The latest edition of Booklist​’s Guide to Graphic Novels in Libraries is live and, as always, the digital version is free to all readers! As with previous years, you’ll read our latest thoughts about comic bans and the growth of manga, but you’ll also learn how to slow down while reading this unique format, its many subgenres, and its potential in higher education. And don’t miss this year’s original comics either, of course! Read the digital edition now!

The Wild Huntress
by Emily Lloyd-Jones

Believable, well-developed characters with sparkly chemistry inhabit a palpably atmospheric world: Gwydion’s plant magic brings the forest to breathtaking (occasionally violent) life, and fiercely lovable sort-of-a-cat Palug is beyond charming. Lush and lyrical, this extremely satisfying and adventurous fantasy is not to be missed.

Fall Youth Preview: 2024
by Kelly Ferreira

​This announcement section offers readers a selected preview of notable new titles for young-adult, middle-grade, and young readers. All titles will be published in the fall 2024 or winter 2025 seasons.

Essentials: Plants
by Donna Seaman

Plants are ubiquitous, from grass to shrubs, flowers, and weeds, inducing many of us to overlook them or take them for granted, even though flora wild and cultivated are essential to life on Earth, including the existence of humankind. The books below, many elegantly illustrated, awaken readers to the wonders and munificence of plants as well as the environmental conundrums that endanger them.

10 Questions for Rainbow Rowell
​By John Charles

Rainbow Rowell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and the Simon Snow Trilogy, as well as several other award-winning novels, short stories, and comics. Rainbow lives in Omaha, Nebraska, just like most of her characters. 

10 Questions for Sophie Sullivan
By John Charles

Sophie Sullivan (she/her) is a Canadian author as well as a cookie-eating, Diet Pepsi–drinking, Disney enthusiast who loves reading and writing romance in almost equal measure. She writes around her day job as a teacher and spends her spare time with her sweet family watching reruns of Friends.

Essentials: Whale-y Great Reads
by Julia Smith

Whether attacking boats, swallowing kayakers, deploying defensive poop clouds, or having their speech decoded by AI, odds are whales have swum into your news or social media feeds recently. But what do you really know about these marine giants? Here are some books to satiate those curious about cetaceans.

The Booklist Interview: Darrin Bell
by Tracy D. F. Resonance

Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist Darrin Bell’s graphic novel, The Talk, appeared on numerous “best of the year” lists and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The audiobook is also outstanding, with an exciting cast and a cinematic soundscape. Bell spoke with Booklist reviewer Tracy D. F. Resonance.