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Booklist is proud to present this year’s Editors’ Choice lists for Adult, Youth, Audio, and Graphic Novel titles. Combining evocative artwork and stirring stories, our editors’ choice graphic novels for adults and youth showcase this year’s best of the format in a wide variety of genres, topics, and tones. Check out the titles featured on our newest Editors’ Choice list here.

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Gather
by Kenneth M. Cadow

​Cadow’s first novel is, in a word, superb. The wonderfully empathic characters are fully realized, their reality enhanced by numerous flashbacks that provide context and dimensionality.




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photo of Emma R. Alban10 Questions for Emma R. Alban
By John Carles

Emma R. Alban is an author and screenwriter. Raised in the Hudson Valley, she now lives in Los Angeles, enjoying the eternal sunshine, ocean, and mountains. When she isn’t writing books or screenplays, she can usually be found stress baking with the AC on full blast, skiing late into the spring, singing showtunes at the top of her lungs on the freeway, and reading anywhere there’s somewhere to lean. She is the author of Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend and You’re the Problem, It’s You.

Readers Choice Awards promo imageVote in the Second Annual Booklist Blog Readers’ Choice Awards

The Booklist Blog Readers’ Choice Awards is your chance to vote for your favorite books! Only adult and young adult novels published in 2023 are eligible.

photo of Peggy Townsend10 Questions for Peggy Townsend
By John Charles

Peggy Townsend is an award-winning journalist and author. Her work has appeared in Catamaran literary magazine, Santa Cruz Noir, The Boston Globe Magazine, Memoir, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. Twice she lived for seven weeks in her van, traveling to Alaska and along the back roads of the U.S.

Booklist Backlist: SF/Fantasy Books in Translation
by Leah von Essen

Too often, translated literature flies under the radar. Here are 10 highly recommended books of surrealism, fantasy, and sf from Sweden, Mexico, Japan, Egypt, and everywhere in between, to get you into the an otherworldly spirit.

photo of Sophie Hannah10 Questions for Sophie Hannah
By John Charles

Sophie Hannah is the New York Times best-selling author of numerous psychological thrillers, which have been published in 51 countries and adapted for television, as well as The Monogram Murders, the first Hercule Poirot novel authorized by the estate of Agatha Christie, and its sequels Closed Casket, The Mystery of Three Quarters, and The Killings at Kingfisher Hill. Sophie is also the author of a self-help book, How to Hold a Grudge, and hosts the podcast of the same name. She lives in Cambridge, UK.

Shelf Care Interview logoThe Shelf Care Interview: BonHyung Jeong.

In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Sarah Hunter talks to author-artist BonHyung Jeong.

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