Jenna Bush Hager’s September pick for the Today Show Book Club is The Dearly Beloved, by Cara Wall. Apple Books‘ best of September includes: The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett The Future of Another Time, by Annalee Newitz The Liar, by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Slay, by Brittney Morris The Water Dancer, by Ta-Hehisi Coates The World That We Knew, by Alice Hoffman Wrapped Up in You, by Jill Shalvis Gallows Court, by Martin Edwards Nice Try, by Josh Gondelman Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson Billion Dollar Fantasy, by Albert Chen Everything is Figureoutable, by Marie Forleo Pet, by Akwaeke […]
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September Picks
Reese’s Book Club pick for September is The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer is Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for September and Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped is their featured debut. The rest of the list: Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett She Said, by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey Quichotte, by Salman Rushdie The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescott Poisoner in Chief, by Stephen Kinzer The World That We Knew, by Alice Hoffman Opiod Indiana, by Brian Allen Carr The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. […]
People: Booker Shortlist, and More
Kara Watson has been promoted to senior editor/marketing liaison at Scribner. Sara DeLozier has joined Viking/Penguin as publicist. She was most recently publicity coordinator at Picador. Executive director of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Wanda Jewell will next June, after 30 years of leading the organization. In the UK, Anne Meadows has been promoted to editorial director at Granta. Jenny Fry has been promoted to commercial director at Canongate, adding responsibility for sales. Elise Burns will move to Bonnier Books UK in mid-November as trade sales and export director, reporting to Perminder Mann. She is currently UK sales director at […]
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Chuck Deane has joined Sourcebooks as sales director. He was most recently vice president of sales (Americas) at Wiley. At Rebel Girls, Pam Gruber joins as editorial director. She was previously senior editor at Little, Brown Children’s. Grace House joins as project and contracts manager (she was assistant editor at Berkley), and Karen Chau has been promoted to licensing and partnerships associate. At HMH Children’s, Abigail Stahlman has joined as senior marketing designer; previously she was senior designer at Scholastic. Nadia Almahdi has joined as marketing manager; previously she was marketing manager at Little Bee Books. Kaitlyn Spotts has joined […]
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Isabel DaSilva has been promoted to associate marketing manager at Atria. RBmedia will publish over 170 audiobook editions of titles from sci-fi and fantasy publisher Baen Books over the next three years. Awards The Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced finalists: Fiction Insurrecto, by Gina Apostol (Soho Press) Sadness Is A White Bird, by Moriel Rothman Zecher (Atria) The Overstory, by Richard Powers (Norton) There There, by Tommy Orange (Knopf) What We Owe, by Golnaz Hashemzadeh (HMH) White Chrysanthemum, by Mary Lynn Bracht (Putnam) Nonfiction Educated, by Tara Westover (Random House) Frederick Douglass, by David Blight (Simon and Schuster) I Should […]
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Jeff Carroll will join Macmillan on September 3 as evp, marketing and consumer strategy, reporting to Maya Mavjee. He most recently led marketing efforts at Radio.com, after working at NBCUniversal and Viacom. Jaime Gelman has been promoted to assistant editor at BuzzPop. Awards The Rona Jaffe Foundation announced the winners of their annual writers’ awards: Selena Anderson (fiction), Magogodi oaMphela Makhene (fiction), Sarah Passino (poetry), Nicolette Polek (fiction), Elizabeth Schambelan (nonfiction), and Debbie Urbanski (fiction/nonfiction). Bookselling Philadelphia’s Penn Book Center in University City, which was in danger of closing at the end of the summer, will stay open under new ownership. […]