Jess Arndt’s short story collection LARGE ANIMALS is one of Entropy Magazine’s Best Fiction Books of the year. Read it Forward also named it to their list of Sensational Short Story Collections. Catapult published LARGE ANIMALS on May 9, 2017.

The Horn Book has included A HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION STARS in its 2017 Fanfare roundup and gave it a starred review. Horn said of the book that it “beautifully succeeds in its mission to convey to young readers the vastness of the numbers in our midst while reassuring them that, although each of us is one of billions of people roaming the earth today, ‘there’s only one of YOU.’" Greenwillow Books published the picture book on October 3, 2017.

Sgt. Craig Grossi appeared on the Today Show to promote his memoir CRAIG & FRED: A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other. He was also recently on the Rachel Ray show. William Morrow published the book on October 31, 2017.

The acclaimed biography of Jann Wenner received positive reviews in The New York Times Book Review & The Guardian. Joe Hagan “swings the biographer’s baton with authority,” writes Jack Shafer in his New York Times Book Review of STICKY FINGERS, entertainingly titled “The Licentious Life and Times of Jann Wenner.”

David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY, named Maggie Nelson’s THE RED PARTS one of the best books of the year in THE GUARDIAN. He calls it “a harrowing but clear-eyed examination of crime’s emotional fallout.” Vintage UK published the UK edition on June 1, 2017.

Curtis Sittenfeld author of PREP and AMERICAN WIFE named Edward McPherson’s essay collection THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE one of the best books of 2017 in THE GUARDIAN. She calls it “a collection of impressively researched yet conversational essays about environmental degradation, place and time.” Coffee House Press published the book on May 2, 2017.

Jeffrey Eugenides debut collection of short stories was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review. The book was also named one of the best works of fiction of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews. Farrar Straus Giroux published the book on October 3, 2017.

Andrew Sean Greer’s latest book was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2017 by the The New York Times Book Review. Lee Boudreaux Books published the book on July 18, 2017.

THE ISLAND AT THE END OF EVERYTHING has been shortlisted for not one but two awards, the Blue Peter Award for Best Story and the Costa Children’s Book Award. The Blue Peter Awards called the book, “Poetic, bittersweet and full of heart, this has the feel and quality of an instant classic” and the Costa Awards said it was, “Entirely original with not a word out of place – as vivid and beautiful as the butterflies themselves.”

Library Journal has named THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE the best Science Fiction/Fantasy book of 2017, saying of the novel, “a gorgeous debut from an author who knows her Russian fairy tales.” Del Rey published the book June 27, 2017.