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Kirkus Reviews is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus. [1] The magazine's publisher, Kirkus Media , is headquartered in New York City . [ 2 ] Kirkus Reviews confers the annual Kirkus Prize to authors of fiction , nonfiction , and young readers' literature .
The Sun Is Also A Star is a #1 New York Times best seller. [2] Both the book [4] and audiobook [5] are Junior Library Guild selections.. The book received starred reviews from Booklist, [6] The Horn Book, [4] Kirkus, [2] Publishers Weekly, [7] School Library Journal, [8] and Shelf Awareness, [9] as well as a positive review from The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books.
The New York Times named Chain-Gang All-Stars one of the top ten books of 2023. [10] Kirkus Reviews [4] and Shelf Awareness [11] also included it on their list of the year's best books. Booklist included it on their list of the top ten debut novels of the year. [12]
Kirkus Reviews was positive, positively describing the prose and describing the novel as being "kinder and gentler" than Price's previous work. [4] Publishers Weekly published a starred review praising Price's attention to detail in describing the street life of New York City. [14] Booklist was also positive. [15]
The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. [ 2 ]
Virginia Kirkus (December 7, 1893 – September 10, 1980) was the founder and president of what would become Kirkus Reviews from 1933 to 1962. Before creating her service in 1933, Kirkus was a teacher in Delaware during the late 1910s. In the 1920s, Kirkus went to New York to edit for Pictorial Review and McCall's.