In 1994, when many publishing houses around town were closing down imprints, Susan Petersen Kennedy and four editors formed Riverhead Books with the goal of publishing enduring books in hardcover and then in trade paperback—both fiction and nonfiction, including significant religious and spiritual titles—that would open readers up to new ideas and points of view. This goal became a reality that continues to flourish.

Riverhead boasts an impressive list of acclaimed writers whose careers the imprint has launched. Among them: Korean-American writer Chang-rae Lee had a stunning debut in 1995 with his first novel, Native Speaker, which earned numerous awards, including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Award. His 2004 novel Aloft, was a New York Times bestseller and has garnered enormous critical acclaim. Nick Hornby debuted with his now-classic first novel, High Fidelity in 1996. Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini made his literary debut in 2003 with his powerful first novel The Kite Runner, which captured the attention of readers everywhere and won the Borders Original Voices Award in the fiction category. Edward Conlon, the author of the "Cop Diary" columns in The New Yorker, made his literary debut in April 2004 with Blue Blood, a New York Times bestseller in hardcover and paperback that is an important book that's been hailed as the most stunning memoir ever written about the cop world.

Among Riverhead's other discoveries in fiction: Jennifer Belle (Going Down; High Maintenance), Junot Díaz (Drown), Alex Garland (The Beach, The Coma, The Tesseract), Nick Hornby (High Fidelity; About a Boy; How to Be Good; A Long Way Down), Adam Langer (Crossing California), Danzy Senna (Caucasia), Aryeh Lev Stollman (The Far Euphrates; The Illuminated Soul), Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet; Affinity; Fingersmith), Gary Shteyngart (The Russian Debutante's Handbook), Pearl Abraham (The Romance Reader), Iain Pears (An Instance of the Fingerpost; The Dream of Scipio), and ZZ Packer (Drinking Coffee Elsewhere).

In winter 1995, Riverhead published James McBride's The Color of Water, a poignant memoir that garnered the #1 spot on the New York Times paperback bestseller list and remained on the list for two years, selling well over a million copies. The Color of Water not only received the prestigious Anisfield-Wolf Award and rave reviews, but has become a classic: it is required reading in many high schools and colleges across the country. Other significant nonfiction New York Times bestsellers from Riverhead include Kurt Cobain's Journals; The Pact, the award-winning bestseller by doctors Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt and George Jenkins; Rachel Remen's inspiring Kitchen Table Wisdom; Harold Bloom's magnum opus Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and three major New York Times bestsellers from financial guru, Suze Orman, The Road to Wealth, the number-one, million-copy bestseller The Courage to Be Rich, and most recently, The Money Book for The Young, Fabulous & Broke.

Riverhead has had great success with its spiritual titles, and is proud to have published His Holiness the Dalai Lama's The Art of Happiness, Ethics for the New Millennium, and The Art of Happiness at Work, New York Times bestsellers that have brought his teachings to over a million new readers. Other influential spiritual books on Riverhead's list include Marianne Williamson's #1 New York Times bestseller, Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles; Kathleen Norris's much-lauded books about religion, The Cloister Walk and Amazing Grace, also New York Times bestsellers; Stephen Batchelor's Buddhism Without Beliefs; Thich Nhat Hanh's three Buddhist classics, Living Buddha, Living Christ, Going Home, and Anger; and Robert Thurman's Inner Revolution.

Susan Petersen Kennedy

President

Susan Petersen Kennedy is President of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., Chairman of Viking Penguin and Plume Books, as well as the publisher of Riverhead Books. Penguin Group (USA) is the U.S. affiliate of the Penguin Group.

Mrs. Kennedy joined the Putnam Berkley Group in 1994 prior to the Penguin Putnam merger to strengthen its non-fiction presence and to establish her own hardcover and trade paperback publishing house, Riverhead Books. In less than three years, she guided Riverhead from start-up to profitability, assembling a team of editors who both recognize talent and excel at guiding it into the hands of readers. Following the belief that "writers come first," the imprint has published many award-winning and best-selling authors, including Kathleen Norris, the Dalai Lama, James McBride, Iain Pears, Nick Hornby, Harold Bloom, Rachel Remen and Suze Orman. In addition, she has published in G. P. Putnam's Sons list such best-sellers as It's Not About the Bike (Lance Armstrong story), Eat Right for Your Type and Conversations with God, which spent over two years on the New York Times best-seller list.

