Claire Vaye Watkins wins New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award 2013!

Congrats to Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn, for winning the prestigious Young Lions Fiction Award!

Riverhead has two New York Public Library 2013 Young Lions Fiction Award finalists: Ramona Ausubel and Claire Vaye Watkins

Both Ramona Ausbel, author of No One Is Here Except All of Us and A Guide to Being Born, and Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn, are finalists for the New York Public Library's 2013 Young Lions Fiction Award. The award honors the works of dynamic, young, first time-authors. Read more here.

Helen Oyeyemi, author of MR. FOX, is named one of Granta Magazine’s Best Young British Novelists

Helen Oyeyemi was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists! Past honorees have included Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, and Sarah Waters. To see the full 2013 list, click here. 

Claire Vaye Watkins wins 2012 Story Prize!

Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn, won the 2012 Story Prize for her collection. To read more about the award, click here.

Khaled Hosseini's tour for AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED announced exclusively by Entertainment Weekly!

Khaled Hosseini, the best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, is going on a massive five-week, 40-event book tour befitting a rock star to promote his upcoming novel, And The Mountains Echoed, going on sale May 21st, 2013. To see the whole tour, click here.

Dina Nayeri, author of A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea, is reading in New York City!

Please join us at two amazing readings for Dina Nayeri, author of a Teaspoon of Earth and Sea, in New York City. 

 

February 19 at 7pm – New York, NY

Behind the Book Reading Series with Karen Russell and Stuart Nadler

KGB Bar

85 East 4th Street, NYC 10003

 

February 20 at 7pm – Brooklyn, NY

In Conversation with Julia Fierro (co-sponsored by Sackett Street Writers Workshop)

BookCourt

163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Junot Diaz and Claire Vaye Watkins finalists for 2012 The Story Prize!

Congrats to Junot Diaz and Claire Vaye Watkins! Riverhead Books is thrilled that their books -- This Is How You Lose Her and Battleborn -- are two out of the three finalists for The Story Prize this year. To learn more about the prize, click here.

The Millions names three Riverhead books to its most anticipated books of 2013 list!

Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings, Ramona Ausubel's A Guide to Being Born, are all on The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of 2013 Preview list. See the full list here.

The New York Times profiles The Mayor's Tongue author, Nathaniel Rich

Nathaniel Rich is profiled in the New York Times alongside his brother and fellow author, Simon Rich. Check out The Mayor's Tongue by Nathaniel Rich! And read the full length profile here.

Riverhead Book's Washington Post Best Books of 2012!

Congrats to Laura Moriarty's The Chaperone, Hanna Rosin's The End of Men, Ivan Doig's The Bartender's Tale and Wenguang Huang's The Little Red Guard! All of them are on the Washington Post's Best Books of 2012 list! See the full list here.