Riverhead will publish Hernan Diaz‘s next novel, PLY, on September 29, the AP reports. The book is “a futuristic thriller in which a young orphan survives by stealing electricity from the grid and selling it on the black market.” “After rewriting America’s past with his two previous novels, Hernan Diaz now gives us a glimpse into the future,” Riverhead said in a statement. “‘Ply’ questions the place of technology in the American experiment with a plot that grabs both heart and mind.”
New Releases/Forthcoming
Forthcoming: Michael Douglas Memoir
On October 6, Grand Central will publish actor Michael Douglas‘s memoir, the AP reports. The as-yet-untitled book, written with Michael Fleming, will tell Douglas’s story “on [his] own terms,” the actor said in a statement. “Not the highlight reel, not the version shaped by headlines or box office numbers, but the real one. I’ve lived a life that unfolded in public while being deeply private at the same time, and there’s a difference. This is about where I came from, what I fought against, and what I chose for myself. Fame can blur the truth; this is my attempt to […]
New Books Publishing February 10
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Matt Dinniman, Kerri Maniscalco, and James Lee Burke, while nonfiction includes work by Richard Holmes and Dorothy Roberts. 30 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-february-10 11 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-february-10 Also publishing this week are Sarah G. Pierce’s For Human Use and Michelle Maryk’s The Found Object Society, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Spring/Summer anthology. 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 February‘s 127 fiction releases, 21 works of nonfiction, […]
Forthcoming: Gladwell, Adeyemi, Donaldson
On September 29, Little, Brown will publish THE AMERICAN WAY OF KILLING by Malcolm Gladwell, which “gets to the heart of America’s gun violence crisis: Where did America’s violence problem come from? And why has it proven so difficult to address?” The book is an expansion of reporting Gladwell did for his podcast, Revisionist History. The audiobook will be published by RB Media and produced by Pushkin Industries. Also on September 29, Holt Children’s will publish Tomi Adeyemi‘s next YA novel, THE SIREN, a standalone dark academia. Separately, Julia Donaldson announced the title of the third book in her Gruffalo […]
New Books Publishing February 3
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Mary Kubica, Jo Nesbo, and Jenny Tinghui Zhang, while nonfiction includes work by Dan Chiasson, Joshua Bennett, and Andrew Yang. February’s children’s releases include books by James Ponti and Rebecca Traister. 31 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-february-3 12 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-february-3 18 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/february-2026-children-s-releases Also publishing this week is The Exes by Leodora Darlington, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Fall/Winter anthology. Watch Darlington discuss her debut thriller and how she balances being a book editor with writing from our Buzz Books panel. We consult […]
The Edit: Featuring Poured Over Host Miwa Messer
Welcome back to The Edit, our column about the forthcoming releases everyone is talking about. In galley news, Riverhead’s ARC for Emma Straub’s new novel American Fantasy (Riverhead, 4/7) is wearing a jean jacket. Could this start a new trend of fun galleys? This month, we spoke to Miwa Messer, the host of Barnes & Noble’s Poured Over podcast about what she has lately been reading and loving. Messer recommends Natalie Adler’s Waiting on a Friend (Hogarth, 5/26) for a taste of bygone New York City: “I was trying to explain 90s New York City to a younger colleague the […]