Congratulations to Chris Whitaker and WE BEGIN AT THE END for winning the 2021 CWA Golden Dagger Award! More praise for WE BEGIN AT THE END: A LibraryReads pick + #1 Indie Next pick! “Whitaker crafts an absorbing plot around crimes in the present and secrets long buried, springing surprises to the very end.”–Kirkus Reviews, […]
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PEW Wins NYPL’s 2021 Young Lions Fiction Award
Congratulations to Catherine Lacey’s PEW for winning the New York Public Library’s 2021 Young Lions Fiction Award! More praise for PEW: A Chicago Public Library Best of 2020 pick, a Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2020 pick, a 2020 Carnegie Medal Longlister + 2 starred reviews! “Lacey’s talent shines in this masterful work, her best […]
2020 Nebula Award Winners!
Congrats to Macmillan’s 2020 Nebula Award winners! Best Novel: NETWORK EFFECT by Martha Wells Best Novella: RING SHOUT by P. Djèlí Clark Best Novelette: TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE by Sarah Pinsker […]
Remembering Ntozake Shange
Award-winning writer Ntozake Shange passed away last weekend at the age of 70. We are honored to have published SOME SING, SOME CRY (written with her sister Ifa Bayeza). Her works include the Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF, as well as SASSAFRASS, CYPRESS & […]
Paul Auster’s 4 3 2 1 Longlisted for Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction announced its 2017 longlist last week and and our very own 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster was included among the list of 13. The judges will pare down the longlist to a shortlist of 6, which will be announced in September. […]
Congratulations to our 2014 Award-Winners!
Fantastic news!!! ELEANOR & PARK by Rainbow Rowell has been named a 2014 Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult Literature and CHARM & STRANGE by Stephanie Kuehn has been named the 2014 winner of the William C. Morris Award, which honors a book written for young adults by a previously unpublished author!
** For more information about our teen titles, download the 2014 Books for Teens poster now or request a copy by e-mailing your full name, title & mailing address to library@macmillanusa.com. #librariansonly #kittensinspace
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Lydia Davis Awarded the Man Booker International Prize!
Master short story craftswoman Lydia Davis was recently awarded the 2013 Man Booker International Prize!
Davis is best known for her rich and precise stories, sometimes told in as few as two sentences. As Dave Eggers said, Davis "blows the roof off of so many of our assumptions about what constitutes short fiction." We're honored to have this literary expert on our list.
Read more about the judges' decision on TheManBookerPrize.com.
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Eleanor & Park Won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction!
UPDATE (6.19): We added a signed book sweepstakes to this post! See below for details!
We are absurdly happy to bring you the incredible (albeit totally unsurprising) news that Rainbow Rowell's young adult debut, ELEANOR & PARK, was awarded the 2013 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature for Fiction.
Congratulations, Rainbow!! Bravo and well-deserved!
The announcement was made this past week at BookExpo America and we invite you to watch the video posted below—Rainbow comes on screen near the end.
"Rowell presents her teen protagonists’ intelligent observations, extreme inner desires, and irrational feelings through compelling alternating narrations. She imbues the novel with rich character development, a spot-on depiction of the 1980s, and powerful descriptive passages. [...] It’s an honest, heart-wrenching portrayal of imperfect but unforgettable love." —The Horn Book
Again, we're so excited to see Rainbow honored for her extraordinary work. She will receive her award this October at Simmons College in Boston.
To see the full list of 2013 winners and honor books head to HBook.com.
Signed Book Sweepstakes!
UPDATE: This contest is now closed. Congratulations to winner Rachel Kitzmann, Childrens Librarian II at the Los Feliz branch of the Los Angeles Public Library!
We have one signed copy of ELEANOR & PARK as well as an (unsigned) galley of her latest YA novel, FANGIRL, for one lucky librarian!
Send Library-at-MacmillanUSA.com an e-mail including 1. your mailing address and 2. your current title (subject: Rowell Sweepstakes) by Friday, July 5th to be placed in the random drawing.
This sweepstakes is open to librarians in the United States. More eligibility details below.
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2013 RUSA Notable Books, Listen List, & Reading List
Thank you to the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) who share their fine reading and listening lists with us every year!
Below are the excellent titles published and distributed by Macmillan that were honored with a place on one of the 2013 lists.
Congratulations to all!
RUSA’s 2013 Notable Books List:
Outstanding fiction, nonfiction and poetry for adult readers.
Fiction:
HALF-BLOOD BLUES by Esi Edugyan
Nonfiction:
LEONARDO AND THE LAST SUPPER by Ross King
Poetry:
"Inferno" by Dante, Trans. Mary Jo Bang., Illus. Henrik Drescher
See all of the RUSA Notable Book winners here!
RUSA’s 2013 Listen List highlights:
Audiobooks that provide extraordinary listening experiences.
BRING UP THE BODIES by Hilary Mantel, Narrated by Simon Vance
THE INQUISITOR by Mark Allen Smith, Narrated by Ari Fliakos
MR PENUMBRA'S 24-HOUR BOOKSTORE by Robin Sloan, Narrated by Ari Fliakos
See the full Listen List here!
RUSA’s 2013 Reading List:
Top picks in adrenaline, mystery, romance, sci-fi, women’s fiction and other genres.
Adrenaline:
THE SURVIVOR by Gregg Hurwitz (short list)
THE INQUISITOR by Mark Allen Smith (short list)
Historical Fiction:
BRING UP THE BODIES by Hilary Mantel (WINNER)
Horror:
THE RITUAL by Adam Nevill (WINNER)
THIS BOOK IS FULL OF SPIDERS by David Wong (short list)
Mystery:
THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY by Louise Penny (short list)
DON'T EVER GET OLD by Daniel Friedman (short list)
See the full Reading List here!
Again, thank you to RUSA and to all of the hard-working librarians on their selection committees!
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Mantel Wins the Man Booker Prize… Again!
Major congratulations to Hilary Mantel who is one of only three Man Booker Prize-winning authors ever to have won the prize more than once! She also the first author ever to win with a sequel.
Yesterday she was awarded the prize for BRING UP THE BODIES, her second novel exploring Tudor history through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell.
The Man Booker Prize website said,
"Her resuscitation of Thomas Crowell–and with him the historical novel–is one of the great achievements of modern literature."
Hear, hear!
Your patrons (and yourselves, for that matter!) no longer have any excuse not to start in on this rich historical series. As the Man Booker Prize website said,
"Perhaps the real object of envy is not the winner–she thoroughly deserves her triumph–but the readers who have yet to open BRING UP THE BODIES. They have just won a prize too."
Read the full article on TheManBookerPrize.com.
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