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New year, new books… and a new season of Morning Book Buzz! Jen, Kate, and Miriam kicked off season 5 with their 1st reads for 2024—and thanks to our lively audience chat, we found out some librarians’ 2024 reading picks, too!

Check out the full January episode, title lists, links shared, reading resolutions from the chat, and more!

Public library staff across the nation have spoken! Congratulations to the books selected for the February 2024 LibraryReads Top Ten List.

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.

Request eGalleys of some of our favorite March titles, and if you love the books, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads! Remember, voting for the March list ends on 2/1.

From debut author Nishita Parekh, a fresh take on the classic locked-room thriller, about a multigenerational Indian American family marooned in a house with a murderer during Hurricane Harvey.

A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love—and life—she’s been looking for in this stunning novel from the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December.

With starred reviews from publications including Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal—your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about.

Clever, layered, and subversive, Ariel Lawhon’s newest offering introduces an unsung heroine who refused to accept anything less than justice at a time when women were considered best seen and not heard.

It’s all about empathy. As Booklist shares, “Across this year’s wide-ranging ‘best’ selections, from historical fiction to contemporary satire and personally insightful nonfiction, these productions are unified by an element so vital to audio: empathy. Narrators who empathize with their subjects and convey that in such a way that listeners can sink deeper into understanding another’s perspective are the best of what audio offers us.”

“This year’s list demonstrates some of the best production techniques, full casts, and thoughtful adaptations from print to audio for young listeners.”