Amazon listed their picks for best books of December, with Michael Connelly’s The Gods of Guilt the “spotlight pick,” and their featured debut is Sun-mi Hwang’s The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly. Inside the Dream Palace, Sherill Tippins Brown Dog, Jim Harrison Uncharted, Erez Aiden, Jean-Baptiste Michel The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, Isabel Greenberg Ten Years in the Tub, Nick Hornby The Apartment, Greg Baxter Jesus: The Human Face of God, Jay Parini The Kid, Ben Bradlee Jr., Ben Braddlee Jr. Dangerous Women, George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois At Costco, the Pennie’s Pick for the month is Jan-Philipp Sendker’s The Art […]
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Costa Shortlists, and More
In the UK, the shortlists were announced for the Costa Awards in four categories. Women claimed all the nominations for best novel, while men took most of the first novel slots: Novel Life After Life, Kate Atkinson Unexpected Lessons in Love, Bernardine Bishop Instructions for a Heatwave, Maggie O’Farrell All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld First Novel Idiopathy, Sam Byers Meeting the English, Kate Clanchy The Shock of the Fall, Nathan Filer Marriage Material, Sathnam Sanghera In Canada, trade magazine Quill & Quire named their top six works of fiction of the year: The Orenda, Joseph Boyden The Luminaries, Elizabeth […]
More 2013 Picks
The Christian Science Monitor published two lists of their top 15 works of fiction and nonfiction for 2013. Listed in numbered order, they are: Fiction The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, by Mohsin Hamid A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki Harvest, by Jim Crace We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo MaddAddam, by Margaret Atwood And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt Sycamore Row, by John Grisham We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by […]
Washington Post Picks 2013 Favorites
The Washington Post named their top 10 books of the year. Three of their picks (asterisked) are on our consensus “best of the best of” Top 10 so far, which we’ll start issuing officially next week: Nonfiction BOOK OF AGES, Jill Lepore DRINK, Ann Dowsett Johnston GOING CLEAR, Lawrence Wright THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT, Rick Atkinson THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE*, David Finkel Fiction A CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA*, Anthony Marra THE GOOD LORD BIRD*, James McBride HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN, Louise Penny THE SON*, Philipp Meyer THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS, Claire Messud Long lists feature the paper’s notable […]
LJ’s Top 10; Guardian First Book; O Magazine Favorite Reads
Library Journal has selected their top 10 books of 2013. (Four of those ten titles were first previewed early in the year prior to publication in our newly-added spring/summer “Winter Institute” edition of our free Publishers Lunch Buzz Books ebook samplers. We’re putting together the new version of that WI-timed sampler right now for release next January–and you can still download and share the big fall/winter edition, which included an additional title on the LJ list.) Claire of the Sea Light, Edwidge Danticat The Panopticon, Jenni Fagan NOS4A2, Joe Hill A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra Bleeding Edge, Thomas […]
People, Etc.
Alison Callahan will join Gallery Books on December 2 as executive editor. Previously she was executive editor at Doubleday. Shara Zaval has joined The Book Report Network as Editorial Manager of Kidsreads.com and Teenreads.com. Prior to moving to New York in September, Shara was a publicist with the Independent Publishers Group in Chicago. At Chronicle Books, Victoria Thomas has been promoted to associate sales manager. In the UK, David Higham Associates is taking over representation of the Anthony Burgess estate around the world. In awards news, the winners of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards included: Fiction: Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries […]