Looking for a new memoir to sit down with? We’ve got plenty to recommend today! DREAMING OF HOME: A Young Latina’s Journey to Pride, Power, and Belonging BY CRISTINA JIMÉNEZ 9781250275660 | 4/29/25 Cristina Jiménez’s family fights to stay afloat as Ecuador falls into a political and economic crisis. When she is thirteen, her parents […]
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PW’s Best Books to Read This Summer (3/29/23)
Publishers Weekly is calling these the best books of the summer! STAFF PICKS GONE TO THE WOLVES BY JOHN WRAY Available for download on Edelweiss know more. LibraryReads votes due by April 1st. 2 starred reviews! “Wray writes about music with the enthusiasm of a fan and the precision of a critic, packing the pages […]
Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2020
Publishers Weekly‘s Best Books of 2020 are here, and 24 Macmillan titles made the list! Top 10 THE ADDRESS BOOK: A Hidden History of Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre MaskTHE DRAGONS, THE GIANT, THE WOMEN: A Memoir by Wayétu MooreTHE LAST GREAT ROAD BUM by Héctor TobarA SAINT FROM TEXAS by Edmund White […]
Extra! Extra!: August Book News
Here are the headlines you may have missed this month. DEADLINE announced that Thomas Jane, of The Expanse stardom, will be starring in and executive producing ‘Troppo,’ the series adaption of CRIMSON LAKE by Candice Fox. NPR reviews I HOLD THE WOLF BY THE EARS + TROUBLE THE SAINTS + HARROW THE NINTH. The New […]
Lambda Award Finalists
The Lambda Literary Awards honor the best in LGBTQ books, and this year’s finalists include NINE Macmillan titles! Gay Fiction HISTORY OF VIOLENCE by Édouard Louis SOME HELL by Patrick Nathan Bisexual Fiction THE BEST BAD THINGS by Katrina Carrasco Gay Poetry WILD IS THE WIND: Poems by Carl Phillips Lesbian Mystery A WHISPER OF […]
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 2016 Book Concierge & More “Best of 2016” Picks
NPR’s Book Concierge is live! Nearly 40 Macmillan titles are included in the various 2016 recommendation lists: ALL THAT MAN IS by David Szalay (Staff Picks, Realistic Fiction, Tales From Around the World) ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY by Charlie Jane Anders (It’s All Geek to Me, Love Stories, Science, Science Fiction & Fantasy) […]
2014 Lambda Award Finalists
The 27th annual Lambda Literary Award finalists were announced today and we have eight terrific nominees from Macmillan! Gay General Fiction BITTER EDEN by Tatamkhulu Afrika Gay Memoir/Biography INSIDE A PEARL: My Years in Paris by Edmund White Lesbian General Fiction NEW YORK 1, TEL AVIV 0 by Shelly Oria Lesbian Mystery THE OLD DEEP […]
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014 nominees
We're pleased to announce that Macmillan has 17 books longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, which honors works of fiction with high literary merit. Nominees include:
BRING UP THE BODIES by Hilary Mantel
THE DREAM OF THE CELT by Mario Vargas Llosa
THE FORRESTS by Emily Perkins
HHhH by Laurent Binet
THE HOUSE I LOVED by Tatiana de Rosnay
THE HUNGER ANGEL by Herta Müller
IGNORANCE by Michèle Roberts
JACK HOLMES AND HIS FRIEND by Edmund White
A LADY CYCLIST’S GUIDE TO KASHGAR by Suzanne Joinson
THE LIGHT OF AMSTERDAM by David Park
MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND by Matthew Dicks
MR. PENUMBRA’S 24-HOUR BOOKSTORE by Robin Sloan
MY STRUGGLE: Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
PAINTER OF SILENCE by Georgina Harding
A POSSIBLE LIFE by Sebastian Faulks
THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT by Ned Beauman
TRAVELER OF THE CENTURY by Andrés Neuman
View the full list of nominees here.
The shortlist will be announced on April 9, 2014 and the Lord Mayor of Dublin will announce the winner on June, 12 2014. Congratulations!
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