Here is our weekly updated aggregation of the best of Best Books of 2020 lists, now with over 50 lists tabulated. As has been the case all along, Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste leads the overall Top 10 and is in line to be the first nonfiction book to rank as Book of the Year since we started these compilations. Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half continues to lead among works of fiction, where a pretty clear top 10 list is emerging as well: The Very Best of the Best Books of 2020: Top 10 Overall 1. Caste, Isabel Wilkerson [22] 2. The […]
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Beth Polcari has been promoted to president, international, at Scholastic, starting January 1. She succeeds Nelson Hitchcock, who will retire at the end of the year after 15 years. Rose Else-Mitchell is rejoining the company as president, education solutions, and will work with current Scholastic Education president Greg Worrell and Polcari to combine their existing divisions into a single education solutions group over the next six months, which Ms. Else-Mitchell will lead starting June 1. After the transition, Worrell will continue to advise on strategic partnerships until his retirement in December 2021 after 30 years. Polcari, Else-Mitchell, and Worrell will […]
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USA Today’s best of 2020 list is the latest to land. Here is our weekly updated aggregation of the best of Best Books of 2019 lists, now with over 40 lists tabulated. Per last week’s initial glimpse, Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste remains the clear leader for consensus book of the year honors, with a number of novels receiving recognition. Today we split out a full top 10 in the making for fiction, along with a clear top 5 in nonfiction: The Very Best of the Best Books of 2020: Fiction 1. The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett [12] 2. Homeland Elegies, Ayad […]
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People chose its top 10 books of the year, including titles by Sue Miller and Brit Bennett, excerpted and available for download now in our Buzz Books 2020 sampler. 1. Hidden Valley Road, by Robert Kolker 2. Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell 3. A Promised Land, by Barack Obama 4. What Are You Going Through, by Sigrid Nunez 5. Notes on a Silencing, by Lacy Crawford 6. Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson 7. Writers & Lovers, by Lily King 8. Monogamy, by Sue Miller 9. The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett 10. The Lying Life of Adults, by Elena Ferrante The Wall […]
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At Macmillan, Dan Schwartz has been promoted to chief financial officer, US trade & shared services, reporting jointly to ceo Don Weisberg and global coo Andrew Weber. Clare O’Rourke has been promoted to evp, finance & accounting. Cameron Ackroyd will join on January 4 as svp, trade finance, overseeing the trade finance and data science teams. He previously directed the business management and finance group for Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Former ceo of Macmillan John Sargent left the company earlier this week. Removed as president and publisher of Ecco in September, Daniel Halpern will leave the company on December 31, […]
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Colin Dickerman will join Grand Central as vp, editorial director/nonfiction, on January 19, 2021. He was most recently executive editor at Farrar, Straus. Emma Bal will join the Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency as a nonfiction agent on February 1. She was previously head of publicity for nonfiction at Bloomsbury UK. At UNC Press, publicity director Gina Mahalek is retiring after 20 years. Peter L. Perez will join in January in the newly created position of director of public relations and communications. He was most recently public relations and communications director at University of California Press. Sonya Bonczek […]