The adoration continues to swell for Paulette Jiles' News of the World, and with so many "Best of 2016" lists beginning to roll in, we don't expect it to end any time soon. The latest? BookPage.com just named it as their #1 book of 2016! Click here to see the full list.
A National Book Award finalist, Paulette Jiles' latest is a fast-paced, heartfelt, beautifully written tale of a most unlikely duo—an aging war veteran and his young charge recently rescued from her Indian captors—as they travel across Texas to the young girl's adoptive aunt and uncle.
The #1 LibraryReads pick for October, News of the World has received widespread coverage and critical praise, a sampling of which you can see below! To celebrate, we will give away a finished copy of the book to the first FIVE people to email us at librarylovefest@harpercollins.com.
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS published an insightful feature on Paulette which can be found here.
READER’S BOOKS in Sonoma, California recommended News of the World in a list published in the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. Click here to read the feature.
THE WASHINGTON POST selected News of the World as one of the "BEST BOOKS OF 2016." Click here for the full list.
THE NEW YORK TIMES included the book in their "8 NEW BOOKS WE RECOMMEND THIS WEEK" feature. See the full article here.
Finally, check out this amazing blurb from THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW: "…at scarcely 200 pages, this exhilarating novel, a finalist for this year’s National Book Award, travels through its marvelous terrain so quickly that one is shocked, almost stricken, to reach the end. So do what I did: Read it again."
-Chris