Terrific news: the ABA just announced their Summer/Fall 2016 Indies Introduce picks, the June 2016 Indie Next list, and the Summer 2016 Kids’ Indie Next List, including these seven Macmillan titles: Summer/Fall 2016 Indies Introduce A WHOLE LIFE by Robert Seethaler Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize! Set in the mid-twentieth century and told […]
Tag: literary fiction
For Your Consideration: July 2016 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles for the July 2016* LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due May 20! Click here for the full list of 2016 deadlines. ALL IS NOT FORGOTTEN by Wendy Walker The must-read summer thriller of 2016 with movie rights snapped up by Reese Witherspoon! In a small affluent town, a teenage […]
Happy Belated #BookBday (3/16/16 Edition)
Fun fact: all four of these new literary books have *starred* reviews! SHELTER by Jung Yun An April 2016 Indie Next pick & a BN Discover Great New Writers selection! Yun’s intense debut novel weaves a bloody mystery with domestic drama into a layered portrait of race, class, money, marriage and more. “Like Celeste Ng’s superlauded best seller, […]
Stars For Two Literary Debuts!
Happy Monday, friends. It’s a brisk day here in NYC and we’d prefer to be at home with a cat curled up our lap and these starred debuts: THE YID by Paul Goldberg “In this fantastical (and fantastic) debut novel by reporter and writer Goldberg, who immigrated to the United States from the USSR in […]
Friday Reads: Literary Gems
Happy Friday, friends! We’re celebrating #FridayReads with a couple of literary gems released this week: GOD’S KINGDOM by Howard Frank Mosher An October 2015 Indie Next pick! A young man comes of age—and uncovers his family’s deepest secret in the little known mountains of northern Vermont by the Canadian border. “No Catcher in the Rye […]
Labor Day 2015 Reads
The long Labor Day weekend is here! To celebrate an extra day of reading time, here’s a list of great Fall 2015 and Winter 2016 reads you can download on Edelweiss NOW!* Don’t forget to nominate your favorite for LibraryReads! Highly Anticipated!! LUST & WONDER by Augusten Burroughs A WILD SWAN by Michael Cunningham THE GIVENNESS […]
Friday Reads: Starred Review Roundup
Happy Friday! Check out these forthcoming books raking in the starred reviews: OBSESSION FALLS by Christina Dodd (The Virtue Falls series) “After wowing both mystery and romance readers with VIRTUE FALLS, Dodd delivers another white-knuckle tale of romantic suspense that moves her even closer to the thriller end of the literary spectrum. The plot’s twists […]
Friday Reads: Literary Standouts
TGIF! This weekend we recommend you soak up the sun while enjoying one of these recent literary standouts on shelves now: A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN by Lucia Berlin “[Lucia Berlin] may just be the best writer you’ve never heard of…” (Publishers Weekly, boxed & starred review) and her short story collection has received THREE […]
Sneak Peek: September 2015 Indie Next List
The September 2015 Indie Next list includes 5 Macmillan titles! SWEET CARESS by William Boyd From the internationally bestselling author of Restless and Any Human Heart comes a novel of one photographer’s extraordinary career—a tale of love and war in the twentieth century. “In addition to the psychologically rich characterization, a wealth of atmospheric details—what […]
PW Fall 2015 Announcements
It’s still summer, but Publishers Weekly is looking ahead to Fall 2015. They recently selected their best of the best in a whopping 16 different categories and we’ve gathered all 90(!!!) Macmillan standouts into a handy Edelweiss collection and listed them here for you: Art, Architecture & Photography: People and Places HUMANS OF NEW YORK: […]