Current Issue of Booklist is RA Focused, Your Chance to Vote in their Readers' Choice Awards, and Andrew Carnegie Medal Announcement Info

Booklist has published their first ever Readers' Advisory Focused issue in the January 2023 issue. And there is so much I wanted to point out.

That post title promises quote a lot. Don't worry, I am going to deliver courtesy of Booklist and it is all great. 

But before I get to the print issue, I wanted to let everyone know about the Booklist Blog's Inaugural Readers' Choice Awards. It is all  in honor of "best" season. Anyone of you can vote for your favorite Adult and YA titles in fun categories. Here are the details:

Enter the Booklist Blog Readers’ Choice Awards, our more (ahem) breezy take on the book-award season.

Vote for your favorites in the following categories by writing in the name of the book, author, and character(s) when applicable:

Best Book Cover

Best Protagonist

Best Villain

Best Couple

Best Plot Twist

Only adult and young adult novels published in 2022 are eligible. Voting closes Friday, February 10, 2023. If you’re attending LibLearnX, you can also swing by our booth (#718) for a paper ballot. Literally anyone can vote, so share far and wide with your reader friends!

Check our blog for updates, including a shortlist (which means more voting!) and winner announcements!

Speaking of LibLearnX, On Sunday, January 29th at 4:30pm Central, the RUSA Book and Media Awards will be announced virtually and announcement that includes the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction winners.

I will be posting the link to watch all of the awards on Friday June 27th as it is being finalized right now.

As part of the ACM selection committee, I am excited to share our singers with the world, but I am also so proud of our short lists. So is Booklist. In the current issue they have all six finalists, sharing the books they think you should read Links are below, but you need to login to see them, or check the print issue. Which is a good time to remind you that if your library gets the print (which most do), you have free digital access already. Follow this link to set it up.

Nonfiction Finalists Share Reading Suggestions:

• Rachel E. Gross author of Vagina Obscura 
• Margo Jefferson author of Constructing a Nervous System
• Ed Yong author of An Immense World

Fiction Finalists Share Reading Suggestions:

• David Santos Donaldson author of Greenland
• Julie Otsuka author of The Swimmers
• Morgan Talty author of Night of the Living Rez

And finally, the January 2023 Booklist has 4 excellent articles under the title of "Trade Secrets" Again you need to login or read them in your library's print edition:

• Working Toward and Inclusive and Intersectional Readers' Advisory by Sara Martínez
• Leveraging Community to Support the Freedom to Read by Cicely Lewis
• Listeners' Advisory by Heather Booth
• And my personal favorite article: How to Use Book awards to Help Readers Find Books They will Love by my friend and our ACM Selection Committee Chair extraordinaire Stephen Sposato
• see also my ongoing series-- Using Awards Lists As a RA Tool.

There is so much to help everyone in this issue. 

And again, I will be posting the link to watch all the RUSA Books and Media Awards on Friday June 27th as it is being finalized right now. The live stream will be Sunday, January 29th at 4:30 pm central.