The ABA named Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God their No. 1 pick for December. The book is also featured in our Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter collection available now for download. The rest of the list features: The City of Brass, by S.A. Chakraborty Year One, by Nora Roberts The Story of Arthur Truluv, by Elizabeth Berg Reservoir 13, by Jon McGregor A Hundred Small Lessons, by Ashley Hay Three Daughters of Eve, by Elif Shafak Into the Drowning Deep, by Mira Grant The Whispering Room, by Dean Koontz The Ice House, by Laura Lee Smith They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill […]
Awards
November Bookseller Picks
John Hodgman’s memoir Vacationland is Amazon‘s spotlight pick for November and S.A. Chakraborty’s novel The City of Brass is their featured debut. The rest of the list: Ghosts of the Tsunami, by Richard Lloyd Parry Sticky Fingers, by Joe Hagan The Vanity Fair Diaries, by Tina Brown An American Family, by Khizr Khan Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds Everything is Awful, by Matt Bellassai In the Midst of Winter, Isabel Allende Prairie Fires, by Caroline Fraser Barnes & Noble’s top fiction list for the month recommends Future Home of the Living God, by Louise Erdrich, also excerpted in our Buzz […]
People, Etc.: Fotinos to Start Imprint at SMP
Joel Fotinos will join St. Martin’s as vice president and editorial director of a new mind/body/spirit line of books, starting November 6. He recently stepped down as vp and publisher of Tarcher Perigee after 21 years. St. Martin’s president and publisher Sally Richardson says, “We are delighted to have Joel Fotinos join us at SMP. We have long had an interest and success in publishing in the mind/body/spirit space and we look forward to strengthening and growing that success with his focus and expertise.” Arianna Rebolini has been named books editor at Buzz Feed. Jessica Easto has been promoted to managing […]
Saunders Wins the Booker
George Saunders to become one of the few “bettors’ favorites” to actually win the Booker Prize, for Lincoln In the Bardo (Random House/Bloomsbury UK). He is the second American to claim the award — and the second in a row, after Paul Beatty’s victory a year ago for The Sellout. The judges said, “The form and style of this utterly original novel, reveals a witty, intelligent, and deeply moving narrative. This tale of the haunting and haunted souls in the afterlife of Abraham Lincoln’s young son paradoxically creates a vivid and lively evocation of the characters that populate this other […]
November Indie Next List
The ABA named Megan Hunter’s The End We Start From their No. 1 pick for November. Also on the list is Francesca Hornak’s Seven Days of Us and Gabrielle Union’s We’re Going to Need More Wine, both featured in our Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter collection available now for download. The rest of the list: Wonder Valley, by Ivy Pochoda Artemis, by Andy Weir It Devours!, by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor Heather, the Totality, by Matthew Weiner Strange Weather, by Joe Hill American Wolf, by Nate Blakeslee It’s All Relative, by A.J. Jacobs Mr. Dickens and His Carol, by Samantha Silva Hiddensee, by Gregory […]
October iBooks Picks
Catching up on bookseller picks, iBooks has listed its best of October recommendations. Their fiction favorites list includes: Hiddensee, by Gregory Maguire Touch of Red, by Laura Griffin Two Kinds of Truth, by Michael Connelly The Last Mrs. Parrish, by Liv Constantine The Power, by Naomi Alderman Manhattan Beach, by Jennifer Egan Their nonfiction list: Grant, by Ron Chernow Heating & Cooling, Beth Ann Fennelly A Moonless, Starless Sky, Alexis Okeowo Their YA pick: Satellite, Nick Lake