On this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to the hosts of another podcast, Reading Glasses. Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant chat with Susan about reading wheelhouses, extol the virtues of the library, and encourage folks not to read books they don’t want to read. Then, Audio Editor Heather Booth shares the kinds of books that do not make the best-of lists, and Susan talks to Books for Youth’s Senior Editor Maggie Reagan about books for healing and books for fun.

Here's what we talked about:

The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro

Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel

Circe, by Madeline Miller

Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

Westport Public Library (CT)

Ordinary Monsters, by J. M. Miro

A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers

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Thank You for Listening, by Julia Whelan, read by the author

@Booklist_Audio on Twitter

What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness—Lessons from a Body in Revolt, by Tessa Miller

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, by Megan O’Rourke

Birds of California, by Kate Cotugno

Beach Read, by Emily Henry