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Read the current issue:

November 1 & 15: End the Year with Something New

 

Browse previous issues:

October 15 2024: Rock ‘n’ Roll, Activism, Manga—We’ve got all the latest Arts books

October 1 2024: Foodies will find these books appealing!

September 15 2024: Permission to Daydream (and Read!) about Romance and Travel

September 1 2024: Keep Up with the Latest Technology—through Books!

August 2024: Escape & Confront through SF/Fantasy & Horror

July 2024: Summer Fun Indoors and Out

June 1 & 15 2024: We’re Full of Good News This Month: Interviews with Award Winners, Awesome Audiobooks, and More!

May 15 2024: Historical Fiction as Edutainment

May 1 2024: Clue into the Year's Best Mysteries

April 15 2024: Pollen in the Air; Health & Wellness on Our Pages

April 1 2024: Series Nonfiction Delivers the Fun Facts

March 15 2024: See ALA's Best of the Best

March 1 2024: The Poetry of the Plants and Trees

February 15 2024: Books That Will Get You Talking

February 1 2024: Vivid Storytelling through Records and Pictures

January 1 & 15 2024: Readers' Advisory Month (feat. Spanish-Language Books)

December 1 & 15 2023: Break out the red carpet because a bunch of stars are headed your way (starred reviews, that is!)

November 1 & 15 2023: Meet the Literary World's Freshest Voices

October 15 2023: Seeing Art in the Everyday

October 1 2023: Rallying for the Right to Read

September 15 2023: This Fall, We're All about Witchy and Gothic Romance

September 1 2023: The Science of Oceans, Nuclear Fissions, Architecture, and . . . Butts?

August 2023: Strange New Books

July 2023, v.2: Learn about Archiving Webcomics, Building Community, and More in This Year’s Graphic Novels Guide!

July 2023: This Issue Is a Slam-Dunk

June 2023: Meet your favorite figures—in person or through reading

May 15 2023: Real Places, Real Times, and Fictional Characters—It's Our Spotlight on Historical Fiction

May 1 2023: We Dedicate This One to Bill Ott, a Dear Leader and Friend

April 15 2023: Curious about brains, bodies, or relationships? We've got a book for that.

April 1 2023: Books for School and Summer

March 15 2023: It's Award Season, Baby!

March 1 2023: See the Trees & Smell the Roses

February 15 2023: Stuck in the middle is just where I want to be

February 1 2023: Respect for Graphic Novels and History

January 1 & 15 2023: A Brand-New Spotlight for a Brand-New Year

December 1 & 15 2022: A Season of Stars and Celebrations

November 1 & 15 2022: Behold! These Authors Are Making Their Big Debuts

October 15 2022: The Art We Return To, the Art We Discover

October 1 2022: Who can resist dumplings and dinosaurs?

September 15 2022: Love Is in the Air and on the Page

September 1 2022: Books for Nerds & Athletes Alike

August 2022: A Whole Month of Robots, Faeries, Monsters, and More

July 2022, v.2: Mang(i)a! Mang(i)a! Eat Up These Comics and Graphic Novels

July 2022: Read-a-Little, Talk-a-Little: Our Top Picks for Book Clubs

June 2022: Hear Us Out: Audiobooks, Biographies, & Memoirs

May 15 2022: And the Rest Is Historical Fiction

May 1 2022: It'd Be a Crime Not to Read These Books

April 15 2022: Well(ness) Said: Books on Health & Medicine

April 1 2022: Tell Me More, Tell Me More: Summer Readin' and Series Nonfiction

March 15 2022: Award Winners, This Year and of Years Past

March 1 2022: Give a Hoot about the Environment

February 15 2022: Good Books are the antidote

February 1 2022: History Meet Graphic Novels

January 2022: A Tip-Top Start to the New Year

December 15 2021: Our 2021 Faves, Just for You

December 1 2021: Gorgeous writing, profound stories, even humor: this is sci-tech

November 2021: Fresh Voices, New Perspectives

October 15 2021: When we say "the arts," we mean everything from paintings to TV series

October 1 2021: Books to Fill Your Bellies and Brains

September 15 2021: Looking for quintessential pleasure reading?

September 1 2021: Happy New (Volume) Year!

August 2021: Existential Dread Is Also a Feeling

July 2021: #ReadGraphic Is Here!

July 2021: We Literally Can't Stop Discussing Books

June 2021: In June, we read with our ears!

May 15 2021: Making fiction from fact

May 1 2021: Get a clue! Mysteries on tap

April 15 2021: More (and More and More) Middle Grade!

April 1 2021: Everything under the Sun!

March 15 2021: March List Mania!

March 1 2021: Stirring words and calls to action  

February 15 2021: Good books are strong medicine

February 1 2021: Consequential Art

January 2021: An abundance of book recommendations for pleasure and illumination! 

December 15 2020: Star Power! Booklist's top titles of the year

December 1 2020: Now with Audio!

November 2020: It takes courage and conviction to take that first plunge

October 15 2020: Surprise! It's Art!

October 1 2020: Cooking and Coping

September 2 2020: Love and Basketball and Soccer and Fencing and Football and ...

September 1 2020: Grown-ups dream of love

August 2020: Brave and Spooky Worlds to Soothe Your Embattled Soul

July 2020: One Newsletter Wasn't Enough!

July 2020: Wish you were here!

June 2020: Portraits, self-portraits, and a focus on politics illuminate true-life stories

May 15, 2020: Historical fiction equals time travel; reference equals facts

May 1, 2020: Crime fills the time while sheltering in place; crime fiction that is!

April 9, 2020: Stuck in the Middle

April 1, 2020: Forging ahead by gorging on books

March 26, 2020: Sheltering in Books

March 15, 2020: Take Note! 

