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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Booklist Reader

Top 10 Books on the Environment & Sustainability • From covering seahorses to the catastrophic impact of highways and the work of Black environmentalists, these outstanding environmental books offer resounding revelations.

Inspiring Awe & Stewardship • Creative Nonfiction and Poetry Celebrating Nature

New & Stellar Ecofiction • Ecological wonder and concerns shape each of these daringly imaginative, complexly dramatic, mordantly funny, and richly provocative novels.

10 Questions Nick Medina

Stories within Stories • Some of the first books ever written were stories within stories, think The Tale of Genji, The Odyssey, One Thousand and One Nights, The Canterbury Tales. The popularity of this multilayered literary tradition has never waned; examples abound. Here’s a rather eclectic list of titles to delightfully decipher.

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

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

HALL OF FAME TITLES • The LibraryReads Hall of Fame designation honors authors who have had multiple titles appear on the monthly list since 2013.

PBS Books

Young Adults Macmillan Audio

Youth Listening Library

Kids’ Authors Reading Memoir & Biographies • Memoirs and biographies for youth bring their subjects even closer to young listeners when they are empathetically narrated by the authors.

Top 10 Early Reading • From books for children taking their first steps toward independent reading to those containing longer narratives, the following beginning readers and early chapter books represent sturdy yet delightful training wheels for kids’ literacy journeys.

Unlikely Friendships • Who doesn’t love an odd-couple story? It’s a premise with built-in comedy that’s grounded in friendship, despite differences. Here you’ll find picture books, beginning readers, and early chapter books that feature oddball pairings and efforts to bridge seemingly unbridgeable divides.

Children & Teens • Get your hands on these hotly anticipated books, all out this month.

Romina Garber

Karen McManus' Such Charming Liars

H Is for Hope

Top 10 Environment & Sustainability Books for Youth • Whether contemplating climate change or admiring nature’s beauty, these titles will spark inspiration and foster connection with the natural world.