Book News

The book industry's awards season moved into high gear this week with the announcement of the finalists for the National Book Awards and the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Quill Book Awards, and the U.K.'s Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Nobel Prize for Literature Awarded to Turkish Author Orhan Pamuk

For the eight-week period ending October 8, 2006, and based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available on ABA's trade website, BookWeb.org.

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A Tale of 12 Kitchens: Family Cooking in Four Countries, the colorful cookbook memoir by British artist Jake Tilson, a longtime advocate of "shopping local," lauds local fresh foods and flavors in various areas of England, Italy, France, Scotland, and the U.S.

Here is the full listing of November Book Sense Picks, with booksellers' comments, as well as a preview of the month's Notables. Independent booksellers in the Book Sense program will be receiving their November Picks fliers in the October Red Box. (The flier includes jacket images, bibliographic information, and bookseller quotes.)

A year and a half ago, Roxanne Coady set out to brainstorm ideas for celebrating the 15th anniversary of her bookstore, R.J. Julia Booksellers, in Madison, Connecticut.

It was 50 years ago -- October 8, 1956, to be exact -- that Yankee pitcher Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in World Series history: 27 men up to the plate and 27 men set down. No errors. No walks. It was a perfect game from the unlikeliest of sources -- a pitcher who had developed a somewhat wild reputation in both his professional and personal life.