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Letter from the Editor

Top of the List 2021

Adult Books

Adult Audio

Adult Books for Young Adults

Books for Youth

Youth Audio

Adult Nonfiction

High-Demand Hot List • Look for reviews of these high-demand titles in forthcoming issues of Booklist.

Top of the List Read-alikes Chasing Me to My Grave

Adult Fiction

Top of the List Read-alikes The Sentence

Self-Published Books Showcase

Graphic Novels

Top of the List Read-alikes And Now I Spill the Family Secrets

Top of the List Interview Harmony Becker

Youth Nonfiction

Carte Blanche • My Personal Best, an Octet

Continuing SERIES NONFICTION SHOWCASE

Inclusion for All • Lainoff’s dazzling debut reconceives The Three Musketeers to center a heroine and her disability

High-Demand Hot List for Youth • Look for reviews of these high-demand titles in forthcoming issues of Booklist.

Audio

Podcast Connection

Top of the List Listen-alikes A Master of Djinn

Nonfiction Series on Audio

Top of the List Listen-alikes Firekeeper’s Daughter

Booklist Backlist • Best Personal Reading, 2021