‘Scuse us while we celebrate: we’ve got TEN nominees on the 2014 National Book Awards longlist! Longlist for Fiction WOLF IN WHITE VAN by John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) LILA by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Longlist for Nonfiction CAN’T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT by Roz Chast (Bloomsbury) NO GOOD MEN […]
Reviews and Publicity
Thriller Thursday (9/18/14 Edition)
What else do these mysteries have in common besides starting with the letter “B”? “M” for MURDER! BROADCHURCH by Erin Kelly This “surprisingly well-written and solid thriller” (Library Journal, starred review) novelization of the hit television show Broadchurch follows Detectives Alec Hardy and Ellie Miller as they search for a young boy’s killer in a […]
Stars for DEEP DOWN DARK
It’s hard to believe it’s been four years since the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, trapping 33 miners underground for a record-breaking 69 days. In DEEP DOWN DARK, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Héctor Tobar shares the untold stories of the miners through exclusive interviews. DEEP DOWN DARK is landing on Fall reading lists, […]
Happy Belated #BookBday to WOLF IN WHITE VAN
Today we’d like to wish a belated #BookBday to WOLF IN WHITE VAN by John Darnielle, who also happens to be the front man of the indie band The Mountain Goats. In this literary debut, teenager Sean Phillips is isolated by a horrific injury that left him disfigured. He seeks solace in creating new worlds […]
Stars for POLITICAL ORDER AND POLITICAL DECAY
For those of you who like your history and politics on the meaty side, the wait is nearly over for Francis Fukuyama’s POLITICAL ORDER AND POLITICAL DECAY: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. In this second volume (after THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ORDER), Fukuyama examines how societies and their political institutions have […]
Stars for MANDELA: My Prisoner, My Friend
This Friday, we’re reading Christo Brand’s riveting biography: MANDELA: My Prisoner, My Friend. Afrikaner Brand was a prison guard in the maximum security facility on remote Robben Island, given charge of the country’s most infamous inmate: Nelson Mandela. Over 12 years, Brand became Mandela’s confidant and accomplice, celebrating his prisoner’s triumphs and suffering through his […]
Stars for THE DELTA
If you love breakneck thrillers with strong female heroines, Tony Park’s THE DELTA has your name written all over it! THE DELTA stars ex-soldier turned assassin-for-hire Sonja Kurtz, who’s been tasked with killing the president of Zimbabwe but it’s a set up and the assassination attempt fails. Determined to lay low and take it easy, […]
Thriller Thursday (9/11/14 Edition)
Today’s #ThrillerThursday features two debut mysteries and two new thrillers from prolific veteran writers: NIGHT OF THE JAGUAR by Joe Gannon Former Nicaraguan Sandinista guerrilla comandante-turned-cop Ajax Montoya investigates a series of murders that appear to be political executions in this “impressive”* debut novel with “beautiful, emotion-drenched prose… The novel’s considerable power is in the […]
Are You Ready For Some Football (Books)?!
Football fans, rejoice—a new season is here! If you prefer to read about athletes instead of watching them, check out these books hitting the shelves this fall: STRIKING GRIDIRON: A Town’s Pride and a Team’s Shot at Glory During the Biggest Strike in American History by Greg Nichols In 1959, the iconic mill town of […]
Library Journal Editors’ Fall picks
Library Journal editors revealed the Fall 2014 books they’re looking forward to the most, and three of them are from Macmillan: BY THE BOOK: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review, edited by Pamela Paul “I had to put down BY THE BOOK to do real work,” I […]
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