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The Indie Bestseller List

The Indie Bestseller List

The Indie Bestseller List – Published Wednesday, October 26, 2022 (for the sales week ended Sunday, October 23, 2022). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States.

IBPA Names New CEO

IBPA Names New CEO

(Manhattan Beach, CA – October 26, 2022) – Following a three-month search, the Board of Directors of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) announced today that it has hired Andrea Fleck-Nisbet as the association’s new CEO effective November 1, 2022. She...

Astra Publishing Acquires DAW Books

Astra Publishing Acquires DAW Books

Astra Publishing House has acquired DAW Books, the science fiction and fantasy publisher founded in 1971, according to a report in Shelf Awareness. DAW Books was founded in 1971 by veteran paperback editor Donald A. Wollheim, along with his wife, Elsie B. Wollheim,...

Sri Lankan Wins Booker Prize for Second Novel

Sri Lankan Wins Booker Prize for Second Novel

Winner The Booker Prize 2022 Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Published by Sort Of Books (August 2022) Shehan Karunatilaka has won The Booker Prize of 2022 for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The novel is a searing, mordantly...

French writer Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize in literature

French writer Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize in literature

French Writer Annie Ernaux has won the Nobel Prize in literature for 2022, it was announced by the Nobel Foundation on October 6, 2022. The 82-year-old writer is known for works that blur the line between memoir and fiction. The Prize was given “for the courage and...

The Indie Bestseller List

The Indie Bestseller List

The Indie Bestseller List – Published Wednesday, September 28, 2022 (for the sales week ended Sunday, September 25, 2022). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States.

Wolf Hall Author Dame Hilary Mantel Dies

Wolf Hall Author Dame Hilary Mantel Dies

Dame Hilary Mantel, the author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70, her publisher has confirmed. Her longtime agent Bill Hamilton said she died days after suffering a stroke on Monday, September 19, but that has not been confirmed. According to the...