The latest edition of Booklist​’s Guide to Graphic Novels in Libraries is live and, as always, the digital version is free to all readers! As with previous years, you’ll read our latest thoughts about comic bans and the growth of manga, but you’ll also learn how to slow down while reading this unique format, its many subgenres, and its potential in higher education. And don’t miss this year’s original comics either, of course! Read the digital edition now!

Midnights with You
by Clare Osongco

​Deedee is caught between her mother’s past and her own future. Shrouded in secrecy and an unexplained hatred for her Filipino background and other immigrants, her mother’s history is out of reach. So when the Vietnamese neighbor boy, Jay, offers her driving lessons in exchange for tutoring, Deedee jumps at the chance.

Top 10 Romance for Youth: 2024
by Kelly Ferreira

​Love traverses queer subversions of classic stories, rare-manga hunting, the grumpy/sunshine trope, and more with these top titles reviewed in Booklist between September 15, 2023 and September 1, 2024.

10 Questions for Jesse Q. Sutanto
​By John Charles

Jesse Q. Sutanto is the author of the best-selling Aunties series, Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, and I’m Not Done With You Yet.

10 Questions for Rainbow Rowell
​By John Charles

Rainbow Rowell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and the Simon Snow Trilogy, as well as several other award-winning novels, short stories, and comics. Rainbow lives in Omaha, Nebraska, just like most of her characters. 

10 Questions for Sophie Sullivan
By John Charles

Sophie Sullivan (she/her) 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.

Fall Travel Guides: 2024
by Annie Bostrom

​Every spring and fall, we compile a list of forthcoming titles in outstanding travel-guide series along with enticing stand-alone books. This time around, we’re happy to see loads of practical and inclusive guides and plenty of choices for armchair travelers.

Booklist Backlist: These Walls Can Talk
by Sarah Hunter

It’s easy to find a face in a building, with windows, doors, porches, and other architectural elements forming expressive features, but these picture books give those buildings feelings, dreams, and voices—voices that tell stories about anxiety, loneliness, hope, and self-acceptance and encourage little ones to see the buildings in their lives from fresh perspectives.