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With the overwhelming array of events scheduled for ALA’s upcoming annual conference in Chicago, we wouldn’t blame you if you just couldn’t decide where to begin. Need some suggestions? How about taking in a few of the events where Booklist editors serve as judges, moderators, interviewers, or organizers? From award ceremonies to in-booth chats, we’ve never [...]

When you’re a teenage assassin, high-profile hits are par for the course. But when that high-profile hit has a pretty daughter, it’s time to ask some questions. Michael Cart thinks this first book in a promised action thriller series will have teen readers “clamoring for more.”

Today’s MM BTT combines two of this month’s overarching themes: mysteries, (in case you’ve been hiding under a mossy rock), and our May 15th Spotlight on Sf/Fantasy. What doesn’t Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season contain, according to Donna Seaman’s review and Story behind the Story feature? The Booklist high-demand, starred review predicts many exciting things [...]

My absence last week was no mystery: I was moving, into an apartment that reminds me of Nick and Nora Charles’ in The Thin Man. I say this because it’s a spacious pre-war place, not (as a wisecracking reader suggested) because its bar is so fully stocked. (Mrs. Graff and I do enjoy a cocktail, but we have [...]

Today’s Mystery Month book trailer might be better titled “(Everything but) Lost,” but I find it effective nonetheless. For the final book in Bolton’s Lacey Flint trilogy, St. Martin’s has squished together trailers for the first two books in the series (Now You See Me, Dead Scared) and popped in a frame at the end [...]

Here’s a brain teaser for you: in the far-flung future, a human detective teams up withan android to solve a homicide. Is this a mystery novel, or is it science fiction? The great thing about Isaac Asimov’s The Caves of Steel (1954) is, no matter how many times you read it, and no matter how [...]

Mystery month continues at BTT with one of crime fiction’s reigning kings. Could Harlan Coben add an award for book trailers to his already sagging mantel? Here’s the trailer for his latest, Six Years. Once you figure this whole thing out, let’s do something for that ring around the collar.

It’s Mystery Month at Booklist, and Book Trailer Thursday is cashing in on the action. Setting the bar high for production value AND bleakness, here’s the short-film trailer for John le Carré’s A Delicate Truth. Check back all month for more!

Right up there with “flushing the toilet with the bathroom door closed (because you could get sucked in!),” “the dark” is among the most common, very rational childhood (or adulthood, no judgment here) fears. What’s Lemony Snicket got to say about it? Are you sure you wanna go down there, little Laszlo?

We’re excited to announce the shortlisted titles for this year’s Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Nonfiction and Fiction. The awards were established last year in cooperation with Booklist and Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), and they are made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The winner in each category [...]