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