March 1, 2020: It's environmental, Dear Everyone

February 2, 2020: Be healthy minded; explore and share our Spotlight on Health & Wellness

February 1, 2020: Lifting Every Voice

January 1, 2020: New Year, New Us! (But we're still obsessed with books, don't worry.)

December 15, 2019, #2: Oh, Did We Forget Something?

December 15, 2019: We did it! We the book-loving editors of Booklist selected the best of the best for 2019

December 1, 2019: Science Rules!

November 15, 2019: Books to Warm Your Soul

November 1, 2019: First Novels, Great Emojis, and an Editor's LOLs

October 10, 2019: We celebrate art and the artful use of aesthetic emotions for readers' advisory 

October 1, 2019: Get ready to binge a new series - or maybe a bag of Halloween candy

September 12 , 2019: Is it love or just jet lag? 

August 29 , 2019: If Only There Was a Varsity Team for Reading

August 8 , 2019: Cats and Dog Pics

July 8, 2019: #ReadGraphic

June 13, 2019: Prying, snooping, spying, eavesdropping: all's fair in biography

June 6, 2019: The Best of Mystery Month 2019

May 16, 2019: Spring Brings Change—to Booklist, Too

May 2, 2019: The Year's Best Crime Novels - and a Fond Farewell

April 11, 2019: We <3 Middle Grade

April 1, 2019: Do Your Research

March 15, 2019: Hey, Good Lookin'

March 1, 2019: Provocative New Reads Look to the Past

February 15, 2019: Be well - and well read!

February 1, 2019: Diverse Books Belong Literally Everywhere

January 1, 2019: Booklisters' Personal Bests

December 15, 2018: 2018's Best Books and Audio

December 1, 2018: Happy 50th Anniversary, Apollo!

November 15, 2018: The Many Faces of Spirituality

November 1, 2018: The Future of Read Alert

October 15, 2018: At Least We Still Have Art

October 1, 2018: Food, Glorious Food!

September 20, 2018: Our Cup Runneth Over!

September 15, 2018: Isn't REaD Alert Romantic?

September 1, 2018: Sports, Not Sportsball

August 1, 2018: SF! Fantasy! Horror! Mitch Albom!

July 1, 2018: Graphic (Novel) Content - and Picture Books!

June 15, 2018: Like the Biography Channel, but with Books

June 1, 2018: The Best of Mystery Month 2018

May 15, 2018: Urgent Gardening! Critical Crafts! Life-or-Death Reference!

May 1, 2018: The Year's Best Crime Fiction

April 15, 2018: Reelin' in the Years

April 5, 2018: Health & Wellness Roundup

April 1, 2018: Presenting the Best of the Best

March 15, 2018: Series Nonfiction and a Seriously New Editor

March 1, 2018: Out with the Old  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

6/9/16: Double Issue, Double Fun: Biographies & Audiobooks

6/1/16: The Best of Mystery Month 2016

5/12/16: We're Crafty . . .

4/28/16: The Best Crime Fiction of the Last 12 Months

4/8/16: Historical Fiction, E-Reference, and PLA

3/24/16: Series Nonfiction, Book Groups, and a New Newsletter

3/10/16: Warning: Contains Graphic Material

2/25/16: ALA's "Best" Lists and the Best Women's Fiction

2/11/16: Which Books Make YOU Laugh?

1/28/16: Top 10 Multicultural Fiction and Nonfiction - for Kids and Adults

1/7/16: Neither Snow nor Rain. . . 

12/15/15: Our Picks for the Best Books of 2015

12/1/15: Spotlight on Science & Health - Read It on Our New App!

11/12/15: Books That Go Beyond Belief

10/29/15: A Free Digital Edition of Booklist's Spotlight on the Arts

10/15/15: The First Digital Edition of Booklist - Yours Free!

10/1/15: Dig in to These Mouthwatering Books!

9/10/15: Gaze into the Eyes of the Book You Love

8/27/15: A Sports Top 10 without Baseball?

8/6/15: Booklist's Inaugural Spotlight on LGBTQ Literature

7/9/15: Get Down to Business with Middle-Grade Fiction

6/11/15: The Best Biographies, Audiobooks, and More!

6/1/15: The Best of Mystery Month

5/14/15: Spotlight on SF/Fantasy & Horror - with FOUR Top 10s!

4/30/15: The Year's Best Crime Fiction

4/9/15: Top 10 Historical Fiction - and More!

3/26/15: Travel, Series Nonfiction, and ... Mystery?

3/12/15: ALA's Best Lists, Women's Fiction & John Green

2/26/15: These Graphic Novels Are a Sight for Sore Eyes

2/12/15: Literature to Sustain You - and the Environment

1/29/15: Spotlight on Multicultural Literature

1/8/15: Cold? We've Got Hot Books

12/18/14: Announcing Booklist's Top of the List & Editors' Choice

12/4/14: Is Science Bad for Your Health?

11/13/14: Our Top 10 Religion & Spirituality Books

10/30/14: This Will Be Music to Your Ears

10/16/14: An October Spook-tacular

10/02/14: One Blog to Rule Them All

9/11/2014: There's More to Romance than Rakes and Rogues

8/28/2014: A Sports Issue So Strong, You'll Swear It's on Steroids

7/31/2014: What Is New Adult Fiction? We've Got the Answer

7/03/2014: Stay Indoors! (And Read the Carnegie Winners) 

6/05/2014: Our Blockbuster Annual Conference Issue! 

5/31/2014: The Best of Mystery Month

05/16/2014: A Monster Mash-up of Aliens, Unicorns, and Zombies

05/02/14: It's Mystery Month

04/11/14: Is Historical Fiction History?

04/04/14: Series Nonfiction and Lives of the Poets

 

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