Library mates, I’m again with one other roundup of hyperlinks to maintain you on the high of your studying, assortment growth, and show video games. We’ve assets that can assist you clean up your Satisfaction Month shows, audiobook information, the best concept in library design historical past, and an AI model of Agatha Christie. (I want I had been kidding about that final one.) So let’s bounce in!

Satisfaction Month Show Assets

• 5 new lesbian memoirs & biographies.
• 54 must-read LGBTQ+ YA books by BIPOC authors.
• 9 books that middle asexuality.
• 6 queer YA books about nerdy hobbies.
• 13 Bi4Bi romance novels.
• 10 must-read trans ladies and transfeminine authors from the UK.
• 5 wonderful sapphic romances.
• Deliciously queer YA foodie romances.
• 6 LGBTQ+ romances set in small cities.

New & Upcoming Titles

• Gillian Anderson publicizes an “much more daring” follow-up to her best-selling assortment of sexual fantasies.
• Diana Gabaldon has revealed the title for the tenth Outlander ebook, which would be the final within the sequence.
• Don Winslow has come out of retirement to publish a brand new assortment of quick novels, which might be launched this fall.
• Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben have teamed as much as write a brand new thriller.

RA & Style Assets

• The age of style bending, mixing, and juxtaposing.
• A reader’s information to Colleen Hoover’s books, so as.
• Romance books are again, and mothers are obsessed.
• The place to start out with Virginia Woolf.

All Issues Comics

• 7 graphic memoirs about motherhood.
• 6 compelling comics about battle.
• 7 genre-bending graphic novels and comics.
• 6 new manga sequence to make your library assortment even greater.

Audiophilia

• Simon & Schuster is publishing new celebrity-narrated audiobooks of Ray Bradbury’s novels.
• Audible is increasing its catalog with AI narration and translation providers.
• The Court docket of Thorns and Roses sequence is getting new audiobook variations in honor of the sequence’ tenth anniversary.
• 10 can’t-miss audiobooks by indie authors.
• Give the reward of knowledge with these audiobooks for highschool and school graduates.
• 8 wonderful thriller sequence to take heed to on audio.
• The right way to report customized audiobooks for youths with Yoto.

Books & Authors Within the Information

• Agatha Christie’s property has given the go-ahead to create a grasp class in writing taught by an AI-enhanced model of Christie. We talked about this on Learn or Useless, and I simply don’t perceive how there’s a marketplace for this kind of factor. It appears soulless and pointless.
• Authors say they had been misled by a Baltimore ebook pageant as occasion organizers promise refunds. The A Million Lives E book Competition is now being known as “the Fyre Fest of ebook festivals” which is saying…a LOT.
• Frederick Backman says his newest ebook may very well be his final.
• Mr Beast’s new ebook will flip literature into clickbait.
• Why everybody’s speaking about Dani Francis’ dystopian novel, Silver Elite: the controversy behind BookTok’s new dystopian sensation.

Bookish Curiosities & Miscellaneous

• How millennials and Gen-Zers are placing artistic twists on ebook golf equipment.
• Jean Hanff Korelitz, creator of The Plot and The Latecomer, has some suggestions for beginning and sustaining a thriving ebook membership.

And Lastly…

The South Dade Regional Library in Miami is present process renovations, which is able to embody the addition of a “Catio” adoption lounge in partnership with Miami-Dade County Animal Providers.

That is the best concept I’ve ever heard of, however I don’t assume I may work at this library, as a result of I might actually not have the ability to get something performed. I might spend on daily basis within the Catio. Do you assume I may train the cats to approve timesheets and run shelf verify lists?

The next involves you from the Editorial Desk.

It’s Satisfaction Month, and whereas we have a good time queer literature right here all yr lengthy, we go particularly rainbow daring in June. This week, we’re excited to try the favourite queer books of beloved queer authors.

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It’s Satisfaction month, which is the proper excuse to purchase and browse a bunch of queer books. One technique I actually get pleasure from for locating new books is to take the suggestions of my favourite authors. Carmen Maria Machado hasn’t led me astray but. Sadly, I don’t have these authors on pace dial, however fortunately, they normally have shared their suggestions publicly.

Under I’ve put collectively queer ebook suggestions from 11 beloved queer authors. Some are from interviews the place they mentioned their favourite books, and others are ebook blurbs. Each the authors’ works and the books they suggest cowl a large spectrum of genres and codecs, together with graphic novels, literary fiction, poetry, biographies, horror, sci-fi, YA fantasy, and extra, so there’s one thing for each type of reader.

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