Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation
• Gardening
• Holidays: Crafts, Customs & Cooking
• Lewis & Clark expedition
• Medical Nonfiction Updated 9/2008
• Nonfiction for Cat Lovers
• Nonfiction for Dog Lovers
• Northwest Wildlife
• September Project
• Soldaderas: Women Revolutionary Fighters in Mexico and Around the World
• Spirituality
• Staff Picks - Best Nonfiction Reads of 2007
• Staff Picks - Best Nonfiction Reads of 2006
• Staff Picks - Best Nonfiction Reads of 2005
• Surprising Histories: How Small Things Have Changed the World
• Welcome to Portland!
• Writing for Fun and Profit Updated 4/2008

Oprah's Book Club selections

• Oprah's Book Club Selections

Oregon and the Pacific Northwest

• Early Oregon
• Lewis and Clark Expedition
• North by Northwest - Fiction
• Northwest Wildlife
• Novels Set in Portland
• Welcome to Portland

Prize winners

• Prize-Winning Fiction

Romance

• African American Love Stories
• If You Like Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary

Science fiction

• Science Fiction 101
• Time Travel

Staff picks and favorite reads

• Books We Love
• Staff Picks - Best Fiction Reads of 2007
• Staff Picks - Best Nonfiction Reads of 2007
• Staff Picks - Best Fiction Reads of 2006
• Staff Picks - Best Nonfiction Reads of 2006
• Staff Picks - Best Fiction Reads of 2005
• Staff Picks - Best Nonfiction Reads of 2005

Teens

• Adult Reads for Teens
• A Book for Tomorrow's Assignment
• GLBTQ Booklist
• Quick Reads for Teens Ages 12-18
• Teens in Tough Times
• Find more booklists, reviews, comics and graphic novels for teens

Thrillers

• Adventure Thrillers
• Legal Thrillers
• Medical Thrillers
• Suspense Thrillers
• Techno Thrillers
• Terrorist Thrillers

Indexes to Booklists

• Alphabetical (in process)