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  • LaToya Watkins’ Holler, Child (Tiny Reparations) was longlisted for the 2023 National Book Awards. It is a Time “Must-Read Book of 2023” and an Electric Literature “Best Short Story Collection of the Year.” A New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” pick, the book is also a Texas Observer “Must-Read Lone Star Book” and a San Antonio Current “Notable 2023 Book from a Texas Author.” Watkins’ Perish (Tiny Reparations) was a finalist for the 2022 Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards.

  • Marie NDiaye’s Vengeance Is Mine (Knopf) is a “Best Book of 2023” at Time, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The New York Public Library. The cover is one of Literary Hub’s “Best Book Covers of 2023.” The book was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Barrio Book in Translation Prize. NDiaye had a short story, “The Good Denis,” appear in The New Yorker last month.

  • Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost (Mariner) is on Lit Hub’s list of “The Best Books We Read in 2023.” Hochschild’s American Midnight (Mariner), a National Indie Bestseller, was the runner-up for the 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

  • Patrick Weil’s The Madman in the White House (Harvard UP) was shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize.

  • Fred Kaplan’s His Masterly Pen (Harper) was a finalist for the 2023 George Washington Prize.

  • Nathan Masters’ Crooked (Hachette) has been nominated for a 2024 Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America.

  • Parini Shroff’s The Bandit Queens (Ballantine) was longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. The book was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards and was named a “Best Book of the Year” by Shondaland, She Reads, and CrimeReads.

  • Tracy Kidder’s Rough Sleepers (Random House) has been named a “Best Book of 2023” by NPR and the Chicago Public Library.

  • Chelsea Bieker’s Madwoman is on Today’s list of “Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2024.”

  • Casey Michel’s Foreign Agents (St. Martin’s Press) was named a “Most Anticipated Book of 2024” and a “Biggest Foreign-Policy Book Release of 2024” by Foreign Policy.

  • Camille T. Dungy’s Soil (S&S) is a Booklist “Editor’s Choice” pick of 2023, a Hudson Booksellers “Best Book of 2023,” and a Library Journal “Best Science & Technology of 2023” selection.

  • Greg Jackson’s The Dimensions of a Cave (FSG) made The New Yorker’s list of “Best Books of 2023.” The cover is one of Literary Hub’s “Best Book Covers of 2023.”

  • The Chicago Review of Books included Ali Hosseini’s Dare the Sea (Curbstone Books) on their “Favorite Short Story Collections of 2023” list.

  • Charlotte Shane’s An Honest Woman (S&S) made Vulture’s list of “Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2024.”

  • T. C. Boyle’s Blue Skies sold over 100,000 copies less than six months after its publication by Hanser in Germany, where it was on the bestseller list for over four months.

  • Margaret Atwood read Mavis Gallant’s story, “Varieties of Exile,” for The New Yorker Fiction Podcast, where she discussed the story with New Yorker Fiction Editor Deborah Treisman in the first episode of the podcast recorded in front of a live audience.

  • Janelle M. William’s Gone Like Yesterday (Tiny Reparations) was a She Reads nominee for “Best Book of the Year.”

  • Madelaine Lucas’ Thirst for Salt (Tin House) is on the Strand’s list of “Favorite Fiction of 2023” and Debutiful named it a “Best Debut Book of 2023.”

  • James Tate’s posthumously published poetry collection, Hell, I Love Everybody (Ecco), is a Shelf Awareness “Best Book of the Week,” earning a starred review from them as well as from Publishers Weekly.

  • Jen Soriano’s Nervous (Amistad) was recommended by The Atlantic as a “Book That Might Change How You Think About Mental Illness.”

  • Elisse Ota’s story, “The Paper Artist,” has been selected as a 2024 O. Henry Prize winner. The story will appear in The Best Short Stories 2024, to be published by Vintage books in September.

  • David Guterson’s The Final Case (Knopf) has been selected by the Washington and Lee University School of Law as the sole focus of study for their 2023 Law and Literature

  • Seminar.

