The Booker Prize announced their longlist on Monday, with the finalists to be named September 14, and a relatively late date of November 3 for the awarding of the prize. Candidates include Nathan Harris, Patricia Lockwood, Richard Powers and Maggie Shipstead from the US: Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North Rachel Cusk, Second Place Damon Galgut, The Promise Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun Karen Jennings, An Island Mary Lawson, A Town Called Solace Patricia Lockwood, No One is Talking About This Nadifa Mohamed, The Fortune Men (Knopf had it scheduled for 2022) Richard Powers, […]
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August Library Reads
Julie Murphy’s If the Shoe Fits tops August’s Library Reads list. You can sample it now in our Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer anthology. The rest of the picks: Battle Royal, by Lucy Parker Dark Roads, by Chevy Stevens The Last Chance Library, by Freya Sampson Mrs. March, by Virginia Feito My Heart is a Chainsaw, by Stephen Graham Jones The Reading List, by Sara Nisha Adamns The Royals Next Door, by Karina Halle A Slow Fire Burning, by Paula Hawkins Yours Cheerfully, AJ Pearce
Reese Picks Heller — And Her Company May Get Picked By Buyer
The July pick for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club is Miranda Cowley Heller’s The Paper Palace (featured in both our Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer anthology and our January Buzz Books Editors Panel.) Also making news is Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine, said to be have been approached by “multiple suitors” in recent months, the WSJ reports, including Apple. The company has hired bankers to explore a sale as a result of that interest, and those bankers (aka “people close to the situation”) suggest to the paper that “the company could be valued at as much $1 billion in a deal.” Apparently the […]
McConaghy’s Once There Were Wolves Tops August Indie Next List
The ABA named Charlotte McConaghy’s Once There Were Wolves as the No. 1 pick for August’s Indie Next List. Also on the list is Ash Davidson’s Damnation Spring, excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: Nightbitch, by Rachel Yoder She Who Became the Sun, by Shelley Parker-Chan The Manningtree Witches, by A.K. Blakemore Intimacies, by Katie Kitamura Afterparties, by Anthony Veasna So All’s Well, by Mona Awad We Are the Brennans, by Tracey Lange Mrs. March, by Virginia Feito Radiant Fugitives, by Nawaaz Ahmed Appleseed, by Matt Bell If the […]
Best So Far: Apple Books, EW, Chicago Tribune
Apple Books announced its Best Books of 2021 So Far: The Sweetness of Water, by Nathan Harris Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (available to sample in our Buzz Books 2021: Spring Summer sampler) The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, by Tom Lin A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself, by Brigid Lowry Golden Girl, by Elin Hilderbrand The Good Sister, by Sally Hepworth Relentless, by Mark Greaney The Code Breaker, by Walter Isaacson Punch Me Up to the Gods, by Brian Broome Honey Girl, by Morgan Rogers State of Affairs, by Marie Force […]
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Catherine Lacey won the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Prize for her novel Pew.