Our 2025 Best Books list is live!!! #sljbestbooks
At 193 titles, our biggest Best Books yet. Find them here, along with Best Books lists for the past six years.
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Among this year’s outstanding listens—with publication dates from November 2023 to October 2024—are two picture books, two volumes of a graphic trilogy (they count as one entry), a head-smack must-read history, and several laugh-out-loud novels.
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As the medium continues its meteoric rise, 2024 marked the debut of SLJ's first-ever Best Books committee dedicated exclusively to manga. These 22 standout titles offer something for readers of all ages and interests, redefining what belongs on K–12 shelves—and why.
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Gripping fantastical journeys, family secrets, unbridled joy: in these pages, tweens are facing it all. These 26 middle grade titles are exemplars across genre of the power of truth telling and embracing one's authentic self, even when it seems impossible.
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Cozy fantasies, immigration stories, and reimagined classics—2024’s Best Graphic Novels list isn’t just a collection of 25 unforgettable reads, it’s a showcase of comics that push storytelling to new heights.
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The best poems educate with their facts and inspire with their beautiful flow of words. These 11 titles contain poems that do both exceptionally for young readers of all ages.
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SLJ's 2024 best middle & HS nonfiction selections run the gamut from insightful memoir to unrelenting exposures of dark times in our world's sociopolitical history—and the crucial lessons we must learn from the past.
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Best Nonfiction Elementary 2024
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Whether portraying a home in the south of Korea or a neighborhood where more than small things are mended, the 2024 best picture books celebrate how those working together are the models for humanity we want our children to witness.
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From moving tales in verse to romantic romps to stories of monsters both real and fantastical, these 25 YA novels represent the best of teens living, loving, surviving, and thriving in worlds and times that do not always accept them.
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SLJ Best Books cover 2024 by Ekua Holmes picturing African American girl atop father's shoulders with stars in the background
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Best Transitional Books 2024
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These 26 middle grade titles are exemplars across genre of the power of truth telling and embracing one's authentic self, even when it seems impossible.
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It’s almost time for SLJ’s Best Books 2024, and it’s our biggest Best Books list yet!
The rollout begins November 19. Be there!
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The @sljournal 2024 Best Books list drops next week! Want a behind the scenes look? Join me, Jasmine Amiri, Florence Simmons, and Shelley Diaz on 11/25 to discuss all things #SLJBestBooks Register: www.slj.com/event/behind...
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