2020 ALA Galleys

I told myself that I wasn’t going to pick up too many galleys when I stopped by the ALA Midwinter Conference. I ended up bringing home more than 50 new books! I’m not sure what happened. I’d walk past a publisher’s booth and then see a new book by an author I love and just have to pick it up. I’m also a sucker for a beautiful cover! I know you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but I still do.

So now most people ask what I plan on doing with them all. The short answer is to read them. I organized everything into a spreadsheet with title, author, illustrator (if applicable), publisher, and publication date. Now, I’ve got a way to track what I have on my bookshelves and hope to read them all by June. Keep an eye out for a lot of great reviews coming soon!

Picture Book Titles

• All the Way to the Top: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything by Annette Bay Pimentel
• Ohana Means Family by Ilima Loomis
• Over in the Woodland by Nicole and Shar Abreau
• Free For You and Me by Christy Mihaly
• No More Naps! by Chris Grabenstein
• In My Garden by Charlotte Zolotow
• Grandpa Grumps by Katrina Moore
• How Do You Feel? by Lizzy Rockwell
• Bedtime for Superheroes by Katherine Locke
• What Could That Be? by Reza Dalvand
• Rita and Ralph’s Rotten Day by Carmen Agra Deedy

Chapter Book Titles

• Baloney and Friends by Greg Pizzoli
• Lily to the Rescue by W. Bruce Cameron
• The Big Race Lace Case: Mack Rhino, Private Eye by Paul DuBois Jacobs and Jennifer Swender

Middle Grade

• Diana, Princess of the Amazons by Shannon Hale & Dean Hale
• King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callendar
• Itch by Polly Farquhar
• The Derby Daredevils: Kenzie Kickstarts a Team by Kit Rosewater
• Brightstorm by Vashti Hardy
• The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blackman
• Wink by Rob Harrell
• The Queen Bee and Me by Gillian McDunn
• How to Make Friends with the Sea by Tanya Guerrero
• The Magic In Changing Your Stars by Leah Henderson
• Love, Love by Victoria Chang
• Nat Enough by Maria Scrivan
• Music for Tigers by Michelle Kadarusman
• Into the Tall, Tall Grass by Loriel Ryon
• Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson
• It Sounded Better In My Head by Nina Kenwood (YA)
• The Space Between Lost and Found by Sandy Stark-McGinnis
• Lifting As We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne
• A Sporting Chance: How Ludwig Guttman Created the Paralympic Games by Lori Alexander
• A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
• Keep It Together, Keiko Carter by Debbi Michiko Florence
• The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates by Jenny Pearson
• Think for Yourself: The Ultimate Guide to Critical Thinking in an Age of Information Overload by Andrea Debbink and Aaron Meshon
• One Last Shot by John David Anderson
• After the Worst Thing Happens by Audrey Vernick
• Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai
• Every Missing Piece by Melanie Conklin
• Quintessence by Jess Redman
• The Colossus of Roads by Christina Uss
• Sara and the Search for Normal by Wesley King

Young Adult Titles

• The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp
• Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed
• 10 Things I Hate About Pinky by Sandhya Menon
• Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
• Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
• Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica Pennington
• You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson
• Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
• The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert
• Above All Else by Dana Alison Levy
• My Summer of Love and Misfortune by Lindsay Wong
• Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

What’s awesome is that a lot of the books I’ve wanted to read for 2020, I was able to pick up this weekend so that makes my reading life just a little bit easier!