A total of 46 books (23 fiction, 23 nonfiction) has been selected for the longlist for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The list is now available on the awards’ website. The six-title shortlist—three each for the fiction and nonfiction medals—will be chosen from longlist titles and announced on November 12, 2024.

Seeds of Discovery: How Barbara McClintock Used Corn and Curiosity to Solve a Science Mystery and Win a Nobel Prize
by Lori Alexander, illustrated by Rebecca Santo

​Alexander’s approach is to present McClintock as a woman of great intelligence, independence, and drive while explaining the basics of genetics and DNA to give readers a fuller understanding of her work.

Summer Scares Announces 2025 Spokesperson

The Horror Writers Association (HWA), in partnership with Booklist, Book Riot, iREAD, and NoveList®, a division of EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), is proud to announce the sixth annual Summer Scares, a reading program that provides libraries and schools with an annual list of recommended horror titles for adult, young adult (teen), and middle grade readers.

10 Questions for Amanda Elliot
By John Charles

Amanda Elliot lives with her husband and daughter in New York City, where she collects way too many cookbooks for her tiny kitchen, runs in Central Park, and writes for teens and kids under the name Amanda Panitch.

10 Questions for Bryn Donovan
By John Charles

Bryn Donovan is the author of several romance novels, including Sunrise Cabin, a Publishers Weekly best-seller. She’s also written nonfiction books and the story treatments for two Hallmark Channel movies.

10 Questions for Vanessa Kelly
By John Charles

Vanessa Kelly is a best-selling author of historical mystery and historical romance. She has won multiple awards, including the prestigious Maggie Medallion for best historical romance. She is a USA Today, Barnes & Noble, BookScan, and Amazon best-seller several times over.

High-Demand Read-alikes: Fathers in Crime
by Donna Seaman

Walter Mosley’s father-and-son mystery, Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right, the latest in his King Oliver series, pulses with the contradictory emotions generated by the long estrangement between Joe King Oliver, an NYPD detective turned PI, and his father, Chief Odin Oliver, who served a long prison sentence. The thrillers and mysteries below similarly interweave complicated, painful, and mysterious paternal relationships with dangerous criminal investigations.

Manga Essentials: Art Manga
by Ashley Hawkins

It is perhaps only natural that mangaka would be drawn to the world of art as inspiration for their work. In these manga, artists of all types and art of varying forms takes the spotlight.