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We're thrilled to announce that Sophie McManus's wonderful novel THE UNFORTUNATES has been named a fiction finalist for Barnes and Noble's 2015 Discover Prize. The Discover Prize honors great new writers and highlights the best and brightest emerging talents.
For more about THE UNFORTUNATES click here,
And you can read about all of the finalists here.
We are delighted to announce that Lauren Groff's FATES AND FURIES and Ottessa Moshfegh's EILEEN have both been named finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. The winner will be announced on March 17. We are absolutely ecstatic to see these amazing novels recognized by such a prestigious award. We want to wish a heartfelt congratulations and good luck to both Ottessa and Lauren.
You can read more about FATES AND FURIES, EILEEN and the other finalists here.
We're absolutely thrilled to announce that David Levithan has been awarded the prestigious Margaret Edwards award by the American Library Association recognizing his significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. Previous Margaret Edwards award recipients include Terry Pratchet, Susan Cooper, Marcus Zusak and Jacqueline Woodson.
For more on the 2016 American Library Association Youth Media Awards, click here.
We're so happy to see MOTHERS, TELL YOUR DAUGHTERS on Booklist's 2015 Top of the List, chosen as their favorite adult fiction title of the year.
We're thrilled to share that President Obama, in an exclusive interview with People Magazine, named Lauren Groff's FATES AND FURIES as his favorite book of 2015.
We're thrilled to share the striking cover of Emma Cline's debut novel The Girls, as revealed earlier today by Entertainment Weekly.
We're delighted to announce that Akhil Sharma's novel FAMILY LIFE has been short-listed for the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Previous recipients of the prize include Cyrus Mistry, Jeet Thayil, and Jhumpa Lahiri.
This year's winner will be announced at the Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka on January 16, 2016. For the full short-list, and more information about the prize, click here.
Amazon book editors have announced their selections for the Best Books of 2015, and we're thrilled to share that Lauren Groff's FATES AND FURIES is their #1 book of the year, in all categories.
From Sara Nelson, Editorial Director of Books and Kindle at Amazon.com: "Groff's language is electric and her ingenious plotting is fascinating and unlike anything I've read in years. Our editors adored it."
See the rest of the list here.
We're excited to share that Mark Doty's DEEP LANE has been selected as one of ten finalists for the annual TS Eliot Prize, one of the UK's most prestigious poetry awards. Doty has taken home the prize once before, in 1995 for his collection MY ALEXANDRIA. Previous winners also include Anne Carson, Ted Hughes, and Sharon Olds.
This year's judges are poets Pascale Petit, Kei Miller, and Ahren Warner. Petit has praised the shortlisted books for their "ambition, verve and technical mastery."
The TS Eliot Prize Readings will be held on January 10, 2016, in London. The winner will be announced the next day.
We're so pleased to see Victor Lodato's fantastic short story "Jack, July" included in both THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2015 and THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2015.
The story was originally published in The New Yorker.
