I asked people attending the American Library Association's 2025 annual conference what they were reading to bring you this book list!

This year's conference was in Philadelphia, PA. I hadn't attended in years, but jumped at the chance to attend one in one of my favorite cities.  Over 14,000 librarians, library workers, authors and vendors converged on the City of Brotherly Love, and here's what some of them are reading:
Charles Deyoe, Chester public librarian and creator of the excellent Unemployment Quest video game is currently reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson for a horror book club. He just finished rereading the classic Man-Thing comics.
Carla Hayden, the amazing former Librarian of Congress was walking the vendor floor between speaking to several hundred librarians at the conference, and doing a more intimate fire-side chat that night. She is reading Stacey Abrams' new book Coded Justice. "I'm going to be interviewing her soon so I'm catching up on her new book!" 
Anon Cadieux also used to work at the Library of Congress before going to work for Carnegie Science. He is reading  Dark Companion: The story of Matthew Henson by Bradley Robinson. it's about the first African American explorer to reach the North Pole among many other daring adventures.
Ben Bizzle, Founder and CEO of Library Market is reading Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. "I have a signed copy my wife gave me back home in a display case and I'm listening to the audiobook right now." The marketing maverick also just finished rereading Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha.
Dan Mazur (the illustrator of) and Stephen Weiner (the author of) Will Eisner: a Comic's Biography were doing a sample signing.  Dan was a little embarrassed: "I only read these on trains and planes, but I am reading Lee Child's No Plan B. I don't go to the beach, so instead of beach reads I have train reads when I'm doing the conference circuit." Stephen was reading Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms. "I like it a lot... in some ways it's pretty dated but he's such a good writer!"
Nick Bertozzi, the award-winning cartoonist signed and doodled in my copy of Karmopolis. He is reading Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad.  "Victory by him is great too. I've been on a Conrad jag of late!"
Sarah Myer,  Eisner-Nominated Comic Artist, Writer, and Colorist, signed and did a doodle in my copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures and told me she was reading The Littlest Fighter by Joey Weiser. She finished it on the train to ALA, "It has great art and a well crafted story about finding a greater purpose, and really using your talents to their fullest for good.
Ally Russell, author of the children's book It Came From the Trees, is listening to the audiobook of Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey. With "With the state of everything, I've been finding it difficult to really concentrate on the page, so audiobooks have been a great help in that respect." I couldn't agree more!
B. Dylan Hollis has brought his zany, and sometimes musical, antics in the kitchen to TikTok and YouTube, baking and then tasting some of America's best - and often most questionable -vintage recipes. I snagged a signed copy of his latest cookbook Baking Across America and asked him what you he was reading.
Key lime Sky by Al Hess isn't just a punny title: "It's about a pie reviewer in Wyoming and I highly recommend it!" Turns out there's also an alien invasion, romance, and of course... pie.
Mychal Threets is best known for his upbeat social media presence on Instagram and TikTok, bringing "unhinged library joy" to the masses! This is hist 2nd time at ALAAC, and he has been able to see more this time than last year.
He is really loving Sunrise on the Reaping, the latest Suzanne Collins Hunger Games prequel. But he wasn't done yet: Threets is also reading One of us Knows by Alyssa Cole, Jason Reynolds' Twenty-Four Seconds from Now, and is rereading Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood & Bone. 
Like this reading list? Check out my previous What Are You Reading? interviews!