The National Book Awards longlists roll out Wednesday through Friday this week, with the finalists to be announced on October 10. Winners will be named on November 14. First up is Young People’s Literature, which includes previous nominee Elizabeth Partridge, as well as M.T. Anderson, who won the prize in 2006 for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing. Of the ten titles, four were published by HarperCollins, and three by Penguin Random House. The full list: Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X (Harper Teen) M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin, The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge (Candlewick Press) Bryan Bliss, We’ll Fly Away (Greenwillow Books) Leslie Connor, […]
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Enger’s Virgil Wander Tops October Indie Next List
The ABA named Virgil Wander by Leif Enger as its No. 1 pick for October. Other picks include Stuart Turton’s The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, and Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter. The rest of the list: Waiting for Eden, by Elliot Ackerman November Road, by Lou Berney Heartland, by Sarah Smarsh All You Can Ever Know, by Nicole Chung A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult The Real Lolita, by Sarah Weinman Transcription, by Kate Atkinson Night Moves, by Jessica Hopper Man With a Seagull on His Head, […]
September iBooks Picks
iBooks announced its Best of September list, which includes Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter sampler, and Alexa Martin’s Intercepted, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Romance collection. The rest of the picks: The Winter Soldier, by Daniel Mason Transcription, by Kate Atkinson Three Little Lies, by Laura Marshall Football for a Buck, by Jeff Pearlman Vengeful, by V.E. Schwab An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, by Hank Green Washington Black, Esi Edugyan 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Noah Harari Just Mercy, by Bryan A. Stevenson Lake Success, by Gary Shteyngart Heartland, by […]
Briefs: A New Marquez, Salinger’s 100th, Center for Fiction Nominees, and More
Forthcoming Vintage Español will published a selection of journalism by the late Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, El Escándalo del Siglo (October 23, 2018). An English-language edition of The Scandal of the Century will be published by Knopf in May 2019. The book will include an introduction by Jon Lee Anderson and an editor’s note by Cristóbal Pera, Márquez’s longtime editor and friend, who also selected the articles that appear in the book. Awards The Center for Fiction has announced the seven title shortlist for its $10,000 First Novel Prize, with the winner to be named on December 11: Asymmetry, […]
September Picks
Amazon‘s spotlight pick for September is Esi Edugyan’s novel Washington Black and their featured debut is Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s memoir Small Fry. Also on the list are French Exit by Patrick Dewitt and The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar, both excerpted and available in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter. The rest of the list: Leadership, by Doris Kearns Goodwin 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yaval Noah Harari The Tattooist of Auschwitz, by Heather Morris These Truths, by Jill Lepore Lake Success, by Gary Shteyngart Heartland, by Sarah Smarsh Barnes & Noble‘s top fiction list for the month includes Lies by T.M. Logan, […]
People, Etc.
Zachary Schisgal has joined Wiley as senior acquisitions editor. Florian Illies will become publisher of Rowohlt in Germany as of January 1, 2019, succeeding Barbara Laugwitz. Illies is the author of Generation Golf and 1913, and is currently the managing director of the auction house Grisebach. Picks The September Pennie’s Pick at Costco is The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle, which is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter sampler and available for download now. And the month’s PBS NewsHour-New York Times Now Read This pick is Robert Kaplan’s Earning the Rockies. Awards The Academy of American Poets named Sonia Sanchez as […]