“Beautyland is a monumental accomplishment, a shimmering masterpiece from an author with talent to spare.” — Michael Schaub for The Boston Globe
Fall 2024 Events
2024 events have concluded. Thank you to everyone who was a friend to books this year! Beautyland’s paperback release will be March 2025 and MHB’s second book of stories, Exit Zero, will be published in April 2025
NEWS
Beautyland has been selected for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award longlist and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize longlist
Beautyland is a New York Times Notable Book of 2024 and one of The Best Books of 2024 by The New York Times, Time Magazine, Lit Hub, Kirkus, Goodreads, Elle Magazine, Esquire, and Bookshop.org
Beautyland has been named one of Esquire’s 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
Editor of The New York Times Book Review Gilbert Cruz discusses Beautyland
“In Beautyland, an Alien Shows Us What it Means To Be Human,“ Bustle Magazine, by Charlotte Owens
“In Beautyland, an Italian American Extraterrestrial is Humanity’s Sharpest Scribe,” Electric Literature Magazine, by Lucie Shelley
The New York Times, Alexandra Jacobs for the Arts section
The Chicago Review of Books, Shayne Terry
The Boston Globe, Michael Schaub
BOMB Magazine, Hilary Leichter
The Brooklyn Rail, Madison Ford
Booklist, starred review, Annie Bostrom
Kirkus, starred review
Publisher’s Weekly, starred review
Beautyland has been excerpted in Recommended Reading, with an introduction by Thomas Morris
Beautyland has been included in the approval matrix in New York Magazine