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