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This episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast is all about Summer Scares! The reading program, a collaboration between Booklist, the Horror Writers Association, United for Libraries, Book Riot, and NoveList, announced their title picks in February. Host Susan Maguire sat down with the folks behind Summer Scares to talk about the books they want you to read this summer, different levels of scariness, and the importance of snacks for patron engagement.

Here’s what we talked about:

This Thing between Us, by Gus Moreno
Such Sharp Teeth, by Rachel Harrison
Jackal, by Erin E. Adams
All these Bodies, by Kendare Blake
Anna Dressed in Blood, by Kendare Blake
#MurderTrending, by Gretchen McNeil
Chain Gang All-Stars, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Dead Flip, by Sara Farizan
Meddling Kids, by Edgar Cantero
LibraryReads
What Kind of Mother, by Clay McLeod Chapman
2024 Summer Scares Programming Guide
Horror Writers Association
The Nest, by Kenneth Oppel
Ophie’s Ghost, by Justina Ireland
My Aunt is a Monster, by Reimena Yee
The Labyrinth of Lost and Found, by Jordan Lees (The Whisperwicks #1)
Don’t miss these webinars, featuring the Summer Scares Authors:
Summer Scares Adult
Summer Scares YA
Summer Scares Middel Grade

Welcome to another installment of the Shelf Care Interview, an occasional podcast series in which Booklist editors get to talk to book people. This Shelf Care Interview is sponsored by Lerner Publishing Group.

In this episode of Shelf Care Interview, Sarah Hunter talks with Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic, whose new book, TOUCH THE SKY, goes on sale in May.

Stephanie writes books in the San Francisco Bay Area surrounded by a few kids, a few cats, and one husband. Her work includes THE END OF SOMETHING WONDERFUL, HELLO STAR, and THE LEAGUE OF PICKY EATERS.

Welcome to another installment of the Shelf Care Interview, an occasional podcast series in which Booklist editors get to talk to book people. This Shelf Care Interview is sponsored by Capstone.

In this episode of Shelf Care Interview, Sarah Hunter talks with Patricia Kreiser about her debut picture book Always Together, which came out in January.

Patricia Kreiser is an author and illustrator and proud mom who absolutely loves creating picture stories. Some of her earliest and best childhood memories include endless hours with Breyer horses, drawing (but not on the walls) and reading pretty much anything she could get her hands on. Patricia graduated from Pratt Institute and hopes her stories will one day be someone's favorite childhood memory. She joins us today from her home near Philadelphia.

On this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to Stephanie Sendaula, librarian and memoir enthusiast, about what’s so great about memoirs and what makes a great author visit. Then Audio Editor Heather Booth shares some upcoming awards and lists that those who do collection development and listeners’ advisory will want to know about. Finally, Susan and Annie Bostrom, Senior Editor, Adult Books, chat about what they’re reading and loving.

Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It, by Greg Marshall
Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing, by Jen Soriano
Women We Buried, Women We Burned, by Rachel Louise Snyder
Electric Lit
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, a Memorial, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, by Jane Wong
Illness as Metaphor, by Susan Sontag
Rainbow Black, by Maggie Thrash
The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed America, by Katherine Turk
Silver Nitrate, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Odyssey Award Winners
RUSA Adult Listen List
Spring Audio Preview (in Corner Shelf)
Headshot, by Rita Bullwinkel
Listen for the Lie, by Amy Tintera
American Daughters, by Piper Huguley

It’s December, and that means…Editors’ Choice! Booklist’s full list of our Editors’ Choice titles can be found in our December issue, but on this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, the Booklist editors share some standouts from the already stand-out list.

Here’s what everyone talked about:

Donna Seaman:
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon, by Melissa L. Sevigny (Top of the List, Adult Nonfiction)
The Apartment, by Ana Menéndez (Top of the List, Adult Fiction)
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez, by Claire Jiménez
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride
Absolution, by Alice McDermott
Unshuttered, by Patricia Smith
Poverty, by America, by Matthew Desmond

Sarah Hunter:
Roaming, by Mariko Tamaki, art by Jillian Tamaki
Shubeik Lubeik, by Deena Mohamed, art by the author (Top of the List, Adult Graphic Novel)
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam, by Thien Pham, art by the author
Bea Wolf, by Zach Weinersmith, art by Boulet (Top of the List, Youth Graphic Novel)
Invisible Things, written and illustrated by Andy J. Pizza and Sophie Miller
Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider, written and illustrated by Jessica Lanan
Mr. S, written and illustrated by Monica Arnaldo (Top of the List, Picture Book)

Heather Booth:
Cutting Teeth, by Chandler Baker, read by January LaVoy (Top of the List, Adult Audio)
Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett, read by Meryl Streep
So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin, by Steve Martin and Adam Gopnik, read by the authors
Sure I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere, by Maria Bamford, read by the author
What Happened to Rachel Riley?, by Claire Swinarski, read by a full cast (Top of the List, Youth Audio)
Big Tree, by Brian Selznick, read by Meryl Streep
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, by Andrew Joseph White, read by Raphael Corkhill
Edoardo Ballerini, Voice of Choice

Julia Smith:
The Labors of Hercules Beal, by Gary D. Schmidt (Top of the List, Middle Grade)
Barely Floating, by Lilliam Rivera
The Otherwoods, by Justine Pucella Winans
Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything, by Justine Pucella Winans (Top of the List, Young Adult)
The Worlds We Leave Behind, by A. F. Harrold
The Wild Robot Protects, by Peter Brown

Annie Bostrom:
The Vaster Wilds, by Lauren Groff

Maggie Reagan:
Champion of Fate, by Kendare Blake
This Dark Descent, by Kalyn Josephson
Painted Devils, by Margaret Owen
The Making of Yolanda la Bruja, by Lorraine Avila
The Blood Years, by Elena K. Arnold

Susan Maguire:
Happiness Falls, by Angie Kim
Much Ado about Nada, by Uzma Jalaluddin
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, by Heather Fawcett

Ronny Khuri:
The Hidden World of Gnomes, written and illustrated by Lauren Soloy

On this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire sits down with librarian Nanette Donohue to talk about all aspects of collecting craft books. Then, Audio Editor Heather Booth chats with librarian Emily Borsa about the appeal of the celebrity memoir, whether read by the author or not. Finally, Editor, Books for Youth and Graphic Novels Sarah Hunter joins Susan to shout about a few books she’s been reading and loving lately. (She doesn’t really shout.)

Here’s what we talked about:

Elizabeth Zimmermann’s knitting books
Cast On, Bind Off: 54 Step-by-Step Methods, by Leslie Ann Bestor
Barbara Walker’s Stitch Dictionaries
Alice Starmore’s Book of Fair Isle Knitting, by Alice Starmore
Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs, by Benjamin Herold
The Woman in Me, by Britney Spears, read by Michelle Williams
Talking to My Angels, by Melissa Etheridge, read by the author
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, by Bono, read by the author
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, by Dave Grohl, read by the author
A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons, by Ben Folds, read by the author
Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere, by Maria Bamford, read by the author
ARRTReads.org
Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond, by Henry Winkler, read by the author
If You Would Have Told Me, by John Stamos, read by the author
Down the Drain, by Julia Fox, read by the author
My Name is Barbra, by Barbra Streisand, read by the author
Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg
Tasty: A History of Yummy Experiments, by Victoria Grace Elliott, illus. by the author
Lisa Cheese and Ghost Guitar, v.1: Attack of the Snack, by Kevin Alvir, illus. by the author
The Warm Hands of Ghosts, by Katherine Arden
The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden
Small Spaces, by Katherine Arden