The Daily Show Effect; LOST IN SHANGRI-LA
Mitchell Zuckoff, author of Lost of Shangri-La, appeared on The Daily Show last night. As a result, the book rose to #46 on Amazon’s sales rankings (from #184 yesterday). It’s been rising on the...
View ArticleLOST IN SHANGRI-LA Hits Best Seller List
The WWII survival story, Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff (Harper, 4/26) debuts at #14 on the 7/10 NYT Print Hardcover Nonfiction Best Seller list, two months after publication, a result of the...
View ArticleHolds Alert: NOTHING DAUNTED
Dorothy Wickenden, author of Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West (Scribner, 6/21) was interviewed on NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” The book has been receiving a...
View ArticleTURN RIGHT AT MACHU PICCHU
No less a critic than the Washington Post‘s Jonathan Yardley calls Turn Right at Machu Picchu, (Dutton, June 30) an “entirely delightful book.” Author Mark Adams decided to celebrate the centenary of...
View ArticleNew Title Radar – Week of September 5
Several favorites from Book Expo’s Editor’s Buzz Panel will be released next week with enviable media fanfare, including debuts from Chad Harbich and Justin Torres. Plus there’s Simon Toyne‘s debut...
View ArticleNew Title Radar – Week of September 19
The book people are likely to be talking about next week, has already been in the headlines this week. Joe McGinniss’s The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin (Crown) arrives on Tuesday, along...
View ArticleTHE SWERVE On Fresh Air
On NPR’s Fresh Air, Maureen Corrigan reviewed Stephen Greenblatt’s forthcoming book on the origins of the Renaissance, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, (WW Norton, 9/26) calling it a...
View ArticleNew Title Radar – Week of Oct. 10
Next week, look out for 80-year-old Pakistani debut novelist and international publishing discovery Jamil Ahmad, plus new novels from Jeffrey Eugenides and Allan Hollinghurst. In nonfiction, there are...
View ArticleNew Title Radar – Week of Oct. 17
Next week, watch for Kimberly Cutter‘s fresh debut about Joan of Arc, popular YA author Ellen Hopkins‘ first adult novel, and a YA novel by Maggie Stiefvater that some are predicting could become a...
View ArticleNew Title Radar – Week of Nov. 7
Next week, watch for Nancy Jensen‘s debut The Sisters, much anticipated fiction titles from Stephen King, Umberto Eco, and Christopher Paolini, and a book about the Osama Bin Laden raid which may be...
View ArticleThe Real Downton Abbey
Season two of the BBC series, Downton Abbey, debuts on PBS this Sunday. In addition to the companion book, The World of Downton Abbey, by Jessica Fellowes, (Macmillan/ St. Martin’s,12/06; more on it...
View ArticleNew Title Radar – Week of Jan 23
Given the librarian stereotype, it seems appropriate that a book which praises introverts, Quiet, will be featured at the raucous ALA MidWinter meeting, on Saturday. The book releases this week, along...
View ArticleNew Title Radar: Feb 6 – 12
This week, contemporary short story masters Nathan Englander and Dan Chaon return, while Josh Bazell delivers the sequel to his breakout debut. Usual suspects include Lisa Gardner, Vince Flynn, J.A....
View ArticleFresh Insights on History
NPR’s Morning Edition kicks off a new series that takes a “fresh look at American political history,” with recommendations from historians of the best books about Abraham Lincoln (listen here). Eric...
View ArticlePoetry Gets the Biggest Pulitzer Bump
The book that rose the highest on Amazon after yesterday’s announcement of the Pulitzer Prize winners was the winner for poetry (Note: there was no winner for fiction this year). Here’s how they stack...
View ArticleCandice Millard Wins Edgar Award
The nominees for the Edgars in the Best Fact Crime category demonstrate how much the category of narrative nonfiction has grown in the last few years. Fact Crime, once dominated by lurid tales of...
View ArticleA 19th C MRS. ROBINSON
The Sunday NYT Book Review carries a rave review for Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace, by Kate Summerscale, (Bloomsbury, 6/19; Tantor Audio), the story of a real-life Victorian scandal. The author’s earlier...
View ArticleDESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC on CBS SUNDAY MORNING
Candice Millard’s The Destiny of the Republic broke into the Amazon Top 100, moving to # 67 (from #1,216) as a result of yesterday’s feature on CBS Sunday Morning. For most libraries, copies are still...
View ArticleNew Title Radar: July 9 – 15
Next week brings a comic sci-fi debut from Internet entrepreneur Rob Reid, along with new novels from breakout authors John Boyne and Deborah Harkness. In nonfiction, there’s a harrowing Iraq war...
View ArticleSpielberg’s LINCOLN Finally Gets a Release Date
Seen a shoe-in to win several Oscars and a strong contender for Best Picture, Stephen Spielberg’s Lincoln biopic has finally been scheduled for a Nov. 9 limited release, expanding to more theaters on...
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