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Seems like you can’t swing a weeded book these days without hitting a true crime podcast. But having a large swathe of our communities so engaged with a narrative—that’s good news for libraries, because we traffic in helping folks find their next obsession. But it ain’t all true crime; this episode also touches on another kind of graphic storytelling—the graphic novel, and why they’re so important to libraries. Truly, this episode contains multitudes.

You can find the full show notes, with links to Booklist reviews where available, at www.booklistonline.com/shelf-care.

Here’s what we talked about:

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. By John Carreyrou.

A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America. By Christian T. Miller and Ken Armstrong.

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer. By Michelle McNamara.

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir. By Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich.

My Friend Dahmer. Written and illustrated by Derf Backderf.

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century. By Maureen Callahan.

Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession. By Rachel Monroe.

Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To-Guide. By Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark.

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer. By Michelle McNamara. Read by Gabra Zackman.

The Cheerleaders. By Kara Thomas. Read by Phoebe Strole.

Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State. By Charles A. Gardner. Read by Jonathan Yen.

Dark Sacred Night. By Michael Connelly. Read by Titus Welliver.

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. By Kirk Wallace Johnson, Read by MacLeod Andrews.

Miss Ruffles Inherits Everything. By Nancy Martin. Read by Suzie Althens.

A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson. By Laura Thompson. Read by Jilly Bond.

Sadie. By Courtney Summers. Read by Dan Bittner.

The Killer Across the Table. By John E. Douglas. Read by Jonathan Groff.

Along Came a Spider. By James Patterson. Read by Taye Diggs.

This Was Our Pact. Written and illustrated by Ryan Andrews.

ALA Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table

Let’s get serious about leisure reading, y’all.

Beach reads: What are they. What are patrons looking for. Is a blue cover required. These are the questions addressed in this episode. Host Susan Maguire talks to Andie Paloutzian from the New Orleans Public Library (LA) about great summer books for a wide variety of readers, and how to promote them. Then she talks to Booklist’s Adult Books Editor Donna Seaman about how she relaxes with a good book (she doesn’t), and something she’s recently read and enjoyed.

Here’s what we talked about:

The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup (Sept. 2019)

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan

The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett

If Cats Disappeared from The World by Genki Kawamura

The Lido by Libby Page

The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal

The Accidental Further Adventures of the 100-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson

How to Fall In Love with a Man Who Lives in a Bush by Emmy Abrahamson

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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

This episode of Shelf Care is sponsored by the HarperCollins Library Marketing Team, AKA Library Love Fest. If you’re looking for great reading suggestions, author interviews and behind-the-book insights, check out the Library Love Fest podcast. Their latest episode features the team’s upcoming favorite reads as well as an exclusive interview with author Neal Stephenson talking about his forthcoming book, FALL; OR, DODGE IN HELL. Visit https://soundcloud.com/librarylovefest/shelfcare to listen.

Our first episode is here and it's about...Podcasts. Host Susan Maguire talks to Polli Kenn and Kate Gramlich of the Lawrence Public Library (KS) about their super-fun Book Squad Podcast. Then she chats with librarian and Booklist Audio Editor Heather Booth about podcast appeal and talking to your podcast-listening patrons. Finally, she and Associate Editor for Adult Books Annie Bostrom talk about a book that is the perfect combo of light and dark.

Books we talked about:

Grimm’s Fairy Tales on audio

Sadie by Courtney Summers on audio

Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally on audio

Readalikes for Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams:

The Assistants by Camille Perri

The Bucket List by Georgia Clark

Stray City by Chelsea Johnson

It's a podcast! Well, it's a preview of a podcast. Give a listen to this sneak peek of Booklist's Shelf Care podcast. Host Susan Maguire talks to Booklist's Audio Editor Heather Booth about podcast/audiobook crossovers. Full episode will be available January 2019.