Readers’ advisory experts announce 2016 Reading List: Year’s best in genre fiction for adult readers

BOSTON—The Reading List Council has announced the 2016 selections of the Reading List, an annual best-of list comprised of eight different fiction genres for adult readers. A shortlist of honor titles was also announced. The list was announced today during the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting held in Boston. The 2016 selections are: Adrenaline Winner …

2015 Reading List announced: Year’s best in genre fiction for adult readers

CHICAGO—The Reading List Council has announced the 2015 selections of the Reading List, an annual best-of list comprised of eight different fiction genres for adult readers.  The list was announced today during the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting. The 2015 selections are: Adrenaline Winner “Broken Monsters” by Lauren Beukes (Mulholland Books) Detroit serves as the economically battered …

BREAKING NEWS: RUSA’s 2014 Reading List Announced: Librarian’s top picks in adrenaline, mystery, romance, sci-fi, women’s fiction and other genres

PHILADELPHIA—The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has announced its selections for the The Reading List Book Council Award List. Established in 2007 by the CODES section of RUSA, The Reading List seeks to highlight outstanding genre fiction that merit special attention by general adult readers and the librarians who work with them. The 2014 …

Shortlist for 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Shortlist Nonfiction “The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice,” by Patricia Bell-Scott, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Penguin Random House LLC. Bell-Scott meticulously chronicles the boundary-breaking friendship of Pauli Murray and Eleanor Roosevelt, …