After the Penguin Putnam merger in 1997, Mrs. Kennedy was appointed to oversee Viking Penguin, where her goal has been to focus and extend the established strengths of each imprint. "We're seeking a balance between fiction and non-fiction on these lists, with an eye to what we'd like to think of as the smart book for adult readers," Mrs. Kennedy said. "The Penguin Classics are a signature for this division in that all Penguin books should have a long life and a classic essence to them—in content, in packaging and in marketing"

From 1982 to 1992, Mrs. Kennedy was Executive Vice President of Random House, Inc. and President of the Ballantine Publishing Group. Under her management, the division went from its #8 position among mass market publishers to its 1992 across-the-board success in hardcover, trade paperback and mass market. In this period the division increased its gross revenue fivefold and quadrupled its profitability. Mrs. Kennedy handled Ballantine's acquisition of Fawcett Books and House of Collectibles, and founded Ivy Books and the award-winning One World imprint.

Mrs. Kennedy has been a past member of the Visiting Committee for Harvard University Press and a member of the Freedom to Publish Committee (an organization within the International Publisher's Association set up to investigate censorship throughout the world). She has served as a board member of the Association of American Publishers and as a former chair of its paperback publishing division. She is currently a member of the advisory board of the Women's Rights Project, a part of Human Rights Watch. In 2004, Mrs. Kennedy was awarded the prestigious Matrix Award for Books by New york Women in Communications, Inc.

A native of Nebraska, Mrs. Kennedy is a cum laude graduate of Vassar College. She also holds an M.F.A. from New York University.

Geoffrey Kloske

Vice President

Geoffrey Kloske is Vice President and Publisher of Riverhead Books. Penguin Group (USA) is the U.S. affiliate of the Penguin Group.

Prior to coming to Riverhead Books, Mr. Kloske was Vice President, Executive Editor of the Adult Trade Group at Simon & Schuster, where he worked for the past eight years. He was in charge of running the company's successful paperback line, “S&S Paperbacks.” At Simon & Schuster, he published many award-winning, New York Times bestselling authors including Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Susan Vowell's Assassination Vacation and Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Vol. 1, the latter a finalist for a 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. In addition, he also worked with such authors as Thomas Berger, James Carville, Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, Bernard Cooper, Michael D'Antonio, Philip Van Munching and Ed McBain, many of them New York Times bestsellers.

Prior to his tenure at Simon & Schuster, he was at Little, Brown, during which time he bought and edited the first three books by award-winning and New York Times bestselling author David Sedaris. He also worked at St. Martin's Press for one year.

Mr. Kloske has authored one children's book, Once Upon A Time, The End, with illustrator Barry Blitt, which was published by Atheneum/Anne Schwartz Books in October 2005. The title received a National Parenting Publications Award and was acknowledged with an award from Publishers Weekly.

Sean McDonald

Vice President and Executive Editor

Sean McDonald is Vice President and Executive Editor of Riverhead Books. Penguin Group (USA) is the U.S. affiliate of the Penguin Group.

Sean McDonald has worked in the book publishing world for more than ten years as an editor and designer. In addition to his editorial duties at Riverhead Books, he is also the imprint's Online Creative Director, and will continue to spearhead its website and online marketing efforts.

Prior to joining Riverhead Books in 2003, Mr. McDonald was at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday for four years as Editor and Online Marketing Director, where he acquired and edited James Frey's A Million Little Pieces (#1 New York Times bestseller and current Oprah Book Club selection), Aleksandar Hemon's Nowhere Man (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and The Question of Bruno, Ellen Ullman's The Bug (finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award), and Marc Herman's Searching for El Dorado, among other books, and developed the publishing house's website and electronic newsletter. From 1994 to 1998, he worked at Arcade Publishing, as Editor and Art Director, where he acquired and edited Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy, Maps, Gifts, and Secrets.

