Book Sale Categories

• Audio Visual

DVD's, videotapes, record albums, CD's, audio books and other non-print media in all entertainment areas; large print editions of books and other large-print reading materials. (All category-specific AV materials are found in the appropriate category.)

• Biography

Autobiographies and biographies; biographical dictionaries; presidential & first ladies biographies; some biographical novels. (Some biographies are found in Religion & Philosophy, Sports & Transportation, Fine Arts, and in History, War and Politics. High school and college yearbooks are found in Treasures.)

• Business and Career Planning

Small business; home-based business; entrepreneurship; biographies of business leaders; corporations; management; leadership; labor issues; negotiation; sales and marketing; advertising; real estate; investments; economics; finance; taxes; accounting; Roberts Rules of Order; public speaking; writing and publishing; college guides; test preparation and learning aids; journalism, radio and television; miscellaneous business-related nonfiction.

• Children's

All books for children, preschool through young adult (teen) fiction; children's paperbacks and trade paperbacks; coloring, activity & craft books; children's games, puzzles, toys & stuffed animals; children's Bibles and religious books; Scouting manuals; children's music books; Teaching Tools, Text & Workbooks for Grades 1 to 8; Classic & Collectable children's books; children's cookbooks. (Highly collectible as well as fragile children's books are found in the Rare and Unusual category; Foreign Language children's books in Foreign Language; comics & graphic novels in Humor.)

• Classics

Mythology: folklore; Required reading; classic authors; Shakespeare; anthologies; essays by classic authors; essays about literature; Cliff Notes. (Poetry and drama are found in Fine Arts; philosophy is found in Religion.)

• Computers

All computer books including computer texts; software and disks; computer games (including console games like PlayStation and X-Box); operating systems; computer science; office applications (word processing, spreadsheets, and databases); Internet and Web browsers; programming languages. (Books about using computers in business are found in Business.)

• Cookbooks

Hardcover and guild cookbooks; recipe pamphlets; cookbook sets; Weight Watchers; healthy foods cookbooks; international cookbooks; celebrity cookbooks; diabetic; vegetarian; slow cooker/Dutch oven/kitchen appliances; dessert cookbooks.

• Dictionaries

All types of dictionaries including medical, legal, slang, etc.; thesaurus; books of quotations; word usage books; one volume encyclopedia; trivia; books of lists; recent Guinness Book of Records; recent almanacs;(foreign language dictionaries will be found in Foreign Language; crossword puzzle dictionaries will be found in Sports; Taber's and Black's Law will be found in Text.)

• Fiction

Newer fiction (hardbacks and trade paperbacks) published from 2002 to 2010; Good Read Fiction published from 1961 to 2001 all $1; recent Reader's Digest Condensed fiction; biographical novels; Gothic novels; Christmas fiction; collections of short stories; special sections on Oprah's Book Club and on ethnic authors. (Suspense, science fiction and fantasy are found in Suspense; classic authors are found in Classics; some biographical novels are found in Biography; some religious novels are found in Religion; western authors are found in The West.)

• Fine Arts

Art; architecture (including texts); entertainment; circus, TV, radio; music (including texts); poetry; photography; theater; "how to" art and photography books; sheet music; art magazines; music magazines; film and theater magazines; recent Architectural Digest and other architectural magazines. (Hymnals are found in Religion.)

• Foreign Language

All books completely or partially written in any foreign language including texts, dictionaries, travel books, children's books); sign language; Braille.  (Books on hearing loss are found in Health and Fitness.)

• Health & Fitness

Natural and alternative health care, massage, aromatherapy, herbal, Eastern, chiropractic, homeopathic, yoga, etc.; fighting diseases; all health care topics for nonprofessionals (heart disease, cancer, pain, blindness etc.); medical history and true life adventures of healthcare professionals, patients, families; health care guides; drugs; home health; grooming & beauty; emergency & first aid; pain and stress management for nonprofessionals. Age related health issues; looking younger; exercise, diet, memory, etc. Fitness; Exercise; Recovery from addictions (alcohol, food, drugs, etc. includes all 12 step programs); Sex ("how to"), Kinsey and other studies on sexual behavior); women's wellness (pregnancy, fertility, childbirth, menopause); men's health; and nonprofessional material on mental health. (Medical texts, nursing texts, PDR's and Merck Manuals are found in Text; medical dictionaries are found in Dictionaries. GLBT issues are found in Relationships.)

• History, War and Politics

History, War and Politics includes world history, ancient cities and lost worlds; Western Civilization; American history; histories of states and towns; genealogy; political theory; spies; historic disasters (Titanic, etc); Wars (WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Civil War, etc.) American politics, including political biographies; government issues; magazines including history, civil war, and genealogy-related. (Historical novels are found in Fiction and Treasures; Presidential biographies are found in Biography; Yearbooks are found in Treasures; Sociology is found in People and Relationships.)

