Patron Reads

The Summer of 2026 introduced the Adult Summer Reading Program, which was a rousing success. After the program, we asked for patron recommendations on what we could do to make things better. One recommendation – “I would love a place online where I could see some book recommendations from other people in the program.”

Honestly, we loved the recommendation. Now how do we make it work? There are plenty of sites out there: Goodreads, LibraryThing, Fable etc. There are groups on Facebook and Subreddits. However, all of these require usernames, accounts, or profiles. It was important to us that our patrons could leave and view recommendations without any of that.

So…
Welcome to the SFPL Patron Reads.