Priscilla Presley‘s memoir has a title — SOFTLY, AS I LEAVE YOU: Life After Elvis — and a pub date: September 23, 2025. It also has a new editor, Ben Schafer, who took over the book for Grand Central after acquiring imprint Hachette Books was eliminated last July. Elsewhere, Crown will publish INSOMNIA, Robbie Robertson‘s account of his friendship and creative collaboration with Martin Scorsese on November 11, 2025. “With a cast of characters featuring Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Federico Fellini, Sophia Loren, Sam Fuller, Liza Minelli, Tuesday Weld, and many more,” writes the publisher, the book is, “a […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
New Books Publishing April 15
This week’s fiction releases include books from David Baldacci, Seán Hewitt, and Denne Michele Norris, while new nonfiction includes work from Malcolm Harris, Melinda French Gates, and Shaun Walker. Also publishing this week are novels by Amelia Ireland, Nicole Knight, Renee Swindle, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer sampler. 18 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-15 9 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-15 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ 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 […]
Fearless By Lauren Roberts Sells 266,000 Copies On First Day
Simon & Schuster announced that FEARLESS by Lauren Roberts, the latest in the YA romantasy Powerless series, sold 266,000 units globally on its first day across all formats. The publisher writes that these are the highest ever first-day sales for an S&S YA book. FEARLESS is the third book in the series, following Powerless and Reckless, which have sold a total of 5.5 million units globally. Barnes & Noble and other bookstores hosted midnight release parties for the book. S&S president and ceo Jonathan Karp says, “When an author becomes this big, this fast, at such a young age, publishers often use words […]
Forthcoming: Thomas Pynchon, Patti Smith
Penguin Press will publish SHADOW TICKET, a new novel by Thomas Pynchon on October 7 in the US and Canada. The publisher writes in a release that the book is set in 1932 during prohibition: “Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering… By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, […]
New Books Publishing April 8
This week’s fiction releases include books by Jennifer Weiner, Nita Prose, Lynn Steger Strong, and Katie Kitamura, while new nonfiction includes work from Andrea Long Chu, David Denby, and Viet Thanh Nguyen. Also publishing this week are novels by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer sampler, and Jasmine Guillory, London Sperry, and Juliette Cross, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Romance collection. 24 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-8 12 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-8 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and […]
New Books Publishing April 1
This week’s fiction releases include books by Abby Jimenez, Amity Gaige, Amelia Hart and Olivie Blake, while new nonfiction includes work from Maria Shriver, Maggie Smith, Gretchen Rubin, and Eamon Dolan. March’s children’s releases include novels from Brian Selznick, Tahereh Mafi, Huda Fahmy, and Patrice Caldwell. Also publishing this week are novels by Jill Tew and John Kenney, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer sampler. 29 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-1 16 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-1 32 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/april-2025-children-s-new-releases From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number […]