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December 2019 News from the Appalachian Literary Scene
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes has ended December on the New York Times best-seller list for the 10th straight week, resting in the low teens. Welcome to Bombingham by Rhonda Lynn Rucker was included on the “Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars” issued by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels is on Entertainment Weekly’s list of the 50 most anticipated books of 2020 and on O Magazine’s list of 31 LGBTQ Books That’ll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020. The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in...
November 2019 News from the Appalachian Literary Scene
Sugar Run by Mesha Maren has been named by O: The Oprah Magazine one of the 23 Best LGBTQ books of 2019. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes has ended November on the New York Times best-seller list for the 6th straight week, resting in the low teens. The Giver of Stars has also been named a Buzz Book for Fall/Winter 2019. Oblivion Banjo by Charles Wright is on Lit Hub’s list of most anticipated books for November 2019.
October 2019 News from the Appalachian Literary Scene
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes is on the New York Times Bestseller Lists in hardback fiction, jumping up to #9 in Hardcover Frontlist Fiction on their October 6-12 list. The Giver of Stars was also on the October 2019 Library Reads list and the American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next list for October, on the Fall/Winter Buzz Books list, AND is a 2019 Fall Okra Pick from the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson is also a Fall Okra Pick and on both the Fall/Winter Buzz Books List and the Library Reads...
August 2019 News from the Appalachian Literary Scene
The 38th Annual Literary Festival at Emory & Henry College will feature Charles Dodd White. It will take place on October 24th & 25th Amazon’s list of the twenty best books of 2019 so far in categories includes: Literature and Fiction – Sugar Run by Mesha Maren, Biographies and Memoirs – Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehito Hindman Young Adult – Birthday: A Novel by Meredith Russo The Knoxville, Tennessee, Friends of Literary has announced that they will celebrate this year’s inductees into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame at the Southern Railway Station at...