Booklist recently shared their Top 10 Biography reading lists of 2017*, including these five Macmillan titles: Top 10 Biographies (full list) BLACK ELK: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson Jackson meticulously chronicles the struggle of the Sioux visionary and medicine man Black Elk to help his embattled people preserve their culture and traditions. […]
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2017 PEN Literary Awards Finalists
UPDATE 3/28/17: Congratulations to our PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography winner: BLACK ELK: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson! The PEN American Center announced the finalists for the 2017 PEN Literary Awards and they include 7 Macmillan titles: PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction HURT PEOPLE by Cote Smith PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award […]
2016 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists
The National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for their best books of 2016, including these nine Macmillan titles: Autobiography IN GRATITUDE by Jenny Diski THE SONG POET: A Memoir of My Father by Kao Kalia Yang Biography BLACK ELK: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson GUILTY THING: A Life of Thomas […]
Booklist’s Best Books of 2016
Booklist revealed their Editors’ Choice picks for 2016, and they include 12 Macmillan titles: Booklist Editors’ Choice: Adult Books, 2016 (full list) MAD ENCHANTMENT: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King King, a master at illuminating overlooked facets of art history, tells the full, wondrous, and poignant story of Monet’s […]
2017 PEN Literary Awards Longlist
The PEN American Center announced the longlists for the 2017 PEN Literary Awards and they include 12 Macmillan titles: PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction DREAMLAND: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones PEN Translation Prize THE FOX WAS EVER THE HUNTER by Herta Muller MOONSTONE: The Boy Who Never Was by […]
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) […]
Stars for Friedman & Jackson & Smith
Three FSG nonfiction books are raking in the starred reviews: THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman One of Publishers Weekly‘s Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2016! “Inspired by the pleasure he took in the ‘free’ moments he was granted when people he […]