The Anthony Awards
Best Novel: WINNER: The Brutal Telling, by Louise Penny NOMINEE:The Shanghai Moon, by S.J. Rozan[...]
The National Book Award nominations were just announced, and one of our titles, Secret Historian, was nominated!
Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual
records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M.
Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century.
"Spring’s sympathetic and entertaining story of a life registers the
limitations imposed on homosexuals by a repressive society, but also
celebrates the creativity and daring with which Steward tested them." --Publishers Weekly
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Congratulations to Louise Penny, whose title The Brutal Telling just won the Agatha award!
First the Booklist Top Ten, then an Agatha? And Talia just talked about it in the Booklist Mystery & Crime webinar, which I think is as prestigious as both those awards combined! I think I smell a NBCC award, maybe even a Nobel Peace Prize! Ok, maybe that's a stretch.
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In their Year's Best Crime Novels roundup, Booklist selected four Minotaur titles!
Top Ten Best Crime
Novels:
Year's Best Debuts:
Congratulations!
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Not one, or even four, but FIVE Edgar Award nominees this year!
Best Novel: The Last Child, The Odds
Best First Novel by an American Author: A Bad Day for Sorry, In the Shadow of Gotham
Best Critical/Biographical: The Talented Miss Highsmith
And of those nominees, The Last Child and In the Shadow of Gotham WON!
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Congratulations to Macmillan's Pulitzer Prize finalists! How Markets Fail was nominated for Nonfiction, and Fordlandia for History.
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Congratulations to Hilary Mantel and her novel Wolf Hall, which just won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction! Last year the book won the Man Booker prize, and I got it for my dad for Christmas! I'm not sure which is the more prestigious accolade.
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Congratulations to the attached titles, all of which were nominated for the coveted Agatha award for excellence in mystery writing!
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Great Graphic Novels for Teens
Trotsky
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
The Chosen One
Best Books for Young Adults
The Chosen One
Alex Award
The Good Soldiers
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