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Cain Tops August Library Reads; Target Picks Joshilyn Jackson; and More

July 14, 2014
By Michael Cader

Chelsea Cain’s One Kick tops the August Library Reads list, which includes 3 of our fall/winter Publishers Lunch Buzz Books titles you can start reading right now:

Lock In, by John Scalzi
The Miniaturist, by Jessie Burton
The Magician’s Land, by Lev Grossman

[The first two are excerpted now on the Buzz site, as well.]

The rest of the list features:

Lucky Us, by Amy Bloom
Heroes Are My Weakness, by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Big Little Lies, by Liane Moriarty
The Truth about Leo, by Katie MacAlister
An Unwilling Accomplice, by Charles Todd
The Story Hour, by Thrity Umrigar

Separately, the August Target Book Club Pick is Joshilyn Jackson‘s Someone Else’s Love Story.   

In other awards and honors, the Chicago Tribune‘s Heartland Prizes go to The Maid’s Version by Daniel Woodrell (for fiction) and Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward (for nonfiction). Their 2014 Literary Award will be presented to Patti Smith.

The Caine Prize for African Writing has gone to Kenyan woman Okwiri Oduor for short story “My Father’s Head,” which the judges called “Joycean in its reach.” She is working on her first novel.

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