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People Magazine picks A GRACIOUS NEIGHBOR as a Best New Book

Good Morning America names A GRACIOUS NEIGHBOR as “one of 14 books to make your July bearable”

Publisher’s Weekly calls A GRACIOUS NEIGHBOR “cleverly combines sharply observed satire, a keen sense of place, and a feminist sensibility.”

Deep South Magazine includes A GRACIOUS NEIGHBOR in their 2022 Summer Reading List

Humanitas launches Greutatea unui pian at the online book festival LibFest 2021

Chris’s new novel, A GRACIOUS NEIGHBOR, is forthcoming from Little A in the fall of 2022

THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO is a USA Today bestseller

11 STORIES is a finalist in The Texas Center for the Book’s Texas Author Project Awards 2019

The Texas Library Association includes THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO in their Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List for 2020

The Houston Chronicle includes THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO in their “15 Favorite Books of 2019”

THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO in the Houston Chronicle feature, “I can’t remember a better year for books by Houstonians”

Book Riot includes THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO in its list of “books you might have missed in 2019”

The American Booksellers Association (ABA) includes THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO on their November 2019 Indie Next List Now in Paperback

The New York Times highlights THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO in Paperback Row in the November 8, 2019 issue

A case of literary irony: more than 1,000 copies of Chris Cander’s THE WORD BURGLAR were stolen from a storage unit

Entertainment Weekly casts THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO, January 25, 2019

THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO makes the The Southern Indie Bestseller List for the week ended Sunday, February 10, 2019

Chris is live on Thacker Mountain Radio with music from THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO by Cecil Warden

Listen to Chris in conversation with Helga Kasimoff of Kasmioff-Blüthner Pianos at Skylight Books

Paste Magazine named THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO (designed by Kelly Blair) as one of the Best Book Covers of January 2019

Read it Forward says THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO is one of the top 40 Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2019

Book Marks gives THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO a “RAVE” for its reviews

Publishers Weekly chose THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO as Top Book of the Week January 21, 2019

Deep South Magazine named THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO as one of their Top 10 Book Picks for the New Year

Garden & Gun Magazine added THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO to their January Book List

The American Booksellers Association (ABA) included THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO on their February 2019 Indie Next Great Reads list

Real Simple Magazine included THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO on their Short List (Five Books That Won’t Disappoint)

Real Simple Magazine put THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO on their Best Books of 2019 (So Far) list

Publishers Weekly mentioned THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO in the article, “Preorders Make a 2019 Title a Houston Indie’s 2018 Bestseller”

Bookish put THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO on their Winter 2019’s Must-Read Fiction list

Nashville Lifestyles Magazine put THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO on its list of 4 Books to Read This Month

John Stevenson (director, Kung Fu Panda) has attached as director for Germs!

Chris Cander in conversation with author Paula McLain

Local Author Chris Cander Supports Independent Bookstore Day

Chris’s unpublished first novel ONE LAST TIME FOREVER short listed for the Half the World Global Literati Award Top 40

Chris is a recipient of the Peter Taylor Scholarship in fiction for the 2016 Sewanee Writers’ Conference

WHISPER HOLLOW long listed for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance’s (SIBA) The Great Santini Fiction Prize 2016

Houston Chronicle selected WHISPER HOLLOW as one of its 15 Notable Books of 2015

WHISPER HOLLOW included in Houston’s Must-Read Books of 2015

WHISPER HOLLOW named one of NPR’s On Point’s Best Books of 2015

Brazos Bookstore included WHISPER HOLLOW in its Best of 2015

WHISPER HOLLOW nominated for the 2015 Kirkus Prize: Fiction

Comic Animations (in partnership with Cinesite Studios) has optioned GERMS! The Movie

Local Houston Magazine included WHISPER HOLLOW in their list of Summer Reads by Houston authors

Deep South Magazine included WHISPER HOLLOW in their Summer Reading List

The Riveter included WHISPER HOLLOW in their list: Eight Novels to Spring Into

Working Mother Magazine included WHISPER HOLLOW in their list: 14 Spring Break Books for Your Family, Your Friends and You

Glamour Magazine included WHISPER HOLLOW in their list: The Best New Novels Out in March

The American Booksellers Association (ABA) listed WHISPER HOLLOW as one of its Indie Next Great Reads for April 2015

Popsugar.com included WHISPER HOLLOW in their March 2015 list: 25 Sexy and Sweet Books You Need to Read This Month

Shelf Awareness listed WHISPER HOLLOW as one of Winter Institute 2015’s Buzz Books

Read Her Like An Open Book named WHISPER HOLLOW one of 30 Books to Keep You Warm This Winter in their 2015 Fiction Preview