Best of 2012 - Macmillan Library

Publishers Weekly’s 2012 Listen-Up Awards!

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Ali Fisher

Two beautifully read Macmillan Audio titles, SHINE SHINE SHINE and A HUNDRED FLOWERS, were selected for Publishers Weekly's 2012 Listen-Up Awards for Fiction!

Publishers Weekly's starred review for the audiobook of SHINE SHINE SHINE read, "While Jackson conveys all the book’s humor, her reading is also full of empathy, and she brings out the characters’ underlying humanity. This masterful, flawless narration of an imaginative novel is something special and not to be missed."

And don't forget, Nancy Pearl named SHINE SHINE SHINE one of her top ten favorite reads of the year!

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Kirkus Reviews’ Best Nonfiction of 2012!

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Ali Fisher

Huzzah! Kirkus Reviews continues their year-end celebration by inviting all of their top nonfiction picks to the party! 18 of their top 100 nonfiction selections were published or distributed by Macmillan this year:

WINTER JOURNAL By Paul Auster

VISIT SUNNY CHERNOBYL: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places By Andrew Blackwell

AFTERMATH: On Marriage and Separation By Rachel Cusk

CITY: A Guidebook for the Urban Age By P.D. Smith

THE TENDER HOUR OF TWILIGHT: Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age By Richard Seaver

WHAT MONEY CAN'T BUY: The Moral Limits of Markets By Michael J. Sandel

POWER, INC.: the Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government--and the Reckoning that Lies Ahead By David Rothkopf

HAITI: The Aftershocks of History By Laurent Dubois

FREEDOM'S CAP: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War By Guy Gugliotta

LIVING, THINKING, LOOKING: Essays By Siri Hustvedt

LEONARDO AND THE LAST SUPPER By Ross King

THE PATAGONIAN HARE: A Memoir By Claude Lanzmann

SAVAGE CONTINENT: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II By Keith Lowe

DESERT AMERICA: Boom and Bust in the New "New West" By Rubén Martínez

SUBVERSIVES: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power By Seth Rosenfeld

RED PLENTY By Francis Spufford

THE BIG SCREEN: The Story of the Movies By David Thomson

RISE TO GREATNESS: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year By David Von Drehle

See the the full Best Nonfiction of 2012 list from Kirkus Reviews. Also take a look at all of the great Macmillan titles in their Best of Fiction 2012! [...]

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TIME’s Top 10 Everything of 2012

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Ali Fisher

TIME posted their ever-ambitious Top 10 Everything of 2012 including a few fine fiction and nonfiction books from Macmillan!

Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2012

PEOPLE WHO EAT DARKNESS: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo — and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry

"Richard Lloyd Parry, the Tokyo bureau chief for the Times of London, tells the story as a true-crime thriller, one that exposes another layer of the strangeness of Japanese society with every twist: its attitude toward foreigners, the culture of its police, its media, its racial and sexual politics. It’s the fate of all true-crime books to be compared to IN COLD BLOOD, but this one stands up to the comparison better than most."

Top 10 Fiction Books of 2012

BRING UP THE BODIES by Hilary Mantel

"Mantel infuses Anne Boleyn’s progression from palace to executioner’s block with taut suspense; her exhilarating prose, unrivaled in contemporary fiction, renders Cromwell one of literature’s most compelling characters."

AT LAST by Edward St. Aubyn

"Abused by his father and neglected by his mother, Patrick grows up ravaged both by financial riches and emotional poverty, and as an adult he struggles with drugs, alcohol and his own fecklessness. His sense of humor, however, is unimpaired, and he never stops trying to make peace with his legacy and find his way to some semblance of happiness and mental health."

See TIME's Top 10 Fiction list starting here and their Top 10 Nonfiction list starting here. [...]

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Booklist’s Best Adult Books for Young Adults 2012

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Ali Fisher

We're very excited to see four of our fine titles on Booklist's 2012 Editors’ Choice list of the best Adult books for a Young Adult audience.

That Adult-to-Teen crossover appeal makes these titles special for us and accessible to all of your patrons.

Here are the Macmillan titles:

GIRLCHILD by Tupelo Hassman

LITTLE STAR by John Ajvide Lindqvist

THIS IS HOW: Proven to Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More, for Young and Old Alike by Augusten Burroughs

RAIDERS!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made by Alan Eisenstock and others

The full list has not been posted online, yet. When I see it, I will update this post. [...]

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The New York Times’ Notable Books of 2012!

