This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Ben Lerner, Caro Claire Burke, and Rachel Khong, while nonfiction includes work by Patrick Radden Keefe, Ada Limón, and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. April’s children’s releases include books by Brandon Mull, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Beth Durst, as well as the graphic novelization of The Princess Diaries.
41 works of fiction
https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-7
23 works of nonfiction
https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-7
15 children’s titles
https://bookshop.org/lists/april-2026-children-s-releases
Also publishing this week are AMERICAN FANTASY by Emma Straub and THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF by Evelyn Clarke, aka Cat Clarke and V.E. Schwab, 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 50 fiction releases, 53 works of nonfiction, and 31 children‘s titles.
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