Book Riot is teaming up with Harlequin.com to give away the ultimate Christmas romance prize pack that includes the following titles: Holiday Playbook by Yahrah St. John, Christmas at the Chateau by Rochelle Alers, The Christmas She Married the Playboy by Louise Fuller, A Merry Christmas Date by Syndi Powell, Keep Me Warm at Christmas by Brenda Novak, and The Viscount’s Christmas Proposal by Carol Arens. Two of my favorite nonfiction titles of the year made not one but TWO PEN America longlists. Both The Kissing Bug and White Magic were longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, which is given to “a book-length work of any genre for its originality, merit, and impact, which has broken new ground by reshaping the boundaries of its form and signaling strong potential for lasting influence.” They were also longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, which is given to “an exceptional book-length work of any literary genre by an author of color.” I looked at the longlist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and couldn’t even begin to know where to start — there are so many amazing titles on this list!
