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Because of the nature of the booklists, the dividing lines between the categories are often fuzzy. In addition, a booklist may appear in more than one category (except for those listed under Miscellaneous).

Books Involving a Particular Type of Character

• A Hero's Journey (September 1998)
  
• Adventurous Women (June 1997)
  
• African Americans in Historical Fiction (May 2000)
  
• Animal Lovers' Mysteries (August 1998)
  
• Bloomin' Books: Gardens, Gardeners, and Gardening in Fiction (May 1998)
  
• Books about Dads (May 2004)
  
• Books Centered around Women in a Book Discussion Group (April 2000)
  
• Books Featuring Romance Authors as Characters (February 2001)
  
• Books Narrated by Animals (May 2005)
  
• Books with Good Witches (February 2005)
  
• Books with Tortured Heros (April 2007)
  
• Books Written by Male Authors with Female Protagonists and Books by Women Authors with a Male Protagonists (March 1999)
  
• Bumbling Detectives (April 2002)
  
• Cat Mysteries ( July 1999)
  
• Catch Me if You Can Read-Alikes (July 2003)
  
• Collecting Fiction (September 2001)
  
• Conan Read-alikes (June 2006)
  
• Desperate Housewives (June 2005)
  
• Dixie Chicks: Strong Southern Women Theme (August 2001)
  
• Dog and Cat Stories (November 1998)
  
• Dog Books for 10- or 11-year-old Girl (October 1999)
  
• Fantasy Fiction with a Female Protagonist (October 2006)
  
• Fathers in Fiction (January 2004)
  
• Fiction about Active Older People (April 2006)
  
• Fictional Presidents (July 2001)
  
• Forensic Pathologists/Anthropologists/Chemists (June 2001)
  
• Gardens, Gardeners, Gardening Romances (April 2002)
  
• Gay/Lesbian Characters in Fiction. Part 1 (alphabetical) (May 1999)
  
• Gay/Lesbian Characters in Fiction. Part 2 (by category) (May 1999)
  
• Gen-X (August 1998)
  
• Grads: Books that Deal with Issues Surrounding Graduation. (May 2004)
  
• Historical Mysteries with Real Detectives (February 1999)
  
• If You Like CSI, You Might Like... (August 2004)
  
• Inspirational Teachers: An inspirational book about teaching in an urban community (January 2001)
  
• Journalists and Newscasters (March 2007)
  
• King Tut: Ancient Egyptian Fiction (August 2005)
  
• Little Old Lady Sleuths (August 1996)
  
• Male Impersonators/Female Cross Dressing (February 1999)
  
• Manly Men Doing Manly Things Manfully (May 2000)
  
• Missionary Stories (October 2005)
  
• Monster Narrators: Stories featuring monster narrators/protagonists as outsiders to human culture (July 2001)
  
• Mothers and Daughters (April 2004)
  
• Newlyweds: Books That Deal with the Trials and Travails of Newlyweds (May 2004)
  
• Nuns in Mysteries (March 2003)
  
• Nuts and Bolts Novels: Novels of Engineers and Engineering (January 1997)
  
• Of A Certain Age: Fiction Featuring Older Adults (October 1997)
  
• Older Women, Younger Men (August 1996)
  
• Pet Reading List (November 1999)
  
• Pioneer Women (August 2000)
  
• Pirate Books (September 2003)
  
• Positive Middle Aged Characters (November 2001)
  
• Red Hat Reading (August 2004)
  
• Royalty in Fiction (June 2004)
  
• Special Kids, Special Books: A Learning Disabled Characters Reading List (March 1998)
  
• Spy Who Loved Me: Novels with Spies and Romance (June 2007)
  
• Stalwart Brits (August 2000)
  
• Strong Female Characters in Books for Eleventh Grade Students (March 1999)
  
• Taking Liberties: The Novel Lives of Famous People (August 2007)
  
• True Crime Duos: The listing for the fiction/nonfiction pairings of titles based on real crimes (October 1998)
  
• Twins in Fiction (November 2002)
  
• Unstoppable Heroines of Science Fiction (February 2007)
  
• Unusual Families (February 2002)
  
• Veddy British, Dahlings Bibliography (October 1999)
  
• Women Aging Gracefully (March 2004)
  
• Women and the American Civil War (February 2001)
  
• Women in Politics (June 2004)
  
• Women of Spirit (January 1998)
  
• Young, Single Women in the City (May 2000)
  

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