Today in Bookish and Literary History, September 6

2006 "New Moon" second book in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight Saga" is published by Little Brown, sells 5.3 million copies (2015)

From evil vampires to a mysterious pack of wolves, new threats of danger and vengeance test Bella and Edward's romance in the second book of the irresistible Twilight saga.

2022 Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris (UK)

This spellbinding historical novel brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail—an epic journey into the wilds of seventeeth-century New England, and a chase like no other.

2022 If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery

“If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level.” ―Ann Patchett

• Finalist for The 2023 Booker Prize
• Longlisted for The 2022 National Book Award for Fiction.
• Finalist for the 2023 Pen/Faulkner Award
• Finalist forthe DUBLIN Literary Award
• Finalist forthe Southern Book Award
• Finalist for the Gordon Burns Award
• Nominated for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle
• Nominated for the John Leonard Prize
• Nominated for the 2023 Pen/Jean Stein Open Book Award
• Nominated for the 2023 Pen/Bingham Prize
• Nominated for the 2022 Story Prize
• Nominated for the Dublin Literary Prize
• Nominated for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
• Nominated for the 2023 Brooklyn Library Prize
• Nominated for the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

2022 A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times by Meron Hadero

Compelling narratives of those whose lives have been marked by border crossings and the risk of displacement.

• Winner of the 2021 Caine Prize.