The NYT Book Review has posted their top 10 books of the year, along with top 10 lists from the newspaper’s three book critics. As usual, there’s a very small amount of overlap between Kakutani and Maslin’s favorite books and TBR’s Top 10. For the third straight year, Dwight Garner’s nonfiction choices have no intersection at all with the TBR’s favorites.) Book Review Top 10: Fiction THE ART OF FIELDING, by Chad Harbach (MK) TEN THOUSAND SAINTS, by Eleanor Henderson 11/22/63, by STEPHEN KING THE TIGER’S WIFE, by Téa Obreht (MK) SWAMPLANDIA!, by Karen Russell (JM) Fiction ARGUABLY, by Christopher […]
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Obreht and Otsuka Are Winners On Library Journal’s Top 10 List
Library Journal announced their top ten books of 2011, the consensus picks of their review editors. The list includes two of the NBA fiction finalists: Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty by Andrew Bolton and others (text) & Sølve Sundsbø (photogs.) (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz (Holt) Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (Algonquin) 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht (Random) The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (Knopf) The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips (Random) The Better Angels of Our Nature: […]
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Thomas LeBien will join Simon & Schuster as vp, senior editor, specializing in history and non-fiction. He was most recently at FSG, where he was publisher of the Hill & Wang and Scientific American imprints. LeBien starts at S&S on December 21 Rachel Vogel will join Mary Evans Inc. as foreign rights director and literary agent, effective November 28th, where she’ll continue to build her list of literary and upmarket fiction, narrative nonfiction and memoir. She has previously held positions at Movable Type, Lippincott Massie McQuilkin, and Maria Campbell Associates. Parhul Segal has joined NPR as digital associate editor for […]
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At Random House Struik in South Africa, founding managing director Stephen Johnson will step down in March 2012, the end of the unit’s fiscal year, as he reaches retirement age. Johnson will become chairman of the company’s board in April. Current managing director of London’s New Holland Publishers (and a former Struik md) Steve Connolly will return to South Africa to run Random House Struik as of April. Nicola Way will join Harper Children’s UK as marketing director in January. She was most recently a board director at Iris Nation, a UK integrated marketing agency. Sumya Ojakli has been named senior […]
Harbach Tops Amazon’s Best Books List of 2011
Amazon named their Top Ten Books of 2011, with Chad Harbach’s debut novel THE ART OF FIELDING as their No. 1 pick. The etailer’s ever-expanding “Best of” lists now include breakouts for over 20 different categories, from Art & Photography to Teens. In 15 of those categories they have separate Kindle and print-editions lists. Also new for this year is a list of Top 10 Kindle Singles. Interestingly, as best we can tell, nearly all of the various selections for the year’s best books were issued by “legacy publishers.” 1. The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach (Little, Brown) 2. […]
Eugenides, Patchett and Fey On PW’s 2011 Top 10 List
PW named their Top 10 books of 2011: Fiction The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (FSG) The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock (Doubleday) State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins) After the Apocalypse by Maureen McHugh (Small Beer) There but for the by Ali Smith (Pantheon) Nonfiction Bossypants by Tina Fey (Reagan Arthur Books) Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie (Random) Hemingway’s Boat by Paul Hendrickson (Knopf) One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina (Graywolf) Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve)