Last week, Susan Maguire, my editor at Booklist sent out the final Corner Shelf newsletter of the year. Below is the Table of Contents and her Editor's Note. Click here to read the entire newsletter and to find the link to subscribe to receive future issues.
- Notes from the Field: Serving Romance Readers and RomanceCon
- Essentials: Serving the Unhoused
- Listen Up: Spanish Audio of Note
- Top 10 Food Books
- Excerpts from the Experts: Play with Purpose—Integrating Games into the Collection
- Shelf Care: The Podcast: Book-Clubbable
- From the Backlist: The Queen of the Cicadas, by V. Castro
Hello Shelfers,
This issue of Corner Shelf has it all: an interview with a library worker about serving romance readers and RomanceCon, an article on Spanish-language audio, the top 10 food books of the year, a feature on why you should integrate games into your library collections, and more. More!
This issue of Corner Shelf has it all: an interview with a library worker about serving romance readers and RomanceCon, an article on Spanish-language audio, the top 10 food books of the year, a feature on why you should integrate games into your library collections, and more. More!
One feature of note is that this issue doesn’t have the usual Professional Reading Roundup. Instead, I put together an Essentials list on serving the homeless which can serve as a professional reading list for library staff, or, with a few adjustments, for patrons interested in understanding their unhoused neighbors better. This list was inspired by my reading of “They Just Need to Get a Job”: 15 Myths on Homelessness, by Mary Brosnahan, which I first heard about from LibraryReads’ Rebecca Vnuk at our Read n Rave this year.
And it’s the last issue of Corner Shelf for 2024. I know! It’s sad. But as is tradition, here are what I’m pretty sure are my fave reads of the year:
And two books that tackle mental illness in very different ways:The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore. This book has a compelling mystery, an exploration of class and the roles of women, and a surprising and satisfying ending.The Pairing, by Casey McQuiston. Does anyone really need to be sold on Casey McQuiston who isn’t already sold on them? Except to say they keep getting better and better?The Wedding People, by Allison Espach. A very funny, very moving, keenly observed piece of relationship fiction about a woman who unwittingly infiltrates a wedding party.
Between Friends & Lovers, by Shirlene Obuobi. A romance about, among other things, learning to love a person with depression.One of Us Knows, by Alyssa Cole. A thriller about a woman with dissociative identity disorder who finds herself in a castle that is identical to one that lives in her mind. Very twisty and delicious.
What have you read and loved in 2024? Feel free to reach out and let me know!
Happy reading!
—Susan Maguire
Senior Editor, Collection Development and Library Outreach, Booklist
smaguire@ala.org
@Booklist_Susan
Happy reading!
—Susan Maguire
Senior Editor, Collection Development and Library Outreach, Booklist
smaguire@ala.org
@Booklist_Susan
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