Looking for reading recs for LibraryReads? Well, look no further! Find our recommendations for the June LibraryReads list below. Reminder to get your votes in for the June list by May 1st!
🔗 Link to download the egalleys and find more info: bit.ly/4cxQnTy
Hey Library Workers! Happy Y'all Day!
Cover image of the April issue of BOOKLIST with text IN HONOR OF NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK READ THE APRIL ISSUE OF BOOKLIST FREE THE WEEK OF APRIL 19-25
In honor of #NationalLibraryWeek, we are opening up our April issue of Booklist to everyone from April 19-25. This issue has everything from our spotlights on picture books and health and wellness titles to (drumroll) our always popular "To Beach Their Own" list! Start reading now: bit.ly/3n2BDBb
I'm putting this into the universe. If Aspen Words and the Aspen Literary Festival need a fiction moderator. I am available. I went last year, and had a great time.
Book cover image collage of LibraryReads Top 10 Picks for May 2026
Congratulations to our newest LibraryReads picks for May 2026! These are the fresh new titles that public library workers in the USA voted for as top reading suggestions. You can find a print-friendly PDF at libraryreads.org.
book cover image collage for May 2026 Hall of Fame titles
Congratulations also to our May 2026 Hall of Fame picks by authors who have been voted for consistently by public library staff!
Book cover for The MARRIAGE REBOUND by Meka James. Pink and purple background with photo frames and a basketball pennant that says Cannons. Foreground: Two Black women sit on a purple couch cuddling. One is in light blue two piece leisurewear with long hair. The other is in jeans and a blue shirt that says Cannons, with a wrist cast. Next to her is a basketball
Just in time for the WNBA Draft and free agency wildness, I've got e-ARC of The Marriage Rebound by Meka James, a marriage-in-trouble Black sapphic romance between a professional basketball player and her wife. It follows last year's Love and Sportsball. Pub: 8/25/26 #booksky
BOOK LIST: Eliana Ramage recommended 5 books about women and space!
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Votes recorded on hr 7661 in House Committee for Education and Workforce Development’s markup.
HR 7551, the National book ban bill, has passed the markup and is being recommended to the House with amendment. Here’s who voted how.
This isn’t over. CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS NOW.
Illinois folks, if you haven't yet, go vote today. GO VOTE TODAY. Make good choices–we have quite a few of them (*not* Raja).
If the "federal scholarship" question is on your ballot, your vote is NO. That is the voucher question, masked as something entirely different.
#booksky, librarians are here with some awesome upcoming titles!
Hey #booksky, here are some great upcoming books!
I am looking forward to reading this one!!
Another one that I enjoyed immensely
Oh hey!!!!!! I truly loved this book, and I am so happy that it is almost out in the world!
We're fundraising for public libraries again! 📚This week, when you donate $15 USD or more to your public library, friends of a library organization, or the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, you'll receive a free audiobook credit 💓
Last year, we raised $55,000. How much will we raise this year? ⏬
It is so cool when one of the authors I've interviewed gets recognized. Congratulations Susanna Kwan on being a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel! www.penfaulkner.org/our-awards/t...
Me and this USA-SWE hockey stream are going to fight if it keeps skipping. I just want to watch womens sports
photo collage of March 2026 LibraryReads Hall of Fame titles
More books to love in March--this LibraryReads Hall of Fame list features books by authors whom public library staff vote for again and again! #BookSky
photo collage of book covers for LibraryReads Top 10 March 2026
Dear Readers' Advisory Librarians--Here are new forthcoming books to love and share with your patrons in March '26: the LibraryReads Top 10! An easy to print list can be found at libraryreads.org. #BookSky
A blue background. Text overlay reads: The 2026 Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction $2,500. Submissions now open. Deadline Feb 20. lambdaliterary.org/special-awards
Still open: The Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, in memory of the beloved activist and author, honors lesbian/queer-identified women and trans/gender non-conforming nonfiction authors with at least one published book.
Learn more and apply at www.lambdaliterary.org/special-awards
Top tier thread right here
Seahawks, baby!!
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
From left to right: Jessica Alba, Pedro Pascal, Karol G, Young Miko, David Grutman, Cardi B and Alix Earle
Jessica Alba, Pedro Pascal, Karol G, Young Miko, David Grutman, Cardi B and Alix Earle attend #SuperBowl LX (Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)
heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
I loved the Bad Bunny halftime show!!
I saw Stereophonic the other day. It is a very long show, but I liked it. The set is phenomenal, and the human messiness is intriguing. How do I petition the merch crew to make a sticker or magnet of the 4 rules of engineering? It is on a mug, but I have so many mugs, and that would rock on a magnet