Booklist Reader

Published by Booklist, an imprint of the American Library Association. Booklist Reader features diverse book and audiobook recommendations, for readers and listeners of all ages. Filled with high-interest, themed lists that showcase books for your family or book discussion group.

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Top 10 Relationship Fiction • The top 10 relationship fiction titles plumb depths of feeling while exploring the power of human connection through intergenerational conflict, biological and found family, and, sometimes, humor.

Essentials Intergenerational Relationship Fiction • Generations clash, sure, but they can also learn from one another, as these tales of intergenerational relationships attest. From humorous to heartbreaking, the tone of these novels varies, but the lesson is the same: you can’t go it alone, and there is wisdom to be had in both youth and age.

10 Questions Jamie Varon • Jamie Varon is an author, branding expert, executive producer, and multi-passionate creative living in Calabasas, California. Her nonfiction book, Radically Content (Quarto), was published in 2022 and is currently being adapted into a feature film with Lovely Mila LTD. Her debut novel, Main Character Energy, is out from Park Row Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. Varon is the author of the Substack, Plot Twist. Find her at jamievaron.com.

Reserve These Reads Adult Books • Get your hands on these hotly anticipated books, all out this month.

March 2024 • The Top Ten Adult Fiction and Nonfiction Chosen Monthly by America’s Library Staff

March 2024 HALL OF FAME TITLES

Essentials Women in the Arts • Celebrate Women’s History Month by reading about women artists, both superstars and unjustly underappreciated creatives. These recent biographies and memoirs recount the often-hidden struggles and extraordinary accomplishments of profoundly original and influential women painters, singers, and forces in film and television.

Top 10 Arts Books • Iconic stars, enigmatic artists, gritty films, a barrier-breaking TV show, a musician who disappeared and one who reappeared, and a cultural aesthetic that weds art and science are the engrossing subjects of the ten most remarkable arts books.

Writer’s Backstory Forgotten Photographic Treaures

Essentials No Ordinary Mom Stories • Moms! We know moms; we have moms; we are moms. There’s no limit to the shapes a mom story can take, the directions it can go, the outof-nowhere weeping it can cause. And there are certainly infinite ways to read mom stories. Featuring extraordinary moms (and one grandma!) who are also funny, quotable, superhuman, supercapable, and even “mean and crazy,” these novels and nonfiction works are our most memorable mom stories from the last few years.

Must Listen Women’s Lives on Audio • These audiobooks offer a range of fiction focusing on women’s lives and relationships that are ideal for book discussion and for sharing with the women in your life and the people who love them!

Video Watch Arts Documentaries • Documentary fans are never at a loss for inspiring content when it comes to movies about artists and the creation of art. These recent films represent a broad range of artistic styles and settings and all were featured in Booklist’s Documentary Preview. Ask your library about DVD or streaming-database options for viewing.

Listen Up Middle-Grade Friendship and Family Stories on Audio • As tweens branch out from childhood into the world around them, their relationships with friends and family can get complicated. These audiobooks sensitively illuminate this evolution with compelling stories, likable characters, and standout narrations.

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