In this episode of Booklist's Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire sits down with librarian extraordinaire Robin Bradford to discuss the hottest topic in all of Libraryland: are trade paperbacks better than mass market paperbacks? They get into patron behavior, format preferences, and, inevitably, romance novels. Then Audio Editor Heather Booth provides a glimpse at the audio award-winners announced at ALA Midwinter in January, and Susan and Adult Books Editor Donna Seaman break down the winners Carnegie Awards for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. It's a big episode, y'all!

The books mentioned this episode are:

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev

Longarm series of westerns

NetGalley

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

A Cowboy to Remember by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Sweet Talkin’ Lover by Tracey Livesay

As Good as the First Time by K. M. Jackson

(K. M. Jackson’s How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days comes out in fall 2021. !!!)

Suzanne Brockmann’s Navy SEALS

Lowdown Dirty by Holly Trent

Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Whye

Grumpy Jake by Melissa Blue

On Time: A Princely Life in Funk by Morris Day

RUSA Listen List; ALSC Notable Children’s Recordings ; YALSA Amazing Audio; Odyssey Award

Narrators:

Dion Graham

Bahni Turpin

Tessa Netting

Cassandra Morris

January LaVoy

Own Voices Memoirs Narrated by the Author:

Becoming by Michelle Obama, read by the author

Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson, read by the author

Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson, read by the author

Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi, read by the author

Full Cast Productions:

Lovely War by Julie Berry, read by Allan Corduner et al

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob, read by a full cast

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, read by Jennifer Beals et al

Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka, read by the author et al

Etc:

We Are Grateful: Ostaliheliga by Traci Sorell, read by Lauren Hummingbird

Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly, read by Abigail Revasch

We’re Not from Here by Geoff Rodkey, read by Dani Martineck

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams, read by Shvorne Marks

Mango, Abuela, y yo (Mango, Abuela, and Me) by Meg Medina, read by Alisa Amador

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction

Figuring by Maria Popova

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli