Congratulations to Yvonne Battle-Felton, whose book CURDLE CREEK has won the 2024 Shirley Jackson Award in the novel category! You can see the full list of winners by clicking on this link. “The debt to Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ is obvious, but Battle-Felton is drawing from a deeper well of influences, including Toni Morrison’s lyricism, the […]
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LINDA CASTILLO is a Double Edgar Award Winner
Congratulations to Linda Castillo for a double win at the 2024 Edgar Awards! The Mystery Writers of America have announced the winners of the Edgar Awards, and author Linda Castillo had two wins! Best Short Story HALLOWED GROUND BY LINDA CASTILLO The G.P Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award AN EVIL HEART BY LINDA CASTILLO […]

2023 ITW Thriller Award Winners
Congratulations to our 2023 ITW Thriller Award Winners! Best Hardcover Novel SUNDIAL by Catriona Ward Best First Novel THE RESEMBLANCE by Lauren Nossett Best Audiobook THINGS WE DO IN THE DARK by Jennifer Hillier, Narrated by Carla Vega Best Young Adult Novel DAUGHTER by Kate McLaughlin […]

2021 CWA Dagger Award Winner
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, […]

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 4321 Longlisted for Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction announced its 2017 longlist last week and and our very own 4321 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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