HARDCOVER FICTION
1. HANDLE WITH CARE, by Jodi Picoult
2. ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham
3. PROMISES IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb
4. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
5. ONE DAY AT A TIME, by Danielle Steel
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell
2. THE YANKEE YEARS, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
3. OUT OF CAPTIVITY, by Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, Tom Howes and Gary Brozek
4. THE LOST CITY OF Z, by David Grann
5. DEWEY, by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
Literary News
2009 Hugo Award Nominations
The nominees for the 2009 Hugo Awards are in. A complete list of nominees is located on the Hugo Awards site.
Up for Best Novel are:
- Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Morrow; Atlantic UK)
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen; HarperVoyager UK)
- Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
- Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi (Tor)
2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award finalists announced
The annual award is presented for the best science fiction novel of the year, and selected from a list of novels whose U.K. first edition was published in the previous calendar year. The award was established with a grant from Arthur C. Clarke, best known for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The finalists are:
- Song of Time, Ian R. MacLeod (PS Publishing)
- The Quiet War, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
- House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
- Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic)
- The Margarets, Sheri S. Tepper (Gollancz)
- Martin Martin's on the Other Side, Mark Wernham (Jonathan Cape)
The winner will be announced on April 29.
Finalists for the 2009 John W. Campbell Award
The John W. Campbell Award is for best new writer. The finalists are:
- Aliette de Bodard*
- David Anthony Durham*
- Felix Gilman
- Tony Pi*
- Gord Sellar*
* indicates second year of eligibility.
Former President George W. Bush to write book
Wed Mar 18, 8:27 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former U.S. President George W. Bush will write a book about some of the decisions he made during his eight years in office, which will be published by the Crown Publishing Group in 2010.
Washington lawyer Robert Barnett told Reuters the book was tentatively called "Decision Points." He declined to disclose the financial terms of the deal.
Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins literature prize
Wed Mar 18, 4:15 pm ET
LONDON (Reuters) – Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney won the David Cohen Prize for Literatur e on Wednesday for what the chair of judges called "the self-renewing force of his writing."
The biennial prize, funded by the John S. Cohen Foundation, honors a living writer from the British Isles for a lifetime's achievement in literature.
Doctorow among international book prize nominees
Wed Mar 18, 3:19 pm ET
NEW YORK – "Ragtime" novelist E.L. Doctorow and Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul were among the 14 finalists announced Wednesday for the Man Booker International Prize, given every two years for lifetime achievement by a fiction writer who writes in English or whose work is widely available in English translation.Screenwriter Millard Kaufman dies at 92
Tue Mar 17, 4:15 am ET
LOS ANGELES – Screenwriter Millard Kaufman, who co-created the cartoon character Mr. Magoo, was nominated for Academy Awards for his screenplays for "Take the High Ground!" and "Bad Day at Black Rock" and won a cult following as a first-time novelist at the age of 90, has died, a spokeswoman said. He was 92.
Kaufman died Saturday of heart failure, said Laura Howard, spokeswoman for McSweeney's Publishing, which published his novel "Bowl of Cherries" in 2007.
Kaufman's writing credits also include "Never So Few," "The Warlord," "The Klansman" and "Convicts 4," as well an episode of the TV series "Police Story" and the TV movie "Enola Gay."
NEW YORK – Historian and Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust has won a $50,000 prize from the New York Historical Society for "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the 
PORTLAND, Maine – It's not the sensation of his first effort, but Stephen King's latest e-adventure is another best-seller.
NEW YORK – An early, long-unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien is coming out.
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