Sarah McGrath

Vice President and Executive Editor

Sarah McGrath is Vice President and Executive Editor of Riverhead Books. Prior to coming to Riverhead in 2006 she was Senior Editor at Scribner, where she worked for eight years and acquired and edited a combination of literary fiction and narrative nonfiction.

At Scribner she discovered such fiction writers as Maile Meloy (Half in Love won the Pen/Malamud Award; Liars and Saints was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize), and Aryn Kyle (The God of Animals was a New York Times bestseller). She also acquired the first novels of graphic designer Chip Kidd and New Yorker humorist Patricia Marx, as well as books by such bestselling and award-winning fiction writers as Anita Diamant, Meg Wolitzer, and Antonya Nelson. She also edited Kate Walbert's novel Our Kind, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Narrative nonfiction authors that Ms. McGrath acquired and edited while at Scribner included bestselling writers Diane Ackerman, Alison Smith, and George Howe Colt, whose book, The Big House, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Since coming to Riverhead, Ms. McGrath has edited Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns (an instant #1 New York Times bestseller), the first adult novel (also a New York Times bestseller) by Ann Brashares, and books by Chang-rae Lee, Maxine Swann, Rebecca Walker, and Martha Moody.

Before her tenure at Scribner, Ms. McGrath spent two years at Knopf, where she worked for Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Sonny Mehta. She graduated from Harvard University and worked as a researcher and reporter at Newsweek before entering book publishing.

Jake Morrissey

Executive Editor

Jake Morrissey, Executive Editor of Riverhead Books, acquires and edits books in the areas of narrative non-fiction, science, history, culture, religion/spirituality, humor, historical fiction and thrillers. He has edited the work of a wide range of authors, including Anne Lamott, William F. Buckley, Jr., Lewis Black, and Gary Larson. Before joining Riverhead, he worked as an editor at Scribner and Harmony. He is the author of a historical mystery, A Weekend at Blenheim, and a non-fiction narrative history, The Genius in the Design.

Megan Lynch

Editor

Megan Lynch is Editor at Riverhead, where she has worked since 2003. She has acquired and edited a range of literary fiction and non-fiction, including Dinaw Mengestu's acclaimed debut The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (a Los Angeles Times bestseller and the Seattle Reads pick for 2008), Ellis Avery's work of historical fiction The Teahouse Fire (a BookSense pick; winner of a Lambda Literary Award and an Ohioana Book Award), New Yorker short story writer Cristina Henriquez's collection Come Together, Fall Apart (a finalist for the PEN USA Literary Award for fiction), humorist Wendy McClure's memoir I'm Not the New Me, and the food writing anthology Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone (a BookSense pick), edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler. She also works with Riverhead authors including Sarah Waters, Jennifer Belle, Dana Vachon, and Adam Davies. Prior to her arrival at Riverhead, Megan worked at Little, Brown and Company and Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. A graduate of Brown University, she is originally from Philadelphia.

AWARDS and HONORS

Pearl Abraham, The Romance Reader

• Finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award
• One of the New York Public Library's Best Books for the Teen Age, 1996
• Library Journal's Editor's Choice for one of the Best Books of 1995
• A choice book of the Northern California Bookseller's Association
• Winner of a San Antonio Current "Hot Tamale" Award in the "Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant" category
• First book club selection of the Contra Costa Times

Lauren Artress, Walking a Sacred Path

• Body, Mind, Spirit Award of Excellence, 1996

Marc Barasch, Healing Dreams

• Nominated for a Books for a Better Life Award
• Chosen for excerption in "Best Spiritual Writing 2001"

Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, Rilke's Book of Hours

• PEN West Translation Award Finalist

Stephen Batchelor, Verses from the Center

• One of the Los Angeles Times Book Review's Best Nonfiction Books of 2000

Jennifer Belle, Going Down

• Entertainment Weekly's Debut Novel of the Year

A. Scott Berg, Maxwell Perkins: Editor of Genius

• National Book Award

Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

• Nominated for the National Book Award
• A New York Times Notable Book of 1998
• Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award
• One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 1998
• ALA Booklist Editor's Choice for 1998

