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 Food Books • The most memorable cookbooks and food writing from the last year honor tradition and memory, celebrate the labor of love that is cooking, and inspire readers to get into the kitchen themselves.

Trend Alert Make It Plant-Based • It’s now undisputed that consuming less meat, in general, is good for people and the planet. A corresponding trend in recent cookbooks is a focus on lowering our foodprints (the ecological footprint of what we eat) without shaming readers, drawing hard lines, or sacrificing flavor. Many of the books below also take the comfort foods we love and remake them into healthier, plant-based versions. Best of all, these books reassure readers that eating more plants and less meat is both totally achievable every night of the week and totally delicious.

Read-alikes Foodie Fiction • In Casey McQuiston’s The Pairing, two exes embark on a food and wine tour of Europe while denying their still-burning feelings for each other. The local delicacies, from flaky pastry to hearty pasta, all paired with the perfect wine, are almost characters in their own right, so integrated are the descriptions with Theo and Kit’s love story. Each of these books features sensuous depictions of food or wine, making them the perfect pairing for McQuiston’s latest.

Asian Café Mysteries • Hankering for a killer good meal? Check out these cozily toothsome thrillers from Asian writers, deliciously recommendable for AAPI Heritage Month.

Recent Native American Nonfiction & Poetry • The varied, dramatic, and in-depth historical investigations and candid and compelling personal stories listed here cast new light on Native American cultures and individual experiences in stirring prose and ringing poetry.

Read-alikes Jane Austen Redux • More than 200 years after the publication of Jane Austen’s first novel, Sense and Sensibility, readers still find themselves falling in love with her deliciously dry wit and endearing characters. Writers in search of inspiration will often turn to Austen, as illustrated by these irresistible, contemporary, Austen-flavored romantic comedies and romance novels.

Writer’s Backstory Writing and Silence

10 Questions Sophie Sullivan • Sophie Sullivan is a Canadian author as well as a cookie-eating, Diet Pepsi–drinking Disney enthusiast who loves reading and writing romance in almost equal measure. She writes around her day job as a teacher and spends her spare time with her sweet family watching reruns of Friends. She has written Ten Rules for Faking It, How to Love Your Neighbor, A Guide to Being Just Friends, and Love, Naturally, and has had plenty of practice writing happily ever after as her alter ego, Jody Holford.

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. As of the October 2018 list, when an author’s third title places on a monthly list via library staff votes, the author moves into our Hall of Fame.

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

Listen Up Sounds like Fiction • Fiction isn’t the only place to find heroes and villains and memorable moments. These nonfiction audiobooks deliver compelling content that’s narrated with verve and energy.

PBS BOOKS

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