2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlist Announced |
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.
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Booklist Review of the Day |
How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
Edited by Alison Fensterstock
This volume includes substantial material from the series as well as excerpts from archival NPR interviews with seminal performers like Dolly Parton, Joan Baez, Chaka Khan, and Odetta, which weave a powerful thread of oral history through this stunning anthology.
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Current Features |
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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