Previous Author Events

ALMA/LibraryReads ALA Annual 2023 Feel-Good Reads, Sat June 24, 2023
Gabriel Bump, The New Naturals (Hachette Book Group, Algonquin Books)
Sophie Diener, Someone Somewhere Maybe (St. Martin’s Griffin, Macmillan)
Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles (HarperCollins Publishers, Mariner)
Kennedy Ryan, The Kingmaker (Sourcebooks Bloom)

LibraryReads/ALMA  Your Morning is Booked, ALA Annual, Annual 2023 Monday, June 26, 2023
Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company)
Jean Kwok, The Leftover Woman (William Morrow, HarperCollins)
Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures (Algonquin Books, Hachette Book Group)
Anise Vance, Hush Harbor (Hanover Square Press, HTP Books)
C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Riverhead, Penguin Random House

LibraryReads/ALMA Nonfiction Author Panel ALA Annual, Saturday, June 25, 2022
Erika Hayasaki, Somewhere Sisters (Algonquin/Workman)                            
Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing (HarperCollins)  
Sarah Horowitz, The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All (Sourcebooks)
Margaret Sullivan, Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life (St. Martins) 
David Maraniss, Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe (Simon & Schuster)

LibraryReads/ALMA  Your Morning is Booked, ALA Annual, Monday, June 27, 2022
Ramona Emerson, Shutter (Soho Crime) 
Brian Freeman, The Zero Night (Blackstone) 
Rachel Harrison, Such Sharp Teeth (Berkley) 
Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Tordotcom Publishing) 
Gabino Iglesias, The Devil Takes You Home (Mulholland) 
Daniel Kraus, Wrath (Union Square & Co.) 

LibraryReads/ALMA Your Evening is Booked!, PLA, Thursday, March 24, 2022
Therese Anne Fowler, It All Comes Down to This (Macmillan) 
Kate Quinn, The Diamond Eye (HarperCollins) 
LaToya Watkins, Perish: A Novel (Penguin Random House) 
Stewart O’Nan, Ocean State (Ingram/Grove Atlantic) 
Vauhini Vara, The Immortal King Rao (Norton) 

“LibraryReads in Conversation: Actively Anti-Racist Readers’ Advisory“ recorded Friday, August 7, 2020
Featuring Robin Bradford, Annabelle Mortensen, and Becky Spratford.

LibraryReads Virtual BEA Author Interviews Video One
represents authors who would have been at our BEA 2020 evening event author panel:
Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl (Atria/Simon & Schuster)
Raven Leilani, Luster (FSG/Macmillan)
Emily Levesque, The Last Stargazers (Sourcebooks)
Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights (Grove Atlantic)
Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education (Del Rey/Penguin Random House) 

LibraryReads Virtual BEA Author Interviews Video Two
represents authors who would have been at our BEA 2020 author panel luncheon:
Jennifer Nansabuga Makumbi, A Girl is a Body of Water (Tin House, distributed by W.W. Norton) 
V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Tor/Forge) 
Brad Thor, Near Dark (Emily Bestler Books/Simon & Schuster) 
Bryan Washington, Memorial (Riverhead/Penguin Random House) 

LibraryReads/ALMA “Your Evening is Booked!” PLA 2020, Thursday, February 27, 2020
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half: A Novel (Riverhead) 
Katherine Center, What You Wish For (St. Martin’s Press) 
Leesa Cross-Smith, So We Can Glow (Grand Central Publishing) 
Odie Lindsey, Some Go Home: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company) 
Sam Tschida, Siri, Who Am I? (Quirk Books) 

Debut Author Panel, ALA Midwinter 2020 Saturday January 25, 2020
Betsy Bonner, The Book of Atlantis Black (Tin House Books) 
Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity (Simon & Schuster) 
Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine (Harper) 
Alli Frank and Asha Youmans, Tiny Imperfections (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 

Author Breakfast, ALA Midwinter 2020 Monday, January 27, 2020
Chris Bohjalian, The Red Lotus (Doubleday)
Amity Gage, Sea Wife (Knopf) 
Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel (Quirk) 
TJ Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea (Tor) 
Elisabeth Thomas, Catherine House (William Morrow)

LibraryReads/ALMA “Fiercely Female” Author Panel, ALA Annual 2019, Saturday, June 22, 2019
Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things: A Novel (Tin House Books) 
Sara M. Broom, The Yellow House (Grove) 
Kalisha Buckhanon, Speaking of Summer: A Novel (Counterpoint) 
Alicia Menendez, The Likability Trap (HarperBusiness) 

LibraryReads/ALMA BookTalk Author Breakfast ALA Annual, 2019, Monday, June 24, 2019
Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House (Flatiron/Macmillan) 
Amaryllis Fox, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA (Penguin Random House/Knopf) 
Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew (Simon & Schuster) 
Anne Gardiner Perkins, Yale Needs Women (Sourcebooks) 
Karine Jean-Pierre, Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America (Harlequin/Hanover Square Press)

LibraryReads BEA Author Reception, May 2019
Nefertiti Austin, Motherhood So White (Sourcebooks) 
Gary Janetti, Do You Mind If I Cancel?: (Things That Still Annoy Me) (Flatiron/Macmillan) 
Annalee Newitz, The Future of Another Timeline (Macmillan) 
ER Ramzipoor, The Ventriloquists (Park Row Books) 
Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys (Doubleday) 
Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone: A Novel (Riverhead Books) 

LibraryReads BEA 2019 Author Luncheon, May 2019
Blake Crouch, Recursion: A Novel (Ballantine Books) 
Philippa Gregory, The Tidelands (Washington Square Press) 
Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King: A Novel (Norton) 
Sara Quin, Tegan Quin, High School (MCD) 
Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again: A Novel (Random House) 
Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here (Ecco) 

