2020 YALSA Award Nominees

2020 YALSA Award Nominees

Congratulations to our nominees for YALSA’s 2020 Best Fiction for Young Adults list! THE GRACE YEAR by Kim LiggettAvailable now from Wednesday BooksAges 14 to 18 No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden.Girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, drive women mad with jealousy. They believe […]

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NYPL Spring 2019 Picks for Adults

NYPL Spring 2019 Picks for Adults

Trust the librarians! The stellar staff at the NYPL have picked their favorite adult books for Spring 2019, and Macmillan has quite a few on the list! AN EMERGENCY IN SLOW MOTION: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus by William Todd Schultz EVERYTHING UNDER by Daisy Johnson GRIST MILL ROAD by Christopher J. Yates THE […]

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Happy #PubDay

Happy #PubDay

Happy #bookbday to a LILAC GIRLS read-alike, a witty epistolary novel, and an SF favorite newly in hardcover! THE WARTIME SISTERS by Lynda Cohen Loigman For fans of LILAC GIRLS, the next powerful novel from the author of Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist THE TWO-FAMILY HOUSE about two sisters working in a WWII armory, each with […]

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Killing It! February 2019 LibraryReads List Edition

Killing It! February 2019 LibraryReads List Edition

FANTASTIC NEWS! Macmillan has FIVE February 2019 LibraryReads picks, including the highly coveted #1 spot, and a Hall of Famer! In the #1 spot:THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides A February 2019 Indie Next List Pick! After shooting her husband in the face, Alicia Berenson takes a vow of silence. Theo Faber is a criminal […]

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Adult Books for Teens

Adult Books for Teens

Booklist and School Library Journal have deemed these adult books to be great for teens . . . and we agree! SHE WAS THE QUIET ONE by Michele CampbellAlso available in audioWhen twin sisters Rose and Bel Enright enroll in The Odell School, a prestigious New Hampshire boarding school, it seems like the opportunity of a […]

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NYPL Best Books of 2018

NYPL Best Books of 2018

Librarians obviously have the best taste in books, so we’re super excited to share the New York Public Library’s 2018 Best Books for Adults!  Top Ten WOMAN WORLD by Aminder Dhaliwal Edge-of-Your-Seat Reads THE WIFE BETWEEN US by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen Escape to Another World SEMIOSIS by Sue Burke Fiction BROTHER by David […]

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LJ’s Best Fall 2018 & Winter 2019 Debuts

LJ’s Best Fall 2018 & Winter 2019 Debuts

Library Journal‘s best debuts of Fall 2018 & Winter 2019 include these 7 Macmillan titles: A BORROWING OF BONES by Paula Munier Both traumatized by war, retired soldier Mercy Carr and her bomb-sniffing Belgian Malinois Elvis are running in the Vermont woods when Elvis discovers an abandoned baby, which brings in state game warden Troy […]

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#BookBday (9/25/18 Edition)

#BookBday (9/25/18 Edition)

New week, new books! Happy #BookBday to: THE THREE ESCAPES OF HANNAH ARENDT: A Tyranny of Truth by Ken Krimstein Two starred reviews! “As Krimstein deftly weaves Arendt’s life and thought, he captures the excitement of the philosophical enterprise in both word (“THINKING HAS BECOME EROTIC. ELECTRIC, ECSTATIC”) and image: fine, wiry black lines with […]

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September 2018 Stars!

September 2018 Stars!

We’re seeing stars for these forthcoming new books: EVENING IN PARADISE: More Stories by Lucia Berlin “Wonderful… Berlin’s writing achieves a dreamy, delightful effect as it provides a look back through time. This collection should further bolster Berlin’s reputation as one of the strongest short story writers of the 20th century.” — Publishers Weekly, starred […]

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