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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The EssentialsReading Together • Pleasure Reads for Book Groups

The Essentials Love by the Book

Read-alikes Hotel Stories, Real and Imagined

Top 10 Book-Group Books • These outstanding books will spark discussions on family, identity, history, and the unique sensory abilities of the platypus.

Writer’s Backstory Doors and Perception

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

LIBRARY READS • November 2022 - The top ten books published this month that library staff across the country love.

Top 10 Discussable Audiobooks • A discussable audiobook is one that starts with a great story and has a narration that adds an interpretive layer all its own. These recent titles offer book groups fodder for upbeat and engaging conversations.

Listen Up Middle-Grade Adventure on Audio • These exuberant and energetic adventures, set in both recognizable and fantasy worlds, are engaging for tweens and make for great family listening.

A Conversation Almeda Beynon • For the fifteenth season of the Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production, the rules have been changed so that one gold medallion goes to a children’s audio title and another to a young adult production. HarperAudio has won both. Boogie Boogie, Y’all and When You Look like Us were both produced on behalf of HarperAudio by Almeda Beynon. This is her first Odyssey win. Beynon came to audiobooks after working in the theater world, mainly as a sound designer, but also as a producer and director, and serving as the audio/video supervisor for a university before joining Harper.

Top 10 Middle-Grade Novels Where Kids Save the Day • For this year’s Top 10, we zeroed in on tales where kids come to the rescue, demonstrating the range of meanings behind the word hero.

Top 10 Tween • Finding books for kids moving between reading levels can be a challenge. Whether you have middle readers reading up or older readers reading down, these books navigate that gray space between middle grade and YA in form and in content. You’ll find ideal picks among them for kids swimming in those transitional waters.

Writer’s Backstory The Sporting Life

Looking Beyond Artemis Fowl • When I was in the sixth grade, I sat in the back of a bus with my best friend during a field trip and decrypted the hieroglyphs that ran along the bottom of the first edition of the Artemis Fowl hardcover. Couldn’t tell you where we went on that field trip, but I still remember a lot of that code—we passed notes in it for the better part of middle school (never have I claimed to be cool). It was the end of 2001. The world had just changed in a big way, and though, at 12, we were aware of it, we didn’t know what the long-term ramifications would be.

Trend Alert Bringing History to Life • The teen nonfiction section of a library is often one of the leanest sections, but it is not devoid of opportunities to engage readers of all ages in learning about a moment in history, bringing that moment to life, and providing tangible outcomes of discussion. Whether you’re working to interest a teenager who doesn’t bite at the average book club or working with a readership ranging in age from 15 to 75, I implore you to consider using a topical young adult nonfiction title to bring history off the page.

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