Display trouble? View online. Forwarded from a friend? Subscribe today! #134 — November 1, 2019 • Featured Author • Adult Nonficon • Adult Ficon • Youth Nonficon • Youth Ficon We hope you enjoy this hand-picked selecon of recent Booklist Online Exclusive reviews. Want more? Accessing them is easier than ever—read more free reviews on Booklist Online! FEATURED AUTHOR: IAN MCEWAN English novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan masterfully pens tales that range from elegant, macabre short stories to enduring, psychologically probing novels, including Atonement, which was adapted into an Oscar Award-winning film in 2007. His latest novella, The Cockroach, takes the beginning of Kaa’s The Metamorphosis and reverses it: Jim Sams wakes up to discover that he is no longer a cockroach, but a man, specifically the Prime Minister of Great Britain. As Sams gains more power, the novella spirals into a thinly veiled sare on Brexit as well as other mely polical issues, resulng in a catharc read for those unsasfied with their elected The Cockroach officials. Pair this one with other books that offer By Ian McEwan relevant, searing commentary—such as Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments or Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House—or McEwan’s other tles below. Machines Like Me Nutshell The Children Act Sweet Tooth Solar On Chesil Beach BOOKLIST SEEKS REVIEWERS! We are looking for experienced reviewers in the Adult secon of Booklist in these areas: Ficon: Inspiraonal ficon, general ficon, historical ficon, romance, and crime. Please submit reviewing interests, resumes, and sample reviews to Donna Seaman, Adult Books Editor ([email protected]). Crime Ficon: cozies, historical mysteries, hard-boiled and noir, and literary ficon. Please submit reviewing interests, resumes, and sample reviews to Bill O, contribung editor ([email protected]). Nonficon subject areas: History: American and world history, biographies. Health & Medicine: narrave nonficon, including health memoirs, medical history, and health & wellness advice. Social sciences, polics, social jusce, including educaon, law, vong rights, race, women's rights, the environment. Science & Technology For all nonficon categories, please submit reviewing interests, resumes, and sample reviews to Donna Seaman, Adult Books Editor ([email protected]). READ MORE FREE REVIEWS —— on Booklist Online —— BOOKLIST ONLINE EXCLUSIVE REVIEWS Adult — Nonficon Social Sciences Science Cookery The Arts Cras & Hobbies ★ STARRED REVIEW Poetry Geography & Travel History Adult — Ficon General Ficon ★ STARRED REVIEW Crime Ficon ★ STARRED REVIEW Romance Youth Nonficon Science Technology Youth Ficon General Ficon ★ STARRED REVIEW Historical Ficon SF/Fantasy Scary Stories READ MORE FREE REVIEWS —— on Booklist Online —— WHAT IS A BOOKLIST ONLINE EXCLUSIVE REVIEW? Booklist Online exclusive reviews complement Booklist's already extensive print coverage, allowing us both to review some subject areas in greater depth and to weigh in more quickly on tles not released for review in advance of publicaon. Occasionally, we write new reviews of older books, too, to offer fresh perspecve on a familiar work. These tles are recommended, with qualificaons as noted, for purchase by public and school libraries; for further informaon, please consult the Booklist selecon policy. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! @ALA_Booklist @Booklist_Susan @Booklist_Ilene Booklist Publicaons Susan Maguire, Senior Ilene Cooper, Contribung Editor, Collecon Editor @Booklist_Donna Management and Library Donna Seaman, Editor, Outreach @Booklist_Briana Adult Books Briana Shemroske, @Booklist_Audio Markeng Associate @Booklist_Annie Heather Booth, Editor, Annie Bostrom, Associate Audio @Booklist_Grace Editor, Adult Books Grace Rosean, Markeng @Booklist_Bill Associate Bill O, Contribung Editor Manage your subscripons to Booklist e-mails here. If you no longer wish to receive certain newsleers or Booklist announcements, click here. To unsubscribe from all ALA communicaons, including Booklist e-mails, click here. Subscribe to Booklist magazine and get full access to Booklist Online American Library Associaon, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611 You are receiving this newsleer either because you subscribed to it or because you have expressed interest in Booklist, Booklist Online, or other publicaons of the American Library Associaon. We will not sell your e-mail to outside pares, although we may share it with other similar publicaons of the ALA. Your e-mail address may be shared with sponsors of this newsleer should you express interest in their products or content related to those products. If the sponsors choose to communicate with you by email, they are obligated to provide you with an opportunity to opt-out from future emails in compliance with governing laws. Read the ALA privacy policy here..