November 4, 2011
THIS SEASON AT THE GERNERT COMPANY

Chad Harbach's THE ART OF FIELDING debuted at #6 on the The New York Times Hardcover Bestseller List, where it has spent six consecutive weeks. It was excerpted in Sports Illustrated, profiled in Vanity Fair, and chosen as Amazon's Best Book of 2011. It was also The New Yorker's Book Club selection for September.

Tea Obreht was named a National Book Award Finalist for THE TIGER'S WIFE. She is also the youngest person ever to win the Orange Prize for the same book, and is currently nominated for the Galaxy Book Award in the Foreign Fiction category.

Sarah Blake’s THE POSTMISTRESS has been shortlisted for the Galaxy Book Award for WHSmith Paperback of the Year.

THE SECRET SERIES by Pseudonymous Bosch made it to #3 on the New York Times Children’s Bestseller List for Series.

Daniel Orozco won a Whiting Writers’ Award for his collection ORIENTATION.

National Indie Bestselling author Hillary Jordan’s WHEN SHE WOKE was chosen as the #1 Indie Next Pick for October, is on Publisher’s Weekly’s Top 10 Literary Fiction picks for the fall, and was also featured in O Magazine.

HARK! A VAGRANT by Kate Beaton debuted at #1 on the New York Times Graphic Novel Bestseller List.

Olen Steinhauer won the 2010 Hammet Prize for THE NEAREST EXIT, given to him by the International Association of Crime Writers’ North American Branch.

BEAUTIFUL CHAOS, the latest book from Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s BEAUTIFUL CREATURES series, debuted at #4 on the New York Times Children’s Bestseller List for Series.

Caryl Phillips’ essay Rude Am I in my Speech appeared in the 2011 Edition of Best American Essays, edited by Edwidge Danticat.

Leila Aboulela's novel LYRICS ALLEY has been long-listed for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Shannon Cain’s collection THE NECESSITY OF CERTAIN BEHAVIORS won the 2011 Drue Heinz Literature Prize awarded by the University of Pittsburgh.

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Spring 2011
Elijah Anderson, THE COSMOPOLITAN CANOPY (Norton)
Stewart O’Nan, EMILY, ALONE (Viking, March 17)
Leila Aboulela, LYRICS ALLEY (Grove)
Al Heathcock, VOLT (Greywolf, March 1)
Sarah-Kate Lynch, DOLCI DI LOVE (Plume, March 29)
Tea Obreht, THE TIGER’S WIFE, HC (Random House, March 8th)
Jonathan Hayes, A HARD DEATH (HarperCollins, April 12)
Gayle Forman, WHERE SHE WENT (Dutton, April 5)
Will McIntosh, SOFT APOCALYPSE (Night Shade)
Galit and Gilad Seliktar, FARM 54 (Graphic novel)
Christopher R. Howard, TEA OF ULAANBAATAR (Seven Stories Press, May 3)
Maria Headley, QUEEN OF KINGS (Dutton, May 12)
Katie Arnold-Ratliff, BRIGHT BEFORE US A FLAME (Tin House, May 1)
Alyssa Sheinmel, THE LUCKY KIND (Knopf, May 10)
Daniel Orozco, ORIENTATION & OTHER STORIES (Faber, May 24)
Sloane Tanen, ARE YOU GOING TO KISS ME NOW? (Sourcebooks, May 3)
Hannah Nordhaus, THE BEEKEEPER’S LAMENT (Harper Perennial, May 24)
Kieran Scott, HE’S SO NOT WORTH IT (Simon and Schuster, June 7)
Caryl Phillips, COLOR ME ENGLISH (The New Press, June 14)
Laura Harrington, ALICE BLISS (Pamela Dorman Books, June 2)
John Grisham, THEODORE BOONE: THE ABDUCTION (Penguin Books for Young Readers, June 7)

Fall 2011
Gerry Hadden, NEVER THE HOPE ITSELF (Harper Perennial, August 15)
David Levien, THIRTEEN MILLION DOLLAR POP (Doubleday, August 9)
Deborah Lawrenson, THE LANTERN (HarperCollins)
Chad Harbach, THE ART OF FIELDING (Little, Brown)
Bill Willingham, DOWN THE MYSTERLY RIVER (Tor/Starscape)
Gitty Daneshvari, SCHOOL OF FEAR 3 (Little, Brown, September 1)
Dan Sinker, THE F***CKING EPIC TWITTER QUEST OF @MAYOREMMANUEL (Scribner, September 13)
Pseudonymous Bosch, THE SECRET SERIES #5: YOU HAVE TO STOP THIS (Little, Brown, September 20)
Kate Beaton, HARK! A VAGRANT (Drawn & Quarterly, September 27)
Zach Golden, WHAT THE F*@# SHOULD I MAKE FOR DINNER?: The Answers to Life's Everyday Question (in 50 F*@#ing Recipes) (Running Press, September 27)
Stella Duffy, THEODORA (Penguin, September 27)
Matt Kish, MOBY-DICK IN PICTURES (Tin House, October 4)
Hillary Jordan, WHEN SHE WOKE (Algonquin, October 4)
Roy Williams with Tim Crothers, HARD WORK (Algonquin, October 11)
Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl BEAUTIFUL CHAOS (Little, Brown, October 18)
John Grisham, THE LITIGATORS (Doubleday, October 25)
Beth Griffenhagen & Cynthia Meyer, HAIKU FOR THE SINGLE GIRL (Penguin, November 1)
Larry Doyle, DELIRIOUSLY HAPPY (Ecco, November 1)
Alexandra Potter, YOU’RE (NOT) THE ONE (Plume, November 29)

Books we have read recently, purely as fans, and highly recommend:
HALF A LIFE, Darin Strauss
DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, Candice Millard
SENSES OF WALDEN, Stanley Cavell
PULPHEAD, John Jeremiah Sullivan
THE MAGICIANS, Lev Grossman
A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE SERIES, George R. R. Martin