At Trident Media Group, Martha Wydysh and Sulamita Garbuz have both been promoted to associate agents. Nora Rawn joins as foreign rights agent. She was most recently senior editor for Lonely Planet. The late Monika Schoeller, longtime publisher of S. Fischer Verlag and daughter of publisher Georg von Holtzbrinck, was remembered at a service in Germany on Monday. Best Of The New York Times Book Review released its list of 100 Notable Books of 2019. That joins the list of top 100 books from the Washington Post, and the big best books of the year package from the NY Public […]
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Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of 2019
Oprah Magazine chose 14 best books of the year. The titles include Oprah’s two recent book club picks, Elizabeth’s Strout’s Olive, Again and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer, which tops the list . The complete list: 1. The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2. Maggie Brown & Others, by Peter Orner 3. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett 4. Dreyer’s English, by Benjamin Dreyer 5. The Need, by Helen Phillips 6. Sontag, by Benjamin Moser 7. Patsy, by Nicole Dennis-Benn 8. Doxology, by Nell Zink 9. Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli 10. Grand Union, by Zadie Smith 11. Normal […]
Best Of: Atwood’s The Testaments Tops Amazon’s Best of 2019 List, BN Picks “Finalists”
Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments is Amazon‘s top title for 2019. Elizabeth Gilbert’s City of Girls, which was the top pick on their Best So Far list in June, makes the final list. Other titles that return from the mid-year list (for a total of five) comprise: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb (HMH); On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong; and The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides, all of which are in our Buzz Books samplers, along with Wild Game, by Adrienne Brodeur from the list. The complete, fiction-heavy top 20, in order: 1. The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood 2. […]
Indigo’s Best Books of 2019
Right on schedule, Canada’s dominant bricks-and-mortar bookseller Indigo published their best books of 2019 package, including their top 10 books. Their No. 1 pick, from Canadian author Cherie Dimaline, has not been published yet in the US, but is due next summer from William Morrow: 1. Empire of Wild, by Cherie Dimaline 2. The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood 3. From the Ashes, by Jesse Thistle 4. The Huntress, by Kate Quinn 5. Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo 6. Daisy Jones & The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid 7. The Body, by Bill Bryson 8. The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides […]
Awards: Whitehead, Jones, Craft Win Kirkus Prizes; PW’s Best of 2019, and More
The winners of the $50,000 Kirkus Prizes were announced on Thursday evening. The fiction prize went to Colson Whitehead‘s The Nickel Boys (Doubleday), with judges noting that it “evokes race in America not as a concept but as a condition of being.” Saeed Jones‘ memoir How We Fight for Our Lives (Simon & Schuster) won the nonfiction prize. Judges said, “His tenacious honesty compels us to be honest with ourselves. His experiences—negotiating grief, family dynamics, and a forthright identity—require our reckoning.” New Kid (HarperCollins), written & illustrated by Jerry Craft, was awarded the prize for children’s literature, for being a “laugh-out-loud […]
January Bookseller Picks, and More
Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for January is Maid by Stephanie Land (available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter edition), and their featured debut is Sugar Run by Mesha Maren. The rest of the list: The Current, by Tim Johnston The Winter of the Witch, by Katherine Arden Breaking and Entering, by Jeremy N. Smith The Paragon Hotel, by Lyndsay Faye She Lies in Wait, by Gytha Lodge An Orchestra of Minorities, by Chigozie Obioma Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, by Andrew S. Curran The Far Field, by Madhuri Vijay Barnes & Noble‘s top fiction picks for […]