Louise Erdrich, Ken Follett and John Edgar Wideman lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes titles by Will Smith, Emily Ratajkowski and David Graeber and David Wengrow. Also out today is Marc Myers’s Rock Concert, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter sampler. 14 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-november-9 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_November_/220337 23 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-november-9 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_November_/220338 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use […]
Zauner Tops Libro.fm’s Bestselling Audiobooks of the Year
Libro.fm announced their top 10 audiobooks of 2021, “based on sales through 1,500+ independent bookstore partners.” Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, narrated by Michelle Zauner (Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group) The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave, narrated by Rebecca Lowman (Simon & Schuster Audio) Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, narrated by Julia Whelan (Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group) The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah, narrated by Julia Whelan (Macmillan Audio) People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry, narrated by Julia Whelan (Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group) Klara and the Sun […]
2022 Andrew Carnegie Shortlist
The American Library Association named the shortlist for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence.
People 11/5
Lex Higbee has promoted to senior publicist at Bloomsbury Children's.
Swedish Study Finds Print Bestsellers Are Longer, More Complex Than Top Audio Titles
In a paper published in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, Karl Berglund and Mads Dahllöf of Uppsala University in Sweden compared bestselling print and audiobooks and found marked differences in the top titles in each format. Berglund and Dahllöf analyzed print bestsellers and the most popular digital audiobooks on subscription platforms (“beststreamers”) published in Sweden between 2015 and 2019, a total of 172 novels. They found that “Print bestsellers are longer, syntactically more complex and varied, and seem to focus more on depiction. Beststreaming audiobooks, by contrast, are shorter, more straightforwardly written, and appear to highlight plot and dialogue.” Even […]
People 11/4
Dennis Lee joins Zando as head of finance and operations. He was previously at Harper Collins.