While everyone else is joining in on “best books of 2016 so far” lists, Amazon has made their monthly picks for July, with Beth Lewis’s The Wolf Road as their spotlight pick, and Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Here Comes the Sun as the featured debut. The rest of their best books of the month are: Dark Matter, Blake Crouch All Is Not Forgotten, Wendy Walker The Heavenly Table, Donald Ray Pollock Siracusa, Delia Ephron Chaos Monkeys, Antonio Garcia Martinez Underground Airlines, Ben H. Winters Not Pretty Enough, Gerri Hirshey A Hundred Thousand Worlds, Bob Proehl As Good as Gone, Larry Watson
Awards
Woodson Tops August Indie Next List
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson’s new novel for adults, Another Brooklyn, is the No. 1 pick on the ABA’s August Indie Next List. Also on this list is Tim Murphy’s debut novel Christodora, included in our Buzz Books 2016: Spring/Summer ebook, and I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows, an excerpt of which you can read right now in Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter. The rest of the list comprises: Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko, by Scott Stambach The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware The Secret Language of Stones, by M.J. Rose […]
Amazon Picks Lab Girl As Their Favorite Book So Far This Year
Amazon posted their annual mid-year “best books of the year so far” lists on Tuesday. Topping their picks is Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl (their April “featured debut”). The rest of their top 20 (including 6 titles previewed in our first Buzz Books sampler of the year*) overall features: The Girls, by Emma Cline Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley* When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi The Gene, by Siddhartha Mukherjee Barkskins, by Annie Proulx Valiant Ambition, by Nathaniel Philbrick* Grunt, by Mary Roach The Nest, by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney* The Fireman, by Joe Hill* LaRose, by Louise Erdrich* Girls & Sex, by Peggy Orenstein Evicted, by Matthew Desmond I’m Thinking of […]
People, Etc.
Liz Kossnar has been promoted to associate editor at Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. Jordan Hamessley has joined Insight Editions as senior editor, children’s. She was previously editorial director for Adaptive Books. Sanford J. Greenburger Associates are now scouting for Shandong Jiabo. Poet, essayist, and novelist Michelle Cliff, 69, died June 12 in Santa Cruz from liver failure. Awards Sarah Crossan‘s novel-in-verse One has won the Carnegie Medal, the first children’s book in that format to win the award, while Chris Riddle has won the Greenaway Medal for the third time for illustrating The Sleeper and the Spindle […]
Crouch’s Dark Matter Leads July LibraryReads List
Blake Crouch’s newest thriller Dark Matter is the No. 1 pick for the July LibraryReads list. You can start reading an excerpt of another novel on the list, All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker, right now at Buzz Books 2016: Spring/Summer. The rest of the list features: The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware The Last One, by Alexandra Oliva Among the Wicked, by Linda Castillo The Unseen World, by Liz Moore Truly Madly Guilty, by Liane Moriarty The Hopefuls, by Jennifer Close Siracusa, by Delia Ephron Nine Women, One Dress, by Jane L. Rosen
Honors: Women’s Prize, International Dublin Prize Winners; Pat Conroy Literary Center
Awards Lisa McInerney‘s debut The Glorious Heresies has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, with the committee praising the novel’s “freshness and vibrancy,” describing it as “a superbly original, compassionate novel that delivers insights into the very darkest of lives through humour and skilful storytelling.” Tim Duggan Books will publish the novel in the US on August 9. Akhil Sharma‘s novel Family Life has won the International Dublin Literary Prize. He will receive €100,000. Nonprofits Following the death of novelist Pat Conroy in March, friends and admirers have created the Pat Conroy Literary Center in Beaufort, SC. Led by his […]