Booklist's Shelf Care

Seems like you can’t swing a weeded book these days without hitting a true crime podcast. But having a large swathe of our communities so engaged with a narrative—that’s good news for libraries, because we traffic in helping folks find their next obsession. But it ain’t all true crime; this episode also touches on another kind of graphic storytelling—the graphic novel, and why they’re so important to libraries. Truly, this episode contains multitudes. You can find the full show notes, with links to Booklist reviews where available, at www.booklistonline.com/shelf-care. Here’s what we talked about: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. By John Carreyrou. A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America. By Christian T. Miller and Ken Armstrong. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer. By Michelle McNamara. The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir. By Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich. My Friend Dahmer. Written and illustrated by Derf Backderf