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4 weeks ago | 
fivebooks.com | Tony Keith Jr. |Nick Brooks |Ryan La Sala |Elizabeth Acevedo
Here we bring you a roundup of winners of top audiobook awards for teens and young adults of recent years. These audiobook productions have all been singled out for their great storytelling, from the artistry of verse novels performed by the author to full-cast adaptations of graphic novels.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | Elizabeth Acevedo |Mahogany L. Browne |Olivia Gatwood |James Robinson
Poet Browne (Vinyl Moon) delivers a mournful remembrance of those who died during the pandemic in this love letter to New York City and its resilient teen population as they adjust to a changed world. Beginning with “Chorus: Wild Fire,” Browne introduces best friends Electra and Hyacinth, two “Trini-to-the-bone” city girls who lament unkindness while bolstering their own benevolent attitudes in the face of world tragedy.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Angie Thomas |Stephen Chbosky |Elizabeth Acevedo |Laurie Anderson
The setting is usually contemporary, with social dynamics that readers recognise. It doesn’t mean that the action has to be mundane. There can be romance or mystery or adventure within realistic fiction. The key is that the story is easy to relate to. Characters encounter problems that we — the readers — might be grappling with ourselves, and the choices those characters make can help us reflect on our own lives.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
bookweb.org | Thao Thai |Clemence Michallon |Elizabeth Acevedo |Angie Kim
Jun 05 2024 The Summer 2024 Reading Group Guide Preview Printer-friendly versionThe American Booksellers Association’s Summer 2024 Reading Group Guide will continue as a free e-newsletter delivered to customers by email via Matchbook Marketing. This Summer's guide will be sent on August 8. This guide includes the following categories: Dazzling Debuts, Family & Coming of Age, Historical Fiction, Other Worlds, and Thrills & Chills.
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May 7, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | June Hur |Elizabeth Acevedo
Poignant and real, beautiful and intense, this story of a girl struggling to define herself is as powerful as Xiomara’s... Poetry helps first-generation Dominican-American teen Xiomara Batista come into her own.
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Jan 7, 2024 | 
rosemarymaccabe.substack.com | Elizabeth Acevedo |Rebecca Yarros |David Sedaris |Kate Stewart
It was at the end of October, a few days before Halloween – before the first snow of winter, a snow that would be early, but fleeting, just snowy enough to make trick-or-treating a freezing-cold affair, but not snowy enough to last the night – when I realised that I had no chance of reaching the year’s reading target. I’d set myself a goal of reading 100 books by the end of the year, but with just two months to go I was only at 31, a number that seemed pitiful by any measure.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
hitha.substack.com | Elizabeth Acevedo
Over email, an acquaintance shared this powerful op-ed and posed 4 big questions from it to us, along with her answers:What crossroads are you at? If the next five years is a chapter in your life, what is the chapter about? Can you be yourself where you are and still fit in? What would you do if you weren’t afraid? In an effort to hold onto my humanity during these times, I’ve been spending more time offline having thoughtful, deeper conversations with my friends and loved ones.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
kqed.org | Abraham Verghese |Elizabeth Acevedo |James McBride |Rebecca Makkai
Beth Novey Dec 7 Failed to save article Please try again ‘Biography of X’; ‘The Covenant of Water’; ‘Family Lore’; ‘The Guest’; ‘Happy Place’; ‘The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store’; ‘I Have Some Questions for You’; ‘The Postcard’; ‘The Reformatory’; ‘The Vaster Wilds’; ‘The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck’, ‘Mutiny and Murder’; ‘Yellowface.’ (NPR) I’ve worked on Books We Love — NPR’s annual, year-end books guide — for a decade, and one of my favorite parts of the process each year is getting a sneak...
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
knkx.org | Beth Novey |Abraham Verghese |Elizabeth Acevedo |James McBride
I've worked on Books We Love — NPR's annual, year-end books guide — for a decade, and one of my favorite parts of the process each year is getting a sneak peek at what my co-workers read in their free time. Who's into poetry? Who reads tons of YA? Who's all nonfiction all the time? It's fun to spot trends and see which books get nominated over and over again. Here are a dozen titles pared down from a list that our staffers and critics were particularly eager to tell you about in 2023.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
wesa.fm | Beth Novey |Abraham Verghese |Elizabeth Acevedo |James McBride
I've worked on Books We Love — NPR's annual, year-end books guide — for a decade, and one of my favorite parts of the process each year is getting a sneak peek at what my co-workers read in their free time. Who's into poetry? Who reads tons of YA? Who's all nonfiction all the time? It's fun to spot trends and see which books get nominated over and over again. Here are a dozen titles pared down from a list that our staffers and critics were particularly eager to tell you about in 2023.
