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 Releases/Forthcoming
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 […]
New Books Publishing April 7
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Ben Lerner, Caro Claire Burke, and Rachel Khong, while nonfiction includes work by Patrick Radden Keefe, Ada Limón, and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. April’s children’s releases include books by Brandon Mull, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Beth Durst, as well as the graphic novelization of The Princess Diaries. 41 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-7 23 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-7 15 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/april-2026-children-s-releases Also publishing this week are AMERICAN FANTASY by Emma Straub and THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF by Evelyn Clarke, aka Cat Clarke and V.E. Schwab, excerpted in our […]
Forthcoming: John Green’s ‘Hollywood, Ending’
On September 22, Dutton will publish John Green‘s first adult novel, HOLLYWOOD, ENDING. According to the publisher, the book follows two actors who star in an Andy Warhol biopic “on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives—in exciting, but also terrifying, ways.” It is his first work of fiction in nine years. “It’s about falling in love and living with trauma and also the thing that we’re doing right now on the social internet, where we take pieces of ourselves and exchange them for public […]