LibraryReads Adult Author Breakfast, ALA Midwinter 2019, Monday, January 28. 2019
Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger: A Novel (Macmillan) 
Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics (HarperCollins) 
Helen Ellis, Southern Lady Code: Essays (PRH) 
Rachel Howzell Hall, They All Fall Down (Macmillan) 
Mallory O’Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon (Harlequin) 
Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Sourcebooks) 

LibraryReads Debut Adult Author Panel: ALA Midwinter 2019, Saturday, January 26, 2019
Juliet Grames, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna (HarperCollins) 
Angie Kim, Miracle Creek: A Novel (Macmillan) 
Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hachette) 
Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift: A Novel (PRH) 

LibraryReads ALA Annual Bookalicious Breakfast June 2018, Monday, June 25, 2018
Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables (William Morrow/HarperCollins) 
Kiese Laymon, Heavy, An American Memoir (Scribner/Simon & Schuster) 
Somayia Daud, Mirage (Flatiron Books/Macmillan) 
Tim Johnston, The Current (Algonquin Books/Workman) 
Leif Enger, Virgil Wander (Atlantic Monthly Press) 

ALA Annual “Best in Sci Fi/Horror and Fantasy Authors” ALA Annual 2018, June 23, 2018
Alex White, A Big Ship At the Edge of the Universe (Hachette Book Group/Orbit) 
Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear (Tor Books/Macmillan) 
Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (Crown/Penguin Random House) 
Alec Nevala-Lee, Astounding (Dey Street Books William Morrow/HarperCollins) 

LibraryReads  BookExpo Librarians Author Lunch, May 2018
Gina Apostol, Insurrecto (Soho Press) 
Esi Edugyan, Washington Black (Alfred A. Knopf/Penguin Random House) 
Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls (Quirk Books) 
Suketu Mehta, This Land Is Their Land (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Macmillan) 
David Small, Home After Dark (W.W. Norton) 
Lisa Unger, Under My Skin (Park Row/Harlequin) 

AAP/LibraryReads BookExpo Author Dinner, May 2018
Walter Mosley, John Woman (Atlantic Monthly Press) 
Marie Benedict, The Only Woman in the Room (Sourcebooks) 
Charlaine Harris, An Easy Death (Saga Press/Simon & Schuster) 
Casey Gerald, There Will Be No Miracles Here (Riverhead/Penguin Random House) 
Andre Dubus, III, Gone So Long (W.W. Norton) 
Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered (HarperCollins) 

AAP/LibraryReads BookTalk Breakfast At ALA Midwinter Feb 2018
Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words, (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster) 
Liam Callanan, Paris By the Book, (Dutton/Penguin Random House) 
Madeline Miller, CIRCE, (Little, Brown & Co/Hachette Book Group) 
Yunte Huang, Inseparable (Liveright/W.W. Norton) 
Sandra Dallas, The Patchwork Bride, (St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan) 
Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only, (William Morrow/HarperCollins) 

Book-a-licious Breakfast, ALA 2017, Monday, June 26, 2017
Xhenet Aliu, Brass: A Novel (Random House, Inc./Penguin Random House) 
Marie Benedict, Carnegie’s Maid (Sourcebooks/Landmark)
Elizabeth Berg, The Story of Arthur Truluv, (Random House, Inc./Penguin Random House) 
Betsy Carter, We Were Strangers Once (Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group) 
Tayari Jones, An American Marriage: A Novel (Algonquin/Workman Publishing) 
Gregory Scott Katsoulis, All Rights Reserved (Harlequin) 

AAP/LibraryReads BookExpo Adult Librarians’ Lunch, Thursday, June 1, 2017
Nancy Pearl, George & Lizzie (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster) 
Robin Sloan, Sourdough (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Macmillan) 
Gabrielle Union, We’re Going to Need More Wine (Dey Street Books/HarperCollins) 
Kate Moore, Radium Girls (Sourcebooks) 
Gabrielle Zevin, Young Jane Young (Algonquin/Workman Publishing) 
 Zoe Quinn, Crash Override, (Public Affairs/Hachette Book Group) 

AAP LibraryReads Bookalicious Breakfast At ALA Annual June 2016
Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten (St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan) 
Patricia Engel, Veins of the Ocean (Grove Press)  
Patrick Phillips, Blood At The Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (W.W. Norton) 
Shola Richards, Making Work Work: The Positivity Solution for Any Work Environment (Sterling) 
Brit Bennett, The Mothers (Riverhead/Penguin Random House) 
Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad/HarperCollins Publishers) 

AAP 10th Anniversary BEA Adult Librarians’ Dinner, May 2016
Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different (Little, Brown & Co)
Abby Wambach, Forward, William Morrow/Dey Street (HarperCollins) 
Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior: A Memoir (Flatiron Books/Macmillan) 
Paul Krueger, Last Call At the Nightshade Lounge: A Novel of Magic and Mixology (Quirk Books) 
Terry McMillan, I Almost Forgot About You (Crown) 
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo (Random House) 

Best in Debut Authors, PLA April 2016
Gina Wohlsdorf, Security (Algonquin) 
Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hachette) 
Alam Rumaan, Rich and Pretty (Ecco) 
Mona Ward, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl (Penguin Books) 

Please head to our Youtube channel to view videos our 2020 Virtual events!

“LibraryReads in Conversation: Actively Anti-Racist Readers’ Advisory” recorded 8/7/2020. Featuring Robin Bradford, Annabelle Mortensen, and Becky Spratford.