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Library News: February 2026
Hello everyone, I'm back with an updated look for the adult library newsletter, thanks to our marketing designer. I hope you like it! I'd love to hear from you about what information/resources you need from the library newsletter. Please email me with any feedback or suggestions.
This month, I have happy news about our ALA honors, ARCs to request, LibraryReads suggestions, webinar information, and a summer preview.
Thanks for reading,
Golda Rademacher, Library Sales & Marketing Director
Booklist Webinar Tomorrow
Join us for a Booklist Adult Faves webinar on Thursday, 2/5, at 2pm ET. The webinar will be recorded in case you need to catch up later.
ALA Awards/Lists!
Thank you so much to all the committees for their work on reading SO MANY books, picking winners, and creating lists.
ARCs to Request
Click here to request the ARCs that interest you or click on each jacket below for more information about that title.
LibraryReads Suggestions
LibraryReads is a monthly national staff picks list voted on by public library staff. Click here to learn how to participate. Click here to see all our monthly suggestion catalogs.
Votes for April titles due by March 1
- Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World, by Anne Enright (Norton): "Booker Prize–winning novelist Enright offers an eclectic gathering of 24 shrewd, acerbic essays—all but two previously published—ranging from memoir to literary and cultural criticism to takes on politics and society.... A witty, perceptive collection." - Kirkus Reviews
- A Room in Bombay: A Memoir, by Manil Suri (Norton): "a tender autobiography that unfolds primarily in the one-room Bombay flat where the author’s parents raised him.... Suri expertly parallels the apartment’s combination of claustrophobia and coziness with his conflicted feelings about his aging parents.... The result is a moving consideration of the ties that bind." - Publishers Weekly
- No Way Home: A Novel, by T.C. Boyle (Liveright): " None of the central characters emerges unscathed from Boyle’s piercing depictions of their transactional and self-serving behavior. This sharply observed novel will keep readers turning the pages." - Publishers Weekly
- Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life, by Alex Mayyasi and the hosts of NPR's Planet Money (Norton): From the world’s leading economics podcast comes an irresistible guide to the hidden world of everyday economics.
Votes for May Titles due by April 1
May is a really big month! I have 20 titles on our suggestion list. Here are some highlights.
- Look What You Made Me Do, by John Lanchester (Norton): Someone who requested the DRC wrote, "this sounds really messy, and I'm here for it." And to that I say, Yes. And throw in some revenge and social satire.
- The Arcadian: A Novel, by Steven Pressfield (Norton): The nature of war, a man and his horse. Across time, through lifetimes, the same figures return: comrades and rivals, lovers and betrayers, all reborn in new forms, bound together by a cycle neither mercy nor death can break.
- One Leg on Earth: A Novel, by 'Pemi Aguda (Norton): "a haunting, beautiful novel, written with exquisite care. A kind of horror story about the cost of 'progress' for a city, a culture, for a human soul. That horror is balanced by the potency of motherhood, its blessings and its trials. ‘Pemi Aguda writes like she knows magic and, based on this book, I believe it." - Victor LaValle, author of Lone Women
- The Devil and Mrs. Gooch: A Novel, by Oliver Darkshire (Norton): The devil has been enchanted by a new and enticing evil: the jackbooted Gwendolyn Gooch (last seen in Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil). But who can really trust the devil? Give this to your fans of humorous fantasy.
- The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh, by James Lasdun (Norton): We're planning to have him at PLA. "The Family Man is a meticulous, spotlessly written, and clear-eyed journey into a distinctly American morass of wealth, privilege, and power. It's also a morally responsible meditation on the tragedies left within the ruinous wake. James Lasdun doesn't allow us a moment's breath to flinch and look away." - Paul Tremblay, author of Horror Movie
ALMA Book Buzz Recording
