Target stores open at 6 AM on Friday morning, expecting to see lines to customers waiting in particular for copies of TAYLOR SWIFT: The Eras Tour Book. There is a maximum limit of four copies per person. The WSJ reports that the chain will have two million copies available (“according to a person familiar with the matter”). Target has just under 2,000 stores in the US; there’s no telling how the inventory is allocated, but that would provide for an average of 1,000 copies per store. Books will be available online the following day if inventory is still available. A […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
New Books Publishing November 26
This week’s fiction releases include new Spenser and Alex Cross thrillers, while nonfiction includes works by Orhan Pamuk and Angela Merkel–along with that book to be sold exclusively at Target stores on Black Friday. Also publishing this week is City of Night Birds by Juhea Kim, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler. Kim is also interviewed in our monthly Authors Lunch newsletter. 12 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-november-26 4 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-november-26 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM […]
New Books Publishing November 19
This week’s fiction releases include novels by Haruki Murakami and Janet Evanovich. It’s a big week for nonfiction, with new memoirs by Bill Clinton, Cher and Keke Palmer (not to mention Josh Brolin and Jaleel White), plus works by Robin Wall Kimmerer and Alan Lightman. Also publishing this week is Brightly Shining by Ingvild Rishøi, translated from Norwegian by Caroline Waight, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler. 21 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-november-19 13 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-november-19 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling […]
Forthcoming: Sofi Oksanen’s ‘Same River, Twice’; Clinton’s Citizen
Harper Via will publish Finnish-Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen‘s nonfiction work SAME RIVER, TWICE: PUTIN’S WAR ON WOMEN worldwide on February 25. Tor Jonasson at Salomonsson Agency in Sweden sold world English rights to Juan Mila. The publisher writes, “[Oksanen] delves into the trauma endured by her great-aunt under Soviet occupation, paralleling it with the ongoing abuses perpetrated by the Russian government over the past century. Her work lays bare the gender-based violence and systemic oppression that form part of the regime’s larger strategy.” Separately, the Guardian obtained an early copy of next week’s release of Bill Clinton‘s CITIZEN. They report […]
New Books Publishing November 12
This week’s fiction releases include novels by Richard Price and David Baldacci, while nonfiction includes work from Katherine Rundell, Rob Sheffield, and David Graeber. Also publishing this week is Midnights With You by Clare Osongco, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Romance sampler. 32 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-november-12 15 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-november-12 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 November‘s 80 fiction releases, 39 works of nonfiction, and 20 […]
New Books Publishing November 5
This week’s fiction releases include new stories by Joyce Carol Oates, while nonfiction includes work from Oliver Sacks and Sy Montgomery. November’s children’s releases include new books by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Isabel Ibañez, and Katharine McGee. Also publishing this week are The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong and Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell by Unfins, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler. 17 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-november-5 9 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-november-5 20 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/november-2024-children-s-releases From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ […]