News in October 2024

News in October 2024

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REVENGE OF THE TIPPING POINT by Malcolm Gladwell is #3 on The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction and #2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction Bestsellers lists. Little, Brown and Company published the book on October 1, 2024.

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TRIANGLE by Danielle Steel is #8 on The New York Times Hardcover Fiction and Combined Print and E-book Fiction Bestsellers lists for the week of October 20, 2024. Delacorte Press published the book on October 1, 2024.

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THE QUEEN by Nick Cutter received a starred review from Library Journal. Reviewer Becky Spratford writes: “[THE QUEEN] is one of the most entertaining novels readers will encounter this year…Readers will be engulfed by the story from the moment they open the book, while the echoing hum of what they just experienced will buzz around in their heads long after they finish. Cutter (THE TROOP; LITTLE HEAVEN) is at the top of his game here, providing an intensely visceral and gripping tale.” THE QUEEN will be published by Gallery Books on October 29, 2024.

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Lucy Ives’s essay collection AN IMAGE OF MY NAME ENTERS AMERICA has made the American Booksellers Association’s November 2024 Indie Next list, with independent booksellers across the country praising the book as “phantasmagoric and meticulously researched,” “regularly astonishing…spanning topics as wide-reaching as My Little Pony, the Assyrian Genocide, and the troubled history of romantic love,” “one of the smartest books I’ve ever read,” and “nothing short of spectacular.” Graywolf Press will publish AN IMAGE OF MY NAME ENTERS AMERICA on October 15, 2024.

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A new review in Reactor for Emily Hamilton’s debut novel THE STARS TOO FONDLY calls the book “a fast-paced, entertaining science-fiction romance romp, replete with pop-culture riffs and references [and] smart-arse asides, witty banter, and sexual-romantic chemistry,” written “with verve and style.” The book has also recently been recommended by BookRiot (“10 Sapphic Sci-Fi Books You’ll Fall in Love With”) and Paste (“8 Must-Read Spacemance and Romancifi Books to Dive Into Romantic Science Fiction”), and it’s a featured selection on Indiebound’s “2024 Indie Gift Guide for Genre Lovers.” THE STARS TOO FONDLY was published by Harper Voyager in the US and Gollancz in the UK on June 11, 2024.

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ASTOR hit #7 on the LA Times Bestseller list for Paperback Nonfiction for the week of October 6, and #13 on The New York Times’ list for the week of October 13, 2024. HarperCollins published the hardcover September 19, 2023, and the paperback on September 17, 2024.

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Booklist’s starred review of A FEW WORDS IN DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY by Robert Hilburn calls the book “an illuminating and masterful achievement.” Additionally, Hilburn will appear in conversation with Bernie Taupin at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills on October 21 to speak about the book, in a Q&A moderated by LA Times pop critic Randy Lewis. Hachette Books will publish A FEW WORDS IN DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY on October 22, 2024.