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My Picks
Horowitz, Anthony. The House of Silk. Mulholland: Little, Brown. Nov. 2011. 320p. ISBN 9780316196994. $27.99. MYSTERY Great news, Sherlock Holmes fans! For the first time ever, the estate of Sir Arthur...
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Wyatt’s World: Creating RA Trilogies for Readers
With authors such as Anthony Horowitz and P.D. James picking up the threads of past masters, it is a good time to think about creating RA trilogies for readers. By daisy-chaining new, classic, and...
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Fiction from Dunn, Hazelgrove, Horowitz, Maxwell, Pérez-Reverte, & St. Aubyn...
Week ending October 24, 2014 Dunn, Matthew. Dark Spies: A Spycatcher Novel. Morrow. Oct. 2014. 384p. ISBN 9780062309464. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062309471. F In Dunn’s fourth novel (after Slingshot)...
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Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Are Dreaming Spies | RA Crossroads
As Lewis Carroll’s Alice so aptly points out, “What is the use of a book…without pictures or conversations?” Welcome to Readers’ Advisory (RA) Crossroads, where books, movies, music, and other media...
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Continuation Novels, Homages, and Other Ways To Revisit Beloved Characters |...
Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves and Wooster, and a zombie-plagued Elizabeth Bennet are but three of the characters brought back from their literary graves to be born again in the pages of a book. Here are five...
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What We’re Watching and… | What We’re Reading
In the week before the Academy Awards, and not too long after a cold spell and blizzard nearly did us in here in New York, I asked my “What We’re Reading” colleagues at LJ/School Library Journal two...
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Past Intrigue: Historical Mysteries | The Reader’s Shelf
Combining two genres—historical fiction and mystery—these books offer a walk through time and crime, via well-set novels that are abundant in detail, feeling, and clever plots. The second in Elly...
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Summer Escapes: Roll Out the Beach Towel with Some Genre Fiction
Vacation season is approaching, and readers will be contemplating their book lists as carefully as they plan their holidays. To help them find that perfect literary escape, LJ turned to genre fiction...
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June 2017 LibraryReads
Summer is on its way and the June LibraryReads list has a handful of great beach reads. New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh is back with a captivating new novel full of lust and betrayal....
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RA Back Pocket: Genre Fiction | Wyatt’s World
It’s been a good year for genre fiction, with notable series continuing strong and new titles breaking through and captivating readers. Highlighting the work of key authors, these five sure bets will...
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More from the Listen List Committee | The Reader’s Shelf
Judged by a committee of librarians, the Listen List had members narrowing a field of 58 nominated audiobooks to 12 winners. There were plenty of runner-up titles still worth attention. Here are seven...
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June 2018 LibraryReads
Step into summer with some wonderful new books for June’s LibraryReads. Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier will leave readers speechless with her riveting characters and gasp-inducing twists; New York...
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