If you’re NPR fanatics like all of us here at I Love Libraries, you were most likely overjoyed to hear librarian, Reading Rainbow host, and honorary chair of this year’s National Library Week Mychal Threets on its quiz show, “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!,” this weekend.
“A win for adult horror fans and a surprisingly unique take on the haunted house story.” For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s book and media review publication, we have Jack Phoenix’s review of the trade paperback edition of the comic book, “Plague House,” written by Michael W. Conrad and illustrated by Dave Chisholm.
What do “The Karate Kid,” “Clueless,” “Before Sunrise,” and “The Big Chill” have in common (besides being great films that hold-up over multiple watches)? They’ve all been added to the National Film Registry for 2025 by the Library of Congress.
A children’s book enjoyed a spectacular trip around the world before coming home to a Virginia library 36 years after it was checked out.
The American Library Association has selected “A Guardian and a Thief” by Megha Majumdar as the winner of the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and “Things in Nature Merely Grow” by Yiyun Li as the winner of the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The selections were announced Tuesday, January 27.
The annual announcement of the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards is the biggest event of the year in the world of children’s publishing—and you can be there this January 26.
Award-winning author, journalist, essayist, and frequent I Love Libraries contributor Raj Tawney will release his first collection of essays, “Better the Next Day: On Food, Family, and the Memories We Leave Behind,” in fall 2027.
Libraries and schools across the country are experiencing unprecedented levels of attempts to ban or remove books from their shelves. I Love Libraries will continue to raise awareness by highlighting attempts to censor library materials, as well as efforts by librarians, parents, students, and concerned citizens to push back against them. This update includes news from Utah, Texas, and Ohio.
For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s nationally distributed book and media review publication, we have Sarah Hunter’s review of “Wake Now in the Fire,” written by Jarrett Dapier and illustrated by AJ Dungo, first published January 16, 2026, on Booklist Online.
In episode 29 of the “How I Library” podcast, show host and I Love Libraries editor Phil Morehart speaks with Thien Ho, District Attorney of Sacramento County, California, whose new book, “The People vs. the Golden State Killer” (Third State Books, 2025), documents the hunt for and prosecution of serial killer Joseph DeAngelo, aka the Golden State Killer.
