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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More Top Tens: People, LA Times, Wall Street Journal
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 […]
More Best Of: Apple Books, Chicago Tribune
Apple Books announced their best books of the year: The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett 28 Summers, by Elin Hilderbrand Long Bright River, by Liz Moore Deep State, by Chris Hauty The Last Flight, by Julie Clark Reborn Yesterday, by Tessa Bailey The Roommate, by Rosie Danan The City We Became, by N. K. Jemisin Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke We Are Not Free, by Traci Chee Silver Arrow, by Lev Grossman The Velvet Rope Economy, by Nelson D. Schwartz Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read, by Philippa Perry My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, by […]
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Anthony LaSasso has joined Steerforth Press as publicity director. He was most recently at Sterling Publishing. Jennifer Udden has left New Leaf Literary & Media to do freelance editing. Lydia Zoells has been promoted to assistant editor at MCD/Farrar, Straus. Evelyn M. Duffy, longtime researcher for Bob Woodward, is launching a her own Washington D.C.-based editing and coaching firm for nonfiction writers in 2021. Duffy has edited and coached other journalists on their books, and worked on the drafting, reporting, editing, production and marketing for Woodward’s six books since 2007. Forthcoming Bob Woodward and Robert Costa are co-writing a book […]