Emma Roberts and Anne Hathaway in NYC.
Emma Roberts and Anne Hathaway attend the 2017 National Book Awards
Congrats to our 2017 National Book Award Winners!!
Robin Benway, Far From the Tree, Young People’s Literature
Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, NonFiction
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Fiction
Frank Bidart, Half-light, Poetry
Looking for a good fall book to read? Check out our 2017 Finalist List at http://www.nationalbook.org/
Erika L. Sanchez, author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter and 2017 National Book Award Finalist
“Ultimately, it’s Julia herself who’s the key to the novel…She’ll resonate with many readers, and they’ll be glad to see her make it through a tough time.”—School Library Journal, starred review
Rita Williams-Garcia, author of Clayton Byrd Goes Underground, and 2017 Young People’s literature Finalist
Photo by Jennifer Kerrigan/NPR
In her new novel Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan dives deep into exhaustively researched period detail, “from the bulky design of a 1940s diving suit to the sybaritic specifics of a beloved car,” says critic Tasha Robinson.
– Petra
Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan.
So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith, family, and identity.
-Angie Thomas author of The Hate U Give, and 2017 Young People’s Literature longlist author
-Jason Reynolds, 2017 Longlist Author
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Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.
Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.
But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”
that’s a fantastic plan, honestly? i would 100% go sit at a bookshop, buy a glass of wine, and pick up the newest biography. 50/50 i’d decide to buy it after a couple chapters, and even if i don’t, that’s still money i spent at B&N!
They could host book clubs with food and drinks where one of the employees shares their experiences with a book of their choice and tries to convince the guests to buy it.
Barnes and noble realizing the only reason people go to brick and mortar stores is for the experience and access to an enjoyable physical space they can socialize in (sure isnt for the price) and capitalizing on that is a stroke of genius and a really refreshing approach to the dilemma of competing with online stores
