The latest edition of Booklist​’s Guide to Graphic Novels in Libraries is live and, as always, the digital version is free to all readers! As with previous years, you’ll read our latest thoughts about comic bans and the growth of manga, but you’ll also learn how to slow down while reading this unique format, its many subgenres, and its potential in higher education. And don’t miss this year’s original comics either, of course! Read the digital edition now!

10 Questions for Gabriella Gamez
​By John Charles

Gabriella Gamez is a Mexican American author living in South Texas. She writes about incredibly messy, well-meaning women trying their best and accidentally falling in love. When she’s not writing, she can be found drinking copious amounts of coffee, wasting too much time playing video games, and obsessing over other people’s books.

Book Club Resources from Penguin Random House!

Do you run a book club at your library? Are you ready to take your library’s book club to the next level? Then check out these amazing resources from Penguin Random House Library Marketing!

Booklist and LibraryReads Read ‘n’ Rave 2024

At this year’s ALA Annual Conference, Booklist and LibraryReads teamed up for the popular Read ‘n’ Rave, where superstar librarians scour the Exhibit Hall floor to find the books you’ll want to know about for late summer and fall. 

Booklist Backlist: Love in a Time of Time-shifting
by Heather Booth

Characters are baffled by wrinkles in time and wormholes in these audio and print time-shift tales about the ones that got away, the people we would have been, and love that endures (or doesn’t!). 

Booklist’s Graphic Novels in Libraries Month Sweepstakes!

Want to strengthen the graphic novel presence in your library? Then enter our #ReadGraphic sweepstakes now for a chance to win amazing GN essentials perfect for your next display, program, or curb side pickup pack!

The Booklist Printz Interview: A. S. King
by Sarah Hunter

This isn’t the first time A. S. King has been awarded the Printz medal; four years ago, we interviewed her about her Printz-winning novel, Dig. But for the acclaimed author, who’s made a mark with her surreal brand of fiction that raises powerful questions about identity, emotional vulnerability, and the importance of genuine human connection, The Collectors is a wholly new kind of project, an anthology of original stories by an impressive roster of authors, all of whom were encouraged to embrace weirdness.

The Booklist Carnegie Interview: Amanda Peters
by Aryssa Damron

​Aryssa Damron, a librarian in Washington, DC, and the chair of the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Selection Committee, had some questions for this year’s winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, Amanda Peters. Here’s their conversation.