End of year lists will heat up after the holiday, but there are already a few picks of note to catch up on. Most recently, embedded in their new multi-category “gift guide” Barnes & Noble appears to pick their favorite fiction for 2015, leaning heavily towards what they are selling: Armada, by Ernest Cline After Alice, by Gregory Maguire The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, by Stephen King City on Fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg Come Rain or Come Shine, by Jan Karon Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins Go Set a Watchman, […]
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Three NBA Nominees On Washington Post’s 10 Best of 2015
Before the awards were handed out Wednesday, the Washington Post issued their picks for the 10 best books of the year, including National Book Award nominees Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lauren Groff and Hanya Yanagihara. (Indeed, these three are already the clear leaders in our annual aggregation of the Best of the Best of Lists.) The full package includes the Post’s traditional larger lists of notable fiction and nonfiction, along with a number of category lists. The full top 10 are: Nonfiction Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, Joby Warrick Future Crimes, Marc Goodman Negroland, Margo Jefferson Destiny […]
Groff’s Fates and Furies Is Amazon’s Book of the Year
Amazon editors have posted their annual package of picks for best books of the year — from a top 100 books list to a roster of top 20 picks across more than 20 categories. Their top 20 books overall (including four books first previewed in one of our Buzz Books samplers: 1. Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff* 2. Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates 3. Becoming Nicole, by Amy Ellis Nutt 4. An Ember in the Ashes, by Sabaa Tahir* 5. The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah 6. The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough 7. H is for […]
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Millicent Bennett will join Grand Central as executive editor on November 30. Previously she was a senior editor at Simon & Schuster’s adult trade imprint. Penguin Random House Asia Pacific ceo Gabrielle Coyne is leaving, effective immediately after more than 25 years with the company, in what Australia’s The Age calls, “a move that has taken authors and fellow publishers by surprise.” Succeeding her is Julie Burland, previously director, children’s division, Random House Australia and business development, Random House Australia. Separately, Margie Seale has been named non-executive chairman for Penguin Random House Australia and New Zealand. As a result of the […]
PW’s 10 Best of 2015
Also following tradition, PW goes early with their list of the 10 best books of 2015. Always a little quirky, this year’s list leans male (seven of the titles) and international (including three novels in translation): Nonfiction Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau) The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, Andrea Wulf (Knopf) Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, William Finnegan (Penguin Press) The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson (Graywolf) Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, Timothy Snyder (Tim Duggan Books) Fiction The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante, trans. by Ann Goldstein (Europa) Delicious Foods, James Hannaham (Little, Brown) Imperium, Christian Kracht, […]
Best ofs Begin, with the NYT’s Illustrated Children’s Favorites
We officially start transitioning from awards season to best of the year season, as the NYT Book Review takes the traditional lead with their list of the Best Illustrated Children’s Books. (Two are written by Mac Barnett, and two of the books on the list are about the Eiffel Tower.) Big Bear Little Chair, by Lizi Boyd A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat, by Emily Jenkins, illustrated by Sophie Blackall Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras, by Duncan Tonatiuh Leo: A Ghost Story, by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Christian Robinson Madame Eiffel: The Love […]