The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with a two-volume masterpiece.

From WILLOW and co-writer Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical epic about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to the weirdest questions you never thought to ask.

Bright Matter Books will offer titles with an emphasis on series-based publishing that supports independent learning and supplements classroom work.

The best Picture and Middle Grade books to share the joy of reading.

The best Pop Culture and Nonfiction book picks of the season.

Your guide to this year’s top YA and holiday gift books.

Celebrate the holiday season with this year’s top cookbooks and graphic novels!

Inspire your readers to learn from some of the most influential figures in history and give them the top gift books they’ll be looking for during the holiday season!

This year’s top fiction and backlist titles your readers will be looking for this holiday season!

Due to ongoing industry-wide printing and shipping complications as a result of COVID-19, we strongly urge you to place your year-end orders now. Shipping and printing times have both been impacted by supply chain issues. We want to be sure you get the front and backlist stock you need in time for holiday gift buying. Please consider ordering up now for any titles you’ll need through January, 2022.

On October 5, the respective 2021 National Book Award judges for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature revealed their short-list selections in each category.