Godine

The company was founded in 1970 by David R. Godine who acted as publisher until his retirement in 2019. Leadership of the company was then assumed by its new president, Will Thorndike.[2]

In March 2020, as part of a relaunch of the company, Godine joined Two Rivers Distribution, an Ingram brand, for sales of its titles to readers worldwide.[3] While maintaining its core principles and high standards, Godine also refocused its editorial direction and now publishes books for a larger and more diverse audience of readers.[4]

The Isolation Artist: Scandal, Deception, and the Last Days of Robert Indiana by Bob Keyes

• “Engrossing….This hard-hitting exposé of the contemporary art world and one of its controversial figures deserves a wide audience.” —Publishers Weekly [5]
• “There are enough characters involved to put a prestige HBO drama series to shame … Keyes’s book intrigues because of the mysteries at its core...” —ARTnews [6]

The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship by Chaney Kwak

• “Beautifully written and astutely observed. This is a marvelous book.” —Washington Post [7]
• “For fans of The Perfect Storm, In the Heart of the Sea, and Bill Bryson on his sassiest days.” —Afar Travel Magazine and Guide [8]

Night Came with Many Stars by Simon Van Booy

• “It is a heartbreaking book, a gorgeous book...In Night Came with Many Stars, Van Booy finds the weakness, grace and beauty of common lives fully lived.” —NPR [9]
• “Not to miss!” —USA Today [10]

Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems by Wanda Coleman, edited by Terrance Hayes

• One of the year's best! —New York Times and Washington Post [11][12]

Beneficence by Meredith Hall

• “People stay together, fall apart, come back together, altered. It is a book about work, about grief, about thick ongoing love. Hall’s prose is hewn, sinewy, with moments of electrifying beauty and grace.” —Boston Globe [13]

How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed by Thomas W. Gilbert

• Winner of the Casey Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year [14]
• “Explores the conditions and factors that begat the game in the 19th century and turned it into the national pastime. The book explains how almost all conventional wisdom about baseball’s origins and formative years is wrong. A delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat.” —Wall Street Journal [15]

Thomas W. Gilbert, Casey Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year 2020 [16]

Richard Howard, National Book Award for Translation 1983 [17]

Bob Keyes, Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism 2017 [18]

J.M.G. Le Clézio, The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008 [19]

Patrick Modiano, The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 [20]

Richard Rodriguez, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 1983,[21] Frankel Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities,[22] Pulitzer Prize finalist in nonfiction [23]

Simon Van Booy, Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, 2009[24]