• Deborah Taffa’s Whiskey Tender was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award. The book appeared on “Best Book of 2024” lists from Time, The Atlantic, NPR, Washington Post, Esquire, and Publishers Weekly. It was longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

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• Arlie Hochschild’s Stolen Pride (New Press) was selected as one of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2024. It also made Katie Couric’s list, and was one of the New York Times Book Review’s “100 Notable Books of the Year.”

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• Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc. (Doubleday) was named a “Best Book of 2024” by The Times, Financial Times, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Waterstones.

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• Lily Tuck’s The Rest Is Memory (Liveright) is an Esquire “Best Book of Fall 2024” pick and was a New York Times “Editor’s Choice” selection. It was also featured in a New York Times opinion piece called, “Short Books Are Perfect for Our Distracted Age.”

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• Chelsea Bieker’s bestseller Madwoman (Little, Brown) was an NPR “Best Book of 2024.”

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• Michael Deagler’s Early Sobrieties (Astra) was longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

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• Lydi Conklin’s Songs of No Provenance (Catapult, June 3rd) has been named a “Most Anticipated Book of 2025” by Literary Hub, Chicago Review of Books, Debutiful, and LGBTQ+ Reads. 

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• Sandor Katz’s The Art of Fermentation (Chelsea Green) earned a spot on The New York Times’ list of “The 25 Most Influential Cookbooks from the Last 100 Years.”

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• The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature awarded Camille Dungy the Paul Engle Prize.

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• The Korean edition of the Brave New World graphic novel by Aldous Huxley has been selected as one of “50 Great Graphic Novels of the Year” by KOMACON (Korea Manwha Content Agency).

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• Amina Gautier’s The Best That You Can Do (Soft Skull) was longlisted for the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize.

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• Casey Michel, author of Foreign Agents (St. Martin’s) was asked by Senator Bernie Sanders’ office to put together a video highlighting the deluge of foreign financing flooding Washington from dictatorships across the world. Senator Sanders shared the video on social media to bring attention to the danger of global oligarchy in the U.S.

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• Carrie Moore’s Make Your Way Home (Tin House) is a Debutiful “Most Anticipated Debut Book of 2025.”

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• Ian McEwan’s Atonement (Anchor) has been adapted into a ballet, which had its premiere U.S. performance in October, performed by The Joffrey Ballet. The Chicago Tribune gave four stars, calling it, “a tale of passion and big questions” and Broadway World called it a “remarkable feat… The U.S. premiere of Atonement has captivated audiences and demonstrated the potential of ballet to tell modern stories.”

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• Ian McEwan’s Atonement (Anchor) is on The New York Times list of “The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.” It entered its 44th printing this past July.

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•  Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc. is a New York Times bestseller and has sold over 50,000 copies since its publication less than two months ago. It appeared on the list for four weeks, debuting at #2. It also debuted at #2 on the Indie Bestsellers list, where it has remained on the list since publication, and debuted at #2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list in the UK. The book was a Lit Hub “Most Anticipated Book of 2024” and “Best Reviewed Book of July.” It was on The Los Angeles Times’ July reading list and is a Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Foreign rights for Autocracy, Inc. have been sold in the UK, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Israel, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the Ukraine. Applebaum was awarded the prestigious 2024 German Book Trade Peace Prize.

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• Deborah Taffa’s Whiskey Tender (Harper) is a National Book Award finalist in the Nonfiction category.

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• Sol Yurick’s The Warriors (Grove), which was previously adapted into a film by Paramount, is now being set to music. Lin-Manuel Miranda has been working with the playwright Eisa Davis on a concept album inspired by The Warriors, which will be released by Atlantic Records on October 18th. The album's executive producer is the rapper Nas.

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• Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot will return to Broadway in the fall of 2025. It will be directed by Jamie Lloyd and will star Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who have previously starred in three “Bill & Ted” films together. The production will be Reeves’ Broadway debut.

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• LaToya Watkins’ Holler, Child (Tiny Reparations) won the 34th Annual Reading the West Book Award and the 2023 Writer’s League of Texas Book Award in the “Fiction” category.

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• Gary Giddins received the Jazz Masters Fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts. He will be honored on April 26, 2025, at a free concert at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

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• Charlotte Shane’s An Honest Woman (S & S) was named a “Best Memoir of 2024” by Esquire. It was featured on“Most Anticipated Books” lists in Bustle, Vulture, New York Magazine, and The Millions, and was on The New York Times list of “Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer.”

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• Casey Michel has been sanctioned by the Russian ministry of Foreign Affairs for the publication of his book Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World (St. Martin’s), as well as for his work leading the Human Rights Foundation’s Combating Kleptocracy program. Michel said, “It’s an honor and a privilege to be sanctioned by the Kremlin… I’m especially impressed that Russian officials read through my new book so quickly and realized that it revealed so many of their networks of influence and infiltration abroad -- including in the United States -- and that they decided to sanction me in response.”

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• Mavis Gallant’s Varieties of Exile (NYRB) was featured on the New York Times’ “Montreal Reading List.”

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• The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant, Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum, Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker, and The Rest is Memory by Lily Tuck are selected as four of Lit Hub's "Most Anticipated Books of 2024".

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• Timothy Garton Ash’s Homelands: A Personal History of Europe (Yale) was awarded the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world’s best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues. The book was also featured on a “New Paperbacks to Read” list in The New York Times.

 

• Nathan Masters’ Crooked: The Roaring ‘20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal (Hachette) won a 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category of “Best Fact Crime.”

 

• Marie NDiaye’s Vengeance Is Mine (Knopf) was a 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction finalist.

 

• Camillle T. Dungy’s Soil (Simon & Schuster) won the 2024 Award for Excellence in Garden and Nature Writing, presented by the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries.

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• Deborah Taffa’s Whiskey Tender (Harper) is featured on Esquire’s “Ten Best Nonfiction Book of 2024” list, as well as Esquire’s “Best Books of 2024” list. Taffa won a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature.

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• Parini Shroff’s The Bandit Queens (Ballantine) appeared on the USA Today bestseller list.

 

• Greg Jackson’s The Dimensions of a Cave (FSG) has been shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize. The prize, presented by The Society of Authors, is awarded annually for a first novel by an author over 40. The winner of the prize will be announced later this month.

 

• Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tales (Scribner) earned a place on The Atlantic’s list of “The Great American Novels” from the past one hundred years.

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• The Hollywood Reporter featured Eleanor Coppola’s Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now on a list of “The Hundred Greatest Film Books of All Time.”

 

• The New York Times Book Review’s list of “The Funniest Novels since Catch-22” included Rachel Ingalls’ Mrs. Caliban (New Directions) and Muriel Spark’s A Far Cry From Kensington (New Directions).

 

• Janelle M. Williams’ Gone Like Yesterday (Tiny Reparations) was featured on Literary Hub’s list of recommended “Paperbacks Published in February.”

 

• Amy Butcher won a 2024 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council.

 

• Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (Harcourt) was the focus of a Literary Hub article entitled, “Why We Should All Read Hannah Arendt Now.”