Riverhead Book's New York Times Notable Books!

Congrats to Junot Diaz and This Is How You Lose her and Shalom Auslander and Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel! Both are on the New York Times Notable Book list for 2012! See the full list here.

Slate names This Is How You Lose Her, The Man Without a Face, and The Entertainer as Best Books of 2012

Praising Junot Diaz's This Is How You Lose Her as "heartbreaking" and "funny," Masha Gessen's The Man Without a Face as "fascinating, illuminating, and above all brave," and Margaret Talbot's The Entertainer as "warm, funny, and rigorous," Slate has chosen three Riverhead books as among their Best Books of 2012.

Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson and A Man of Misconceptions by John Glassie are featured as The Daily Beast’s Hot Reads

To check out the full list, click here!

Riverhead Books is thrilled to be publishing Khaled Hosseini's AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED on May 21, 2013!

The bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns will publish his first novel in six years in the spring! To read more about Khaled and the novel, click here.

Junot Diaz's This Is How You Lose Her is one of Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction of 2012!

Congrats to Junot Diaz! Publishers Weekly named This Is How You Lose Her as one of the best fiction titles of 2012! See the full list here.

Junot Diaz a finalist for the National Book Award!

Congratulations to Riverhead author Junot Diaz, whose This Is How You Lose Her has just been named a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award for Fiction! Congratulations to all the other nominees in all the categories as well!

Read more about the award and other nominees here. 

Junot Diaz and Dinaw Mengestu win MacArthur "Genius" Awards!

Two Riverhead authors have been named 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellows, also known as the "Genius Award." Congrats to Junot Diaz, the author of This Is How You Lose Her, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Drown! Congrats to Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air!

 

Read more about the award...

Leah Hager Cohen a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Price

Congratulations to Leah Hager Cohen for The Grief of Other's selection as finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

Congratulations to Patrick Flanery

Absolution has been named a finalist for The Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize.

Brooklyn's The L Magazine gives a shout out to two Riverhead authors

The L lists Catherine Chung's Forgotten Country, "an intimate melodrama," as one of its top 5 debut novels of 2012, and calls Emma Straub, author of the forthcoming Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, the Best Bookseller in Brooklyn. "If there were a national team for literacy," the editors write, "Emma Straub would be the captian." See more of the Best of Brooklyn here!