Booklist Reader

Published by Booklist, an imprint of the American Library Association. Booklist Reader features diverse book and audiobook recommendations, for readers and listeners of all ages. Filled with high-interest, themed lists that showcase books for your family or book discussion group.

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Un-puzzling Parents • Like Bryan Washington’s Palaver, an intimate, empathetic story following a Jamaican American mother who shows up in Tokyo to visit the adult son she hasn’t seen in years, these novels and story collections reveal characters’ parents as dimensional people with lives of their own, and vice versa, to beguiling effect.

Recent Tales of Travel and Exploration True and Imagined • The urge to travel, to explore new places and test one’s mettle beyond the usual confines of daily life, is quintessentially human. That urge can readily be channeled into reading books that chronicle actual journeys and novels about imaginary trips that vary from frolicsome to profound.

10 Questions Michael Chessler • Chessler has been a writer, producer, director, and showrunner of numerous television shows. He has developed pilots for all the major networks, some of which made it to air. He is a native of L.A., where he still lives.

Adult • Get your hands on these hotly anticipated books, all out this month.

HALL OF FAME TITLES • The LibraryReads Hall of Fame designation honors authors who have had multiple titles appear on the monthly list since 2013.

Top 10 Biographies • The 10 best biographies from the past year feature exceptional individuals who profoundly influenced literature, art, music, entertainment, politics, spycraft, and the long fight for civil rights.

Top 10 Memoirs • A climate scientist, poet, chef, mail carrier, performer, activist, and literary innovator are among those who wrote the outstanding memoirs below.

Writer’s Backstory • On the Joys and Endless Work of Biography

Mothers and Motherland • The engrossing, often deeply affecting memoirs below are aligned with Indian writer Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me either as portraits of challenging mothers or accounts of women’s lives in India and beyond.

Top 10 Biographies & Memoirs on Audio • It has been over a decade since Booklist published a Top 10 list for biographies and memoirs on audio, but as this stellar collection shows, now is a great time to highlight this popular nonfiction audio genre.

PBS BOOKS Program Highlights

10 Questions Tembi Locke • Tembi Locke is a writer, entrepreneur and thought-leader in creativity and resilience. She is a New York Times best-selling author, actor, screenwriter, and TV producer with a passion for connecting with her audience both on the page and on the screen. Through her work Tembi aims to inspire people to embrace resilience, love, and the power of community.

Kids Audio on Location • Young readers are drawn to books with vibrant, engaging pictures that really illustrate where the book takes place. How does that play out on audio? Some youth audio productions do an excellent job of giving listeners a “you are there!” perspective with sound effects and production techniques. Take a listen, and you’ll be transported to each location in these soundrich stories.

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Top 10 Graphic Biographies & Memoirs • Biographies and memoirs are a perennially rich corner of the landscape of graphic novels, and these 10 standout titles showcase a dynamic variety of form, subject, and tone.

Dog Man • With a feature film, over a dozen installments, and a consistent spot on the New York Times best-sellers list, Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man is almost guaranteed to be a part of your life if...