Congratulations to Kristin Cashore, whose JANE, UNLIMITED has been selected for YALSA’s 2018 Best Fiction for Young Adults list!
Category: Best Books of the Year Lists
THE HUNTING ACCIDENT
Another First Second title has made Publishers Weekly’s list of best adult graphic novels for 2017! THE HUNTING ACCIDENT is a story of crime, family secrets, and emotions.
Two from First Second Are PW Best Books of 2017!
Publishers Weekly just published their Best Books of the Year lists, and First Second has not one, but two books on the lists! (And they are the only graphic novels on the children’s lists, by the way.) On the Middle Grade list is REAL FRIENDS by Shannon Hale and illustrated by LeUyen Pham. Italian rights…
SPEAK GIGANTULAR on Jhalak Prize Shortlist!
SPEAK GIGANTULAR by Irenosen Okojie (Jacaranda Books) is on the shortlist for the first Jhalak Prize for a Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour! Described by chair of judges Sunny Singh as showcasing “the variety, scope, depth, and literary excellence to be found amongst writers of colour in Britain today,” the shortlist consists…
And Now for Something Completely Different…
Jason Shiga’s DEMON is also on the NPR Best Books of 2016 list! French rights to all four volumes have already been snapped up by Cambourakis!
It’s “Best Books of the Year” Time
And JERUSALEM is getting selected! The latest list being NPR’s: NPR Best Books of 2016 JERUSALEM review. “Alan Moore (the groundbreaking, hairy, British genius behind V for Vendetta and Watchmen) spent 10 years pecking away at this Really Big Book — a nearly 1,300-page masterpiece of ambition and focus in which the only character…
JERUSALEM Encore
We are thrilled to announce that The Washington Post has named JERUSALEM one of the Notable Books of 2016! (This is the UK boxed set.)
More Kudos for JERUSALEM!
Alan Moore’s JERUSALEM has made Kirkus‘ “Best Fiction of 2016” list! “Mind-meld James Michener, Charles Dickens, and Stephen King and you’ll approach the territory the endlessly inventive Moore stakes out in his most magnum of magna opera.” Read the full review here.
NOCTURNE Tops International List!
NOCTURNE: The Walled City Trilogy, Book 2 by Anne Opotowsky & Angie Hoffmeister is number one on UK comics guru Paul Gravett’s list of the Top Ten International Graphic Novels of 2015 (non-UK/North American published originally in English or bilingual). Paul says: “From an American writer, German illustrator and Australian publisher, set in early 20th-century Hong Kong and…
Three of Our Clients’ Titles Are on the Grovel Best of 2015 List!
LAST OF THE SANDWALKERS, THE SCULPTOR, and THE WALLED CITY TRILOGY Vol 2: NOCTURNE are all on the Grovel Best Graphic Novels of 2015 list! These three books would make great Christmas présents…(just sayin’)
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