This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Bonnie Garmus, S. A. Cosby, Yiyun Li, Joy Harjo, Julie Orringer and Booker-nominee M. John Harrison, while nonfiction includes work by Adam Grant and Brian Kilmeade, plus the annotated scripts of Heated Rivalry. 37 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-13 27 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-13 Also publishing this week are new books by Will Maclean, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Julianne Edwards, and Soyica Diggs Colbert, all of which are excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Fall/Winter anthology, as well as novels by Becca Freeman and B.B. Reid, excerpted in our […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Forthcoming: Freida McFadden’s Announces ‘The Sleepwalker,’ Sales Milestone
Freida McFadden announced that her next book will be The Sleepwalker, published by Sourcebooks on March 23, 2027. The publisher writes, “By day, Samantha is a nurse. By night, she has a deadly secret: when she kills, the sleepwalking stops and her nights grow quiet. Her victims are predators, abusers, men who deserve it. Or so she tells herself.” Sourcebooks also announced today that McFadden’s 29 books have crossed 90 million copies sold around the world, across all formats. McFadden said, “I am incredibly honored that so many readers all over the globe have welcomed my books into their lives,” […]
New Books Publishing October 6
This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Barbara Kingsolver, V. E. Schwab, Imbolo Mbue, Jeffrey Archer, and Tessa Bailey, while nonfiction includes work by Michael Lewis, David Byrne, Nathaniel Philbrick, Justice Samuel Alito, Michael Douglas, and Franny Choi. October’s children’s releases include books by Renée Watson, Marie Lu, E L James, and Josh Galarza. 45 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-6 39 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-6 21 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/october-2026-children-s-releases Also publishing this week are new books by Wm. Paul Young, Melissa R. Collings, Heather Gay, Lydia Millet, Meg Anderson, Madison Tyler Nelson, and Freida McFadden, all […]
New Books Publishing September 29
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Hernan Diaz, Ayad Akhtar, Min Jin Lee, Deesha Philyaw, and John Grisham, while nonfiction includes work by Anand Giridharadas, Malcolm Gladwell, Kyle MacLachlan, and Evan Gershkovich, plus former Disney ceo Bob Chapek’s memoir. 28 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-29 29 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-29 Also publishing this week are new books by Bel Banta, Kathleen Kaufman, David McCloskey, Zoe Duhaime, and Meg Mason, all of which are excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Fall/Winter anthology, and by Lindsay Straube, which is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Romance collection. […]
The Edit: Featuring Sean deLone
Welcome back to The Edit, our monthly column about what everyone in publishing is reading. This month, we spoke to Atria editor Sean deLone, who writes the informative publishing Substack Dear Head of Mine (check out his recent post about the state of the nonfiction book market). For October, DeLone highlights Phantom Limb by Brian Evenson (Coffee House, 10/13). He writes, “I was recommended Brain Evenson’s stories in 2020 from a lovely production editor colleague and finally got around to reading him last year (if you recommend a book to an editor, we will read it…eventually)—he’s terrific. I’m about ready […]
Forthcoming: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ‘Better Every Day’
Penguin Press will publish Arnold Schwarzenegger’s BETTER EVERY DAY: AN ACTION PLAN FOR A FULL LIFE on January 12, 2027. The publisher calls it “a candid and practical guide to building a flywheel for endless growth and deepening purpose” and a follow-up to his #1 New York Times bestseller Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life. Scott Moyers will edit the book, which was represented by Byrd Leavell at UTA.