We’re waving our rainbow flag in support of our 2017 Publishing Triangle Awards finalists, honoring the best LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the year’s best trans and gender-variant literature: Finalists for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction ABANDON ME by Melissa Febos Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry SOME SAY: Poems […]
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Happy Women’s History Month/International Women’s Day 2018!
March is Women’s History Month and today we celebrate International Women’s Day! Get inspired by our 2018 ALA Amelia Bloomer Project Book List titles (best feminist books): GIRLS MADE OF SNOW AND GLASS by Melissa Bashardoust DOWN AMONG THE STICKS AND BONES by Seanan McGuire A HOPE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE SEA by Melissa Fleming […]
2018 Lammy Awards Finalists
The Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF) announced the finalists for the 30th annual Lambda Literary Awards (a.k.a. the “Lammys”) celebrating achievements in LGBTQ literature. We’re waving our rainbow flag in support of these nine nominees from Macmillan! Lesbian Fiction HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado Gay Fiction THE END OF EDDY by Edouard […]
NYPL Winter 2018 Staff Picks
Patience & Fortitude are roaring about our New York Public Library Winter 2018 staff picks! HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado IT ENDED BADLY: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright THE BLACK TIDES OF HEAVEN by JY Yang KNOTS: Stories by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated by Kari Dickson ARBITRARY […]
2018 LA Times Book Prize Nominees
The Los Angeles Times announced their 2018 Book Prize finalists and we’ve got 5 nominees (and one winner!): Current Interest LOCKING UP OUR OWN: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. History LONDON’S TRIUMPH: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare’s City by Stephen Alford Graphic Novel/Comics PRESENT by Leslie Stein – WINNER! […]
2017 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists
The National Book Critics Circle honored three Macmillan authors and named seven of our titles as finalists for the 2017 NBCC Awards: Fiction THE NINTH HOUR by Alice McDermott Nonfiction BORDER: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova Biography PRAIRIE FIRES: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser Autobiography […]
2018 PEN Literary Awards Nominees (& Winners!)
UPDATE 2/21/18: Congratulations to our 2018 PEN Literary Award winners: PEN/Jean Stein Book Award WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award THE BUTCHERING ART: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction Edmund White (THE UNPUNISHED VICE) […]
NPR’s 2017 Book Concierge Picks
NPR’s Book Concierge is live and it includes nearly 50 Macmillan titles!! 300 ARGUMENTS: Essays by Sarah Manguso 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster AFFLUENCE WITHOUT ABUNDANCE: The Disappearing World Of The Bushmen by James Suzman AGE OF ANGER: A History Of the Present by Pankaj Mishra THE ANSWERS by Catherine Lacey AUTONOMOUS by […]
People, Time Magazine, HuffPo & More “Best of 2017” Picks
People Magazine‘s Top 10 Books of 2017 THE VANITY FAIR DIARIES by Tina Brown THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS by Laurie Frankel Time Magazine Fiction (full list) THE NINTH HOUR by Alice McDermott TRANSIT by Rachel Cusk Nonfiction (full list) THE VANITY FAIR DIARIES by Tina Brown THE MEANING OF MICHELLE: 16 Writers on […]
Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2017
The Los Angeles Times‘s Best Books of 2017 lists include 5 Macmillan titles! Best Fiction (full list) SO MUCH BLUE by Percival Everett HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado BORNE by Jeff VanderMeer Best Nonfiction (full list) HIGH NOON: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic by Glenn Frankel […]