Joan Borysenko, A Woman's Journey to God

• Nominated for a Books for a Better Life Award

Brian Bouldrey, ed., Wrestling with the Angel

• Winner, Lambda Literary Award

Kathleen Brehony, Awakening at Midlife

• Finalist for a Books for a Better Life Award

Chip Brown, Afterwards, You're a Genius: Faith, Medicine, and the Metaphysics of Healing

• Finalist for a Books for a Better Life Award (First Book category)
• Amazon.com's Editor's Choice for the #1 Health/Mind/Body Book of 1999
• An AOL Book of the Week

Veronica Chambers, Mama's Girl

• One of ALA's Best Book of 1996
• Nominated for QPB's New Visions Award

Laura Shaine Cunningham, A Place in the Country

• A New York Times Notable Book of 2000

Ram Dass, Still Here

• One of the Los Angeles Times Book Review's Best Nonfiction Books of 2000

Marele Day, Lambs of God

• Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Junot Diaz, Drown

• New York Times Notable Book 1996
• One of the Village Voice Top 25 Best Books of the Year
• ALA Best Books of 1996
• Shortlisted for PEN/Hemingway Award
• Nominated for QPB's New Voices Award
• Included in The Art of the Story (Viking)
• Included in Great American Short Stories, 1997, 1998, 1999

• Named one of The New Yorker's Best 20 Writers Under 40, 1999
• Winner, Guggenheim Fellowship
• Finalist, National Magazine Award for Fiction
• Awarded the Lila Wallace Grant

China Galland, The Bond Between Women

• Books for a Better Life Award Finalist, Spiritual Book Category

Alex Garland, The Beach

• Winner of Britain's Betty Trask Prize for the best first novel by a writer under 35
• A selection of NPR's "Talk of the Nation" Book Club
• Chosen as Favorite Book of the Year by Newsday and The Sunday Oregonian

• One of Time Out's "People to Watch in '97"

Alex Garland, The Tesseract

• New York Times Notable Book of 1998
• Time Out New York Critic's Pick
• Recommended summer reading by The New York Times Book Review

• One of Entertainment Weekly's 100 Hottest People in Entertainment, 1999

Michal Govrin, The Name

• Winner of the 1998 Israeli Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Writers
• Winner of Israel's 1997 Kugel Prize

Romesh Guneskera, The Reef

• Finalist for the Booker Prize of 1994
• A New York Times Notable Book of 1994
• QPB "New Voices" nominee for best new fiction

Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

• One of the School Library Journal's Top Ten Best Adult Nonfiction Titles, 1995
• Winner of a Mind Body Spirit Award of Excellence, 1996
• Winner of the International Prize Dialogue

Patrick Henry, The Ironic Christian's Companion

• An Amazon.com Editor's Pick (Religion and Spirituality category)

Robert Hopcke, There Are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Story of Our Lives

• An Amazon.com Expert Editor's Pick of the Month

Nick Hornby, About a Boy

• Excerpted in The New Yorker's 1998 Christmas Fiction Issue
• A New York Times Notable Book of 1998
• One of New York Public Library's Books to Remember of 1998
• An ALA Notable Book of 1999
• Finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

• One of the Times of London's Top Ten Football Books of All Time

Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

• New York Times Notable Book of 1995
• One of Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Books of 1995
• One of the Tower Top Forty Books of 1995

Nick Hornby, Speaking with the Angel

• One of Book Sense's 76 titles for special promotion

The Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium

• Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award, Spiritual Category

Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life

• Winner of the Asian-American Literary Award
• Winner of the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award
• Winner of the North Atlantic Independent Bookseller's Association (NAIBA) Book Award for Fiction
• Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
• Finalist for a New Yorker Book Award
• Talk magazine's Book of the Year for 1999
• A New York Times Notable Book of 1999
• One of Esquire Magazine's Distinguished Books of the Year
• Finalist for a New Yorker Book Award
• Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Book Award
• One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 1999
• One of the Los Angeles Times's Best Books of 1999
• One of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Best Books of 1999
• An ALA Adult Notable Book
• A pick of the San Francisco Chronicle's Book Club
• One of Bookreporter.com's Top Ten Hardcovers
• One of the Christian Science Monitor's Top Forty Books of the Year

