Goodreads launched their annual Choice Awards last week and Macmillan has a whopping 42 nominees in the running! Click here to vote for your favorites and we’ll keep you updated as the tournament progresses. Congrats to our 2016 Winners: TRULY MADLY GUILTY by Liane Moriarty (Best Fiction) and LEONARD by William Shatner (Best History & […]
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Happy #BookBday Jeffrey Archer!
Happy #BookBday to THIS WAS A MAN by Jeffrey Archer! The 7th and final volume in Jeffrey Archer’s New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles series brings the epic saga of the Clifton family’s love, loss, and ambition to a dazzling conclusion. “All of the trademark Archer storytelling elements are here in abundance—cliff-hanger chapters, mistaken identities, deaths, […]
PW Best Books of 2016
We’re barely into November, yet Publishers Weekly has already released their Best Books of 2016 list. Here are the Macmillan gems that made the cut: Top 10 (full list) WHAT BELONGS TO YOU by Garth Greenwell GUILTY THING: A Life of Thomas De Quincey by Frances Wilson Fiction (full list) WHAT BELONGS TO YOU by […]
Friday Reads: Language Arts
Today’s #FridayReads include two books on real and fake language, and an essay collection on making writing thrilling in all genres. WORDS ON THE MOVE: Why English Won’t – and Can’t – Sit Still (Like, Literally) by John McWhorter A bestselling linguist takes us on a lively tour of how the English language is evolving before our […]
Happy (Belated) #BookBday (9/21/16 Edition)
Happy belated #BookBday to: CANNIBALS IN LOVE by Mike Roberts “Roberts’ enthusiastic collection of linked stories follows Mike, whose muddled postcollege aspirations lead him to situations that test his manhood, artistic goals, and sense of place in the adult world. Unapologetically political and full of youthful whimsy, Roberts’ debut captures one man’s reluctant search for […]
2017 Carnegie Medals Longlist
We’re thrilled to have 7 nominees on the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Longlist! Fiction THE SPORT OF KINGS by C.E. Morgan THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS by Dominic Smith THE GOOD LIEUTENANT by Whitney Terrell Nonfiction MAD ENCHANTMENT: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by […]
2016 National Book Awards Longlist
We’ve got five nominees on the 2016 National Book Awards longlist! 2016 National Book Awards Longlist for Young People’s Literature WHEN THE MOON WAS OURS by Anna-Marie McLemore Poetry BESTIARY by Donika Kelly LOOK by Solmaz Sharif BLACKACRE by Monica Youn Fiction WHAT BELONGS TO YOU by Garth Greenwell The finalists will be announced on […]
Military History Roundup
History comes to life through fact and fiction in these books about World War II, the American Revolution, and our founding documents: KILLING THE RISING SUN: How America Vanquished World War II Japan by Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard The latest book in O’Reilly & Dugard’s multimillion-selling Killing series takes readers to the bloody tropical-island […]
Are You Ready for Some Football (Books)?!
Read your way off the sidelines and on the gridiron with these books about football: THE LEGEND OF JESSE SMOKE by Robert Bausch A Booklist Best Sports Fiction of 2016 pick! In this provocative and timely novel, Jesse Smoke is signed on as the first female quarterback of the Washington Redskins; yet her success is […]
Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize Longlist
Congratulations to the four Macmillan titles longlisted for the 2016 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize! THE BEAUTIFUL BUREAUCRAT by Helen Phillips THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM by Victor LaValle PRINCE OF DARKNESS: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire by Shane White LOCKDOWN ON RIKERS: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice […]