The Book Group

The Book Group Launched by four publishing industry veterans in 2015, The Book Group is a full-service literary age

Welcome to The Book Group, a full-service literary agency located in the heart of Manhattan. Launched in 2015 by publishing industry veterans Julie Barer, Faye Bender, Brettne Bloom, and Elisabeth W**d, The Book Group shares a singular passion: to seek out and cultivate writers, and to serve as their champions throughout their careers. We represent a wide range of distinguished authors, including

critically acclaimed and bestselling novelists, celebrated writers of children's literature, and award-winning historians, food writers, memoirists and journalists. With our hands-on approach at every stage of the publication process, our exceptional subsidiary rights team, and our commitment to helping each client reach his or her fullest potential, we provide the benefits of a larger agency alongside the personalized attention and collegial spirit offered by a boutique group.

Two weeks until Halloween! Time to get spooky! 👻 Add these page-turners to your October TBR:🩸 The Belles by Lacey N. Dun...
10/17/2025

Two weeks until Halloween! Time to get spooky! 👻 Add these page-turners to your October TBR:

🩸 The Belles by Lacey N. Dunham
☠️ A Rather Peculiar Poisoning by Chrystal Schleyer
💍 A Killer Wedding by Joan O’Leary
🫣 The Once and Future Me by Melissa Pace

Cupig Saves Christmas is out today! ✨ 📖 ✨ 📖 ✨✨The New York Times bestselling Valentine’s Day pig is back with a Christma...
10/14/2025

Cupig Saves Christmas is out today!

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✨The New York Times bestselling Valentine’s Day pig is back with a Christmas adventure! When Santa is sick and can’t deliver presents, it’s up to Cupig to save Christmas!✨

Cupig loves love. She loves love more than chilly hands love fuzzy gloves. On a chilly December night, Cupig receives an urgent call from a sick and sniffly Santa Claus. After thorough instruction, she’s ready to fill in for Santa Claus and don the red hat and suit.

But when delivering presents proves to be harder than she thought, Cupig will have to learn about the real meaning of Christmas if she’s going to fix her mistakes and save the day!

With clever rhyming text and comically expressive art and from New York Times bestselling duo Claire Tattersfield and Rob Sayegh Jr., Cupig Saves Christmas is a hilarious and sweet Christmas adventure. Perfect for fans of How to Catch Santa Claus, Little Blue Truck’s Christmas, and The Crayons’ Christmas!

Bog Queen is out today! ✨ 📖 ✨ 📖 ✨✨The latest from New York Times bestselling novelist Anna North—a monumental discovery ...
10/14/2025

Bog Queen is out today!

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✨The latest from New York Times bestselling novelist Anna North—a monumental discovery sets off a clash of worlds, past and present, over the fate of the land that holds us.✨

When a body is found in a bog in northwest England, Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist, is called to investigate. But this body is not like any she’s ever seen. Though its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, it is almost completely preserved.

Soon Agnes is drawn into a mystery from the distant past, called to understand and avenge the death of an Iron Age woman more like her than she knows. Along the way, she must contend with peat-cutters who want to profit from the bog and activists who demand that the land be left undisturbed. Then there’s the moss itself: a complex repository of artifacts and remains, with its own dark stories to tell.

As Agnes faces the deep history of what she has unearthed, she’s also forced to question what she thought she knew about her talent, her self-reliance, and her place in the world. Flashing between the uncertainty of post-Brexit England and the druidic order of Celtic Europe at the dawn of the Roman era, Bog Queen brims with contemporary urgency and ancient wisdom as it connects across time two gifted, farsighted young women learning to harness their strange strengths in a landscape more mysterious and complex than either can imagine.

Anna North is the author of instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick Outlawed, America Pac...
10/13/2025

Anna North is the author of instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick Outlawed, America Pacifica, and Lambda Literary Award winner The Life and Death of Sophie Stark. She is a senior correspondent at Vox. She lives in Brooklyn. Her latest novel, Bog Queen, publishes tomorrow!

