Back in November, Publishers Weekly expounded on the popularity of true crime and highlighted their favorite titles in the genre. Here are their Macmillan picks: STAY SEXY AND DON’T GET MURDERED: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark The highly anticipated dual memoir by the beloved hosts of the #1 hit podcast My […]
Tag: nonfiction
Booklist’s 2018 Editors’ Choice Picks
Booklist has revealed their editors’ top picks of the year’s outstanding books for public library collections, including 3 Macmillan titles: IN EXTREMIS: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum Four starred reviews! Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal The inspiring and devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, […]
#BookBday (12/11/18)
Location, location, location–from Cold War Cuba to frenzied modern London, join us on an international tour for today’s #pubday celebration. THIS IS CUBA: An American Journalist Under Castro’s Shadow by David Ariosto An exploration of Cuba’s Cold War mindset and a people in the throes of transition, with tales of run-ins with spies, secret backrooms, […]
Kirkus Best Books of 2018 – Nonfiction
Kirkus Reviews includes 8 Macmillan titles on their Best Books for 2018 list! Biography MR. LEAR: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow Popular Science DARWIN COMES TO TOWN: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen THE CONSCIOUSNESS INSTINCT: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind by Michael […]
New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018
Another day, another favorites list! Read on for the Times’s staff critics’ choices of the best fiction and nonfiction books of 2018. EVENING IN PARADISE: More Stories by Lucia Berlin KUDOS by Rachel Cusk MOTHERHOOD by Sheila Heti NINETY-NINE GLIMPSES OF PRINCESS MARGARET by Craig Brown AMITY AND PROSPERITY: One Family and the Fracturing of […]
2019 Community Reads Recommendations
Although our Academic Marketing division created the “Books for the First-Year Experience” for colleges and universities, we strongly believe that the titles featured in this catalog foster the sort of discussion and self-reflection that make library-led, city-wide reading programs so memorable. The updated catalog for 2019 is now available and features titles such as: HER […]
It’s #PubDay! (11/27/18)
A LibraryReads Hall of Famer, the sitting Senator of Vermont, and the former editor-in-chief of Guardian News and Media…welcome to this week’s #PubDay celebration! KINGDOM OF THE BLIND: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny Two starred reviews! LibraryReads Hall of Fame Author December 2018 Indie Next Pick Amazon.com Best Books of the Year […]
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 […]
#PubDay 11/20/18
A magical bomb squad, an expansive historical drama, a love letter to turtles, and eerie short stories–happy #bookbday! CITY OF BROKEN MAGIC: Chronicles of Amicae (Volume 1) by Mirah Bolender This fast-paced, adventure fantasy debut features a bomb squad that defuses magic weapons of a long forgotten war and the only team member standing between […]
Hot Drop-In for Winter 2019: TEAM OF VIPERS
Winter 2019 is heating up with another red-hot drop-in: TEAM OF VIPERS: My 500 Extraordinary Days In the Trump White House by Cliff Sims. TEAM OF VIPERS is the first book from a true insider—a man who was in all the meetings, met all the players, and even worked with Trump to make the enemies […]
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