‘Books & Magazines’ Archives
Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2009
For Publishers Weekly annual best books list, they chose 100 from more than 50,000 volumes. This year they upped the ante with the top 10 list below. Check out Publishers Weekly top 100 books of 2009, divided by category: fiction, poetry, mystery, science fiction, mass market, comics, nonfiction, and religion. Visit PW... Cheever: A [...]
NPR’s Best Books of 2009
The complete list of NPR's Best Books of 2009 recommendations. Each critic's list is presented separately. Read excerpts from each book on NPR.org... Recommended by Glen Weldon ("The Five Best Books To Share With Your Friends") * Conquest of the Useless by Werner Herzog * Asterios Polyp,edited by David Mazzucchelli * The Collected Stories [...]
The Altantic’s Books of the Year
Atlantic literary editor Benjamin Schwarz picks the twenty five best books of 2009. The top five books are listed below. View the twenty runners up on Atlantic.com... ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A Life By Michael Burlingame Johns Hopkins Measured, psychologically astute, authoritative when it can be, Michael Burlingame’s exhaustive narrative [...]
Amazon’s Best Books of 2009
Amazon.com's Best Books of 2009 includes choices for the very best out of a year's worth of reading. You'll find great books for readers of all ages and interests in their top 100 editors' and customers' lists, as well as year-end top 10s in dozens of categories. Topping their editors' list is Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann's gorgeous [...]
100 Best Books of the Decade
The Times of London compiled the 100 best books of the decade. View the full list... The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006) Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (2003) Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (2004) Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers trans Robert Bringhurst (2002) Suite Française by [...]
Best Books of 2009: Barnes & Noble Editors’ Picks
The editors of the Barnes & Noble Review selected their favorite titles of the year -- fiction, nonfiction, and beyond. View the reviews... FICTION * The Anthologist, by Nicholson Baker * Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel * Finch, by Jeff Vandermeer * The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, by Lydia Davis * White is for Withcing, by Helen [...]
Coolest Book Covers of 2009
The Huffington Post compiled the best book covers of 2009. Books that have beautiful, thoughtful, or just plain cool designs. View the slideshow...
The 40 Most Influential People in the Magazine Publishing Industry
Folio examined the entire industry, as well as a few markets that intersect it, for individuals who best represent an increasingly multifaceted media landscape. People who have demonstrated tangible proof of actionable ideas. This year’s list highlights the best in the industry from consumer, b-to-b, association, and regional publications. The [...]
400 Magazine Blogs
Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) is the industry association for consumer magazines. Magazine.org's blogroll features 400 blogs from member magazines. All blogs are classified under their magazine name on the left window. Once you select a magazine, a list of their current blogs will appear below next to an orange rss icon. The selected blog [...]
The 51 Best Magazines Ever
The editors of Good magazine have compiled a list of the top (smartest, prettiest, coolest, funniest, most Influential, most necessary, most Important, most essential, etc.) magazines ever. Check out all 51... 1. Esquire. Under Harold T.P. Hayes (1961-1973) 2. The New Yorker 3. Life. (1936-1972) 4. Playboy 5. The New York Times Magazine 6. [...]
List of Online Magazine Initiatives
Magazine Publishers of America is the industry association for consumer magazines. The MPA represents more than 240 domestic publishing companies with approximately 1,400 titles, from 80 international companies. They maintain a continually updated list of magazine website digital initiatives - everything from new site features, to partnerships, [...]
The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2006
Fiction: Absurdistan. By Gary Shteyngart The Collected Stories Of Amy Hempel. By Amy Hempel The Emperor's Children. By Claire Messud The Lay Of The Land. By Richard Ford Special Topics In Calamity Physics. By Marisha Pessl Nonfiction: Falling Through The Earth. By Danielle Trussoni The Looming Tower. By Lawrence [...]
New York Magazine’s Best Books of 2006
1.The Road, By Cormac McCarthy 2. The Looming Tower, By Lawrence Wright 3. The View from Castle Rock, By Alice Munro 4. State of Denial, By Bob Woodward 5. Suite Francaise, By Irene Nemirovsky 6. At Canaan's Edge, By Taylor Branch 7. Fun Home, By Alison Bechdel 8. The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny, By Ivar Ekeland 9. [...]
The New York Times Top 100 Books of 2006
100 Notable Books of the Year from The New York Times Book Review. The Book Review has selected this list from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of Dec. 4, 2005. View the top fiction, poetry and nonfiction books of 2006...
The Best Magazine Covers of the Year
The best magazine covers of the year were unveiled today at the American Magazine Conference, by Cynthia Leive, President of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and Editor-in-Chief of Glamour, and Marlene Kahan, ASME's Executive Director. The conference, a premier industry event attended by executive-level magazine publishers and [...]
The 101 Most Influential Fictional Characters
In their new book, The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived, Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan and Jeremy Salter ranked characters of myth, legends, television, and movies based on how greatly they've affected society. These cultural icons exist only in the imagination. Folks like Batman (No. 60), Cinderella (No. 26), Santa Claus (No. 4), Luke [...]
857 Esquire Magazine Covers Since 1933
The Esquire Cover Gallery contains every magazine cover from Autumn, 1933 until the present. You can navigate the cover gallery archive by year and month...
Favorite Books of Successful People
BusinessWeek Online asked over 30 prominent professors and business professionals about their favorite books, business or otherwise. The resulting list is a diverse tip sheet with something for everyone -- from Kotler to Kerouac, fantasy to finance. Browse around and discover what made these books inspirational, instructive, or influential in [...]
100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900
Holden Caulfield and the Cat in the Hat? Scarlett O'Hara and "Boo" Radley? They might not seem to have much in common, but they're all on Book magazine's list of the 100 best fictional characters of the 20th century. View the full list... 1. Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 2. Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, [...]
The New York Times Best Selling Book Lists
Browse The New York Times best seller lists, book reviews and news for authors, fiction and non-fiction, literature, biographies, memoirs, children's books, science fiction, and self-help. On NYtimes.com, the best selling book lists are available one week ahead of the print edition of the Book Review...
Every Time Magazine Cover Since 1923
Time's archive features over 40 years of magazine covers. To browse through an issue, select a year in the covers gallery. Click on the cover image and you'll find a table of contents with links to the articles from that issue. Find out what was on the cover the week you were born...
Project Gutenberg’s Top 100 Books & Authors
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books. View their most downloaded books and authors...
Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years
Last October the American Society of Magazine Editors unveiled the top 40 magazine covers of the last 40 years. Rolling Stone's January 22, 1981 cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono was named the top magazine cover to appear since 1965.. A judging panel of 52 magazine editors, design directors, art directors and photography editors was charged [...]
Recommended Booklists for Kids
Reading Is Fundamental is the oldest and largest children's and family nonprofit literacy organization in the United States. RIF has compiled over sixty recommended booklists for children of all ages.
Best U.S. Novel in 25 years
Early this year, the New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus sent out a letter to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to identify "the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years. Toni Morrison's Beloved won the poll. View the full list...
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