Booklist Reader

Published by Booklist, an imprint of the American Library Association. Booklist Reader features diverse book and audiobook recommendations, for readers and listeners of all ages. Filled with high-interest, themed lists that showcase books for your family or book discussion group.

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Booklist Reader

Top 10 Health & Wellness Books • These top health and wellness titles delve into a range of subjects from stress reduction to weight-loss drugs to the dramatic story of tuberculosis.

Caregiving and Self-Care • Caring for loved ones struggling with disease, advanced age, or both takes a toll, as do so many aspects of life. These candid, informative, practical, and inspiring memoirs and guides address the demands on caregivers and the need for self-care for everyone.

Top 10 Sports Books • These 10 sports books observe nearly every aspect of human life through lenses of history, equality, and extraordinary individual athleticism.

Fun and Games • From chess to Dungeons & Dragons to Pokémon GO, games bring people together in competition and, ideally, fun. From the most rudimentary board games to tech-heavy video games, these creative marvels stretch our brains while keeping us entertained. The following books about games delve into their history and impact, make the case for play, and will inspire curiosity and deeper thinking about what we do with our leisure time.

10 Questions Stella Hayward • Stella Hayward is a pseudonym for Rowan Coleman, the internationally best-selling and award-winning author and screenwriter of sixteen novels, including The Memory Book, The Summer of Impossible Things, and The Girl at the Window. A lifelong Brontë fan, under the Brontë inspired pen name Bella Ellis, Rowan also writes the Brontë​ Mysteries—a carefully researched series of novels that imagine that before they were famous the Brontë Sisters were amateur detectives.

Dog Tales • Dogs are such sensitive, smart, and loving companions, full of joy and stubbornness, yearning and mischief. Each of these novels celebrate dogs and what they bring to their humans, whether the story is a serious one of crises and loss or a clever, charming rom-com.

Imaginary Book Clubs • Book clubs inspire novelists to create relationship fiction, romances, historical fiction, cozy mysteries, and stories of friendship.

Suspenseful Fiction with Multiple Viewpoints • Like Giovana Madalosso’s tense and immersive The Tokyo Suite, these works of fiction, some of which have been translated from their original languages, tell stories from multiple, sometimes unreliable viewpoints; subtly (or not-so-subtly) unwind knots of class and gender; and keep pages turning with high-stakes suspense.

Top 10 Book-Group Books • From topical nonfiction to the story of a café operated by giant cats, these books offer book groups of all stripes much to discuss.

Adult • Get your hands on these hotly anticipated books, all out this month.

August 2025 • The Top Ten Adult Fiction and Nonfiction Chosen Monthly by America’s Library Staff

HALL OF FAME TITLES • The LibraryReads Hall of Fame designation honors authors who have had multiple titles appear on the monthly list since 2013.

PBS BOOKS Program Highlights

Top 10 Book-Group Books on Audio • This year’s list of discussable titles on audio is heavy on short stories and full casts—two elements that can make an audiobook listener out of the most devoted print reader.

Walking Audiobook Club Suggestions • Author and librarian Van Hoang’s walking audiobook club is a great way to get some fresh air, meet with friends, and share favorite listens. Monthly, club members take to a local walking path to talk about books they’ve loved. Jumpstart your own audiobook walking club with these...