Full ALA Annual Read N Rave List With Bonus Advice On How To Make This List Work For You RIGHT NOW

Today, as promised here in my longer report on the titles I "Raved" at ALA Annual, is the full post from Booklist on what all 5 of us discussed.

The event was hosted by Rebecca Vnuk, editor for Collection Management and Library Outreach at Booklist.

I think we did a fantastic job working together to provide a wide range of books for all kinds of readers.

Keep these books on your radar because we all think they will have traction with library patrons. But even better for right this minute, are the previous Read N Rave program lists. Many of those titles are books you already have on the shelf. They are a year or two old, so they could use a push right now. It is easy to use the newest list to create interest in these back list gems which are still awesome reads.

Here's what you do, step by step:

1. Pull up the 2017, 2016, 2015 Read N Rave lists.
2. Use the 2017 list to do pre-ordering and/or pass on to those who do order.
3. Make a display about librarians picks. Print out, the cover for the upcoming books we suggest and put a "coming soon" tag on them. Then in the display (or on a list that you put in the library or online...or all of the above) put books from the previous 2 years lists that you do own.
4. And....you have a quickly put together but awesome display of backlist gems that also let's people know what new books are coming. The display will be diverse in every way. You will have multiple genres, varied voices, and nonfiction. And all of the titles are library worker approved!
5.  Not required-- you can make this display interactive by asking patrons to fill out a slip of paper answering the question, "What upcoming books are you most excited about?"
6. Everyone finds a good read.

I can't wait to hear form some of you who give this a try.

Below is this year's list replicated from Booklist Reader--

Annual Conference Read n’ Rave Report, 2017

Booklist and the Association of American Publishers convened another well-attended Read ‘n’ Rave at this year’s ALA Annual Conference. Modeled after the popular Shout ‘n’ Share panels that take place at the end of Book Expo every year, the program brings together a panel of collection development librarians who roam the exhibit aisles in search of galleys that should be on your radar.

The latest panel included Stephen Sposato, Manager of Content Curation and Reader’s Advisory at the Chicago Public Library, Erin Downey Howerton, Children’s Manager at the Wichita Public Library, Kaite Mediatore Stover, Director of Reader’s Services for the Kansas City (MO) Public Library,  Magan Szwarek, Head of Reference at the Schaumburg Township District Library, and Becky Spratford, a Reader’s Advisory consultant who blogs regularly on all things books and library-land at http://raforall.blogspot.com.

To follow are their choices, linked to their Booklist reviews when possible.

Erin Downey Howerton

Autonomous, by Annalee Newitz

The Belles, by Dhonielle Clayton

The Black Painting, by Neil Olson

Jane, Unlimited, by Kristin Cashore

The Last Mrs. Parrish, by Liv Constantine

Lies She Told, by Cate Holahan

Little & Lion, by Brandy Colbert

The Long Count, by J. M. Gulvin

Plague Land, by Alex Scarrow

Rez Rebel, by Melanie Florence

Spliced, by Jon McGoran

Stephen Sposato

Bluebird, Bluebird, by Attica Locke

Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, by Kevin Young

The Child Finder, by Rene Denfeld

The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness, by John Prados

A Kind of Freedom, by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Ninth Hour, by Alice McDermott

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, by Lydia Kang

Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward

We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir, by Kelly Hrey Carlisle

The Talented Ribkins, by Ladee Hubbard

Becky Spratford

An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones

The City of Brass, by S. A. Chakrsborty

Creatures of Will & Temper, by Molly Tanzer

In the Valley of the Sun, by Andy Davidson

The Last Ballad, by Wiley Cash

My Absolute Darling, by Gabriel Talent

The New Annotated Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

Paperbacks from Hell, by Grady Hendrix

Strange Weather, by Joe Hill

Kaite Stover

An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones

Bookshops, by Jorge Carrion Biblioasis

Caroline, by Sarah Miller

Class Mom, by Laurie Gelman

Cuz, by Danielle Allen

Dear Fahrenheit 451, by Annie Spence

Futchi Perf, by Kevi Czap

Heating & Cooling, by Beth Ann Fennelly

In the Cage, by Kevin Hardcastle

Island of Point Nemo, by Jean-Marie Blas de Robles

Musnet, by Kickliy

Red Clocks, by Leni Zumas

Santa’s Husband, by Daniel Kibblesmith, illustrated by A.P. Quatch

Sourdough, by Robin Sloan

Tell Me How it Ends, by Valeria Luiselli

The Woman in the Window, by A.J. Finn

The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Marta McDowell

Magan Szwarek

The Burning Girl, by Claire Messud

Eternal Life, by Dara Horn

Forest Dark, by Nicole Krauss

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, by Caitlin Doughty

Future Home of the Living God, by Louise Erdrich

Nomadland: Surviving American in the Twenty-first Century, by Jessica Bruder

Seven Days of Us, by Francesca Hornak