12 Books for Tolerance and Understanding (2023), by The Editors of WLT Lit Lists [email protected] Tue, 11/14/2023 - 14:07 For years, a prognostication by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe appeared on the masthead page of World Literature Today: “These... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-11-14 20:07:42 UTC ]
A televised 1990s killing in Zambia has striking similarities to Delia Owens’s best-selling book turned movie. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2022-07-11 18:53:00 UTC ]
The book that spent 150—yes, 150!—weeks on the New York Times bestseller list is coming to theaters this July. The movie adaptation for Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing finally has a shiny new trailer! You know Daisy Edgar-Jones from Hulu’s Normal People adaptation, but now she tests her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-03-22 17:05:44 UTC ]
Booming appetites for crime, sci-fi and romance drive fiction sales 20% higher than in 2019, with Richard Osman the year’s bestselling authorBook sales continued to climb last year despite lockdowns, with more than 212m print books sold in 2021 – the highest figure of the last decade.Driven by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-01-11 17:21:11 UTC ]
New figures from the Publishers Association show fiction and audiobooks did particularly well, with value of consumer sales up 7% on 2019 despite bookshop closuresFiction sales in 2020 soared by more than £100m for UK publishers, as readers locked down at home made their escape into books, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-04-26 23:01:49 UTC ]
Delia Owens, Dav Pilkey, and Suzanne Collins all had a good first half of the year, placing at the top of their respective bestseller lists. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (Tinder Press) has debuted at the top of the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction chart, with Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing (Corsair) and Candice Carty-Williams' Queenie (Trapeze) rising to join it in the top three. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-23 23:10:01 UTC ]
Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing claimed the Publisher E-Book Ranking top spot for the week ending 25th April. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-10 19:53:20 UTC ]
We asked 16 authors to pick their favorite books about mother-child relationships. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-06 07:46:44 UTC ]
Delia Owens’s debut novel has sold more than four million copies — an astonishing trajectory for any new writer, much less for a 70-year-old wildlife scientist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-21 10:00:08 UTC ]
A few days ago, Publishers Weekly reported that Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens’ debut novel and the September 2018 pick for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club, topped a million in print sales in 2019. Today, Laura Miller at Slate had a much juicier story about Owens: her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-30 15:00:24 UTC ]
Delia Owens’s 'Where the Crawdads Sing' is the feel-good publishing story of the year. This is how it got there. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
Delia Owens's novel was the top-selling print book in the first half of 2019 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. The novel, published in August 2018, sold over 907,000 copies in 2019 and more than 1.1 million copies since its release. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
Delia Owens's 'Where the Crawdads Sing' may not have had an unpunctuated reign over the Apple Books store's bestseller list this year, but it's king nonetheless. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
After slipping to #2 last week, Delia Owens’s ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ is back at the top on the Apple Books store. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Delia Owens's novel 'Where the Crawdads Sing' has clawed its way back up to #1 on the Apple Books store, with C.J. Box's latest, 'Wolf Pack,' loping into the #2 slot. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Delia Owens's 'Where the Crawdads Sing' keeps its claws clamped on the top slot for another week, while Celadon Books's debut title makes the #2 slot. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michelle Obama's memoir, 'Becoming,' has finally dropped from the top five on the Apple Books store. Delia Owens's 'Where the Crawdads Sing,' meanwhile, stayed #1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Delia Owens keeps her spot on the top of the Apple Books list with 'Where the Crawdads Sing,' still benefiting from its Reese Witherspoon book club pick and announced film adaptation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Delia Owens's 'Where the Crawdads Sing' keeps seeing dividends thanks to a bump from Reese Witherspoon, whose film adaptation of the novel was announced last month. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]