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!

We Are Big Time
by Hena Khan, art by Safiya Zerrougui

​When Aliya and her family move from Florida to Wisconsin, she finds comfort in the basketball program at her new school, Peace Academy. But in order for her team to win, she’ll have to rise to the challenge and prove that she has what it takes to lead as co-captain, even if she still has a lot to learn. 

Essentials: Sports Comics
by Sarah Hunter

Sports stories have so much to do with physical movement, and the visual format of comics, graphic novels, and manga is a natural fit for the genre, bringing to vivid life the action of gameplay and the agility of athletes.

10 Questions fo Lianne Dillsworth
​By John Charles

In 2018, Lianne Dillsworth graduated from Royal Holloway with an MA in creative writing with distinction, and in 2019, she won a place on the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. Most recently she was awarded a bursary place for underrepresented writers on the Jericho Writers Self-Editing course and short-listed for the SI Leeds Literary Prize.

10 Questions for Jaclyn Westlake
​By John Charles

Jaclyn Westlake is the author of the novel Dear Dotty and an alumna of the Stanford Continuing Studies novel writing program. A recruiter turned career advice columnist, her work has appeared in Forbes, Business Insider, and Inc. She lives in California with her husband and their dachshund mix, Indiana Jones (but you can call him Indy). 

10 Questions for Amber Chen
By John Charles

Amber Chen is a Singaporean Chinese author of sf/fantasy and contemporary fiction. She spends much of her free time living within Chinese fantasy novels and dramas and also drinks one too many cups of bubble tea. One of her webnovels, The Cutting Edge, has been adapted for television.

The Shelf Care Interview: The Creative Team Behind Rifts and Refrains​

In this episode of the Shelf Care interview, Heather Booth talks with the creative team behind Rifts and Refrains.

Book Club Resources from Penguin Random House!

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Booklist’s Graphic Novels in Libraries Month Sweepstakes!

Want to strengthen the graphic novel presence in your library? Then enter our #ReadGraphic sweepstakes now for a chance to win amazing GN essentials perfect for your next display, program, or curb side pickup pack!

Sports Fiction
by Donna Seaman

Sports, from hockey and football to golf and gymnastics, have inspired a recent slew of romances and family dramas that captures the glamour, thrills, competition, anguish, and conflicts of the sports world.