Believer Book Publishing and Book Awards
In addition to the magazine, The Believer has published a number of books, such as Nick Hornby's The Polysyllabic Spree (2004), Housekeeping vs. The Dirt (2006), Shakespeare Wrote for Money (2008) and More Baths Less Talking (2012), collections of his column "Stuff I've Been Reading".
Additional works:
- Read Hard
- Writers Talking to Writers
- 2009, A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain, by the philosopher Tamler Sommers, who interviews ten researchers, ranging in disciplines from psychology to primatology to philosophy, whose work deals with morality and ethics.
- 2009, their first planner, 52 Weeks, Heads, and Quotes, each week featuring a Charles Burns illustration of an interviewee, along with a quote; subjects include Judith Butler, Joan Didion, Tina Fey, Terry Gilliam, and Jack White.
The Believer has a yearly book award called the Believer Book Award presented to novels and story collections the magazine's editors thought were the "strongest and most under-appreciated" of the year. A shortlist and longlist are announced, along with reader's favorites, then a final winner is selected by the magazine's editors. The inaugural award was in 2005 for books published in 2004.
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