• One of The New Yorker's Best 20 Writers Under 40
• Winner, Guggenheim Fellowship

Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker

• Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction
• Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award
• Winner of QPB's New Voices Award for best new fiction
• Winner of an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation
• Winner of the Oregon Book Award
• Finalist for a PEN West Award in fiction
• ALA Notable Book for adults

• Finalist for Granta's award for Best Novelist Under 40

J. Robert Lennon, The Light of Falling Stars

• Winner, 1997 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award

Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers

• Nominated for a Books for a Better Life Award

Bill Logan, Dirt

• Entertainment Weekly's Title of the Week

Michael Lydon, Ray Charles: Man and Music

• A New York Times Notable Book of 1999

John Marks, The Wall

• A New York Times Notable Book of 1998

Angeles Mastretta, Lovesick

• Winner, 1997 Romulo Gallegos International Prize

Mark Matousek, The Boy He Left Behind

• Winner of the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

• Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
• ALA Notable Book of 1996
• One of New York Public Library's 25 Books to Remember of 1996

Leonard Michaels, A Cat

• Winner of a San Antonio Current "Hot Tamale" Award
• One of Good Housekeeping's Best Cat Books of 1995

Leonard Michaels, Time Out of Mind

• A New York Times Notable Book of 1999

Thomas Moran, The Man in the Box

• BOMC's Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction
• Finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Thomas Moran, The World I Made for Her

• Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 1999

James Morgan, The Distance to the Moon

• A New York Times Notable Book of 1999

Susan Brind Morrow, The Names of Things

• PEN First Book/Memoir Finalist

Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith

• Recommended summer reading by The New York Times Book Review
• A New York Times Notable Book of 1998
• Association of Theological Booksellers Best Book of 1998
• Association of Theological Booksellers Best General Interest Book of 1998
• Books for a Better Life Award Finalist (Spiritual Book category)
• One of Christianity Today's 25 Best Books of the Year
• One of Amazon.com's 10 Best Books of the Year (Religion and Spirituality category)
• A runner-up for the Society of Mid-land Authors Award

Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk

• Winner of Christianity Today's Book Award
• Finalist for a Books for a Better Life Award
• A New York Times Notable Book of 1996

Suze Orman, The Courage to Be Rich

• Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award (Motivational Book category)

Molly Peacock, How to Read a Poem... And Start a Poetry Circle

• An AOL Book of the Week

Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost

• A New York Times Notable Book of 1998
• Named one of the New York Public Library's 25 Books to Remember of 1998
• Named one of the Best Books of 1998 by: The Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, Christian Science Monitor, Charleston Gazette-Mail, Boston Globe, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Mary Pipher, Another Country

• Finalist for a Books for a Better Life Award
• One of Library Journal's Best Books of 1999

Rachel Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom

• Wilbur Award Winner
• QPB New Visions Finalist
• Finalist for a Books for a Better Life Award
• Winner of a Mind Body Spirit Award of Excellence

Rachel Remen, My Grandfather's Blessings

• Nominated for a Books for a Better Life Award

Douglas Rushkoff, Coercion

• One of Amazon.com's Top Ten Cyberculture Books for 1999

Tim Sandlin, Skipped Parts

• A New York Times Notable Book

George Saunders, Civil War Land in Bad Decline

• A New York Times Notable Book
• Finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction
• One of Esquire's 20 Essential Books for the 1990's

George Saunders, Pastoralia

• Winner of the National Magazine Award for Fiction for "The Barber's Unhappiness"
• A New York Times Notable Book of 2000
• One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Fiction Books of 2000
• Named one of the best books of the year by: St. Louis Post Dispatch, Kansas City Star, and Barnes & Noble

• Winner of three National Magazine Awards for Fiction
• One of The New Yorker's Best 20 Fiction Writers Under 40
• Three-time finalist for the O. Henry Award

