With today’s publication of three separate “books of the year” lists from the NYT’s daily book critics, along with recent additions from Molly Young at NY Magazine, and Maureen Corrigan at NPR, it’s time for the first installment of our signature aggregation of lists from all over that yield solid, consensus lists of the very best books of the year. (Separately, you’ll be shocked that Barnes & Noble picked the same book that Waterstones selected as book of the year — The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy, which has not been named by any […]
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At Simon & Schuster Audio, Tiffany Frarey has been promoted to senior associate producer; Gaby Audet to marketing coordinator; and Desiree Vecchio to senior editor. Tamar McCollom has been promoted to assistant editor at Scribner. At Waterbrook Multnomah, Laura Barker has been promoted to vice president and publisher. Andrew Stoddard becomes editorial director. Kristopher Orr is moving to the newly created position of designer for Christian books, starting January 1. He will be working within the Random House Creative Services department, based in New York, reporting to senior director Annette Melvin. Ericka Weed has been promoted to ad operations coordinator. […]
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Daniel Loedel will join Bloomsbury as senior editor, starting on January 6. He was at Scribner. Catherine Tung is now an associate editor at Beacon Press. She was an assistant editor at Vintage. Mary Gaule has been promoted to associate editor for Harper and Harper Perennial. Megha Majumdar was promoted to editor at Catapult. Associate publisher, sales & marketing at Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull Jenn Abel Kovitz announced on Twitter that she is leaving the company in mid-January. The Gernert Company has opened a West Coast office in Culver City. Seth Fishman is managing the new office after three years in Los […]
December Picks
Reese Witherspoon has chosen Denise Mina’s Conviction as her December book club pick. Jenn Bush Hager chose Margaret Renkl’s Late Migrations as the December pick for the Today Show Book Club. Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for December is Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age (available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter collection) and their Featured Debut is Calvin Hennick’s Once More to the Rodeo. The rest of the picks: Children of Virtue and Vengeance, by Tomi Adeyemi Under Occupation, by Alan Furst The Playground, by Jane Shemilt Labyrinth of Ice, by Buddy Levy Anyone, by Charles Soule All […]
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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 […]
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 […]