The Washington Post revealed their Best Books of 2016, including these 18 Macmillan titles: Notable Fiction (full list) THE GOOD LIEUTENANT by Whitney Terrell HERE I AM by Jonathan Safran Foer PEACEKEEPING by Mischa Berlinski WHAT BELONGS TO YOU by Garth Greenwell THE YID by Paul Goldberg Notable Nonfiction (full list) ADNAN’S STORY: The Search for […]
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2016 Goodreads Choice Awards
Goodreads launched their annual Choice Awards last week and Macmillan has a whopping 42 nominees in the running! Click here to vote for your favorites and we’ll keep you updated as the tournament progresses. Congrats to our 2016 Winners: TRULY MADLY GUILTY by Liane Moriarty (Best Fiction) and LEONARD by William Shatner (Best History & […]
PW Best Books of 2016
We’re barely into November, yet Publishers Weekly has already released their Best Books of 2016 list. Here are the Macmillan gems that made the cut: Top 10 (full list) WHAT BELONGS TO YOU by Garth Greenwell GUILTY THING: A Life of Thomas De Quincey by Frances Wilson Fiction (full list) WHAT BELONGS TO YOU by […]
2016 National Book Awards Longlist
We’ve got five nominees on the 2016 National Book Awards longlist! 2016 National Book Awards Longlist for Young People’s Literature WHEN THE MOON WAS OURS by Anna-Marie McLemore Poetry BESTIARY by Donika Kelly LOOK by Solmaz Sharif BLACKACRE by Monica Youn Fiction WHAT BELONGS TO YOU by Garth Greenwell The finalists will be announced on […]
Holt Celebrates 150 Years!
Holy smokes, Henry Holt & Company is 150 this year! (We see your awesome tweets via #Holt150!) Founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt, the imprint focused exclusively on publishing translations and textbooks. A fruitful relationship with Robert Frost began in 1915 with the publication of NORTH OF BOSTON, and his books became […]
Starred Nonfiction Roundup
We’re seeing stars for these books about travel, history, art, poetry, and music! THE GLAMOUR OF STRANGENESS: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic by Jamie James A PW Best Summer Books of 2016 pick with THREE starred reviews! “In this exciting book, novelist and critic James examines six artists (and many interesting secondary […]
June is Pride Month
Read out loud & proud with these new LGBTQ titles: Adult: WHAT BELONGS TO YOU by Garth Greenwell HIDE by Matthew Griffin THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: Volume 1: Search for My Heart by Larry Kramer THE LESBIAN SEX HAIKU BOOK (WITH CATS!) by Anna Pulley & Kelsey Beyer EVERY HEART A DOORWAY by Seanan McGuire YA: […]
Sneak Peek: July 2016 Indie Next List
The July 2016 Indie Next list includes four Macmillan titles! 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 girl is attacked at a local party and in the hours immediately after is given a controversial […]
PW Best Summer Books of 2016
Publishers Weekly recently announced their Best Summer Books of 2016, including these 5 Macmillan titles: Staff Picks MAY DAY by Gretchen Marquette “In this lovely, dark, haunted, and haunting debut poetry collection, Marquette’s ragged, sometimes very long lines can seem to be careening out of control, except that their subjects—childhood memories of a brother and […]
It’s National Poetry Month!
♫♪♫♪♫ Roses are red, Violets are blue, We made a poetry Edelweiss collection, Just for librarians like you! ♫♪♫♪♫ Happy National Poetry Month! Check out our amazing Edelweiss collection of nearly 200(!) great poetry books and then hear some poems from our friends at Farrar, Straus & Giroux—literally. Inspired by John Giornio’s classic Dial-A-Poem, FSG made […]