"Congratulations to the finalists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The two medal winners will be announced by 2025 selection committee chair Allison Escoto at the Reference and User Services Association’s Book and Media Awards live-streaming event, held during ALA LibLearnX on Sunday, January 26.
Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at our libraries. If you're not familiar with TGTM (as we call it here in library-world), it's a special collection of popular books that are truly too good to miss. Some are new and popular titles, others are older titles that might not have had as much media attention as a bestseller or celebrity book club selection but are still great reads that deserve another look.
It's that time of year again where the best of the year lists start appearing. Have you started your lists? Publishers Weekly has just released their best books of 2024. The categories include: Top 10, Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Poetry, Romance, SF/Fantasy/Horror, Comics, Nonfiction, Religion, Lifestyle, Picture Books, Middle Grade, Young Adult. There is something for everybody.
Is it November yet? While the air might be filled with anticipation about a major event on November 5, there is the anticipation that comes of finding something new to read. With October offering an abundance of big titles and notable debuts, November and December might be a bit thin by comparison, but there’s still plenty look forward to. The highlights:
Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at our libraries. If you're not familiar with TGTM (as we call it here in library-world), it's a special collection of popular books that are truly too good to miss. Some are new and popular titles, others are older titles that might not have had as much media attention as a bestseller or celebrity book club selection but are still great reads that deserve another look.
Get ahead of the crowd with these great recent releases that may not be on the New York Times bestseller list, but that have critics and readers talking.
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Atlanta, Ellen. Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women.
Auslander, Shalom. Feh: A Memoir.
Beck, Richard. Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life.
Benoit, Rich. Going Fast and Fixing Things: True Stories from the World’s Most Popular DIY Repair Expert and Car Aficionado.
Bergstein, Rachelle. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us.
Bierman, Paul. When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future.
Bingham, Clara. The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973.
Bishop, Patrick. Paris 1944: Occupation, Resistance, Liberation.
Blanco, Victoria. Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance.
Brottman, Mikita. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida.
Cabrol, Nathalie A. The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life.
Chowdhary, Zara. The Lucky Ones: A Memoir.
Chu, Jon M. and McCarter, Jeremy. Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen.
Cook, Jesselyn. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family.
Cooper, Paul. Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline.
Courogen, Carrie. Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius.
Danticat, Edwidge. We're Alone: Essays.
Davis, Rebecca L. Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America.
Driver, Alice. Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company.
Dunn, Daisy. The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World.
Evans, Richard J. Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich.
Fox, Margalit. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss. Ebook
Fuller, Thomas. The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory.
Gibson, Susannah. The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women’s Movement.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World.
Gordon, Tamela J. Hood Wellness: Tales of Communal Care from People Who Drowned on Dry Land.
Graham, Jasmin. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist.
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Henion, Leigh Ann. Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark.
Henry, Spencer and Reyes, Madison. Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death.
Hochschild, Arlie Russell. Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right.
Hoppe, Jessica. First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream.
Jabr, Ferris. Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life.
Karmel, Ian and Karmel, Alisa. T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People. Downloadable audiobook
Kaye, Anthony E. and Downs, Gregory P. Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History.
Kershenbaum, Arik. Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication.
La Tray, Chris. Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home.
Laing, Olivia. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise.
Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology. Edited by Rigoberto González.
Levitin, Daniel J. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine.
Mattoo, Priyanka. Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir.
McClanahan, Paige. The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel.
Mertens, Maggie. Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women.
Mithers, Carol Lynn. Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets.
Nagle, Rebecca. By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land.
Peri, Camille. A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Powers, Ann. Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell.
Prose, Francine. 1974: A Personal History.
Purnell, Sonia. Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue.
Questlove. Hip-Hop is History.
Quinn, Josephine. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History.
Radclyffe, Oliver. Frighten the Horses: A Memoir.
Reading, Amy. The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker.
Reeve, Elle. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics.
Rishi, Farah Naz. Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir.
Romig, Rollo. I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India.
Rooks, Noliwe. A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune.
Schaap, Rosie. The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country.
Schutt, Bill. Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans.
Schwartz, Theodore H. Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery.
Sheftall, M G. Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses.
Slater, Dan. The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld.
Smarsh, Sarah. Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class.
Smith, Danez. Bluff: Poems.
Smith, Tanya. Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System―and Pocketed $40 Million.
Specter, Emma. More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough".
Twilley, Nicola. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves.
VanDeMark, Brian. Kent State: An American Tragedy.
Van Duyne, Emily. Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation.
Walker, Jerald. Magically Black and Other Essays.
Walker, Sara Imari. Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence.
White, Catherine Joy. This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood.
Whitman, Debra B. The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond.
Yong, Sable. Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity.
Zaki, Jamil. Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
October brings with it a particularly special time of year here in Madison: the return of the Wisconsin Book Festival, this October 17-20. This year’s events include authors of national standing to student writers embarking on new careers; topics of politics, poetry, science and culture to things that go bump in the night and just plain good stories that will keep you reading late into the night. And best of all, it’s all free. Check out the events page and plan your schedule—some events require advance registrations.
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.
This week the National Book Foundation is releasing longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards.Finalists will be announced October 1, and winners named November 20 at the 75th National Book Awards Ceremony.
Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at our libraries. If you're not familiar with TGTM (as we call it here in library-world), it's a special collection of popular books that are truly too good to miss. Some are new and popular titles, others are older titles that might not have had as much media attention as a bestseller or celebrity book club selection but are still great reads that deserve another look.
