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 […]
Awards
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.
Awards
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.
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 […]