The Booker International announced its shortlist, with last year’s winner Olga Tokarczuk nominated again. Many of the titles are not published in the US yet, though Riverhead publishes two of the nominated authors. The full list: Celestial Bodies, by Jokha Alharthi (Sandstone Press) The Years, by Annie Ernaux (Seven Stories/Fitzcarraldo Editions) The Pine Islands, by Marion Poschmann (Serpent’s Tail) Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (forthcoming from Riverhead/Fitzcarraldo Editions) The Shape Of The Ruins, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Riverhead/MacLehose Press) The Remainder, by Alia Trabucco Zerán (forthcoming from Coffee House Press/And Other Stories) Barnes & […]
Awards
Blake’s The Guest Book Tops May Indie Next List
The ABA named Sarah Blake’s The Guest Book as its No. 1 Pick for May’s Indie Next List. Also on the list are Juliet Grames’ The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna and Kim Michele Richardson’s The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Read excerpts of all three in our 2019 Spring/Summer Buzz Books sampler. The rest of the list: Normal People, by Sally Rooney Rough Magic, by Lara Prior-Palmer Lanny, by Max Porter Furious Hours, by Casey Cep Out East, by John Glynn Courting Mr. Lincoln, by Louis Bayard Southern Lady Code, by Helen Ellis Rules for Visiting, by Jessica Francis […]
People, Etc.
Joe Davidson is joining Black Dog & Leventhal as editor, starting April 8. Previously he was an editor at Rizzoli. Acquisitions Charleston, SC-based Arcadia Publishing has an agreement to acquire “the significant majority of [the] assets” of New Orleans-based Pelican Publishing, which has a list of over 2,000 titles. The transaction will close in May. Arcadia ceo David Steinberger says in the announcement, “It is a publisher that fits well with Arcadia’s mission, which is to connect people with their past, with their communities and with one another.” Pelican president and publisher Kathleen Calhoun Nettleton, whose family has owned the […]
Indies Choice Finalists
The American Booksellers Association announced the finalists for the 2019 Indies Choice Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, with the winners to be announced May 1. The nominees include: Adult Fiction An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones (Algonquin Books) Circe, by Madeline Miller (Lee Boudreaux Books) Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Trans.) (Grove Press) The Overstory, by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton & Company) Tin Man, by Sarah Winman (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) Waiting for Eden, by Elliot Ackerman (Knopf) Adult Nonfiction All You Can Ever Know, by Nicole Chung (Catapult) Educated, by Tara Westover (Random House) Heartland, by Sarah Smarsh (Scribner) Heavy, by Kiese […]
More April Picks: Apple Books, Reese’s Book Club
Apple Books‘ best books for April include: Courting Mr. Lincoln, by Louis Bayard When a Duchess Says I Do, by Grace Burrowes Savage News, by Jessica Yellin The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb The Light Years, by Chris Rush Losing Earth, by Nathaniel Rich You’d Be Mine, by Erin Hahn Miracle Creek, by Angie Kim Metropolis, by Philip Kerr Fumbled, by Alexa Martin Normal People, by Sally Rooney The Invited, by Jennifer McMahon Love, Again, by L. P. Dover Valedictorian of Being Dead, by Heather B. Armstrong The NYT adds their […]
April Bookseller Picks
The Spring Girls by Anna Todd is the Costco Pennie’s Pick for April. Amazon‘s spotlight pick for the month is Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl and the featured debut is Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton. Also on the list are Lori Gottlieb’s Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and Meredith May’s The Honey Bus, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: The Last Stone, by Mark Bowden Lights All Night Long, by Lydia Fitzpatrick A Woman of No Importance, by Sonia Purnell Hotbox, by Matt Lee […]