I recently attended Book Expo America, an annual conference for booksellers, librarians, and others in the book industry. Held in New York City at a giant convention center, it’s a book lovers’ wonderland of authors and publishers showcasing their upcoming books. For someone like myself who rates authors right up their with rock stars, it’s an intense couple of days of fangirling and serious listmaking of new books that I simple MUST READ! Some of these just came out recently, some are due out later in the year, all look awesome. Let me spread the wealth by sharing a few so you can put them on your list:

Children’s Books:

• The Bad Mood and the Stick by Lemony Snicket
• I’m Just No Good at Rhyming by Chris Harris
• The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris
• Sarabella’s Thinking Cap by Judy Schachner
• We’re All Wonders by R. J. Palacio
• She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton

YA Books:

• Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart
• Landscape With Invisible Hand by M. T. Anderson
• The Big Lie by Julie Mayhew
• Jane Unlimited by Kristin Cashore
• Warcross by Marie Lu

Adult Books:

• Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford
• Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
• Vacationland by John Hodgman
• Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
• Endurance by Scott Kelly
• Obama: An Intimate Portrait – the Historic Presidency in Photographs by Pete Souza

Many of these books are listed in our catalog and can be placed on hold right away, some of them are too new to be in our catalog yet, but will be soon!