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!

The Ghostkeeper
written and illustrated by Johanna Taylor

This heartwarming, emotionally intelligent tale inspired by Oscar Wilde and his Canterville Ghost novella contains many seamlessly executed examples of healthy communication and relationship dynamics without sacrificing the compelling story line.

Booklist and LibraryReads Read ‘n’ Rave 2024

At this year’s ALA Annual Conference, Booklist and LibraryReads teamed up for the popular Read ‘n’ Rave, where superstar librarians scour the Exhibit Hall floor to find the books you’ll want to know about for late summer and fall. 

Booklist Backlist: Love in a Time of Time-shifting
by Heather Booth

Characters are baffled by wrinkles in time and wormholes in these audio and print time-shift tales about the ones that got away, the people we would have been, and love that endures (or doesn’t!). 

The Booklist Printz Interview: A. S. King
by Sarah Hunter

This isn’t the first time A. S. King has been awarded the Printz medal; four years ago, we interviewed her about her Printz-winning novel, Dig. But for the acclaimed author, who’s made a mark with her surreal brand of fiction that raises powerful questions about identity, emotional vulnerability, and the importance of genuine human connection, The Collectors is a wholly new kind of project, an anthology of original stories by an impressive roster of authors, all of whom were encouraged to embrace weirdness.

The Booklist Carnegie Interview: Roxanna Asgarian
by Aryssa Damron

​Aryssa Damron, a librarian in Washington, DC, and the chair of the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence selection committee, had some questions for Roxanna Asgarian, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America. Here is their conversation.

Book Club Resources from Holiday House!

Do you run a book club at your library? Are you ready to take your library’s book club to the next level? Then check out these amazing resources from Holiday House!

The Booklist Carnegie Interview: Amanda Peters
by Aryssa Damron

​Aryssa Damron, a librarian in Washington, DC, and the chair of the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Selection Committee, had some questions for this year’s winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, Amanda Peters. Here’s their conversation.