As the days get shorter and the nights darker, the time is right to share the gorgeous cover art for Rebecca Barrow’s DO...
10/10/2025

As the days get shorter and the nights darker, the time is right to share the gorgeous cover art for Rebecca Barrow’s DOE! An exquisite exploration of the ravenous, feral nature of girlhood itself, DOE hits shelves in June 2026.

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We’re so thrilled that HEART THE LOVER is an instant New York Times Bestseller! 😍Only Lily King could tell a story so st...
10/09/2025

We’re so thrilled that HEART THE LOVER is an instant New York Times Bestseller! 😍

Only Lily King could tell a story so steeped in sorrow and so filled with hope.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post

“King is a master of sexual tension, of the slow build, of gratification tortuously delayed. In this respect, Heart the Lover is her best work yet.”—Lauren Christensen, New York Times Book Review

“Might be her best book yet . . . It stands as one of the most emotionally devastating and soulfully wise novels I have ever read . . . Like all of King’s fiction, Heart The Lover is literary without pretension, emotional without maudlin sentimentality . . . heartrending, swoonily romantic, rigorously clear-sighted.”—Priscilla Gilman, Boston Globe

“The latest masterpiece from the author of Writers & Lovers and Euphoria captures all the fevered obsession of 20-something romance—plus the deeper satisfaction of watching characters evolve beyond youthful hang-ups into fully realized adulthood.”—Oprah Daily

“Enveloping and sly . . . building heft in a manner as mysterious as affairs of the heart.”—Vogue

“Witty, insightful . . . King is able to employ the best kind of humor: amusing comments that are funny not because of what is said but because we can hear exactly how the characters are saying them.”—Chris Hewitt, The Star Tribune

We’re thrilled to share that Tiana Clark has been named a 2025 National Book Award Finalist in Poetry for her stunning c...
10/07/2025

We’re thrilled to share that Tiana Clark has been named a 2025 National Book Award Finalist in Poetry for her stunning collection, Scorched Earth! 🔥📖

I Hear the Snow, I Smell the Sea is out today! ✨ 📖 ✨ 📖 ✨✨In this lyrical picture book illustrated by a two-time Caldecot...
10/07/2025

I Hear the Snow, I Smell the Sea is out today!

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✨In this lyrical picture book illustrated by a two-time Caldecott Medalist, share in a blind child’s joyful experience of the changing seasons.✨

Where I live, seasons change. I know because my fingers and toes, my ears, my mouth and nose, all tell me so.

Neveah is blind, but that doesn’t mean she can’t enjoy each of the four wondrous seasons of the year.

She knows it’s winter when her boots go scruuunch in the snow and cold flakes land softly on her tongue.

She knows spring has come by the smell of hyacinths, the bzzzz of a bee in her ear.

Summer is a trip to the beach, where she can hear the crash of ocean waves and the keowww of seagulls overhead.

And when Neveah’s rake goes scritch scratch over fallen leaves and the air turns brisk, she knows it’s autumn. Soon the cycle of seasons will begin anew.

In this poetic story with art by a two-time Caldecott Medalist, join Neveah as she uses her senses of touch, taste, hearing, and smell to vividly describe the changing seasons and the unique delights they each have to offer.

Donutella Hamachi and the Library Avengers is out today! ✨From drag sensation and star of RuPaul’s Drag RaceKim Chi and ...
10/07/2025

Donutella Hamachi and the Library Avengers is out today!

