Jenica Nasworthy has been promoted to managing editor and Katrina Groover moves up to senior production editor for Simon & Schuster Children’s and Paula Wiseman Books. In addition, Clare McGlade has been promoted to senior production editor for Atheneum and Margaret K. McElderry Books, while Rebecca Vitkus is now associate production editor for Aladdin and Simon Pulse. At Soho Press, Mark Doten has been promoted to vp, executive editor. Faye Bi joins Holiday House as publicity manager. Most recently, she was senior publicist at Simon & Schuster. Katie Cooper has joined Sourcebooks as digital content specialist. She was previously social media manager at Wyzant. […]
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Briefs: Kirkus Prize Winners, and More
KF Literary Scouting has been appointed scout for Tchelet in Israel and Eksmo in Russia. Awards The winners of the Kirkus Prize were announced Thursday night at a ceremony in Austin, TX. Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (Riverhead) won for fiction, and Jack E. Davis’s The Gulf (Liveright) took the nonfiction category. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (DCB) won in Young Readers’ Literature. Best Of The renamed New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Awards announced its ten best books of the year: Muddy, written by Michael Mahin, illustrated by Evan Turk Frida […]
Best Books of the Year Season Begins
Per tradition, PW and Canada’s Indigo start early with their picks for the 10 best books of the year: PW White Tears, Hari Kunzru (Knopf) Ill Will, Dan Chaon (Ballantine) In the Distance, Hernán Díaz (Coffee House) Grief Cottage, Gail Godwin (Bloomsbury) Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward (Scribner) Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India, Sujatha Gidla (FSG) The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost, Peter Manseau (HMH) The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein (Liveright) Extreme Cities: The Perils […]
Roy’s Novel Tops Amazon’s 20 Best Books of the Year So Far
Amazon issued their list of the 20 best books of 2017 so far on Wednesday afternoon, along with a package of selections across 12 categories. (Our preview advice was correct on Roy, Saunders, Hamid, Gay, and Grann, and though Tinti did not make Amazon’s top picks). Their top 20 (including 3 asterisked titles, featured in our Buzz Books samplers) are: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann Beartown, by Fredrik Backman Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid Priestdaddy, by Patricia Lockwood You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, by Sherman Alexie […]
The Very Best of the Best Books of 2016
A couple more notable “best of 2016” lists may still trickle in (USA Today tends to run at the very end of the year) but with a wealth of lists already out — we have counted 65 in all — it’s time for our final, comprehensive aggregation of the very best books of the year. (We will update this post as necessary over the next week or so to reflect any additional lists.) As has been the case from the very start, Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad is the runaway consensus “book of the year.” With 43 votes it smashed all the records, […]
The Best of Buzz Books
We’re closing in our final, aggregated lists of the very best of the best books of 2016. But first, it’s worth a special shout out to the 25 titles receiving at least one major “best of 2016” vote that were first featured long before publication in one of our two Buzz Books 2016 adult samplers. Nearly one in three Buzz Books ranks among the best of the year (and many of the others hit bestseller lists as well), and 10 titles were among the consensus most notable books of 2016. We’ll be back in early 2017 to announce the first […]