The American Library Association (ALA) announced the six books shortlisted for the esteemed Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, awarded for the previous year’s best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult readers and published in the United States. 2025 selection committee chair Allison Escoto will announce the two medal winners at the Reference and User Services Association’s Book and Media Awards (BMAs) livestreaming event, premiered during LibLearnX in Phoenix on Sunday, January 26^th at 10:30am Mountain.

Crush
by Ada Calhoun

Readers of Calhoun’s nonfiction, most recently Also a Poet (2022), will recognize many autobiographical underpinnings in her first novel, raising questions of where fiction diverges from fact. But suspense is the primary draw for this angsty, metaphysical, literature-besotted love story.

10 Questions for Katy James
By John Charles

Katy James writes contemporary romance books that get to the heart of falling in love while finding one’s place in today’s world. When not writing, she works as an archivist and rare book librarian.

Essentials: Recent First Novels of India
by Donna Seaman

These first novels by writers connected to India about India and the Indian diaspora are brilliantly imagined, compassionate, dramatic, and comedic as they offer intriguing characters, difficult and ludicrous predicaments, transfixing stories, shrewd satire, and sharp and resonant social commentary. 

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 Ann Liang​
By John Charles

Ann Liang is the New York Times and Indie best-selling author of the critically acclaimed YA novels This Time It’s Real, If You Could See the Sun, and I Hope This Doesn’t Find You. Her books have sold into over twenty foreign territories

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.

Top 10 Early Reading: 2024
by Julia Smith

From books for children taking their first steps toward independent reading to those containing longer narratives, the following beginning readers and early chapter books are sure to please. All books were reviewed in Booklist between November 1, 2023, and October 15, 2024.

Top 10 First Novels on Audio
by Heather Booth

Debut novels are full of promise! What will these authors do next? Striking narrations provide even more to love in the top 10 debuts of the past year on audio.