✨From drag sensation and star of RuPaul’s Drag RaceKim Chi and the acclaimed author of the K-Pop Confidential books comes a contemporary superhero series about a community coming together, fabulously, to save a local library.✨

For twelve-year-old Korean immigrant Jae Han, the library is more than a place to check out books. It’s a safe space to work on his comic book featuring drag superhero Donutella Hamachi, play video games to improve his English, and befriend other outcast kids sheltering among the stacks. When the mayor announces plans to demolish the building and pave a mall parking lot, Jae Han pleads with his friend the librarian to intervene. But even if the mayor doesn’t shutter the library, Ms. Henny reveals, a funding deficit will. Called to action, Jae Han rallies his ragtag group of friends to halt the destruction of their haven. Can they—with help from the sparkling Donutella Hamachi—unite long enough to defeat the slime-shooting blobfish enveloping screaming citizens in goo (i.e., ace a fundraising campaign)? Filled with diabolical plots and empowerment aplenty, this lively foray into the heart of a town’s darkness, sprinkled through with hilarious graphic panels, will delight superhero fans, comic book creators, and anyone who has felt outside the mainstream—and perfectly at home in a library.

Beyond thrilled that is loving “A Killer Wedding” by our very own author Joan O’Leary!When one of the most influential ...
10/03/2025

Beyond thrilled that is loving “A Killer Wedding” by our very own author Joan O’Leary!

When one of the most influential voices in the book world picks up your client’s work, you know it’s something special. This thriller is keeping readers on the edge of their seats, and we couldn’t be prouder!

Have you grabbed your copy yet? Trust us (and Jenna!) — you won’t be able to put it down. 🔪🥂

Congratulations, Joan! 🎉

✨Author Feature✨Raised in Connecticut by a self-taught architectural designer, Erin Gates learned to love every aspect o...
10/01/2025

✨Author Feature✨

Raised in Connecticut by a self-taught architectural designer, Erin Gates learned to love every aspect of the home building and decorating process from a very young age. Over many years Erin has honed her skill set through working in fine art curation, event planning and for other design firms. In 2007 she founded her blog in an attempt to catalog her varied design passions into one place and shortly thereafter formed her own firm, which now designs residences from Maine to California and just about every spot in between.

Erin published her first book in 2014, the New York Times bestselling “Elements of Style: Designing A Home & A Life” and her second book, “Elements of Family Style: Elegant Spaces for Everyday Life” in April 2019, both with Simon & Schuster. Her third book, “Elements of Timeless Style: Creating a Forever Home” published yesterday!

Erin also designs licensed collections, including rugs, wallpaper and decor, as well as various other product collaborations under her growing global brand, Erin graduated from Miss Porter’s School and received a B.A. in Studio Art from Connecticut College. She lives in Wellesley, MA with her husband, adorable son and daughter, and very fluffy dog.

Elements of Timeless Style is out today!✨ From the New York Times bestselling author of Elements of Style, Erin Gates, a...
09/30/2025

Elements of Timeless Style is out today!

✨ From the New York Times bestselling author of Elements of Style, Erin Gates, a stunningly inspirational and personal book filled with crisp takeaway advice for anyone designing their “forever” home—or any space they want to feel like a forever home.✨

Erin Gates is beloved for her unique blend of American approachability and elegance. The author of the bestselling classic Elements of Style, Erin now broadens her lens by looking at nine homes to learn how each homeowner approached the space to make it livable, versatile, and beautiful. The first home in the book is hers—and, in true Erin fashion, she shares her process, fumbles and all.

Your home is your sanctuary—a safe space that nurtures your emotional, physical, and mental well-being. In Elements of Timeless Style, Erin shares her decades of expertise to guide you in making thoughtful choices, big and small, that enhance your living space. She empowers you to make confident investments, so you and your home evolve together.

Organized by the nine home projects, Erin anticipates and answers every remodeling and decorating question, from the mundane to the material. Each home showcases a unique approach, shunning cookie-cutter solutions in favor of personalized, imaginative designs that celebrate individuality and personal taste. With insights on budgeting, decision-making, and design phases, Elements of Timeless Style is for anyone who wants a thought partner in design, whether you’re overhauling your entire space or making intentional, gradual changes.

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