100+ Starred Reviews (in 3 years)

100+ Starred Reviews (in 3 years) LQ Celebration

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Today we celebrate a milestone: +100 starred reviews in 3 years!

If you want to get technical, we have 102 starred reviews. Two new stars arrived in the time we started this post. From our launch in August 2020, we’ve maintained a list of our starred review titles. Since then, our list has grown to almost 80 titles and over half of those books have garnered starred reviews. Find them sorted by year: 2020, 2021, and 2022 (so far).

Three years is a relatively short time in publishing years, and that’s why this is so meaningful. Thank you to the artists, writers, and translators we get to work with. Thank you to the trade journals. And Thanks to our distribution partner Chronicle Books and the entire LQ family.

A is For Bee ★ by Ellen Heck
A Snake Falls to Earth ★★★ by Darcie Little Badger
Alien Nation ★ by Sandro Bassi
Apple (Skin to the Core) ★★★★ by Eric Gansworth
Aviva vs. The Dybbuk ★★★ by Mari Lowe
The Big House and the Little House ★ by YoshiUeno, EmikoFujishima (Illustrator)
The Days of Bluegrass Love ★★ by Edward van de Vendel
Dadaji's Paintbrush ★ by Rashmi Sirdeshpande, Ruchi Mhasane (Illustrator)
Dawn Raid ★★ by Pauline Vaeluaga Smith, Mat Hunkin (Illustrator)
Elatsoe ★★★★★ by Darcie Little Badger
Everything Sad Is Untrue ★★★★★★★ by Daniel Nayeri
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask (Young Readers Edition) ★★ by Anton Treuer
Freedom! ★★ by Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
Gibberish ★★★ by Young Vo
High Spirits ★★★ by Camille Gomera-Tavarez
I'll Keep You Close ★ by Jeska Verstegen
Ironhead, or Once a Young Lady ★★★ by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem, Kristen Gehrman (translator)
Little Fox ★ by Marije Tolman, Edward van de Vendel
Lupe Wong Won't Dance ★★ by Donna Barba Higuera
Man Made Monsters ★★ by Andrea L Rogers
Middletown ★ by Sarah Moon
Mighty Inside ★★ by Sundee Frazier
Mr. Coats ★ by Sieb Posthuma
My Good Man ★ by Eric Gansworth
Neverforgotten ★★★ by Alejandra Algorta, Iván Rickenmann (Illustrator), Aida Salazar (translator)
Oksi ★★★★ by Mari Ahokoivu
Osnat And Her Dove ★★ by Sigal Samuel, Vali Mintzi (Illustrator)
Phalaina ★★ by Alice Brière-Haquet, Emma Ramadan (Translator)
Red and Green and Blue and White ★★★★★ by Lee Wind, Paul O. Zelinsky (Illustrator)
Sheep Count Flowers ★ by Micaela Chirif, Amanda Mijangos (Illustrator)
Shy Willow ★ by Cat Min
The Big Questions Book of Sex & Consent ★ by Donna Freitas
The Boys in the Back Row ★★ by Miike Jung
The Dove in the Belly ★★ by Jim Grimsley
The Immortal Boy ★ by Francisco Montaña Ibáñez, David Bowles (Translator)
The Last Cuentista ★★★★ by Donna Barba Higuera
The Lost Ryū ★ by Emi Watanabe Cohen
The Sea-Ringed World ★★★★★★ by María García Esperón, Amanda Mijangos (Illustrator), David Bowles
The Shape of Home ★★★ by Rashin Kheiriyeh
The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst ★★ by Jaclyn Moriarty
The Wanderer ★★ by Peter van den Ende
This Old Dog ★★ by Martha Brockenbrough, Gabriel Alborozo (Illustrator)
What Ollie Saw ★ by Joukje Akveld, Sieb Posthuma (Illustrator), Bill Nagelkerke (Translator)
What the Jaguar Told Her ★ by Alex V. Mendez
When the Angels Left the Old Country ★ by Sacha Lamb
You Are the Loveliest ★ by Monique & Hans Hagen, Marit Tornqvist (Illustrator), David Colmer (Translator)

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