Katy Hershberger

This week’s notable releases include new novels from Jessica George, C.J. Tudor, and Annalee Newitz, as well as nonfiction by Pamela Anderson and Daniel Black. 11 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-31 6 nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-31 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use this form to submit brief details as well: publun.ch/submitNotable. Please submit your notable titles at least 3 months prior to pub date.

Scribner will publish two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s next novel, LET US DESCEND, on October 3. In an announcement, the publisher described the book as, “the astonishing story of Annis, an enslaved teenage girl who is sold by her white father after being separated from her mother. Annis is walked from a rice plantation in the Carolinas to a slave market in New Orleans, and ultimately to a sugar plantation in Louisiana.” “I wanted to look at this hard truth from our past, to explore what it would have been like for my character, Annis, to have little to […]