  • Lit Hub recommended Marcos Villatoro’s memoir, Speak of It (University of New Mexico Press), after it was featured on a reading list put out by the Association of University Presses. They called it “a testament to the healing power of language, books, and identity.”

  • Dylan Tomine’s Headwaters (Patagonia) won a Gold Ben Franklin Award in the Sports and Recreation category and Silver in Non-Fiction Cover Design from the Independent Book Publisher’s Association.

  • Fred Kaplan’s His Masterly Pen (Harper) is a finalist for the 2023 George Washington Prize, which awards $50,000 for the past year’s best work on America’s founding era.

  • Charles Johnson’s The Eightfold Path (Abrams) won the awards for Best Writer and Story of the Year at The East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention.

  • Krista Burton’s Moby Dyke (S & S) was included in Electric Literature’s and Passport Magazine’s “Best LGTBQ+ Books of Summer” roundups.

  • T. C. Boyle’s Blue Skies (Liveright) is on the German bestseller list for its seventeenth week, and at its highest appeared in the #2 spot. His most recent short story collection, I Walk Between the Raindrops (Ecco), has been longlisted for the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.

  • Adam Hochschild’s American Midnight (Mariner) has been chosen as a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nonfiction Award and has been longlisted for the 2023 Cundill History Prize.

  • Jerome Charyn’s Big Red (Liveright) has been longlisted for the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.

  • LaToya Jackson’s Perish (Tiny Reparations) has been longlisted for the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Her short story collection, Holler, Child (Tiny Reparations), earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist.

  • Carrie R. Moore has been awarded a Steinbeck Fellowship by the Michener Center for Writers, and will be spending this fall writing at John Steinbeck’s former home in Sag Harbor, New York.

  • Amazon chose Jen Soriano’s Nervous (Amistad) as an August 2023 “Best of the Month” pick.

  • Parini Shroff’s The Bandit Queens (Ballantine) earned a spot on Amazon’s “Best Books of the Year So Far” list and is also one of the most popular books of the year on Goodreads.

  • Lit Hub included both Marguerite Duras’ The Lover (Pantheon)and Rachel Ingalls’ Binstead’s Safari (New Directions)  on their list of “The Greatest Summer Novels of All Time.” A selection of Ingalls’ fiction is reviewed in the September 21st issue of The New York Review of Books.

  • Janelle M. Williams’ Gone Like Yesterday (Tiny Reparations) was named a Good Morning America “Buzz Pick.”

  • Tracy Kidder’s Rough Sleepers (Random House) appeared on The New York Times bestseller list as well as the Indie bestseller list, where it remained for over a month.

  • The Commonwealth Club selected Adam Hochschild’s American Midnight (Mariner) as the Gold Medal Non-Fiction Winner for the California Book Awards.

  • Michael Meyer’s Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet (Mariner) was shortlisted for the Athenaeum of Philadelphia’s 2022 Literary Award. He has also been awarded a Berlin Prize, granted annually to a select group of twenty outstanding US scholars who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields. The scholars include historians, public policy experts, writers, diplomats, and economists.

  • Chelsea Bieker’s Heartbroke (Catapult) was a New York Times “Best California Book of 2022” and an NPR “Best Book of 2022.” It has also been chosen as the Gold Medal Fiction Winner for the Commonwealth Club’s California Book Awards.

  • Shruti Swamy was awarded a Rome Prize by the American Academy in Rome. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities.

  • Ploughshares awarded the Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for fiction to Elisse Ota’s story, “The Paper Artist.”

  • Dylan Tomine’s Headwaters (Patagonia) won a 2022 Gold PubWest Book Design Award.

  • The Folio edition of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, with an introduction by Anne Applebaum, won a British Book Design & Production Award.

  • Parini Shroff’s The Bandit Queens (Ballantine) was longlisted for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

  • Lydia Conklin’s Rainbow, Rainbow (Catapult) was longlisted for The Story Prize and for the 2023 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. Conklin’s short story, “Sunny Talks,” originally published in One Story, won a Pushcart Prize.

  • Lyndall Gordon’s The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse (Norton) was longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.

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