New York Times BestSellers

  • The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Bestseller since initial May 2nd, 2023 publication and counting. Over 1.25 million English language copies.)
  • A. Lincoln by Ronald C. White
  • American Ulysses by Ronald C. White
  • The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
  • The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
  • Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
  • Manhood For Amateurs by Michael Chabon
  • The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man by Michael Chabon (illustrations by Jake Parker)
  • Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
  • Citizen Cohn by Nicholas von Hoffman
  • Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese (almost three years on NYT list and counting)
  • Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman

Other Major Bestseller Lists

  • Nourishing Broth: An Old-Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World by Kaayla T. Daniel and Sally Fallon (Regional Food Bestseller list)
  • The Bielski Brothers: The True Story Of Three Men Who Defied The Nazis, Built A Village In The Forest, And Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
  • Come Up And See Me Sometime by Erika Krouse
  • Love And Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman
  • Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman
  • My Own Country by Abraham Verghese
  • And Now You Can Go and Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
  • Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural Address Ronald C. White Jr.

Michael Chabon

  • 2014-2015 One Voice, One Chicago (for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay)
  • 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2012 (fiction) finalist (for Telegraph Avenue)
  • 2012 Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • 2012 Telegraph Best Books of 2012 list (for Telegraph Avenue)
  • 2012 London Evening Standard Books of the Year 2012 list (for Telegraph Avenue)
  • 2012 Kansas City Star Top 100 Books of 2012 List (fiction) (for Telegraph Avenue)
  • 2012 Hollywood.com Best Books of 2012 List (for Telegraph Avenue)
  • 2012 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 List (fiction & poetry) (for Telegraph Avenue)
  • 2012 Good Reads Choice Awards 2012 finalist, Best Fiction (for Telegraph Avenue)
  • 2010 Northern California Book Award (general nonfiction) nomination (for Manhood for Amateurs)
  • 2010 Elected Chairman of the Board, the MacDowell Colony
  • 2009 Premio Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel (for The Yiddish Policemen's Union)
  • 2009 Entertainment Weekly "End-of-the-Decade" Best of list (for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay)
  • 2008 Nebula Award for Best Novel (for The Yiddish Policemen's Union)
  • 2007 Sidewise Award for Alternate History (for The Yiddish Policemen's Union)
  • 2007 Salon Book Award (for The Yiddish Policemen's Union)
  • 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay)
  • 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award finalist (for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay)
  • 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (fiction) (for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay)
  • 1999 O. Henry Award Third Prize (for Son of the Wolfman)

Charles D'Ambrosio

  • Permanent Faculty Member at Iowa Writers’ Workshop
  • 2015 PNBA (Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association) Award Nomination (for Loitering)
  • 2008 Lannan Foundation Fellowship
  • 2007 Rasmuson Fellowship
  • 2007 Washington State Book Award for Fiction (for The Dead Fish Museum)
  • 2006 Whiting Writers' Award
  • 2006 PEN/Faulkner Prize For Fiction Finalist (for The Dead Fish Museum)
  • 1995 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (for The Point)
  • 1995 New York Times Notable Book of the Year (for The Point)

Alice Flaherty

  • 2010-present Top Doctors, US News and World Report
  • 2009 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List (for Luck of the Loch Ness Monster)
  • 2005-2006 Helen Putnam Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
  • 2005 William Saroyan International Writing Prize (nonfiction short list) (for The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain)
  • 2004 The Washington Post, Best Books of 2004 (for The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain)
  • 2004 The San Francisco Chronicle, Best Books of 2004 (for The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain)
  • 2004 The San Francisco Chronicle, Editor's Pick (for The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain)

Erika Krouse

  • 2023 Mystery Writers of America | Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime (Acceptance speech video)
  • 2015 April Selection of the Nervous Breakdown Book Club (for The Contenders)
  • 2014-2015 #AmtrakResidency Program
  • 2014 Lighthouse Writers Workshop Beacon Award
  • 2001 Patterson Award for Best First Book (for Come Up and See Me Sometime)

Megan Prelinger

  • 2012 San Francisco Museum and Historical Society Award of Merit (for Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race)
  • 2010 San Francisco History Association - Dr. Albert Shumate Memorial Award (for Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race)

Victoria Sweet

  • 2014 Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2013 Shortlisted for the PEN Galbraith Prize (for God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine)
  • 2013 Commonwealth Club of California's 82nd Annual Gold Medal prize for the best 2012 book of non-fiction (for God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine)

Abraham Verghese

  • Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation (2023-24)
  • National Humanities Medal, President Obama and the National Endowment for the Arts (2016)
  • The Heinz Award in Humanities, The Heinz Foundation (2014)
  • 2007–present Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the School of Medicine at Stanford University
  • 1995 Lambda Literary Award (for My Own Country)
  • 1995 Time Magazine Notable Book of the Year (one of five winners) (for My Own Country)
  • 1994 National Book Critics Circle finalist (for My Own Country)

Ronald C. White Jr.

  • 2023 The Lincoln Forum | Richard Nelson Award for Current Achievement
  • 2009 Lincoln Society of New York (for A. Lincoln) - "best book on Lincoln for 2009"
  • 2010 Christopher Award (for A. Lincoln) - "for a work which affirms highest values of the human spirit"