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In this episode of Booklist's Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire sits down with librarian extraordinaire Robin Bradford to discuss the hottest topic in all of Libraryland: are trade paperbacks better than mass market paperbacks? They get into patron behavior, format preferences, and, inevitably, romance novels. Then Audio Editor Heather Booth provides a glimpse at the audio award-winners announced at ALA Midwinter in January, and Susan and Adult Books Editor Donna Seaman break down the winners Carnegie Awards for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. It's a big episode, y'all!

The books mentioned this episode are:

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev

Longarm series of westerns

NetGalley

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

A Cowboy to Remember by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Sweet Talkin’ Lover by Tracey Livesay

As Good as the First Time by K. M. Jackson

(K. M. Jackson’s How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days comes out in fall 2021. !!!)

Suzanne Brockmann’s Navy SEALS

Lowdown Dirty by Holly Trent

Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Whye

Grumpy Jake by Melissa Blue

On Time: A Princely Life in Funk by Morris Day

RUSA Listen List; ALSC Notable Children’s Recordings ; YALSA Amazing Audio; Odyssey Award

Narrators:

Dion Graham

Bahni Turpin

Tessa Netting

Cassandra Morris

January LaVoy

Own Voices Memoirs Narrated by the Author:

Becoming by Michelle Obama, read by the author

Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson, read by the author

Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson, read by the author

Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi, read by the author

Full Cast Productions:

Lovely War by Julie Berry, read by Allan Corduner et al

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob, read by a full cast

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, read by Jennifer Beals et al

Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka, read by the author et al

Etc:

We Are Grateful: Ostaliheliga by Traci Sorell, read by Lauren Hummingbird

Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly, read by Abigail Revasch

We’re Not from Here by Geoff Rodkey, read by Dani Martineck

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams, read by Shvorne Marks

Mango, Abuela, y yo (Mango, Abuela, and Me) by Meg Medina, read by Alisa Amador

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction

Figuring by Maria Popova

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Welcome to the Shelf Care Interview, an occasional conversation series where Booklist talks to book people.

This Shelf Care Interview is sponsored by Sourcebooks.

In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Julia Smith talks to Chris Ferrie, award-winning physicist and popular author of science books for children about his new series, the Everyday Science Academy.

The first four Everyday Science Academy Books (Let's Fly a Plane!, Let's Ride a Wave!, Let's Get Moving!, and Let's Make a Rainbow!) come out in June from Sourcebooks.

Welcome to the Shelf Care Interview, an occasional conversation series where Booklist talks to book people.

This Shelf Care Interview is sponsored by Revell.

In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Susan Maguire talks to romance author Irene Hannon (whose name you may recognize from our November Shelf Care Interview), a best-selling, Rita Award-winning author who has written more than 50 romantic suspense and contemporary romance women's fiction novels. Her books have appeared on multiple bestseller lists and three and a half million copies of her books have been sold worldwide and translated into multiple languages.

Starfish Pier, a Hope Harbor novel comes out in March from Revell.

Welcome to the Shelf Care Interview, an occasional conversation series where Booklist talks to book people.

This Shelf Care Interview is sponsored by Revell.

In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Susan Maguire talks to Suzanne Woods Fisher, award-winning, bestselling author of more than 30 books, including, On the Summer Tide, as well as the Nantucket Legacy, Amish Beginnings, the Bishop's Family, the Deacon's Family, and the Inn at Eagle Hill series among many other novels. She's also the author of several nonfiction books about the Amish, including Amish Peace and Amish Proverbs.

The third book in the Deacon's Family Series, Two Steps Forward, comes out on February 4th, 2020, from Revell.

The Booklist editors gathered around the fire (JK, we gathered in the sound-proof-ish room in the basement of the ALA office) to dig a little deeper into how the Editors’ Choice lists come together, to call out a few faves, and to talk about what’s coming in 2020.

For the shownotes, visit www.booklistonline.com/shelf-care.

Welcome to the Shelf Care Interview, an occasional conversation series where Booklist talks to book people.

This Shelf Care Interview is sponsored by Revell.

In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Susan Maguire talks to Lynette Eason, the award-winning author of over fifty books including the Women of Justice, Deadly Reunions, and Blue Justice series. Her books have appeared on multiple bestseller lists, and the movie, Her Stolen Past, based on Lynette’s novel, premiered in February 2018 on Lifetime.

The first book in the Danger Never Sleeps series, Collateral Damage, comes out in January (on January 7th) from Revell.

Welcome to the Shelf Care Interview, an occasional conversation series where Booklist talks to book people.

This Shelf Care Interview is sponsored by Revell.

In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Susan Maguire talks to Irene Hannon, bestselling, RITA award-winning author who has written more than 50 romantic suspense, contemporary romance, and women's fiction novels. Her books have appeared on multiple bestseller lists, and three and a half million copies of her books have been sold worldwide and translated into multiple languages. So, you know, she's kind of a big deal.

Dark Ambitions, the final book in the Code of Honor trilogy, was released by Revell in October.

For the shownotes, visit www.booklistonline.com/shelf-care

In this episode of Booklist’s Shelf Care: The Podcast, we get a little otherworldly, to coincide with our August Spotlight on SF/Fantasy & Horror, and also because it’s never not a good time to talk about helping genre-reading patrons. First, Susan talks to RA maven and horror expert Becky Spratford about nostalgia, body horror, and queer Cthulu retellings, and how horror-reading patrons want to be helped. Then, Audio Editor Heather Booth refutes the idea that writers shouldn’t narrate their own audiobooks with some fantastic self-narrated famous-person memoirs on audio. Finally, Susan corrals Maggie Reagan, Teen Feelings Expert, about being a grown-up who reads teen books, the undying appeal of vampires, and a few forthcoming books she can’t wait to share.

Here’s what we talked about:

RA for All

The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror

Ladies of Horror Fiction

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste

Caitlín R. Kiernan, queer, non-binary Lovecraftian updater

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

“The Horror at Red Hook” by H. P. Lovecraft

A People’s Future of the United States, edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams

Ellen Datlow, horror anthologist extraordinaire

Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay

Full Throttle by Joe Hill

Movies & TV: Netflix’s Bird Box, based on the book by Josh Malerman; Us, directed by Jordan Peele; Neftlix’s Stranger Things; The Walking Dead, based on the graphic novel series by Robert Kirkman

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

Thrillers by Sarah Pinborough, such as Behind Her Eyes

The Hunger by Alma Katsu

RA for All: Horror

Celebrity Memoirs on Audio, Read by the Author:

Yes, Please by Amy Poehler

Becoming by Michelle Obama

A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons by Ben Folds

No Walls and the Recurring Dream by Ani DiFranco

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John Waters

Teen Feelings Books:

The Lady Rogue by Jenn Bennett

The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Knowing all about good books before they come out is just one of many rabbits librarians keep in their magic hat. (Another tool: strained metaphors!) In this Very Special Bonus Episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, we peel back the curtain on one of the ways librarians get advanced buzz on good books: The Booklist Read n Rave.

We are joined by Rebecca Vnuk, Executive Director of Library Reads, who put together Booklist’s first Read n Rave lo those many years ago. She and host Susan Maguire talk about how Read n Rave started and what makes a good Read n Rave pick. Most importantly, they rave about some upcoming titles that they’re real psyched about.

The Books About Which Were Raved:

Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe

Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America by Nefertiti Austin

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan

Full show notes and more info can be found on www.booklistonline.com/shelf-care