Episode 20: Reading the Reading List

Booklist's Shelf Care

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