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