Allie the Librarian Booktalks

Listen to Allie the Librarian booktalk her five favorite books of 2023!

Special guest Tok Star Librarian, Amanda Hunt, is booktalking YA and Middle Grade novels! She is bringing rom-com and feel-good stories with Of Princes and Promises by Sandhya Menon and Flight of the Puffin by Ann Braden. Booktalks you won't want to miss!

Special guest, Karina Quilantan-Garza, is booktalking comics and graphic novels! She is bringing some Image Comics faves such as Ice Cream Man and HAHA by W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Morazzo, illustrators Chris O'Halloran (Ice Cream Man) and Vanesa Del Rey (HAHA), Gabriel Hernandez Walta (HAHA), Roger Langridge (HAHA), and Zoe Thorogood (HAHA). 

Allie is booktalking YA novels and nonfiction A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, Some Other Now and The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person. 

Special Guest, Vilia Garcia, is booktalking YA Graphic Novel Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds and art by Danica Novgorodoff.

Special guest Stephanie Galvan Russell, AKA Lispy Librarian, is booktalking YA novel Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston. 

Booktalking debut YA Crime Fiction novel A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson.

We’re celebrating memoirs! We have an audiobook and a novel in verse that will leave with all the feels! Listen for a review of Hey Kiddo and Ordinary Hazards

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo, author of the Poet X. We’re talking about the beautiful character of Emoni Santiago. Qq8pWqrth92DHs2XDJqX

A Wilder Girls, Rory Power’s debut novel is the star of this show! Booktalking the unusual storyline and strong female characters.