Start reading and sharing the August Booklist Reader digitally today! Booklist Reader’s pages are filled with 10 tops, read-alikes, trend alerts, and new releases for books that your patrons will want to read and check out now, plus content from our partners at LibraryReads and PBS Books. 

Physical copies of Booklist Reader are now available for library-building visitors. You can now order 25 copies per month (or more!) here or by calling 1-888-350-0949.

The Naked Tree
written and art by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong

​Gendry-Kim’s starkly black-and-white, dynamic panels open with a framing prologue in which a couple discovers the 1969 newspaper announcement of an artist’s death, prompting the wife to “carefully . . . coax out the story [she]’d long kept buried in [her] heart.”

10 Questions for Lauren J. A. Bear
By John Charles

Lauren J. A. Bear was born in Boston and raised in Long Beach. After studying English at UCLA and Education at LMU, she taught middle-school Humanities for over a decade—and survived! She is a teaching fellow for the Holocaust Center for Humanity, and lives in Seattle with her husband and three young children. She likes crossword puzzles and being on or near the water without getting wet.

Shelf Care #29: Cool People Talking about Cool Books
By Susan Maguire

In keeping with our annual post-Annual tradition, this episode of the Shelf Care podcast sees Susan inviting LibraryReads Executive Director Rebecca Vnuk on to participate in a mini Read ‘n’ Rave, in which they shout and generally make positive noises about some forthcoming books that your patrons will want to know about.

Booklist Backlist: Missing Siblings
by Terry Hong

​Families are supposed to be the backbone of society, but what happens when a sibling goes missing? Check out these novels highlighting transformative disappearances and deaths.

The Essentials: Barbie
By Biz Hyzy

If Barbia mania has taken ahold of your library and your patrons are inspired to learn more about the world’s most famous doll and her impact on pop culture, hand them one of the following adult nonfiction titles—and one YA title—that focus on just that.

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The Shelf Care Interview: Kate Glasheen

In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Ronny Khuri talks to author-artist Kate Glasheen.

LibraryReads August 2023 Picks

Every month, library staff from across the country have the chance to vote on upcoming adult titles that they loved reading and cannot wait to share. Participation is open to everyone who works in a public library, whether they are senior staff or new arrivals, in any area of the library.