On October 6, Random House Children’s will publish the opposites book TOO LOOSE, TOO TIGHT, JUST RIGHT by Stan and Jan Berenstain. The Berenstains’s son, Mike, discovered the manuscript in 2020 and revised and illustrated it in the style his parents used for the Bright & Early Board Books line. “What was most interesting to me was how good TOO LOOSE, TOO TIGHT, JUST RIGHT was,” Mike Berenstain said in a release. “It was funny, clever, educational, and entertaining, a classic children’s book that had been conceived, created, then completely forgotten for over fifty years. I decided it deserved to […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
New Books Publishing April 21
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Jane Smiley, T C Boyle, and Xochitl Gonzalez, while nonfiction includes work by Jodi Kantor, Rachel Goldberg-Polin, María Corina Machado, and Jordan Ritter Conn. 28 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-21 24 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-21 Also publishing this week are new novels by Kim Michele Richardson and Rebecca Mahoney, 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 April‘s 120 fiction releases, […]
Forthcoming: New ‘Divergent’ Novels; A Memoir By Dustin Hoffman
Veronica Roth announced at BookCon last weekend that she will publish two new novels in her bestselling “Divergent” series. The first, THE SIXTH FACTION, will come out on October 6 from Harper Collins Children’s. It is “not a prequel, not a sequel, not a spinoff, not a different POV but an alternate universe of Divergent where Tris chooses a different faction,” the author told USA Today. “THE SIXTH FACTION started as an experiment…something that would allow me to explore the series that launched my career,” Roth said in a release. “I feel very fortunate that the team at Harper was […]
New Books Publishing April 14
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by David Baldacci, Jay McInerney, Solvej Balle, Rainbow Rowell, and James S. A. Corey, while nonfiction includes work by Lena Dunham, Ericka Hart, and Vicky Osterweil. 34 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-14 26 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-14 Also publishing this week are new novels by Maria Semple and Kelly Yang, 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 April‘s 120 fiction releases, 26 […]
Forthcoming: Danny Meyer’s ‘What Could Possibly Go Right?’
Random House will publish restaurateur Danny Meyer‘s WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO RIGHT? on September 29. The book is “an exploration of Meyer’s quest to build and scale an enduring culture while running a business that began with one tight-knit restaurant in 1985 and evolved into a diversified hospitality group with a global footprint.” It includes the opening Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern and other restaurants, and overseeing the rise of Shake Shack. “In the twenty years since I wrote a book about the power of hospitality to transform any business or organization, I’ve had to learn – and unlearn – […]
Forthcoming: ‘Regime Change’ by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Simon & Schuster will publish REGIME CHANGE: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by NYT White House correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan on June 23. S&S writes: “Regime Change covers the first year of Trump’s second presidency—a term liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him ‘no’ are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles. He has ignored court orders and claimed powers that Congress once checked. What remains is a President willing to take enormous risks that have toppled heads of state and taken the country to war again […]