Jesse Ball, A Cure for Suicide
(Pantheon / Penguin)
:: Short story collection
:: I couldn't find any listings over at Abebooks.com
Karen E. Bender, Refund
(Soft Skull / Counterpoint)
:: Short story collection
:: No Abebooks.com listings for this title
Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family
(Scout Press / Simon & Schuster)
:: Debut novel
:: Long listed
for Man Booker
:: Starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist and Library Journal
:: Clegg is on a book tour, so it shouldn't be too hard to get a signed copy.
Angela Flournoy, The Turner House
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
:: Debut novel
:: A New York Times Editors' Choice
:: Short-listed for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
:: May 2015 Indie Next Title
:: Starred reviews from
Publishers Weekly and
Booklist
Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
(Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)
:: Author of The Monsters of Templeton (Hyperion, 2008)
:: Signed copies listing up to $70
Groff did a signing for the publisher, so some signed editions will display her signature on a tipped-in page. She's also done a book tour (in which she signed copies on the title page. FYI, the title page signings may be considered more valuable).
Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles
(Random House / Penguin Random House)
:: short story collection
:: Author of The Orphan Master's Son (Random House, 2012)
:: Signed copies listing for up to $75
T. Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville
(William Morris / HarperCollins)
:: 2nd novel (first novel: Hold it 'til it Hurts, Coffee House Press, 2012)
:: First printings listing for up to $45 (one signed advance reading copy was listed for $53)
Edith Pearlman, Honeydew
(Little, Brown / Hachette Book Group, 2015)
:: Short story collection
:: Author of Binocular Vision (a recommended collectible).
:: Starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist
:: Signed copies listing in the $60 range
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
(Doubleday / Penguin Random House, 2015)
:: 2nd novel
:: Shortlisted for Man Booker
:: Starred review from Kirkus
::
Signed copies listing in the $350 range at Abebooks (and I found one signed copy on
Amazon for $188) --
These may be elevated prices because she's so hot right now.
:: Her debut novel,
The People in the Trees (Doubleday, 2013) lists for $40-$80
unsigned. (No signed copies were listed at the time of this posting).
Nell Zink, Mislaid
(The Ecco Press / HarperCollins)
:: 2nd novel
::
Fourth Estate published a slipcased set of
Mislaid &
The Wallcreeper, some of which were signed (although I could not find much information on this edition).
Also on the long lists:
Non-fiction:
- Cynthia Barnett, RainTa-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
- Martha Hodes, Mourning Lincoln
- Sally Mann, Hold Still
- Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus
- Susanna Moore, Paradise of the Pacific
- Michael Paterniti, Love and Other Ways of Dying
- Carla Power, If the Oceans Were Ink
- Tracy K. Smith, Ordinary Light
- Michael White, Travels in Vermeer
Young people’s literature:
- Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
- M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead
- Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish
- Rae Carson, Walk on Earth a Stranger
- Gary Paulsen, This Side of Wild
- Laura Ruby, Bone Gap
- Ilyasah Shabazz, with Kekla Magoon, X: A Novel
- Steve Sheinkin, Most Dangerous
- Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep
- Noelle Stevenson, Nimona