Garth Risk Hallberg’s much-hyped debut novel City on Fire is the No. 1 pick for the October Library Reads list. The list also includes The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter ebook. The rest of the list features: After You, by Jojo Moyes A Banquet of Consequences, by Elizabeth George Slade House, by David Mitchell The Heart Goes Last, by Margaret Atwood Welcome to Night Vale, by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor In Bitter Chill, by Sarah Ward Then Comes Marriage, by Roberta Kaplan, Edie […]
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As Harper UK absorbs Harlequin UK as an operating division, Harlequin managing director Tim Cooper will leave the company after 12 years. Lisa Milton will take over as executive publisher of Harlequin UK on November 2, reporting to ceo Charlie Redmayne. (Milton was moved aside from her position as managing director at Orion this summer as part of a broader realignment of executives there in preparation for David Young’s retirement at the end of the year.) Laura Tisdel is returning to Viking, as an executive editor, starting on October 5, after four years at Reagan Arthur Books and Little Brown. At Knopf & […]
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The National Endowment of the Humanities announced the ten winners of this year’s National Humanities Medal, including authors Annie Dillard, Jhumpa Lahiri, Larry McMurtry, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and Alice Waters. The winners will receive their honors at the September 10 ceremony at the White House. Separately, Stephen King and Tobias Wolff are among the recipients of the National Medal of Arts, also presented at next week’s ceremony. At Chronicle, Taylor Norman has been promoted to associate editor, children’s. Carolyn Bull will join the Little, Brown Children’s design department as junior designer for licensed books. Previously she was a design intern at […]
Groff’s Fates and Furies Leads October Indie Next List
The October Indie Next List is up, led by Lauren Groff‘s novel Fates and Furies as the No. 1 pick. You can start reading Groff’s novel, as well excerpts from six other recommended October titles — Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins, The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks, Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson, A Line of Blood by Ben McPherson, The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr, and The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine by Alex Brunkhorst — right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter. The rest of the list features: City on Fire, by Garth Risk […]
A New Approach for iBooks’ Monthly Picks
With their Best Books of September list, Apple’s iBooks Store brings a new format to their monthly selections, picking five books each from “five popular categories”: fiction; mysteries/thrillers; nonfiction; YA; and romance. Their titles for the month are: Purity, Jonathan Franzen Gold Fame Citrus, Claire Vaye Watkins After You, Jojo Moyes Fear of Dying, Erica Jong Did You Ever Have A Family, Bill Clegg The Nature of the Beast, Louise Penny The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, Vaseem Khan Pretty Girls, Karin Slaughter Trigger Mortis, Anthony Horowitz Mycroft Holmes, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Why Not Me?, Mindy Kaling Hitler’s Art Thief, Susan […]
Amazon’s September Picks
Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies (which you can preview now, ahead of publication, in our free ebook Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter, along with Mary Karr’s memoir) is Amazon’s spotlight pick for September, and Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine is their featured debut. The rest of Amazon’s books of the month for September are: The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr Reckless: My Life as a Pretender, Chrissie Hynde Purity, Jonathan Franzen Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson Why Not Me?, Mindy Kaling Did You Ever Have A Family, Bill Clegg Library of Souls, Ransom Riggs The Pentagon’s Brain, Annie […]