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Check Your Shelf

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Welcome to Check Your Shelf! This is your guide to all things book talk worth knowing to help librarians like you up your game when it comes to doing your job (& rocking it).

“Check Your Shelf” is sponsored by LibraryReads.

LibraryReads, the monthly library staff picks list for adult fiction and non-fiction, draws upon the incredible power that public library staff has in helping to build word-of-mouth for new books, and the important role that libraries play in creating audiences for all kinds of authors.

LibraryReads represents collective favorites–the books that staff at public libraries loved reading and cannot wait to share. This is the 5th anniversary year of the LibraryReads list, so visit libraryreads.org to learn more about how you can nominate titles for the monthly list and to see what the organization has in store for the future.


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Do you take part in LibraryReads, the monthly list of best books selected by librarians only? Whether or not you read and nominate titles, we’ll end every newsletter with a few upcoming titles worth reading and sharing (and nominating for LibraryReads, if you so choose!).

We’ve made it easy for you to find eligible diverse titles to nominate. Kelly Jensen created a database of upcoming diverse books that anyone can edit, and Nora Rawlins of Early Word is doing the same, as well as including information about series, vendors, and publisher buzz.

And to make it even easier, I’ve picked a few specific titles that are being released in January 2019. Links direct you to Edelweiss, where you can request a digital advance copy, and nominations are due by October 20th.

  • An Indefinite Sentence by Siddarth Dube (January 8, 2019). “A revelatory memoir about sex, oppression, and the universal struggle for justice.”
  • Lives Laid Away by Stephen Mack Jones (January 8, 2019). “Detroit ex-cop August Snow takes up vigilante justice when his beloved neighborhood of Mexicantown is caught in the crosshairs of a human trafficking scheme.”
  • House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (January 29, 2019).  “A masterful, haunting debut set during the tumultuous beginnings of Zimbabwe that explores the creative—and often destructive—act of history-making.”

 

Thanks for hanging out and we’ll see you again in two weeks!

–Katie McLain, @kt_librarylady on Twitter. Currently reading Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer.