We are so excited to share with you the Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2024! TOP 10 SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE: Con Men, Conspiracies, and How America Cracked Up the Early 1990s by John Ganz FICTION THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS by Ayşegül Savaş […]
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Happy Earth Day 2019!
Happy Earth Day! Check out our new and essential books on everything from climate change to fracking: LOSING EARTH: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich “Rich, a novelist (KING ZENO, 2018) and journalist, turns his widely discussed 2018 investigation for the New York Times Magazine into an exceedingly well-written history of the early political battles […]
AMITY AND PROSPERITY is a Pulitzer Prize Winner!
The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners have been announced, and AMITY AND PROSPERITY: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold takes the win in General Nonfiction! In AMITY AND PROSPERITY, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of […]
2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists
The Los Angeles Times announced the finalists for their 2018 Book Prize, and Macmillan has 7 titles in the running! Graphic Novels/ComicsSHIT IS REAL by Aisha Franz THE STRANGE by Jérôme Ruillier HistoryTHE BROWNS OF CALIFORNIA: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation by Miriam Pawel PoetryWILD IS THE WIND: Poems […]
2019 PEN America Literary Award Finalists
Macmillan has TEN finalists for the 2019 PEN American Literacy Awards! PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTIONA LUCKY MAN: Stories by Jamel Brinkley HALF GODS by Akil Kumarasamy PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR A DEBUT NOVELSEVERANCE by Ling Ma PEN OPEN BOOK AWARDEYE LEVEL: Poems by Jenny Xie PEN TRANSLATION PRIZENEVADA DAYS by Bernardo […]
2019 PEN America Literary Award Longlist
The 2019 PEN Literary Awards longlist includes 14 Macmillan titles! WOO HOO! PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTIONA LUCKY MAN: Stories by Jamel Brinkley HALF GODS by Akil Kumarasamy PEN OPEN BOOK AWARDBROTHER by David Chariandy EYE LEVEL: Poems by Jenny Xie PEN TRANSLATION PRIZENEVADA DAYS by Bernardo Atxaga CODEX 1962: A Trilogy by Sjón PEN AWARD […]
New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018
Another day, another favorites list! Read on for the Times’s staff critics’ choices of the best fiction and nonfiction books of 2018. EVENING IN PARADISE: More Stories by Lucia Berlin KUDOS by Rachel Cusk MOTHERHOOD by Sheila Heti NINETY-NINE GLIMPSES OF PRINCESS MARGARET by Craig Brown AMITY AND PROSPERITY: One Family and the Fracturing of […]
New York Times Notable Books of 2018
Oh happy happy day! The New York Times picked 13 Macmillan titles to join their Notable Books of 2018 list. GO US! Fiction EARLY WORK by Andrew Martin EVERYTHING UNDER by Daisy Johnson KUDOS by Rachel Cusk THE NEIGHBORHOOD by Mario Vargas Llosa; Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman THE PARKING LOT ATTENDANT by […]
Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2018
Drumroll, please…. Here are the most anticipated books of Summer 2018, according to major media: New York Times — “Refreshing Books to Read This Summer” TEN ARGUMENTS FOR DELETING YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS RIGHT NOW by Jaron Lanier SOMETHING WONDERFUL: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution by Todd S. Purdum THE PARKING LOT ATTENDANT by Nafkote […]
Friday Reads: Superstars
Weekend, here we come with these multi-starred #FridayReads in tow: THE MERE WIFE by Maria Dahvana Headley “Headley’s fourth novel is a stunner: a darkly electric reinterpretation of Beowulf that upends its Old English framework to comment on the nature of heroes and how we ‘other’ those different from ourselves. A strange tale told with […]