This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Ali Smith, Ayelet Waldman, and Michael Connelly, while nonfiction includes work by Jesmyn Ward and Ada Ferrer.
39 works of fiction
https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-may-19
15 works of nonfiction
https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-may-19
Also publishing this week is a new novel by Jane Costello, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Romance anthology. Watch her discuss her midlife romcom with her editor on our Authors and Editors panel here.
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 154 fiction releases, 67 works of nonfiction, and 23 children’s titles, June‘s 145 fiction releases, 53 works of nonfiction, and 31 children’s titles, and July‘s 119 fiction releases, 30 works of nonfiction, and 25 children’s titles.
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