The big releases continue, with fiction from Fredrik Bachman, Sigrid Nunez and Ruth Ware, plus nonfiction from John Cleese, Jane Fonda, Jenna Bush Hager, Reed Hastings, Jay Shetty and more. As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 17 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-8 19 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-8 More new children’s and YA titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-september 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 […]
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People Natascha Morris joins The Tobias Literary Agency as literary agent where she will rep picture books, middle grade, and YA. She was previously a literary agent at Bookends. David Graeber, 59, anthropologist and author of Bull***t Jobs, died on September 2 in a hospital in Venice. His publisher FSG writes, “We are deeply saddened by the news of David Graeber’s untimely death. Graeber’s path-breaking scholarship and political activism were focused on imagining new forms of human freedom. The impact of his work on our intellectual life and the progress of humanity toward a more just future has been felt […]
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Andrea Joyce has joined Duckworth Books to handle its North American rights sales. She was most recently rights director at Canongate. Shanna Hogan, journalist and true crime author of books including Dancing With Death and Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story, died on September 1, following a tragic accident. (She suffered brain damage after stumbling, hitting her head and falling into the family’s pool last week.) Hogan was working on a new book at the time of her death. Her editor Charles Spicer said “Shanna Hogan was an intrepid journalist, a talented writer, a natural podcast star – and an […]
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Nachie Marsham has joined IDW Publishing as publisher. He was previously executive editor at Disney Publishing Worldwide. Heather Gold has been promoted to editor for classics and ancient world at Yale University Press. Forthcoming Pope Francis‘ LET US DREAM will be published by Simon & Schuster on December 1, 2020, in dual English and Spanish editions. The book begins by exploring the COVID crisis and “explains why we must—and how we can—make the world safer, fairer, and healthier for all people now.” It is “the fruit of many exchanges between Pope Francis and his biographer, Austen Ivereigh, in the weeks […]
September Picks
Reese Witherspoon‘s Hello Sunshine Book Club pick for September is The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim. You can read an excerpt now in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter sampler. Jenna Bush Hager’s Today Show Read With Jenna book club chose Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom. The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman makes for an unusual Pennie’s Pick at Costco. But Asha Lemmie‘s debut novel Fifty Words for Rain is the most popular pick so far: It’s the GMA selection, Amazon’s Spotlight Pick, and Barnes & Noble’s Discover book for the month. Besides the Lemmie novel, Amazon‘s featured debut […]
New Books Publishing September 1
It’s a big start to a busy month, with novels from Emma Cline, Elena Ferrant, Yaa Gyasi, Evie Wyld and more, and headline-making nonfiction on the New England Patriots and Melania Trump along with new work by Eula Biss. This week also marks the release of the first of our virtual “buzz panel” selections, Simon Stephenson’s SET MY HEART TO FIVE. As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 15 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-1 8 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-august-18 More new children’s and YA titles […]