Welcome to the Shelf Care Interview, an occasional conversation series where Booklist talks to book people. This Shelf Care Interview is sponsored by Capstone.

In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Susan Maguire talks to Bao Phi, author of YOU ARE LIFE.

Bao Phi is an award-winning poet and children's book author. His stunning debut picture book, A DIFFERENT POND, won a Caldecott honor, a Charlotte Zolotow Award, an Asian/Pacific American Award for literature, an Ezra Jack Keats Honor, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, and numerous other awards and accolades. Bao is a single co-parent father, an arts administrator, and a book nerd. His fourth picture book, YOU ARE LIFE, is illustrated by Hannah Li and comes out in August from Capstone.

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In this episode of Shelf Care Interview, Sarah Hunter talks to Johnnie Christmas about his first middle-grade comic, SWIM TEAM.

Johnnie Christmas is the number one New York Times best-selling and award-winning graphic novelist, who’s perhaps best known for co-creating Margaret Atwood series Angel Catbird and for adapting William Gibson’s lost screenplay for Alien 3 into a critically acclaimed graphic novel of the same name.

After gaining plenty of acclaim in the world of sci-fi and speculative comics for adults, he’s making the move into middle-grade comics with SWIM TEAM, the first of several projects for the age group. A graduate of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, Johnnie makes Vancouver, British Columbia his home.

In this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire gets the scoop on the books for Summer Scares 2022; first, the adult and teen titles from librarian Becky Spratford and author Alma Katsu, then, the middle-grade titles from Booklist Books for Youth’s Julia Smith. Plus, Booklist Audio Editor Heather Booth chats with a reviewer about the joys and chills of listening to horror on audio.

Here’s what we talked about:

The Hunger, by Alma Katsu

The Deep, by Alma Katsu

The Fervor, by Alma Katsu

Summer Scares Programming Guide 2022

My Favorite Thing is Monsters, by Emil Ferris

Coyote Songs, by Gabino Iglesias

The Remaking, by Clay McCleod Chapman

Clown in a Cornfield, by Adam Cesare

The Companion, by Kate Alender

Agnes at the End of the World, by Kelly McWilliams

Horror Writers Association YouTube Channel

Gallant, by V. E. Schwab, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt

Pet Sematary, by Stephen King, read by Michael C. Hall

No One Goes Alone, by Erik Larson, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt and Erik Larson

11/22/63, by Stephen King, read by Craig Wasson

Billy Summers, by Stephen King, read by Paul Sparks

Bird Box, by Josh Malerman, read by Cassandra Campbell

Grady Hendrix

The Only Good Indians, by Stephen Graham Jones, read by Shaun Taylor-Corbett

The Forgotten Girl, by India Hill Brown

Scary Stories for Young Foxes, by Christian McKay Heidicker, illustrated by Junyi Wu

Beetle and the Hollowbones, by Aliza Layne, illustrated by the author

Cleo Porter and the Body Electric, by Jake Burt

Scout's Honor, by Lily Anderson

Sir Ladybug, by Corey R. Tabor

The Age of Cage, by Keith Phipps

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In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Sarah Hunter talks to author Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson, creators of Barb and the Ghost Blade, the sequel to Barb the Berzerker.

Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson are longtime partners, best friends, and co-creators of the animated comedy series Rocket Monkeys. Their credits also include developing shows for Disney, Sesame Workshop, Fox, and Nickelodeon, not to mention directing lots and lots of animated commercials.

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In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Maggie Reagan talks to author Sajni Patel, author of MY SISTER’S BIG FAT INDIAN WEDDING

Sajni Patel is an award-winning author of women’s fiction and young adult books, drawing on her experiences growing up in Texas, an inexplicable knack for romance and comedy, and the recently resurfaced dark side of fantastical things. Her works have appeared on numerous Best of the Year and Must Read lists from Cosmo, Oprah Magazine, Teen Vogue, Apple Books, Audiofile, Tribeza, Austin Woman’s Magazine, NBC, The Insider, PopSugar, Buzzfeed, and many others.

On this episode of Booklist’s Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to NoveList’s Halle Eisenman about her turn as chair of the RUSA CODES’ Reading List committee, and what that list can do for you (and your patrons). Then Adult Books Editor Donna Seaman shares millions (OK, not millions) of suggestions for forthcoming books of biography, poetry, fiction, and more.

Here’s what we talked about:

RUSA’s Reading List

RUSA’s Notable Books List

The Guncle, by Steven Rowley

A Man Called Ove, by Frederik Backman

Dial A for Aunties, by Jesse Q. Sutanto

The Reading List, by Sara Nisha Adams

Sorrow and Bliss, by Meg Mason

The Summer Seekers, by Sarah Morgan

A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers

One Day All This Will Be Yours, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Arsenic and Adobo, by Mia P. Manansala

Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo

Nora Goes Off Script, by Annabel Monaghan

Black Cake, by Charmaine Wilkerson

The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah

Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age, by Betsy Prioleau

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe

The Personal Librarian, by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christophr Murray

Yoko Ono: An Artful Life, by Donald Brackett

Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano, by Raquel Salas Rivera

Smoking the Bible, by Chris Abani

Border Vista, by Anni Liu

Smile: The Story of a Face, by Sarah Ruhl

Love Poems in Quarantine, by Sarah Ruhl

Zoom Rooms, by Mary Jo Salter

We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, by Tsering Yangzom Lama

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, by Elif Batuman

Either/Or, by Elif Batuman

The Idiot, by Elif Batuman

You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty, by Akwaeke Emezi

Vigil Harbor, by Julia Glass

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In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Ronny Khuri talks to author Jamar J. Perry, debut author of CAMERON BATTLE AND THE HIDDEN KINGDOMS.

