Owner of WORD bookstores Christine Onorati has an “open letter” of interest posted at Melville House’s website. She writes because, “I believe that we are at a crossroads in our industry, and, for the first time, I’m genuinely worried for our future. I think that we need to start brainstorming new business models and figuring out how to make the retail equation work in our favor so that we can stay afloat. Many of us will not make it; Amazon bookstores, online competition, skyrocketing rents, increased minimum wage, lack of young booksellers who choose this industry as a viable career — […]
Libraries
More May Picks: Library Reads, iBooks
Gail Honeyman’s novel Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine tops the May Library Reads list. The list features a number of titles excerpted in our Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer, including The Radium Girls, by Kate Moore; Since We Fell, by Dennis Lehane (also included in our May Buzz Books Monthly); and Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig. The rest of the list: The Leavers, by Lisa Ko Saints for All Occasions, but J. Courtney Sullivan White Hot, by Ilona Andrews Sycamore, by Bryn Chancellor Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil de Grasse Tyson The Jane Austen Project, by Kathleen A. […]
Strout Leads April Library Reads List
Elizabeth Strout’s novel Anything Is Possible tops the April Library Reads list. The list also includes Omar El Akkad’s American War, an excerpt of which you can start reading now in both our big Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer, and our slimmer just-released April Buzz Books Monthly. The rest of the list features: Beartown, by Fredrik Backman Waking Gods, by Sylvain Neuvel Miss You, by Kate Eberlen The Stars Are Fire, by Anita Shreve Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann The Shadow Land, by Elizabeth Kostova A Twist In Time, by Julie McElwain Gone Without a Trace, by Mary Torjussen
Tinti Leads March Library Reads List
Hannah Tinti’s novel The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley tops the March Library Reads list. The list also includes Jessica Shattuck’s The Women in the Castle, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer, also featured in the just-released March Buzz Books Monthly. The rest of the list features: The Wanderers, by Meg Howrey The Bone Witch, by Rin Chupeco The Hearts of Men, by Nickolas Butler Eggshells, by Catriona Lally Say Nothing, by Brad Parks The Stranger in the Woods, by Michael Finkel The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, by Lisa See If […]
Mackintosh’s I See You Tops February Library Reads List
Clare Mackintosh’s sophomore suspense thriller I See You tops the February 2017 Library Reads list. The list also includes Elan Mastai’s debut All Our Wrong Todays and A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline, excerpts of which you can read right now in our February Buzz Books Monthly. Download it now for free (at Amazon, iBooks and Google Play, or get it from NetGalley where it’s a Spotlight Pick) and share it with your reader communities to help build buzz for all of publishing in February. The rest of the February Library Reads includes: Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman (Norton) My […]
Delaney Tops January Library Reads List
J.P. Delaney’s suspense thriller The Girl Before tops the January 2017 Library Reads list. Books on this list that also appear on the January Indie Next list include: The Second Mrs. Hockaday, by Susan Rivers The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden The Dry, by Jane Harper Books for Living, by Will Schwalbe The Most Dangerous Place on Earth, by Lindsey Lee Johnson Her Every Fear, by Peter Swanson The rest of the list features: Behind Her Eyes, by Sarah Pinborough The Fifth Petal, by Brunonia Barry Heartstone, by Elle Katharine White In Best of 2016 lists, you can […]