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