Keith Scribner, Goodlife

• A New York Times Notable Book

Danzy Senna, Caucasia

• Winner of the 1998 BOMC Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction
• One of Glamour's three Best Novels of the Year by a New Writer
• One of the School Library Journal's 23 Best Adult Books for the Young Adult
• One of the Los Angeles Times's Best Books of 1998
• Winner of an Alex Award from the American Library Association for one of the top ten adult books for the teenager
• Finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Katie Singer, The Wholeness of a Broken Heart

• A selection of the Contra Costa Book Club

June Spence, Missing Women and Others

• Included in The Best American Short Stories 1997
• A New York Times Notable Book of 1998
• Winner of the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction

• Selected as a writer to watch in the year 2000 by the Raleigh News & Observer

Mark Spragg, Where Rivers Change Direction

• Winner, Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, Best Nonfiction Book of 2000
• One of Library Journal's Best Books of 1999

Aryeh Stollman, The Far Euphrates

• Winner of a Wilbur Award
• Winner of a Lambda Literary Award
• An ALA Notable Book of the Year
• One of the New York Public Library's best books for the Teen Age, 1998
• A National Books Critic Circle Notable Book
• An Amazon.com Editor's Pick of the Month
• A Los Angeles Times Notable Book of the Year

Mira Stout, One Thousand Chestnut Trees

• One of the New York Public Library's best books for the Teen Age, 1999

Sallie Tisdale, The Best Thing I Ever Tasted

• Nominated for James Beard Foundation Award

Sarah Waters, Affinity

• Finalist for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
• Times of London Novelist of the Year for 2000
• Winner of the American Library Association Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Book Award, 2001

Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

• A New York Times Notable Book
• One of Amazon.com's Editors' Picks of the Year
• A finalist for the Betty Trask Prize
• One of Library Journal's Best Books of 1999
• Winner of a Lambda Literary Award

Rabbi David Wolpe, Making Loss Matter

• Finalist for a Books for a Better Life Award

Shay Youngblood, Soul Kiss

• Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for lesbian and gay fiction, 1997
• Nominated for QPB's New Voices Award
• Finalist for the Discover Great New Writers Award, 1997

Jamie Zeppa, Beyond the Sky and the Earth

• One of Amazon.com's Top Ten Travel Books of 1999
• Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival's Best Adventure/Travel Book Award

RECENT BOMC SELECTIONS

• Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Main Selection)
• Joan Borysenko, A Woman's Journey to God
• Chip Brown, Afterwards, You're a Genius: Faith, Medicine, and the Metaphysics of Healing
• Marele Day, Lambs of God
• Alex Garland, The Beach
• Alex Garland, The Tesseract
• Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
• Caryle Hirshberg and Marc Ian Barasch, Remarkable Recovery
• Robert Hopcke, There Are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Story of Our Lives
• Nick Hornby, About a Boy
• Robert J. Hutchinson, The Book of Vices
• Sidney Kirkpatrick, Edgar Cayce
• The Kunhardts, The American President (Main Selection)
• The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, The Art of Happiness
• The Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium
• Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life
• Mark Matousek, The Boy He Left Behind
• James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
• Thomas Moran, The Man in the Box
• Thomas Moran, The World I Made for Her
• Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
• Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk
• Patricia O'Connor, Woe Is I
• Nuala O' Faolain, My Dream of You
• Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost (Main Selection)
• Mary Pipher, Another Country
• Rachel Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom
• Rachel Remen, My Grandfather's Blessings
• George Saunders, Pastoralia
• Danzy Senna, Caucasia
• Robert Thurman, Inner Revolution
• Sallie Tisdale, The Best Thing I Ever Tasted
• Susan Trott, The Holy Man
• Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
• Rabbi David Wolpe, Making Loss Matter
• Shay Youngblood, Black Girl in Paris (Alternate Selection)

