Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson (Random House, $25, 9781400068937)One Amazing Thing: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Voice, $23.99, 9781401340995)Horns: A Novel by Joe Hill (Morrow, $25.99, 9780061147951)One Good Dog: A Novel by Susan Wilson (St. Martin’s, $22.99, 9780312571252)The Surrendered: A Novel by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594489761)The Journal Keeper: A Memoir by Phyllis Theroux (Atlantic Monthly, $24, 9780802118974)The Dream of Perpetual Motion: A Novel by Dexter Palmer (St. Martin’s, $24.99, 9780312558154)Making Toast: A Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt (Ecco, $21.99, 9780061825934)Angelology: A Novel by Danielle Trussoni (Viking, $27.95, 9780670021475)House Rules: A Novel by Jodi Picoult […]
Awards
National Book Critics Circle Nominees Named
Fiction:Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)Marlon James, The Book of Night Women (Riverhead)Michelle Huneven, Blame (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (Holt)Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Knopf) Nonfiction:Wendy Doniger, The Hindus: An Alternative History (Penguin Press)Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books)Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Pantheon)Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remain (Random House)William T. Vollmann, Imperial (Viking) Autobiography:Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End (Norton)Debra Gwartney, Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters […]
People: Robert B. Parker, 77, Dies, Plus MWA Nominees
Author Robert B. Parker, 77, died “just sitting at his desk” at home, according to his British publisher Quercus, cited by Sarah Weinman on her blog. Parker novels scheduled for publication in 2010 include SPLIT IMAGE, the newest Jesse Stone novel (out February 23) and BLUE-EYED DEVIL, an Appaloosa novel (May 4). Blog post The Mystery Writers of America announced their 2010 Edgar awards nominees.Release
Stead Takes Newbery, Pinkney Wins Caldecott
Rebecca Stead’s WHEN YOU REACH ME (Wendy Lamb Books) was awarded the ALA’s Newbery Medal this morning, as Jerry Pinkney’s THE LION & THE MOUSE (Little, Brown Children’s), a “near-wordless adaptation of Aesop’s classic fable of kindness repaid between an unlikely pair of creatures,” won the ALA’s Randolph Caldecott Medal for best picture book. The Newbery Honor books were: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, by Phillip HooseThe Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by Jacqueline KellyWhere the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace LinThe Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, by Rodman Philbrick The Caldecott Honor titles were: All the World, […]
10 Great Forthcoming Books for 2010
The Boston Herald assembles this list from “publishing experts,” with lots of quotes fom Amazon senior books editor Brad Parsons and a few from Jon Strymish, buyer/manager at New England Mobile Book Fair: 1. War, by Sebastian Junger2. Union Atlantic, by Adam Haslett3. Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, by Karl Marlantes4. The Postmistress, by Sarah Blake5. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis6. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, by Seth Grahame-Smith7. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi W. Durrow8. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson9. Walking to Gatlinburg: A […]
Awards: Borders Original Voices
The bookseller announced the winners of their annual awards yesterday, which include a cash prize and chainwide promotion: FictionThe Calligrapher’s Daughter, Eugenia Kim NonfictionShop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work, Matthew Crawford Children’s/YAAfter, by Amy EfawRelease