EXAMPLES OF PAST CAMPAIGNS:

FICTION:

  • T.C. Boyle, for campaigns including DROP CITY (A New York Times Bestseller and Nominee for the National Book Award); THE WOMEN (A New York Times Bestseller); WHEN THE KILLING'S DONE (National Bestseller) and SAN MIGUEL
  • Terry McMillan's GETTING TO HAPPY and WHO ASKED YOU? (Both National Bestsellers)
  • Stewart O'Nan's SONGS FOR THE MISSING; EMILY, ALONE; THE ODDS; and WEST OF SUNSET (Regional Bestsellers)
  • Ruth Ozeki's MY YEAR OF MEATS (paperback) and A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING (paperback-National Bestseller and Winner of the LA Times Book Award in Fiction)
  • Garrison Keillor, for campaigns including LAKE WOBEGON SUMMER 1956 (A New York Times Bestseller) and THE KEILLOR READER
  • William T. Vollmann's LAST STORIES AND OTHER STORIES and THE DYING GRASS
  • Rebecca Makkai's THE BORROWER, THE HUNDRED YEAR HOUSE, and MUSIC FOR WARTIME
  • A.M. Homes's MAY WE BE FORGIVEN, THE MISTRESS'S DAUGHTER and THIS BOOK WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE
  • Susan Vreeland's GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE (A National Bestseller) and THE PASSION OF ARTEMISIA
  • Elizabeth Little's DEAR DAUGHTER
  • Natalie Baszile's QUEEN SUGAR
  • Irvine Welsh's FILTH
  • Chuck Palahniuk's SURVIVOR

 

SCIENCE AND HISTORY:

  • Jared Diamond's COLLAPSE and THE WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY (both New York Times Bestsellers)
  • Manning Marable's MALCOLM X (Pulitzer Prize Winner and A New York Times Bestseller)
  • Ray Kurzweil's THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR
  • Dan Jones's THE PLANTAGENETS (A New York Times Bestseller) and WARS OF THE ROSES
  • David Haskell's THE FOREST UNSEEN
  • Jennifer Ouellette's ME, MYSELF, AND WHY and THE PHYSICS OF THE BUFFYVERSE
  • Diana Beresford-Kroeger's THE GLOBAL FOREST
  • Caroline Alexander's THE BOUNTY: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Steven Pinker's HOW THE MIND WORKS (Paperback)
  • Daniel J. Kevles's THE BALTIMORE CASE

 

BUSINESS:

  • Robert Greene's MASTERY (A New York Times Bestseller)
  • David Allen's GETTING THINGS DONE, both editions (National Bestseller)
  • Michael Lewis's THE NEW, NEW THING (paperback)
  • Douglas Brinkley's WHEELS FOR THE WORLD

 

FOOD/EDUCATION/HEALTH:

  • Michael Pollan's FOOD RULES (A New York Times Bestseller)
  • Sir Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica' FINDING YOUR ELEMENT (A New York Times Bestseller) and CREATIVE SCHOOLS
  • Vicki Robin's YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE (paperback, A National Bestseller) and BLESSING THE HANDS THAT FEED US

 

MEMOIR AND CREATIVE NON-FICTION:  

  • Linda Greenlaw's SEAWORTHY and LIFESAVING LESSONS
  • Leslie Marmon Silko's THE TURQUOISE LEDGE
  • Elizabeth Gilbert's THE LAST AMERICAN MAN (A National Book Award Nominee)
  • Rebecca Solnit's THE FARAWAY NEARBY and RIVER OF SHADOWS
  • David Ulin's THE MYTH OF SOLID GROUND
  • Daniel Ellsberg's SECRETS
  • William Least Heat-Moon's RIVER HORSE (paperback-A New York Times Bestseller)
  • The Guerrilla Girls' THE GUERRILLA GIRLS GUIDE TO WESTERN ART


BIOGRAPHY AND MUSIC

  • John Szwed's ALAN LOMAX and BILLIE HOLIDAY
  • Jack Boulware's GIMME SOMETHING BETTER
  • Martin Sixsmith's PHILOMENA (A New York Times Bestseller)

 

TRANSLATION:

  • Lydia Davis's translation of Gustave Flaubert's MADAME BOVARY
  • Royall Tyler's translation of Murasaki Shikibu's THE TALE OF GENJI and the epic THE TALE OF THE HEIKE
  • Richard Peaver and Larissa Volokhonsky's translation of Leo Tolstoy's ANNA KARENINA
  • Suzanne Jill Levine's edited, The Penguin Classics Borges Series (various translators)
  • Robert Fagles's translation of Homer's THE ILIAD