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Ali Fisher

Wow! Twenty of the one hundred excellent selections from The New York Times' Notable Books of 2012 list are published or distributed by Macmillan! Take a look:

Fiction:

ALMOST NEVER By Daniel Sada

AN AMERICAN SPY By Olen Steinhauer

AT LAST By Edward St. Aubyn

THE BOOK OF MISCHIEF By Steve Stern

BRING UP THE BODIES By Hilary Mantel

BY BLOOD By Ellen Ullman

CITY OF BOHANE By Kevin Barry

THE FORGETTING TREE By Tatjana Soli

HHhH By Laurent Binet

HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? By Sheila Heti

THE RIGHT-HAND SHORE By Christopher Tilghman

SALVAGE THE BONES By Jesmyn Ward

SHINE SHINE SHINE By Lydia Netzer

THE STARBOARD SEA By Amber Dermont

SWIMMING HOME By Deborah Levy

Nonfiction:

ALL WE KNOW By Lisa Cohen

THE GREY ALBUM By Kevin Young

HAITI By Laurent Dubois

MY POETS By Maureen N. McLane

PEOPLE WHO EAT DARKNESS By Richard Lloyd Parry

SOMETIMES THERE IS A VOID By Zakes Mda

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Kirkus Reviews’ Best of Fiction 2012!

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Ali Fisher

Kirkus Reviews posted their mighty fine Best of Fiction 2012 complete list!

Commence boastful relisting of all of the excellent titles published and distributed by Macmillan:

THE HERMETIC MILLENNIA By John C. Wright

YOUNG PHILBY By Robert Littell

ZOO TIME By Howard Jacobson

THE BOOK OF MISCHIEF: New And Selected Stories By Steve Stern

THE SURVIVOR By Gregg Hurwitz

SIMPLE By Kathleen George

THE COLDEST WAR By Ian Tregillis

HELL OR HIGH WATER By Joy Castro

BRING UP THE BODIES By Hilary Mantel

THE INFINITE TIDES By Christian Kiefer

THE DREAM OF THE CELT By Mario Vargas Llosa

CLIFF WALK By Bruce DeSilva

A WOMAN OF CONSEQUENCE By Anna Dean

KINGS OF MIDNIGHT By Wallace Stroby

RANGE OF GHOSTS By Elizabeth Bear

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR By Brad Parks

RIZZO'S DAUGHTER By Lou Manfredo

THE SCAR By Sergey Dyachenko

RAINSHADOW ROAD By Lisa Kleypas

BLOODLAND By Alan Glynn

See the complete Best of Fiction 2012 list on KirkusReviews.com.

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Monday Fun Day! (11/19/2012 Edition)

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Ali Fisher

All aboard the short weeeeek!

I know you're all super busy getting your desks and bellies ready for Thanksgiving feasting, but I want to take a minute to celebrate all of the truly amazing books that we published and distributed this year that made Library Journal's best of lists!

Library Journal's Best Books 2012:

HALF-BLOOD BLUES by Esi Edugyan

GIRLCHILD by Tupelo Hassman

A LADY CYCLIST'S GUIDE TO KASHGAR by Suzanne Joinson

Library Journal's Best of Genre 2012:

Business:

THE SEVEN PEARLS OF FINANCIAL WISDOM by Carol Pepper and Camilla Webster

POWER, INC. by David Rothkopf

UNACCOUNTABLE by Martin Makary

Sci – Tech:

THE SONG OF THE APE by Andrew R. Halloran

Memoir:

AFTERMATH by Rachel Cusk

THE SCIENTISTS by Marco Roth

Historical Fiction:

A LADY CYCLIST'S GUIDE TO KASHGAR by Suzanne Joinson (again!)

Mystery:

A FATAL WINTER by G. M. Malliet

Thriller:

THE SURVIVOR by Gregg Hurwitz

Women’s Fiction:

SHINE SHINE SHINE by Lydia Netzer

Graphic Novels:

SAILOR TWAIN by Mark Siegel

Congratulations to all of the authors on their excellent achievements! To see the rest of the Best of Genre Fiction head over to LibraryJournal.com.

In other news...

I wasn't the only one who paid a visit to a cozy homestead full of cats this month. Librarian Lesa of Lesa's Book Critiques spent a few days at the Chapel Hill branch of the Macmillan Library Marketing Department (a.k.a. the Sherer's new home)! She reported on all of their adventures—literary, culinary and otherwise—in Life at the Sherer's.

"Books, food, animals. It's all a treat with John and Talia." —Lesa

Rumor says Marcie is a five-star hostess.

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