Episode 24: Reading Glasses and Other Helpful Insights

Booklist's Shelf Care

On this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to the hosts of another podcast, Reading Glasses. Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant chat with Susan about reading wheelhouses, extol the virtues of the library, and encourage folks not to read books they don’t want to read. Then, Audio Editor Heather Booth shares the kinds of books that do not make the best-of lists, and Susan talks to Books for Youth’s Senior Editor Maggie Reagan about books for healing and books for fun. Here's what we talked about: The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel Circe, by Madeline Miller Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir Westport Public Library (CT) Ordinary Monsters, by J. M. Miro A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers Email me and we’ll read it on the show Thank You for Listening, by Julia Whelan, read by the author @Booklist_Audio on Twitter What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness—Lessons from a Body in Revolt, by Tessa Miller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, by Megan O’Rourke Birds of California, by Kate Cotugno Beach Read, by Emily Henry