Kiran Desai‘s long-awaited novel THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY will be published on September 23, 2025 by PRH’s Hogarth imprint. The deal for the book was first announced in fall 2010, a year after Desai won the Booker Prize for THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS. At the time, the book was expected for publication in 2013. It was acquired for Knopf, by the late Sonny Mehta and former editorial director Robin Desser. David Ebershoff edited for Hogarth, and the novel weighs in at 656 pages. Separately, former president Barack Obama announced his 10 favorite books of 2024. On Tuesday, December […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Forthcoming: THE FIRST GENTLEMAN by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
Knopf and Little, Brown will jointly publish THE FIRST GENTLEMAN, a new novel by Bill Clinton and James Patterson on June 2, 2025. Knopf evp, publisher and editor-in-chief Jordan Pavlin and HBG ceo David Shelley acquired North American and translation rights, and Venetia Butterfield at Penguin Random House UK separately acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, sold by Robert Barnett and Deneen Howell of Williams & Connolly. Pavlin and Shelley will edit. The duo has published two previous books together, The President Is Missing (2018) and The President’s Daughter (2021). The new book will be a stand-alone novel that “follows the […]
New Books Publishing December 10
As the year draws to a close, we are running out of new releases. Here are the titles debuting for the rest of the month, including fiction from Katie Holt, Darby Kane, P.J. Nelson, and more, and nonfiction by David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele and Olivia Campbell. 20 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-through-december 5 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-through-december 15 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/december-2024-children-s-releases 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 January‘s 80 fiction releases, 38 […]
Swift Book Criticized for Errors
Fans online have complained about typos and printing issues in Taylor Swift’s Target-exclusive Eras Tour Book. According to online posts, some copies of the book have sections missing and some have pages printed upside down. At least one fan with a significant printing issue exchanged their copy at Target. Even in correctly printed books, several photos that center Swift are printed on two-page spreads such that the singer is nearly invisible in the crease between pages. Readers have also noticed typos throughout (as usual, some Swifties speculate that any missing letters are part of a secret code constructed by Swift), […]
New Books Publishing December 3
This week Brandon Sanderson and Robin Cook release new novels, while new nonfiction includes work by Alex Cuadros and Michelle Obama’s OVERCOMING workbook. December’s children’s releases include a new Dog Man book by Dav Pilkey (with an announced 5-million-copy first printing, plus an upcoming world tour and the release of a Dog Man film on January 31). Also publishing this week are SISTER SNAKE by Amanda Lee Koe, available in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer anthology, and RENTAL HOUSE by Weike Wang, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler. 36 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-december-3 12 works of […]
Counting Down to the Biggest Book Launch of the Year
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 […]