This week’s fiction releases include new novels by John Irving, Salman Rushdie, and Akwaeke Emezi. New nonfiction includes memoirs from Margaret Atwood, Patti Smith, Anthony Hopkins, and Kenny Chesney, plus a look at Michelle Obama’s style. Among November’s children’s releases are new novels by E. Lockhart and Jennifer Lynn Barnes.
In audio, the full-cast recordings of the Harry Potter books publish today, exclusively on Audible.
32 works of fiction
https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-november-4
26 works of nonfiction
https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-november-4
26 children’s titles
https://bookshop.org/lists/november-2025-children-s-releases
Also publishing this week are new titles by Char Adams and Jesmeen Kaur Deo, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Fall/Winter anthology. Watch Adams discuss the legacy of Black bookstores from our Editors and Authors panel.
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 November‘s 103 fiction releases, 57 works of nonfiction, adn 26 children‘s titles; December‘s 35 fiction releases, 4 works of nonfiction, and 5 children‘s titles; and January‘s 115 fiction releases, 34 works of nonfiction, and 28 children‘s titles.
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