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
