Jason Reynolds won the UK’s Carnegie medal for Look Both Ways. Sydney Smith won the Kate Greenaway medal for illustration for Small in the City. Charles Baxter won the 2021 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
Awards
Picks: Oprah’s Book Club, Barnes & Noble’s Best Books So Far, And More
Oprah‘s next book club selection is The Sweetness of Water by debut author Nathan Harris. She will discuss the book with Harris on Apple TV+ on July 23. Barnes & Noble named its Best Books of 2021 so far: Amari and the Night Brothers, by B. B. Alston Firekeeper’s Daughter, by Angeline Boulley The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah Dusk, Night, Dawn, by Anne Lamott Things We Lost to the Water, by Eric Nguyen Aftershocks, by Nadia Owusu The Lost Apothecary, by Sarah Penner Madhouse at the End of the Earth, by Julian Sancton Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir […]
Erdrich Wins Fiction Pulitzer
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Friday afternoon, with Louise Erdrich winning the fiction prize for The Night Watchman. The rest of the winners and finalists: Fiction The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich (Harper) Finalists A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, by Daniel Mason (Little, Brown) Telephone, by Percival Everett (Graywolf) History Franchise, Marcia Chatelain (Liveright) Finalists The Deviant’s War, by Eric Cervini (FSG) The Three-Cornered War, by Megan Kate Nelson (Scribner) Biography The Dead Are Arising, by Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Liveright) Finalists Red Comet, by Heather Clark (Knopf) Stranger in the Shogun’s City, by Amy Stanley […]
Picks: Amazon’s Best Books of The Year So Far, And More
Amazon announced its top books of the year so far, astutely putting Maggie Shipstead’s novel in the top spot: 1. Great Circle, by Maggie Shipstead 2. Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro 3. The Code Breaker, by Walter Isaacson 4. We Begin at the End, by Chris Whitaker 5. What’s Mine and Yours, by Naima Coster 6. The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah 7. Punch Me Up to the Gods, by Brian Broome 8. Gold Diggers, by Sanjena Sathian 9. The Plot, by Jean Hanff Korelitz 10. Chatter, by Ethan Kross 11. Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid 12. […]
People, Etc.
Elizabeth Trout has been promoted to assistant editor at Kensington. Corporate LSC Communications has renamed its books division — which includes Dover Publications — Lakeside Book Company. CEO Dave McCree said, “The Lakeside name is a nod to our roots and symbolic of the trust our company has earned to help stories of all kinds be shared. We have taken the opportunity to revisit our company values and align ourselves around the true purpose of our business: crafting books for readers and serving our publishing customers.” Controversies Elin Hilderbrand asked Little, Brown to remove the reference to Anne Frank in […]
Newman’s Falling Tops July Indie Next List
The ABA named Falling by T. J. Newman as its Indie Next No. 1 pick for July. Also on the list are Carolyn Ferrell’s Dear Miss Metropolitan, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray’s The Personal Librarian, and Miranda Cowley Heller’s The Paper Palace, all excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer. The rest of the picks: A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship, by Catherine Raven Seek You, by Kristen Radtke Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, by Emily Austin The Woman They Could Not Silence, by […]