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BCDC Selection Categories
As of February 2007
In no particular order:
- Indian Authors
- Graphic Novels
- Biography and Autobiography
- Western Canon (e.g., from Fadiman's New Lifetime Reading Plan)
- War Novels
- Science
- Travel Memoir/Travel Writing
- Politics
- Books that Inspired Movies
- Speculative Fiction/Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Nobel Prize-Winning Authors
- "Chick Lit"
- U.S. Southern Literature
- Poetry
- Religion, Religious Literature, and Holy Books
- Tragedy
- Post-1900 American History
- Books I Should Have or Did Read in High School
- Sex and Sex Literature
- Copyrighted Recently (in last 24 months)
- Copyrighted Before 1900
- Banned Books
- Sports Themed
- Exploration and Human v. Nature
- Nature
- Magic Realism
- Caribbean Authors
- Cooking and Food
- Plays and Theatre
- Alternate History
- Western African Authors
- Books Others are Angry/Annoyed That You Haven't Read
- Humourous Literature
- Modern British Literature
- Fairy Tales
- Paired Readings
- Historical Fiction
- Counter-Culture
- Gonzo
- Local Interest
- Recreational Pharmacology
- Liquor (specifically)
- Books You Read While Drunk/High and Want to Re-read
- Books You Read While Stupid
- Time Travel
- Post-Apocalyptic
Already Used:
- U.S. Western Literature
- Cadillac Desert
- Katrina
- Rising Tide
- U.S. Feminism and Feminist Literature
- The Gate to Women's Country
- Canadian Authors
- The Rebel Angels
- Legally Oriented
- The Cyanide Canary
- Mysteries, True Crime, and Crime Novels
- In Cold Blood
- Race and Racism
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Beer, Liquor, and Alcohol
- A History of the World in Six Glasses
- Books You Wouldn't Want Homeland Security to Find on Your Bookshelf
- It Can't Happen Here
- Disease
- - A Journal of the Plague Year
- Music and Musicians
- Glimpses
- Non-human Animals
- The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
- Modern British Literature
- TBD
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