‘How I Library’ Episode 34: Min Jin Lee
In episode 34 of the “How I Library” podcast, show host and I Love Libraries editor Phil Morehart speaks with author Min Jin Lee about her new book, “American Hagwon.”
Book Review of the Week: ‘Monster Down Deep’
For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s nationally distributed book and media review publication, we have Chelsea Collier’s review of “Monster Down Deep” by Amy Fellner Dominy.
U.S. Book Challenges Update: June 2026 Edition
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 Massachusetts and Utah and a look at how a superstar pop singer is fighting book bans.
Book Review of the Week: ‘Jazz June: A Self-Portrait in Essays’
For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s nationally distributed book and media review publication, we have Michael Autrey’s review of “Jazz June: A Self-Portrait in Essays” by Clifford Thompson.
Marjane Satrapi, author of ‘Persepolis,’ dies at 56
Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author of the acclaimed graphic novel “Persepolis” and director of the film adaptation which was nominated for an Oscar in 2008, died June 4 at age 56. Her work documented personal, cultural, and institutional struggles and was an unintended player in the fight for the freedom to read.
Book Review of the Week: ‘All That’s Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir’
For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s nationally distributed book and media review publication, we have Carrie Rasak’s review of “All That’s Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir” by Emilee Hackney.
Booklist Reader: Holy Whodunits!
Some detectives seem to have a divine calling to solve mysteries. Join ALA’s Booklist as they highlight a wide assortment of excellent mystery books built around religious themes set in interesting places and times.
Book Review of the Week: ‘So Young, So Great: Bob Feller Electrifies Baseball and America’
For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s nationally distributed book and media review publication, we have Alan Moores’s review of “So Young, So Great: Bob Feller Electrifies Baseball and America” by Jim Ingraham.
Book Review of the Week: ‘A Hell of a Regiment: To Gettysburg and Beyond with the Twentieth Maine’
For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s nationally distributed book and media review publication, we have Dominic J. Caraccilo’s review of “A Hell of a Regiment: To Gettysburg and Beyond with the Twentieth Maine” by Jared Peatman.
Book Review of the Week: ‘Under the Falls’
For this installment of our weekly book reviews from Booklist, the American Library Association’s nationally distributed book and media review publication, we have Carol Haggas’s review of “Under the Falls” by Richard Russo.