This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Jane Smiley, T C Boyle, and Xochitl Gonzalez, while nonfiction includes work by Jodi Kantor, Rachel Goldberg-Polin, María Corina Machado, and Jordan Ritter Conn.
28 works of fiction
https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-21
24 works of nonfiction
https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-21
Also publishing this week are new novels by Kim Michele Richardson and Rebecca Mahoney, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Spring/Summer 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 April‘s 120 fiction releases, 26 works of nonfiction, and 15 children‘s titles; May‘s 154 fiction releases, 67 works of nonfiction, and 23 children‘s titles, and June‘s 145 fiction releases, 53 works of nonfiction, and 31 children‘s titles.
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