Goodreads launched their annual Choice Awards yesterday and Macmillan has a whopping 47 nominees in the running! Click here to vote for your favorites and we’ll keep you updated as the tournament progresses. Voting Schedule Opening Round: Oct. 31 – Nov. 5 Semifinal Round: Nov. 7 – 12 Final Round: Nov. 14 – 27 Winners […]
Tag: Jeff VanderMeer
Booklist’s Top 10 SF / Fantasy
And you better take their word for it… ‘Cause it’s Booklist y’all, and they know a thing or two about a thing or two… Borne by Jeff VanderMeer VanderMeer marries bildungsroman, domestic drama, love story, and survival thriller into one compelling story centered around complex, vulnerable characters struggling with what it means to be human. […]
Movie Tie-Ins 09/08
It’s a book! It’s a movie! It’s a book and a movie! DISCUSS! Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer The acclaimed bestseller, now a major motion picture from Alex Garland (“Ex Machina”), starring Natalie Portman Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman Now a major motion picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée […]
Memorial Day Weekend 2017 Reading Roundup
Memorial Day weekend is here (hooray!) and we’re stacking our to-read piles with these major media-recommended books: Entertainment Weekly — Summer’s Must-Read Books BOUNDLESS by Jillian Tamaki Cartoonist Tamaki dazzles with her impressive range in this collection, marrying each short story to a different artistic style. Whether she’s writing and drawing about the pitfalls of […]
2017 Locus Award Finalists
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists in each category of the 2017 Locus Awards and Macmillan has a strong showing! Best Science Fiction Novel COMPANY TOWN by Madeline Ashby DEATH’S END by Cixin Liu LAST YEAR by Robert Charles Wilson Best Fantasy Novel ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY by […]
Friday Reads: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Our #FridayReads are outta-this-world new sci-fi & fantasy titles, all on library shelves now! BORNE by Jeff VanderMeer One of Publishers Weekly‘s Best Books of Summer 2017 and Buzzfeed’s “Incredible New Books You Need To Read This Spring” with THREE starred reviews! “VanderMeer, author of the acclaimed Southern Reach trilogy, has made a career out […]
PW Best Books of Summer 2017
Publishers Weekly’s editors recently selected their Best Books of Summer 2017, including these seven Macmillan titles: Staff Picks (full list) BORNE by Jeff VanderMeer “About that thing on the cover—is it a genetically modified bird-of-paradise? Some cousin of the odoriferous corpse flower? I was intrigued from the moment I saw it, as is Rachel, the […]
Buzzfeed’s “31 Incredible New Books You Need To Read This Spring”
Buzzfeed picked seven standout books from Macmillan as part of their “Incredible New Books You Need To Read This Spring” feature: WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier Layli Long Soldier’s powerful poetry collection WHEREAS challenges the United States government’s treatment of and relationship with Native American peoples and tribes. Elegant, innovative, and necessary, WHEREAS examines a […]
For Your Consideration: May 2017 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles for the May 2017 LibraryReads list! Nominations are due March 20! Click here for the full list of 2017 deadlines. BORNE by Jeff VanderMeer One of Publishers Weekly‘s Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2017 with THREE starred reviews! “VanderMeer, author of the acclaimed Southern Reach trilogy, has made a […]
PW’s Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2017
These ten Macmillan titles are some of Publishers Weekly‘s Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2017: Fiction BORNE by Jeff VanderMeer In a future strewn with the cast-off experiments of an industrial laboratory known only as the Company, a scavenger named Rachel survives alongside her lover, Wick, a dealer of memory-altering beetles with whom she takes […]