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All Episodes

Booklist's Shelf Care — 111 episodes

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Episode 48: Summer Scares 2026

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Episode 47: Three Conversations about Reading

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Episode 46: Editors' Choice 2025

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Episode 45: Once Upon a Fairy Tale Retelling

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Episode 44: A Tale of Two Sara(h)s

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Episode 43: Live from ALA!

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Episode 42: Why I Love Horror

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Episode 41: Summer Scares 2025

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Episode 40: It’s Not New (But It Sucks): Dealing with Book Bans from the Frontlines

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Episode 39: Editors' Choice 2024

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Episode 38: With a Little Help from Our Friends

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The Shelf Care Interview: Carole Boston Weatherford

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Episode 37: Book-Clubbable

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Episode 36: So. Many. Book. Suggestions.

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The Shelf Care Interview: The Creative Team Behind RIFTS AND REFRAINS

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After the Diversity Audit and Farewell, Maggie (sad emoji)

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Summer Scares 2024

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The Shelf Care Interview: Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic

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The Shelf Care Interview: Patricia Kreiser

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Episode 33: Memoirs, Author Visits, and Books Books Books

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Episode 32: Editors' Choice 2023

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Episode 31: Craft Books, Celebrity Memoirs, and Evil Hamburgers

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Shelf Care Interview: BonHyung Jeong

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Shelf Care Interview: Saadia Faruqi

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Shelf Care Interview: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

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The Shelf Care Interview: Jackson Lanzig and Collin Kelly

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Episode 30: Free People Read Freely: Banned Books Week 2023

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The Shelf Care Interview: DK Dyson and Rudy Gutierrez

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The Shelf Care Interview: Rachel Werner

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The Shelf Care Interview: Pedro Martín

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Episode 29: Cool People Talking about Cool Books

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The Shelf Care Interview: Kate Glasheen

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The Shelf Care Interview: Sarah Sax

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Episode 28: Summer Scares 2023!

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The Shelf Care Interview: Paul Gilligan

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The Shelf Care Interview: Jessixa and Aaron Bagley

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The Shelf Care Interview: Andrea Beaty and Bahni Turpin

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Episode 27: RA Training, The Audies, And Mothman

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The Shelf Care Interview: Heather Murphy Capps

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Episode 26: A Deep Dive into Book Groups

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Episode 25: Editors' Choice 2022

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Episode 24: Reading Glasses and Other Helpful Insights

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The Shelf Care Interview: Tameka Fryer Brown and Nina Crews

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Shelf Care Interview: Saadia Faruqi

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Episode 23: Personal Weeding and Personal Reading

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Shelf Care Interview: Svetlana Chmakova

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Shelf Care Interview: Daniel Minter

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Shelf Care Interview: Reimena Yee

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Shelf Care Interview: April Lavalle and Alex Boniello

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Episode 22: Book Banning and Book Suggesting

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Shelf Care Interview: Bao Phi

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Shelf Care Interview: Johnnie Christmas

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Episode 21: Spookier than a Clown in a Cornfield: Summer Scares 2022

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Shelf Care Interview: Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson

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Shelf Care Interview: Sajni Patel

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Episode 20: Reading the Reading List

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Shelf Care Interview: Jamar J. Perry

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Episode 19: Hyperlocal Streaming Music, Audiobook Awards, and Picture Books with Boots

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Episode 18: Editors' Choice 2021

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Episode 17: No Library is a TARDIS: Or, Why and How to Weed

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Shelf Care Interview: Dave Scheidt and Miranda Harmon

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Shelf Care Interview: Chris Barton

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Shelf Care Interview: Karla Valenti and Emma Otheguy

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Shelf Care Interview: Sara Pennypacker

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Episode 16: Don't Think about the Elephant! (RA for Non-RA Staff)

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Shelf Care Interview: Jeffrey Archer

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Shelf Care Interview: Nidhi Chanani

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Episode 15: Graphic Novels for Every Reader and Mother-Dog Summer

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Shelf Care Interview: Barry McGovern, Marcella Riordan, and Roger Marsh

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Shelf Care Interview: Olivia Matthews and Janina Edwards

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Shelf Care Interview: Raúl the Third

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Episode 14: Circ Stats, Bridgerton, and Other Library Business

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Shelf Care Interview: J. William Lewis

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Shelf Care Interview: Ally Carter

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Episode 13: This Book Is a Platypus (Summer Scares 2021)

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Shelf Care Interview: Traci Sorell

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Episode #12: Editors' Choice

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Shelf Care Interview: John Gallagher

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Shelf Care Episode #11: Games!

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Shelf Care Interview: Alex Sanchez

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Shelf Care Interview: Duchess Harris

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Shelf Care Interview: Aliza Layne and Gabby Rivera

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Shelf Care Interview: Macmillan Library Marketing Team

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Shelf Care Interview: Kim Johnson and Alex Aster

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Shelf Care Interview: John Patrick Green, Mike Curato, and Natalie Riess and Sara Goetter

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Shelf Care Episode #10: Socially Distant Programming

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Shelf Care Interview: Nancy Pearl

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Shelf Care Interview: V.T. Bidania

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Shelf Care Interview: Margaret Owen

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Shelf Care Interview: Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed

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Episode #9: Comics and Book Groups and Libraries, Oh My!

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Booklist Shelf Care Interview: Tracey Hecht

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Booklist Shelf Care Interview: Sabaa Tahir, Nicole Andelfinger, and Sonia Liao

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Shelf Care Episode #8: Shelf-Isolation

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Shelf Care Interview: Susan Muaddi Darraj and Siman Nuurali

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Shelf Care Interview: Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds on Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

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Shelf Care Interview: Irene Latham and Charles Waters on Dictionary for a Better World

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Episode #7: Size (and Format) Matters

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Shelf Care Interview: Chris Ferrie on the Everyday Science Academy series

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Shelf Care Interview: Irene Hannon on Starfish Pier

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Shelf Care Interview: Suzanne Woods Fisher on Two Steps Forward

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Episode #6: Editors' Choices

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Shelf Care Interview: Lynette Eason on Collateral Damage

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Shelf Care Interview: Irene Hannon on Dark Ambitions

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Episode #5: Cookbooks and the Apocalypse

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Episode #4: Body Horror, Bruce Springsteen, and Vampire Feelings

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Episode 3.5: Rebecca 'n' Rave

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Episode #3: Graphic 2 Ways

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Episode #2: To Beach Their Own

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Episode #1: It's a Podcast!

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Episode #0: Shelf Care Sneak Peek