Jamar J. Perry received his PhD in Literacy Education, Language, Culture, and Social Inquiry from the University of Maryland, College Park. Before that, he taught middle school language arts for four years, where the majority of the students were Black boys. Like Cameron, his protagonist, Jamar hopes that one day all Black boys can understand how magical and joyful they really are, no matter how different they may feel.

On this episode of Booklist’s Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to Molly Luby and Melissa Bartoletta about Tracks, a hyperlocal streaming music platform, a project of the Chapel Hill Public Library and Chapel Hill Community Arts and Culture. We talked about how the project came to be, how it works, and how Tracks continues to reach out to the community to share local music. Then Audio Editor Heather Booth spills the tea on the Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production. Finally, Susan talks to Books for Youth and Graphic Novels Editor Sarah Hunter about what she’s reading and loving right now.

Tracks Music Library

Rabble/MusiCat

Tracks Volume I: We Rise As Allies and Tracks Volume II: Isolation Illumination

Rowdy

XOXOK

A-Yoni

Bangzz

Treee City

Violet Bell

Boogie Boogie, Y’all, written and illustrated by C. G. Esperanza, narrated by the author

When You Look Like Us, by Pamela N. Harris, narrated by Preston Butler III

RUSA CODE’s Listen List

YALSA’s Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults

ALSC’s Notable Children’s Recordings

Register for Amazing Audiobooks webinar on Friday, February 25th at 2 PM ET

Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest, written and illustrated by Phoebe Wahl

Mr. Watson’s Chickens, by Jarrett Dapier, illustrated by Andrea Tsurumi

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, written and illustrated by Kate Beaton

In this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, Booklist’s editors look back on the year in reading and talk about some of their fave titles from the Editors’ Choice list, which is the main feature of our January issue. Here’s what everyone talked about:

Donna Seaman, Editor, Adult Books

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, by Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly

The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich

The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki

Martita, I Remember You, by Sandra Cisneros, translated by Liliana Valenzuela

Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea, by Edith Widder

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, by Suzanne Simard

Sarah Hunter, Editor, Books for Youth and Graphic Novels

Himawari House, written by Harmony Becker, art by the author

Bubbles…Up, by Jacqueline Davies, illustrated by Sonia Sánchez

This Poison Heart, by Kalynn Bayron

When We Were Infinite, by Kelly Loy Gilbert

Heather Booth, Audio Editor

Finnegan’s Wake, by James Joyce, read by Barry McGovern and Marcella Riordan

Island Queen, by Vanessa Riley, read by Adjoa Andoh

My Heart is a Chainsaw, by Stephen Graham Jones, read by Cara Gee

Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon, by Malcolm Gladwell and Bruce Headlam, read by Malcolm Gladwell and others

A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèlí Clark, read by Suehyla El-Attar

The Ex-Talk, by Rachel Lynn Solomon, read by Emily Ellet

The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne, by Johnathan Stroud, read by Sophie Aldred

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, read by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Kaleidoscope, by Brian Selznick, read by Gwendoline Christie

Maggie Reagan, Senior Editor, Books for Youth

Cool for the Summer, by Dahlia Adler

Instructions for Dancing, by Nicola Yoon

Little Thieves, by Margaret Owen

Susan Maguire, Senior Editor, Collection Management and Library Outreach

A Thorn in the Saddle, by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Blind Tiger, by Sandra Brown

Light from Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki

Julia Smith, Senior Editor, Books for Youth

The List of Unspeakable Fears, by J. Kasper Kramer

Salt Magic, written by Hope Larson, illustrated by Rebecca Mock

The Secret of the Magic Pearl, by Elisa Sabatinelli, illustrated by Iacopo Bruno, translated by Christopher Turner

Annie Bostrom, Associate Editor, Adult Books

And Now I Spill the Family Secrets, written by Margaret Kimball, art by the author

Matrix, by Lauren Groff

On this episode of Booklist’s Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to librarians Anna Mickelsen and Alene Moroni about best practices for weeding, and Audio Editor Heather Booth shares what she’s been reading and loving. Find the full show notes with links at booklistonline.com/shelf-care

Here’s what we talked about:

Anna and Alene’s weeding guidelines by Dewey

Burn for Me, by Ilona Andrews

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson, read by Robin Miles

You Had Me at Hola, by Alexis Daria, read by Seraphine Valentine

Alene on Twitter: @surlyspice

Anna on Twitter: @helgagrace

Float Plan, by Trish Doller

Island Queen, by Vanessa Riley, read by Adjoa Andoh

Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson

A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries, 2003-2020, by David Sedaris

How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason, by Lee McIntyre

No One Goes Alone, by Erik Larson, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt and Erik Larson