Booklist Reader

Published by Booklist, an imprint of the American Library Association. Booklist Reader features diverse book and audiobook recommendations, for readers and listeners of all ages. Filled with high-interest, themed lists that showcase books for your family or book discussion group.

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Booklist Reader

Top 10 Arts Books • These outstanding arts books deliver indelible tales of the creation of music, movies, drawings, paintings, street art, and Indigenous art traditions made new.

Band Together, Rock 'n' Roll • Music history is being enriched and electrified with a surge of books about rock bands and bands at the roots of rock ’n’ roll. These group portraits, memoirs, and biographies reflect the rich spectrum of artistry, personalities, adventures, struggles, and resilience that make rock music and its kin profoundly and universally influential.

Reading and Listening Together • Captivating in both print and audio, these books are guaranteed to inspire conversations in your book group and with family members and friends. For fiction readers and listeners, we recommend novels that have been turned into movies and TV series, retellings of myths and legends, Jane Austen tributes, and locked-room mysteries. For nonfiction fans, we celebrate animal intelligence instead of artificial intelligence. And for everyone who enjoys true stories, we have a selection of women’s memoirs.

Read-alikes Nobel Laureate Han Kang • Han Kang, whose new novel is We Do Not Part, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” She’s the first Korean and first Asian woman to do so. While her Korean readers have access to almost a dozen novels, story collections, poetry, and children’s titles, English-language readers currently have five titles to experience. While awaiting more, audiences might explore these read-alikes by Korean (thank you, translators!) and Korean American women writers whose works also explore historical reckoning, gender imbalance, societal failures, and mental-health challenges.

Grief in Relationships • Though there are stages to the process, everyone handles grief a little differently. Some people find solace in friends or family, some seek the comfort of strangers, some keep themselves and their feelings to themselves. These fictional accounts of loss and recovery are varied—ranging from heart-wrenching to thriller-adjacent to tearjerking to hilarious, but never maudlin—and each one has something unique to say about grief as it offers a balm to readers.

10 Questions Chloe Seagar • Chloe Seager is a literary agent at Madeleine Milburn and a published author. Her YA debut, Editing Emma, and the sequel, Friendship Fails of Emma Nash, were published with HQ in 2017 and 2018, and she has written several books for Scholastic. Open Minded is her adult debut, which she started writing after noticing a lack of fiction that represented her and her friends’ modern dating experiences. She currently lives in London with her boyfriend, cat, and fish.

Top 10 Relationship Fiction • The top 10 relationship fiction books of the year explore grief, redemption, motherhood, and societal ills in novels that are by turns humorous and heartrending, sometimes all at once.

Reserve These Reads Adult • Get your hands on these hotly anticipated books, all out this month.

March 2025 • The Top Ten Adult Fiction and Nonfiction Chosen Monthly by America’s Library Staff

HALL OF FAME TITLES • The LibraryReads Hall of Fame designation honors authors who have had multiple titles appear on the monthly list since 2013.

Trend Alert Cults on Audio • In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in books exploring the world of cults, spanning fictional...