We’re launching our Best Books feature in this issue, with coverage kicking off on the cover, which features Colson Whitehead, whose Underground Railroad was one of the most-talked-about novels of the year, and continuing on p. 18, where you’ll find our top-10 picks for the year, and another 140 titles across multiple categories, for both adult and young readers. Check out our Web feature for more, including profiles of and interviews with some of our Best Books authors.
From the Newsletters
This week’s best new books.
It’s a great time to be a bossy baby: we get the scoop on the Boss Baby movie and picture book sequel.
Talking with megaselling Christian-fiction author Karen Kingsbury.
Which books are getting snapped up across the globe? Check out our latest roundup of international hot book properties.
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Blogs
A bookseller offers her favorite opening lines for middle grade and young adult novels published so far this year.
Podcasts
PW senior writer Andrew Albanese on the sudden ouster of U.S. Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante, and what it means, and doesn’t mean, for the future of copyright.
Heidi MacDonald talks to Best American Comics series editor Bill Kartalopoulos about this year’s edition, guest editor Roz Chast, the evolution of short graphic fiction, and how selections for the book are made.
The most-read review on publishersweekly.com last week was Difficult Women by Roxane Gay (Grove).
Chef Nancy Silverton discusses her new cookbook, Mozza at Home: More than 150 Crowd-Pleasing Recipes for Relaxed, Family-Style Entertaining (Knopf), which was one of our best books of 2016. Plus, PW deputy reviews editor Gabe Habash goes behind the scenes on this year’s Best Books selections.
