The Authenticity Project by Claire Pooley was the top pick for February’s Library Reads list. Also on the list are Alexis Schaitkin’s Saint X and Andrew Krivak’s The Bear, which are both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter Sampler. The rest of the list: The Girl in White Gloves, by Kerri Maher Golden in Death, by J.D. Robb Mercy House, by Alena Dillon Oona Out of Order, by Margarit Montimore The Other Mrs., by Mary Kubica The Splendid and the Vile, by Erik Larson The Worst Best Man, by Mia Sosa
Awards
NBCC Finalists, With Honors for Broom, Waldman, Nye
The National Book Critics Circle announced finalists across five categories, with the winners to be announced on March 12. Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House will receive the John Leonard Prize for an outstanding first book, while the New Yorker’s Katy Waldman won the 2019 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Naomi Shihab Nye won the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. The finalists for the other prizes: Fiction Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside (Knopf) Myla Goldberg, Feast Your Eyes (Scribner) Ben Lerner, The Topeka School (Farrar, Straus) Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive (Knopf) Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys (Doubleday) Nonfiction […]
People, Etc.
Zareen Jaffery will join Kokila as executive editor on January 13. She was previously executive editor at Simon & Schuster Children’s. Rachel Beck has joined Liza Dawson Associates as agent. She was previously an agent with Holloway Literary. Emily Duval has been promoted to manager, library marketing at Random House Children’s. Natalie Capogrossi has joined Random House Children’s as assistant manager, school marketing. She was previously a teacher and intern at Writer’s House. At, Princeton Architectural Press, Jessica Tackett has been promoted to marketing manager; Parker Menzimer has been promoted to production editor; Stephanie Holstein has been promoted to associate […]
Cummins’ American Dirt Tops February Indie Next List
The ABA named American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins as their No. 1 Indie Next pick for February. The Cummins, as well as Indie Next picks Eoin Colfer’s Highfire and Emma Copley Eisenberg’s The Third Rainbow Girl, are excerpted and available for download now in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter sampler. The rest of the list: Weather, by Jenny Offill Author in Chief, by Craig Fehrman A Long Petal of the Sea, by Isabel Allende When We Were Vikings, by Andrew David MacDonald Homie, by Danez Smith Things in Jars, by Jess Kidd Verge, by Lidia Yuknavitch The Mercies, by Kiran […]
Remember December: How Did They Pick?
Here is our monthly recap of high-profile retailer and book club picks from December, paired with print sales statistics from NPD Bookscan for the four weeks on sale ending December 28. But the results are a bit sparse this time, since three sources all selected a book that did not actually publish December 31 — Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid — so there are no published sales reports to share yet. (The standing reminder: These statistics are only a partial view, of print sales only. Some of these books were highly anticipated — and well pre-ordered — long […]
RWA Cancels RITAs
The Romance Writers of America cancelled their upcoming awards, the 2020 RITAs, in response to the recent ethics controversy that resulted in the resignation of nine board members. RWA wrote in a statement, “Due to recent events in RWA, many in the romance community have lost faith in RWA’s ability to administer the 2020 RITA contest fairly, causing numerous judges and entrants to cancel their participation. The contest will not reflect the breadth and diversity of 2019 romance novels/novellas and thus will not be able to fulfill its purpose of recognizing excellence in the genre.” RWA plans to resume the […]