THE REVISIONERS by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, RECURSION by Blake Crouch, THE STARLESS SEA by Erin Morgenstern, and FURIOUS HOURS by Casey Cep are among TIME magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019.
THE SUMMER OF '69 by Elin Hilderbrand, THE STARLESS SEA by Erin Morgenstern, RECURSION by Blake Crouch, FURIOUS HOURS by Casey Cep, GROWING THINGS by Paul Tremblay, BLOOM by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau, LAURA DEAN KEEPS BREAKING UP WITH ME by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell, and WILDER GIRLS by Rory Power are still in the running for the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards.
Ayelet Tsbari's THE ART OF LEAVING is a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. According to The Star, "finalists were selected from a field of 99 titles submitted by 55 publishers. Each of the finalists will receive $5,000, with the winner receiving an additional $60,000...They were chosen by a jury composed of writers Ivan Coyote, Trevor Herriot, and Manjushree Thapa."
THE SUMMER OF '69 by Elin Hilderbrand, THE STARLESS SEA by Erin Morgenstern, RECURSION by Blake Crouch, FURIOUS HOURS by Casey Cep, GROWING THINGS by Paul Tremblay, BLOOM by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau, LAURA DEAN KEEPS BREAKING UP WITH ME, and WILDER GIRLS by Rory Power have been nominated for the opening round of the Goodreads Choice Awards.
According to the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, "Southern independent booksellers have selected the finalists for the 2020 Southern Book Prize, representing bookseller favorites from 2019 that are...either about the South or written by a Southern writer." The sixteen finalists that received the most nominations are a collection of the year's most beloved 'hand sells' in fiction, nonfiction and children’s literature.
According to Deadline, Matt Olmstead, former Chicago PD showrunner, has been named co-showrunner of ABC’s new drama Stumptown, which just received a back order from ABC.
