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Author Events and Media, Penguin Group (USA) Weekly Update - 11/9

Tue, 11/10/2009

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Fifteen Books from Penguin Group (USA) Are Amazon's Editors Picks for 2009 

Penguin Group (USA) books are prominently featured on Amazon's annual list of Editors Picks for 2009, securing fifteen titles on the Top 100. In addition to the Editors Picks, Amazon also ranked the Top 100 Customer Favorites (according to customer orders through October); twelve books from Penguin Group (USA) were included on this list.

The Penguin Group (USA) titles among the Top 100 Amazon Editors Picks are:

The Top 100 Customer Favorites titles for Penguin Group (USA) include:

  • #5 The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Amy Einhorn/Putnam)
  • #8 Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
  • #51 Vision in White by Nora Roberts (Berkley)
  • #60 The Defector by Daniel Silva (Putnam)
  • #61 Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford (The Penguin Press)
  • #62 Three Cups of Tea (The Young Reader’s Edition) by Greg Mortenson (Puffin)
  • #65 Wicked Prey by John Sanford (Putnam)
  • #75 Turn Coat by Jim Butcher (Roc)
  • #85 Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts (Berkley)
  • #88 The Healing of America by T. R. Reid (The Penguin Press)
  • #91 Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon (The Penguin Press)
  • #99 Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortenson illus. by Susan L. Roth (Dial)

 

Fifteen Books from Penguin Group (USA) are on Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" List for 2009

In this week’s print edition, Publishers Weekly presented its annual list of the Best Books of the Year for 2009. PW selected 100 books, highlighting titles in Adult fiction, poetry, nonfiction, comics, religion, lifestyle and the top 20 children's books. And this year, they’ve upped the ante with a top 10 list. Among their top picks, fifteen books from Penguin Group (USA) were selected.

  • Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford (Penguin Press) (PW Top 10)
  • The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Riverhead) (Fiction)
  • The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah (Penguin) (Mystery)
  • The Dark Horse by Craig Johnson (Viking) (Mystery)
  • Born Round by Frank Bruni (Penguin Press) (Nonfiction)
  • Green Metropolis by David Owen (Riverhead) (Nonfiction)
  • Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith (Penguin Press) (Nonfiction)
  • Fingerprints of God by Barbara Bradley Hagerty (Riverhead) (Religion)
  • Otis by Loren Long (Philomel) (Children's Picture Books)
  • Sweethearts of Rhythm by Marilyn Nelson, illus. by Jerry Pinkney (Dial) (Children's Picture Books)
  • Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking) (Children’s Fiction)
  • Fire by Kristin Cashore (Dial) (Children’s Fiction)
  • If I Stay by Gayle Forman (Dutton) (Children’s Fiction)
  • A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck (Dial) (Children’s Fiction)
  • Marching for Freedom by Elizabeth Partridge (Viking) (Children’s Nonfiction)
To view the complete list, click here.
 

Julia Roberts buys Screen Rights to Perigee’s In the Neighborhood

Julia Roberts' production company, Red Om, just bought screen rights to In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time, a nonfiction book by Peter Lovenheim, which will be published in April 2010 by Perigee. After a brutal murder-suicide on the street he has lived almost his entire life on, one of the oldest and most charming streets in Brighton, NY (a suburb of Rochester), Lovenheim realizes he lives among strangers. He feels disconnected from his neighbors and sets out to know them better by not just introducing himself, but by actually coming to their homes to sleep over. His goal: to facilitate something more than the feeling of strangers living with strangers in modern suburbia, and to not only create a community - but hopefully, lasting friendships.

Red Om has been reading a lot in the last few years: Roberts is currently overseas filming a big-screen adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love (Viking/Penguin) and the company has also acquired film rights to the bestselling novel The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs (Putnam/Berkley).
 

Putnam/Berkley’s Kate Jacobs Kicks off National Tour for Knit the Season and Knit Two

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kate Jacobs kicked off her Knit the Season hardcover and Knit Two paperback tour at RJ Julia in Madison, CT on Tuesday night. In the photo, Kate is surrounded by some of the 86 hats that her fans brought to the bookstore event as a donation for the Greater New Haven Habitat for Humanity, which will distribute the knitted hats, scarves and mittens locally for the needy. Kate is doing this throughout her tour, and the bookstores are working with the national Warming Families charity to distribute the items in each area.

If you’re interested in knitting for the homeless this holiday season, you can donate items here in New York at Lion Brand Yarn Studio, located at 34 W. 15th Street, between 5th and 6th. Lion Brand is collecting hats and scarves for The Partnership for the Homeless, an organization committed to helping New York City families in need.

Read the first chapter of Knit the Season in the Publisher’s Office Reading Room and mark your calendars for a live chat with Kate Jacobs on December 2, at 12:30pm.
 

Penguin Young Readers’ Jan Brett Embarks on National Bus Tour to Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of The Mitten 

New York Times bestselling author and artist Jan Brett begins a national bus tour this week to promote The Mitten 20th Anniversary Edition (G. P. Putnam’s Sons) and Jan Brett’s Snowy Treasury (G. P. Putnam’s Sons). Her ten-day, fourteen-city tour will visit the following locations: Manchester Center, VT; Johnson City, NY; Rochester, NY; Buffalo, NY; Erie, PA; Fredericksburg, VA; Columbia, SC; Biloxi, MS; New Orleans, LA; Baton Rouge, LA; Gadsden, AL; Newnan, GA; Louisville, KY; and Evansville, IN.

2009 is a year of milestones for Brett, marking the 20th anniversary of one of her most popular titles, The Mitten, as well as her 30th anniversary in the publishing industry. Brett was recently featured in the New York Times House and Garden section. Upcoming media coverage is slated to run in The Advocate, Deseret News, Erie Times-News, Free-Lance Star, Reading Eagle, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, the State, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WKRF Louisiana Public Radio, and WNIN Indiana Public Radio, among others.

View our Jan Brett feature page to learn more about the beloved author and her collection of children’s books.

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