Buckle up, associates, as a result of I’ve a mega checklist of library and library-adjacent hyperlinks to place in your radar. We’ve received adaptation information, cool library updates, a ton of reader’s advisory and style sources, and e book lists for days.
Cool Library Updates
The Vernon Space Public Library (IL) retained a political scientist-in-residence throughout 2024 to assist patrons navigate the election. (This library could be very a lot in my neck of the woods, and I by no means knew they did this. That is actually cool.)
A have a look at Harvard College’s Kennedy College of Authorities’s archive of political buttons.
Numbers & Traits
Gross sales surge for dystopian books after the election outcomes.
E book Variations within the Information
HBO has launched a press release defending J.Okay. Rowling’s involvement within the upcoming Harry Potter sequence.
Anne Hathaway is starring within the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s Verity.
Martin Scorcese talks about the potential for directing a movie model of Marilynne Robinson’s novel, House.
Right here’s the trailer for the difference of Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing.
Books & Authors within the Information
Over 1000 literary and leisure figures have signed an open letter in opposition to cultural boycotts of Israel. This was in response to the same letter signed by over 1,000 authors and members of the publishing business calling for a boycott of Israeli cultural establishments which are “complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming oppression of Palestinians.”
Cormac McCarthy’s secret muse breaks her silence and talks about how her relationship with the creator started when he was 42 and he or she was 16.
Stephen King has left X in favor of Threads, citing the poisonous surroundings that’s been fostered. (Though what I’d actually like is for him to return over to Bluesky, as a result of that’s the place I’ve migrated to…)
Bruce Degen, the illustrator behind the Magic College Bus sequence, has died at 79.
Journey writer Arthur Frommer has died at 95.
New & Upcoming Titles
Winter e book releases you’ll need to placed on maintain at your library now.
The very best new cozy books you’ll need to snuggle up with this winter.
8 new SFF books by Indigenous authors.
5 of probably the most anticipated romance novels of 2025.
Blockbuster YA releases for 2025.
RA/Style Sources
Are we coming into a brand new period of erotic literature?
The banality of on-line suggestion tradition.
The very best Kristin Hannah books ranked.
The place to start out with Grady Hendrix.
A have a look at “reference” novels, or when novels converse a language that solely a part of the Web understands.
Why males ought to learn “cool lady lit.” Plus, Jenna Bush Hager appears at why males learn much less fiction than ladies.
Is the Twentieth-century novel a style?
The mainstreaming of historic fiction.
All Issues Comics
A French graphic novel biography of Elon Musk will possible not be translated into English or printed internationally due to “doable authorized penalties.”
How a Gen-X graphic novelist reinvented the romance comedian.
The Washington Put up has one of the best graphic novels of 2024.
9 twisty time journey graphic novels and comics.
Humorous comics to make you LOL.
7-ish of probably the most controversial comics of all time.
Audiophilia
Amazon Music is together with a free Audible obtain every month for subscribers.
Libro.fm’s High 10 audiobooks of 2024.
7 horror audiobooks for tweens.
Movie star memoirs on audio to assist put your dysfunctional vacation household gatherings into perspective.
The very best queer audiobooks of 2024, based on Audible.
E book Lists, E book Lists, E book Lists
Kids/Teenagers
8 books to offer your 4th and fifth grade readers all of the feels.
39 queer YA SFF books that ought to be in your radar.
17 YA books with the identical vibes as A24 films.
29 YA books assured to make you ugly cry.
5 books the place the actual horror is highschool.
19 YA books that present friendship tales are simply as highly effective as relationship tales.
Adults
7 books of speculative feminism written by ladies.
48 of one of the best books by ladies authors to learn in your lifetime.
5 romantasy novels that stability world-building with relationship-building.
7 historic thrillers filled with political intrigue.
The 25 most influential cookbooks from the final 100 years.
The very best Irish novels from the final 15 years.
10 of probably the most unique murders in thriller novels.
Books to assist perceive the rising variety of Latino voters who voted for Trump.
Cozy mysteries to learn proper now.
On the Riot
5 immigrant & refugee tales for youths.
8 books about transgender characters with a fortunately ever after.8 intelligent books about time touring by way of historical past.
5 sci-fi books about leaving Earth.
8 of one of the best debut thriller novels ever written.
8 of one of the best romances about returning residence.
5 SFF books set within the forest.
10 gripping true crime memoirs.
8 genre-blending books by Black authors.
8 paranormal horror novels to provide the creeps.
Stage Up (Library Reads)
Do you participate in Library Reads, the month-to-month checklist of finest books chosen by librarians solely? We’ve made it simple so that you can discover eligible various titles to appoint. Kelly Jensen has a information to discovering upcoming various books, and Edelweiss has a brand new catalog devoted to various titles, which is managed by Early Phrase Galley Chatter Vicki Nesting. Test it out!