This week’s fiction releases include new titles by John Scalzi, Craig Johnson, Freida McFadden, and Ian Rankin, while nonfiction includes work by Judi Dench, Adam Makos, Eric Dane, and Robert Wilson. November’s children’s releases include books by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Holly Black, and Cassandra Clare. 27 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-november-3 18 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-november-3 22 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/october-2026-children-s-releases Also publishing this week are new books by Ali Rosen, Louise Kennedy, Kenneth Chenault, and Tarajia Morrell, all of which are excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Fall/Winter anthology, as well as […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Dolly Parton Memoir Sold to Grand Central, Page Six Says
Page Six reports that Grand Central acquired a posthumous memoir by Dolly Parton from Folio. Some sources said that the advance was $13 million, while another said “the Grand Central deal was made for a lower amount — but involved a bigger cut of the royalties than usual with a 50/50 split.” Page Six is very “unclear” on the book itself, so we can help a little there. Steve Troha and Jeff Kleinman at Folio Literary Management told publishers in August in an email shortly after Parton died there were “several Dolly-blessed projects already in the works, including the autobiography […]
The Edit: Featuring Kate Dwyer
Welcome back to The Edit, our monthly column about what everyone in publishing is reading. Best of the Year season has already begun with lists from Indigo and Publishers Weekly. This month, we talked to Kate Dwyer, publicity director at McNally Jackson & McNally Editions, and formerly a journalist covering books, about which forthcoming titles she’s most excited about. Dwyer highlighted some notable spring 2027 debuts. “Calling it now: with The Tantrum, out from Scribner in April (4/13), Jean Garnett will cement her status as the biggest essayist in America,” she writes. “And she’s the essayist we’ll need in 2027; with […]
New Books Publishing October 27
Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Splintered Harmony releases this week, as well as new novels by Michael Connelly and filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun. New nonfiction includes work by Christopher Lloyd and William Shatner, plus Wendell Berry’s posthumous essays and Matthew Cole’s explosive expose on Jared Kushner (which was moved up to publish October 25). 24 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-27 15 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-27 Also publishing this week are new books by Chad Harbach and Uzma Jalaluddin, which are excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Fall/Winter anthology. We consult a number […]
New Books Publishing October 20
This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Walter Mosley, Louise Penny, Philippa Gregory, and Susanna Clarke, while nonfiction includes work by Lawrence Wright, Haruki Murakami, and Zaina Arafat. 27 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-20 21 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-20 Also publishing this week are new books by Rachel A. Shelden, Janasha Prabhu, Natalie Barelli, and John Stephens, all of which are excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Fall/Winter anthology, as well as novels by Elizabeth Helen, Wanda Hellmund, and Piper Lawson, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Romance collection. We consult a number […]
Forthcoming: ‘One Last Time’ By Bob Iger
On March 2, Random House will publish Bob Iger’s ONE LAST TIME: Managing Crisis and Building Resilience at Disney, written with Dan Schwerin. Andy Ward acquired North American rights from Esther Newberg at CAA. The book is about Iger’s second stint as the CEO of Disney. The publisher writes, “Iger thought he understood what it took to be a CEO, but his second stint at Disney was a crash course in answering today’s thorniest leadership challenges, including two hostile proxy battles, and steering through the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes. How do you make hard calls, under high pressure and intense […]