The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors.
The New York Times Best Seller list is a list of best-selling books in the United States. It has been published weekly in The New York Times Book Review since October 12, 1931. In recent years it has evolved into multiple lists, grouped by genre and format, including fiction and non-fiction, hardcover, paperback and electronic.
Elizabeth Moon is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her other writing includes newspaper columns and opinion pieces. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award. Prior to her writing career, she served in the United States Marine Corps.
Eric Flint is an American author, editor, and e-publisher. The majority of his main works are alternate history science fiction, but he also writes humorous fantasy adventures. His works have been listed on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Locus Magazine best seller lists. He is a co-founder and editor of the Baen Free Library.
Lulu Press, Inc., doing business as Lulu.com, is an online print-on-demand, self-publishing, and distribution platform. By 2014, it produced approximately two million titles.
Ron Rash, an American poet, short story writer and novelist, is the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University.
Lovecraft: A Biography is a 1975 biography of the writer H. P. Lovecraft by science-fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover by Doubleday in February 1975.
Time and Chance: an Autobiography is the autobiography of science fiction and fantasy writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1996. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form.
This is a list of adult non-fiction books that topped The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list in 2008,in the Hardcover Nonfiction category.
This is a list of adult non-fiction books that topped The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list in 2007, in the Hardcover Nonfiction category.
This is a list of adult non-fiction books that topped The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list in 2006, in the Hardcover Nonfiction category.
This is a list of adult non-fiction books that topped The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list in 2009, in the Hardcover Non-Fiction category.
The Litigators is a 2011 legal thriller novel by John Grisham, his 25th fiction novel overall. The Litigators is about a two-partner Chicago law firm attempting to strike it rich in a class action lawsuit over a cholesterol reduction drug by a major pharmaceutical drug company. The protagonist is a Harvard Law School grad big law firm burnout who stumbles upon the boutique and joins it only to find himself litigating against his old law firm in this case. The book is regarded as more humorous than most of Grisham's prior novels.
Penguin Random House (PRH) is a multinational conglomerate publishing company formed in 2013 from the merger of Random House, owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, and Penguin Group, owned by British publishing company Pearson plc. As of 2013, Penguin Random House employed about 10,000 people globally and published 15,000 titles annually under its 250 divisions and imprints. These titles include fiction and nonfiction for adults and children in both print and digital.
This is a list of adult non-fiction books that topped The New York Times Non-fiction Best Seller list in 2013, in the Hardcover Nonfiction category. The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell with 12 weeks at the top of the list.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the thirteenth novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. Published on 12 April 2013 in Japan, it sold one million copies in one month.
This is a list of adult non-fiction books that topped The New York Times Non-fiction Best Seller list in 2010, in the Hardcover Nonfiction category.
This is a list of adult non-fiction books that topped The New York Times Non-fiction Best Seller list in 2012, in the Hardcover Nonfiction category.
This is a list of adult non-fiction books that topped The New York Times Non-fiction Best Seller list in 2011, in the Hardcover Nonfiction category.
What Happened is a 2017 memoir by Hillary Clinton about her experiences as the Democratic Party's nominee and general election candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 election. Published on September 12, 2017, it is her seventh book with her publisher, Simon & Schuster.