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2025 Booklists and Resources Master List

Booklists and resources about annual observances/holidays, special events, social justice, and more. We've covered a wide range of topics for all age levels in 2025, so we've compiled them together for readers to find some great new books to enjoy and share. Don't miss out — subscribe to The Horn...
      

Ramadan

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The Islamic month of Ramadan is a solemn holiday of fasting, charity, and additional prayer, culminating in the joyous feasting of Eid al-Fitr. Ramadan mubarak to those observing, and Happy Eid! We’d like to call your attention to archived reading suggestions from our friends at KitaabWorld, who used to review...
      

Happy Lunar New Year!

Lunar New Year begins today. Happy Year of the Horse! We wish all who are celebrating a new year full of joy and prosperity. Here is our Lunar New Year reading list with fiction and nonfiction books featuring the holiday for preschool, primary, intermediate, and older readers. All of the...
      

Everything We Never Had: Randy Ribay's 2025 BGHB Fiction Award Speech

One of the most frequent questions I get as an author is how I find the idea for each book. I usually have an origin story ready to go. It’s eloquent, linear, concise, and often…oversimplified. After all, how can we pinpoint the ­germination of an idea that’s been watered by...
      

Additional ALA Awards 2026

  Alex Awards [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] Sonita: My Fight Against Tyranny and My Escape to Freedom by Sonita Alizada (HarperOne/HarperCollins) Plum by Andy Anderegg (Hub City) Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen (Gallery/Simon) What Kind of Paradise by Janelle...
      

Fanfare 2025 Annotations

There’s nothing like a good library haul! Here’s mine, following the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine issue-to-press date. It’s the issue that begins our hundred-and-second year and contains all the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards speeches along with Fanfare, our annual annotated “best of” list that Notes from the Horn...
      

Reading for Diwali

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In honor of the Festival of Lights, here are some books about the celebration of Diwali along with picture books, fiction, and nonfiction by and about South Asian and South Asian American people. These books for young readers — all recommended at the time of their publication by The Horn...
      

Good sports

Football! Soccer! Swimming! Skateboarding! These seven novels ranging from early-to-upper middle grade cover many bases. See the Sports tag in the Guide/Reviews Database for even more. The Big Splash [Julia on the Go!] by Angela Ahn; illus. by Julie Kim Primary, Intermediate    Tundra    176 pp. 2/25    9781774882078    $12.99 e-book ed. ...
      

2024: The Year in Words and Pictures

On January 27, 2025, the Youth Media Awards were announced, as usual, during what was long known as the American Library Association’s Midwinter Conference (in recent years: LibLearnX). It seems likely that this was the last wintertime conference in that form. With so much upheaval and uncertainty (e.g., book bans,...
      

Review of The Strongest Heart

The Strongest Heart by Saadia Faruqi Middle School    Quill Tree/HarperCollins    384 pp. 3/25    9780063115859    $19.99 e-book ed.  9780063115897    $9.99 Thirteen-year-old Pakistani American Mohammad and his father move from Queens to Houston to stay with his aunt and cousin while his research scientist mother works in a refugee camp in Greece....
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