QPB SELECTIONS

• James A. Autry and Stephen Mitchell, Real Power
• Harold Bloom, Omens of the Millenium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection
• Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Main Selection)
• Joan Borysenko, A Woman's Book of Life
• Joan Borysenko, A Woman's Journey to God
• Chip Brown, Afterwards, You're a Genius: Faith, Medicine, and the Metaphysics of Healing
• Veronica Chambers, Mama's Girl
• Rabbi David Cooper, God Is a Verb
• Ram Dass, Still Here
• Marele Day, Lambs of God
• Junot Diaz, Drown
• Richard Firshein, D.O., The Nutraceutical Revolution
• Alex Garland, The Beach
• Alex Garland, The Tesseract
• Thich Nhat Hanh, Going Home
• Robert Hopcke, There Are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Story of Our Lives (Main Selection)
• Nick Hornby, About a Boy
• Robert J. Hutchinson, The Book of Vices
• Sidney Kirkpatrick, Edgar Cayce
• The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, The Art of Happiness
• The Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium
• Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life
• Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker
• Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers
• Sandra Tsing Loh, Depth Takes a Holiday
• Mark Matousek, The Boy He Left Behind
• James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
• Anchee Min, Katherine
• Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
• Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk
• Rachel Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom
• Rachel Remen, My Grandfather's Blessings
• George Saunders, Pastoralia (Main Selection)
• Danzy Senna, Caucasia
• Robert Thurman, Inner Revolution
• Sallie Tisdale, The Best Thing I Ever Tasted
• Susan Trott, The Holy Man
• Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
• Rabbi David Wolpe, Making Loss Matter
• Shay Youngblood, Black Girl in Paris (Alternate Selection)
• Shay Youngblood, Soul Kiss

ONE SPIRIT BOOK CLUB

• James A. Autry and Stephen Mitchell, Real Power
• Marc Barasch, Healing Dreams
• Harold Bloom, Omens of the Millenium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection
• Joan Borysenko, A Woman's Book of Life
• Joan Borysenko, A Woman's Journey to God
• Kathleen Brehony, Ordinary Grace
• Chip Brown, Afterwards, You're a Genius
• Rabbi David Cooper, God Is a Verb
• Anne Cushman and Jerry Jones, From Here to Nirvana: The Yoga Journal Guide to Spiritual India
• Ram Dass, Still Here
• Marele Day, Lambs of God
• Richard Firshein, D.O., The Nutraceutical Revolution
• China Galland, The Bond Between Women
• Thich Nhat Hanh, Going Home
• Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
• Robert Hopcke, There Are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Story of Our Lives
• Sidney Kirkpatrick, Edgar Cayce
• The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, The Art of Happiness
• The Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium
• Sister Molly Monahan, Seeds of Grace
• Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
• Rachel Remen, My Grandfather's Blessings
• Robert Thurman, Inner Revolution
• Sallie Tisdale, The Best Thing I Ever Tasted
• Rabbi David Wolpe, Making Loss Matter

LITERARY GUILD SELECTIONS

• Pearl Abraham, The Romance Reader
• Leonard Michaels, A Cat
• Thomas Moran, Water Carry Me
• Suze Orman, The Courage to be Rich (Main Selection)

A SELECTION OF BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PROGRAM

• Pearl Abraham, The Romance Reader
• Veronica Chambers, Mama's Girl
• Marele Day, Lambs of God
• Junot Diaz, Drown
• Fred Haefele, Rebuilding the Indian
• Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
• Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker
• J. Robert Lennon, The Light of Falling Stars
• Thomas Moran, The Man in the Box
• Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk
• Keith Scribner, The GoodLife
• Katie Singer, The Wholeness of a Broken Heart
• June Spence, Missing Women and Others
• Shay Youngblood, Soul Kiss
• Jamie Zeppa, Beyond the Sky and the Earth

A SELECTION OF THE BLACK EXPRESSIONS BOOK CLUB

• Michael Datcher, Raising Fences

A SELECTION OF BORDER'S ORIGINAL VOICES PROGRAM

• George Saunders, Pastoralia

JACKET AWARDS

F. Gonzalez Crussi, There is a World Elsewhere

• Third Place in the New York Book Show, scholarly and reference/biography/memoir category

Nick Hornby, About a Boy

• "Best of Show" in the New York Book Show, first place for book and jacket among all categories, second place for trade fiction jacket

J. Robert Lennon, The Light of Falling Stars

• First Place in the New York Book Show, best design