The Round House

Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominees!

April 22, 2013

Nancy Pearl and Maureen Sullivan just announced the finalists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals and I am happy to say that HarperCollins is proud to be so well represented. Canada by Richard Ford and The Round House by Louise Erdrich both made the short list for Fiction! Other nominees include Junot Diaz for This Is How Your Lose Her, and in the Non-Fiction category, Jill Lepore for The Mansion of Happiness, Timothy Egan for Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, and David Quamman for Spillover.

Along with the medal presentation on June 30 at ALA’s annual conference in Chicago, each winning author will receive $5,000 and the four finalists will each receive $1,500. More information can be found at the ALA site or you can tune into Twitter for up to the minute comments.

Congrats to all the nominees!

– Annie

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Nancy Pearl’s 2012 Picks

December 4, 2012

It is a great honor to have four (omg!) books on Nancy Pearl's 10 Faves of 2012 list. How awesome is that?? I was going to quote some witty person on how having good taste is such a virtue, but apparently no one seems to think it was! Examples:

"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing” – Pablo Picasso.

"A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.” – George Bernard Shaw

"Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life” – Oscar Wilde

So never mind that, but definitely check out her list because I know her HarperCollins picks are excellent, and I would wager good present buying money that her other picks are great as well.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Canada by Richard Ford

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

– Annie

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Congratulations, Louise Erdrich!

November 15, 2012

Last night was an exciting evening in the book world. The National Book Award winners were announced and I'm guessing you have an idea who might have won. Louise Erdrich took home the prestigious award for fiction for The Round House! This is the second in a trilogy, following The Plague of Doves (a Pulitzer Prize finalist, nbd), and I highly recommend reading it. I presented this title at ALA in June, and although I had not read the first book, I really enjoyed this one and didn't feel like I was missing out on anything. Then I went back and read The Plague of Doves, and now can't wait to complete the set. You can hear me chatting about the book over on Earlyword.

Also nominated was Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, a particular in-house fave. Kayleigh loves this book and anything she recommends I immediately add to my TBR pile, so follow suit and get on it!

– Annie