Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, The Serial Killer is the top pick for November’s Library Reads list. The rest of the list: The Adults, Caroline Hulse The Best Bad Things, by Katrina Carrasco The Colors of All the Cattle, by Alexander McCall Smith Empire of Sand, by Tasha Suri How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?, by N. K. Jemisin The Kinship of Secrets, by Eugenia Kim A Ladder to the Sky, by John Boyne Newcomer, by Keigo Higashino Someone to Trust, by Mary Balogh
Awards
National Book Award Finalists Named
Finalists were named Wednesday morning for the National Book Awards, with the winners to be named on November 14. The fiction nominees including two story collections (Brinkley and Groff), and three titles from Penguin Random House imprints versus two small press candidates. Among the more prominent omissions from the longlist as Tommy Orange’s debut There, There and Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage. Fiction Nominees Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man (Graywolf Press) Lauren Groff, Florida (Riverhead) Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking (Soho Press) Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers (Viking) Sigrid Nunez, The Friend (Riverhead) Nonfiction Nominees Colin G. Calloway, […]
People, Etc.
The MacArthur Foundation announced its class of 25 fellows, and they include fiction writer Kelly Link, 49, and fiction and nonfiction writer John Keene, 53. Also receiving grants are poet Natalie Diaz, 40, and playwright Dominique Morisseau, 40. Just-announced co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Nadia Murad‘s memoir THE LAST GIRL was published a year ago by Tim Duggan Books, and is scheduled for trade paperback release on November 6. Jaime Mendola-Hobbie has been promoted to executive director of advertising and promotion for Berkley, Dutton, Putnam, and Plume. Ashley Fisher-Tranese is moves up to director, advertising. Vi-An Nguyen become associate art director, advertising. Publisher of Weidenfeld […]
Hagyas’ Scribe Tops November Indie Next List
The ABA named Scribe by Alyson Hagyas its No. 1 pick for November. Other picks include Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah; Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver; The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa; Melmoth by Sarah Perry; and Family Trust by Kathy Wang, all of which are excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter. The rest of the list features: The Collector’s Apprentice, by B.A. Shapiro The Lonesome Bodybuilder, by Yukiko Motoya The Library Book, by Susan Orlean The Feral Detective, by Jonathan Lethem A Ladder to the Sky, by John Boyne Alice Isn’t Dead, by Joseph Fink An […]
People, Etc.
At Harper Collins, Catherine Barbosa Ross has been promoted to director, foreign rights, and Maureen Cole has been promoted to director of publicity for the Morrow Group. Hachette UK’s Lucy Hale has been promoted to the newly created role of deputy ceo for Hodder & Stoughton, Headline, John Murray Press, and Quercus. Group ceo Jamie Hodder-Williams said, “She has a first-class commercial brain and a forensic knowledge of our markets at home and abroad. Working closely with our authors, she has demonstrated time and again that her peerless vision, her energy, dedication and enthusiasm in delivering campaigns ensures that every book reaches […]
More October Picks, Awards
Picks The October Pennie’s Pick at Costco is Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak. Target announced Book Club selections for both October and November, choosing Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land and The Room on Rue Amelie by Kristin Harmel, respectively. The October title for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club Now Read This is American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee. Barnes & Noble‘s top fiction picks for the month include Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter title Virgil Wander by Leif Enger, as well as: The Clockmaker’s Daughter, by Kate Morton Every Breath, by Nicholas Sparks The Next Person You Meet […]