This week’s fiction releases include books by Freida McFadden, Fredrik Backman and Isabel Allende, while new nonfiction includes work from Bill Belichick, Keith McNally, and Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle. May’s children’s releases include novels from Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander, Adam Silvera, and Ebony LaDelle.
Also publishing this week is Florence Knapp’s THE NAMES, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer sampler.
9 works of fiction
https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-may-6
7 works of nonfiction
https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-may-6
43 children’s titles
https://bookshop.org/lists/may-2025-children-s-releases
From Buzz Books
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We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out May‘s 119 fiction releases, 70 works of nonfiction, and 43 children’s titles; June‘s 73 fiction releases, 9 works of nonfiction, and 17 children’s titles; and July‘s 151 fiction releases, 46 works of nonfiction, and 34 children’s titles.
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