Amazon announces its Best Books of 2013 lists, featuring lists in 20 different categories. Donna Tartt’s THE GOLDFINCH tops their 20 overall Editor’s Picks, which also feature, in order: Khaled Hosseini, AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED David Finkel, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE Kate Atkinson, LIFE AFTER LIFE Tom Kizzia, PILGRIM’S WILDERNESS Scott Anderson, LAWRENCE IN ARABIA George Saunders, TENTH OF DECEMBER Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbett, A HOUSE IN THE SKY Rainbow Rowell, ELEANOR AND PARK Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future? Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Anne McLean, The Sound of Things Falling Helene Wecker, The Golem and […]
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Laura Ferguson will join Open Road Media later this month as vp, special markets. Previously, she was director of premium, corporate and customer driven publishing at Simon & Schuster. Emily Keyes has joined Foreword Literary as an agent. Previously she was an agent at the L. Perkins Agency. French spy novelist Gerard de Villiers, 83, died Thursday in Paris of pancreatic cancer. De Villiers was the author of 200 novels featuring CIA contractor Malko Linge, the first appearing in 1964 and the last published in France last month. Five of his novels will be published by Vintage beginning in 2014, […]
Picks: PW’s Top 10, and Amazon’s November Favorites
As usual, PW goes early with their “Best Books of 2013,” a list with a number of unexpected picks (and including two of our “Buzz Books”*): Sea of Hooks, Lindsay Hill (McPherson & Co.) Going Clear, Lawrence Wright (Knopf) Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, Jeremy Scahill (Nation) Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury) *The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara (Doubleday) Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery, Robert Kolker (Harper) Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, Carla Kaplan (Harper) *A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra (Random/Hogarth) The Silence and the Roar, Nihad […]
NYT’s Best Illustrated Books of 2013
The season of picks begins as the New York Times Book Review names their selections for 10 Best Illustrated Children’s Books for 2013: My Brother’s Book, by Maurice Sendak Ballad, written and illustrated by Blexbolex, translated by Claudia Z. Bedrick Jemmy Button, by Jennifer Uman and Valerio Vidali The Dark, written by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Jon Klassen Holland, by Charlotte Dematons Journey, by Aaron Becker Fog Island, by Tomi Ungerer Jane, The Fox and Me, written by Fanny Britt, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault, translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou Locomotive, by Brian Floca Nelson Mandela, by Kadir Nelson
Amazon’s Best Books of Early 2013
Amazon’s editors have posted their “best books of the year so far” lists across multiple categories. Their overall top 10 so far includes four titles first available to readers in our spring/summer edition of Buzz Books 2013 (published right before the ABA’s Winter Institute), asterisked below: 1. Life After Life, Kate Atkinson* 2. The Son, Philipp Meyer* 3. Frozen in Time, Mitchell Zuckoff 4. The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer* 5. And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini 6. Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell 7. Gulp, Mary Roach 8. After Visiting Friends, Michael Hainey 9. Tenth of December, George Saunders 10. The Golem […]
The Final Lists: Announcing The Best of the Best of 2012
We have aggregated and tabulated over 50 “Best Books of 2012” lists from retailers, newspapers, magazines, trades, individual critics, major awards and more to once again announce the consensus, absolute Best of the Best of 2012. The two top titles, Katherine Boo’s BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS and Hilary Mantel’s BRING UP THE BODIES, will come as no surprise. Every time we’ve done this a relatively small group of titles feel like they are on “everyone’s” lists, though this year Boo and Mantel were indeed found on more lists than ever before. (Last year’s No. 1, Tea Obreht’s THE TIGER’S WIFE, would […]