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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Stories of Kinship and Hope • Trans resistance is a powerful antidote to rising anti-trans legislation and book bans targeting trans stories. One effective method of resistance is storytelling: sharing tales that hold a mirror up to trans readers’ lives, offering kinship and comfort. For all readers, these stories offer a humanizing window into a dangerously marginalized group. The books detailed below all center trans characters and will ignite a spark of hope, which is a powerful component of dissent.

To Beach Their Own • What do you need to capture that summer feeling in a book? What kinds of stories help you relax? We know it’s different for every reader—some like thrills, some like to chill; some like a dishy tale, some like hard facts; some yearn for a love story, some prefer their narratives heartbreaking. No matter your preference, we've got you covered. These beach-read suggestions are laid out by category, and within each category is a mélange of suggestions to help all kinds of readers find the perfect beach read, no matter what that means.

Elise Hooper • A native New Englander, Elise Hooper spent several years writing for television and online news outlets before getting a MA and teaching high-school literature and history. Her debut novel The Other Alcott was a nominee for the 2017 Washington Book Award. Three more novels—Learning to See, Fast Girls, and Angels of the Pacific—followed, all centered on the lives of extraordinary but overlooked historical women. Elise lives in Seattle with her husband and two daughters.

New & Stellar LGBTQ Reads • We’re lucky to be living in a rich time for propulsive fiction featuring real-feeling queer characters and for enthralling memoirs and histories on significant, timely LGBTQ topics. Celebrate Pride Month with one or all of the reads below. It was hard to choose, but what can we say? We’re Booklist. Book lists are our love language.

Women Writers from Latin America • Excellent works by Latin American women writers have been surreptitiously finding their way onto library shelves. With intriguing titles and curious covers that mask the profundity inside, these books will thrill intrepid readers who welcome discomfort, messiness, and having their tapetes movidos (their cores shaken) by challenging literature that ventures outside the zone of tidy endings. Born of trauma, feminicide, and marginalization, they bravely push the boundaries of narrative discourse to lay bare dark emotions and situations rife with monsters and ghosts ethereal and corporeal.

Economy Explainers • Stocks are down, tariffs are up, and wages are somewhere in between—but what does it all mean? These books will help readers get a handle on the complicated economy, ranging from a holistic view of the field to personal finance guides to an examination of the global supply chain. No matter what they’re covering, these authors take a traditionally dry subject and cover it in an engaging way, all the better to help explain the economy.

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Widows’ Memoirs on Navigating Grief & Life • In Memorial Days, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Geraldine Brooks describes in striking detail the shock of her seemingly healthy husband’s sudden death and her eventual journey to properly mourn on remote and beautiful Flinders Island, Australia. The other memoirs gathered here also tell gripping stories of loss, grief, and a new embrace of life.

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