This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Thomas Pynchon and Mitch Albom, as well as stories by Katherine Dunn. New nonfiction includes work by Cory Doctorow, Joy Harjo, and Ozzy Osbourne. Among October’s children’s releases is new work by Jason Reynolds and Holly Goldberg Sloan.
26 works of fiction
https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-7
13 works of nonfiction
https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-7
38 children’s titles
https://bookshop.org/lists/october-2025-children-s-releases
Also publishing this week are new titles by Carson Faust, Kate Christensen and Melissa Henderson, and Jihyun Yun, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Fall/Winter anthology.
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 October‘s 61 fiction releases, 37 works of nonfiction, and 23 children‘s titles; November‘s 103 fiction releases, 57 works of nonfiction, adn 26 children‘s titles; and December‘s 35 fiction releases, 4 works of nonfiction, and 5 children‘s titles.
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