• House and Garden, Crafts and Hobbies

Interior decoration; home entertaining; household hints; etiquette; wedding planning; recent Consumer Reports; All crafts and hobbies including: pottery, weaving, stained glass, calligraphy, scrap-booking, rubber stamping, dolls and doll houses, coin/stamp collecting, model trains and planes, gems and minerals, jewelry making, needlework, sewing, quilting; antiques; electrical wiring; plumbing; home remodeling; home repairs; wood working; gardening and houseplants; decorating; Architectural Digest; sewing, crafts and hobbies magazines.

• Humor

Humorous works of fiction and non-fiction of classic and recently published authors including: paperbacks, magazines, comic books, Comic Strip books; and adult graphic novels.

• Large Print and Books on Tape

Can be found in the Audio Visual category.

• Paperbacks

Mass market (standard size) paperback fiction including suspense, mystery, science fiction, romance, ethnic, romantic suspense. There are sets of books by some widely read authors in these categories.

• Rare and Unusual

This separate, limited access area is found in the northwest corner of the Exhibit Hall. 
Books from all categories which are unusual or hard to find; autographed books; unique or fragile books; limited editions; leather bound; very old.  In late fall, check for information regarding a sampling of unique and unusual books to be offered at the upcoming VNSA Used Book Sale.

• Relationships, Self-help and Ethnic Studies

Self help books and tapes; popular psychology; popular psychologists such as Freud, Jung, & Adler; relationships; dating, friendships, marriage, erotica, divorce; parenting, step-parenting, grand-parenting; mid-life and aging social issues; adult children and their parents; loss of love; grief and coping; American culture and society, ethnic studies; women's studies; men's studies; gay, lesbian and bisexual studies; Chicken Soup for the Soul. (Books on addictions, 12 step programs, childbirth, and pregnancy are found in Health and Fitness.)

• Religion and Philosophy

Books on all religions; histories of religion, biographies of religious figures; Bibles and bible-related books, all Judaica; Eastern thought, metaphysics; philosophy; new age; parapsychology; astrology; tarot; alchemy; dreams; angels; occult; palmistry; WICCA, divination, channeling, past lives; Masonic fraternal groups; hymnals; Christmas stories; novels with a religious story line.

• Science and Nature

Books on space; astronomy; meteorology; anthropology; plants, birds, animals; natural history including ecology; geology; biology including genetics; wildlife; agriculture including animal husbandry and livestock; pets; non-text math; chemistry; technical; surveying; calculators; machines and tools; veterinary medicine.

• Sets

This separate, limited access area is found in the south end of the Exhibit Hall.
Encyclopedias and complete sets of books and odd volumes from all categories including Time-Life series, Harvard Classics, Great Books series; home repairs, decorating, gardening, history, crafts, literature, numbered children's sets; dated encyclopedia yearbooks; legal sets; No Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Sets range from 2-volume sets to sets of 50+ volumes.

• Sports and Transportation

Books and magazines about all sports: golf and other ball sports, archery; camping; RV's; boating; fishing and hunting; physical activities: hiking, biking, weightlifting, martial arts; aviation and pilot training; auto-related, including auto repair; motorcycles; boats; trains; auto racing; All card and board games; puzzles; crossword puzzle books and dictionaries; magic; gambling; Arizona Gun Owners Manual; stories about sports figures. (Books on crafts and hobbies are found in House and Garden; all books on animals are found in Science and Nature, fitness and exercise can be found in Health and Fitness, all computer games can be found in Computers.)

• Suspense & Science Fiction

Hardback and trade paperback mysteries; suspense; detective stories; thrillers & espionage; science fiction; fantasy; witches; vampires; ghosts; supernatural; outer space; UFO's; Bermuda Triangle; true crime; true spy stories; science fiction magazines. (Gothic novels and Andrew Greeley are found in Fiction; Tony Hillerman is found in The West.)

• Text

High school and college texts on all subjects; both current texts and texts of scholarly importance; business texts; medical, nursing and allied health texts; Merck manuals, PDR's, anatomy; psychiatry; clinical psychology and counseling; social work; anthropology, philosophy, law, legal casebooks; Schaum's Outline series; engineering and technical texts; science, literature, mathematics, books on teaching and education. (Real estate and taxes are found in Business; computer texts are in Computers; music, architecture and art texts are in Fine Arts; foreign language texts are in Foreign Language. Medical and legal dictionaries are found in Text and in Dictionaries.)

• Travel

Travel guides; tour books; sightseeing guides (Frommers, Zagat, Baedeker, Michelin, Lonely Planet and Rick Steves); bed and breakfast guides; travel videos; adventure travel and true adventure stories; Time-Life and National Geographic series; atlases; coffee table books about travel and different countries.

• Treasures

Fiction published 1960 and earlier including late 19th century and early 20th century; vintage nonfiction and texts; high school and college yearbooks; small gift books; books about books; collectibles such as magazines, blank journals, calendars, greeting cards, bookmarks, ephemera, pictures and other interesting items.

• The West

Western fiction, poetry, tales and stories; Western essays, biographies, journals, diaries and other non-fiction; all books about Native peoples of the Americas; Arizona government and business; western national parks, nature books; Arizona Highways; frontier life; mining; western animals and plants; the Western United States, Mexico, Central and South America.