New Releases/Forthcoming

In a major week for nonfiction, Britney Spears’ memoir publishes today, as well as new work by Mary Beard, Hilary Mantel, Dwight Garner, and John Stamos, plus biographies of Mitt Romney and Tupac Shakur. Oprah’s Book Club pick Jesmyn Ward, Jeanette Winterson, and Tim O’Brien publish new fiction this week, as well as new books by Emma Noyes and Jo Watson, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2023 anthologies.   18 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-24       22 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-24       From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/       We consult a number of sources in compiling […]

Britney Week has started a little early. There are revelations (or what the LAT calls “detailed, cogent accounts of indignities that would leave anyone seething”) in various places as well as excerpts, as the NYT weighs in early with a glowing review: It “reveals plenty about her life in the spotlight, and tempers well-earned bitterness with an enduring, insistent optimism.” The paper says their copy was “obtained in advance of its authorized release.” They write: “What Spears fills in, in prose that is chatty and confiding and occasionally salty, is the ongoing thrum of family dysfunction and fear — her […]

John Grisham and Teju Cole publish new novels this week, while new nonfiction includes work by Rachel Maddow, Dolly Parton, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Sly Stone. Also out this week is JONATHAN ABERNATHY YOU ARE KIND by Molly McGhee, which is featured in our Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter collection.   17 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-17       18 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-17       From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/       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 November’s 70 […]

Random House will publish Salman Rushdie’s memoir, KNIFE: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, on April 16, 2024. It is an account of the attack on him in August 2022. “This was a necessary book for me to write: a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art,” Rushdie said in the announcement. PRH ceo Nihar Malaviya said, “KNIFE is a searing book, and a reminder of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. We are honored to publish it, and amazed at Salman’s determination to tell his story, and to return to […]

Walter Mosley, Banana Yoshimoto, and Jhumpa Lahiri publish new fiction this week, while new nonfiction includes work by Werner Herzog, Roxane Gay, Julia Fox and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Also out this week are new books by Isa Arsén, Charlene Carr, Justin Torres, Bryan Washington, and Kacen Callender, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2023 collections.   22 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-10       14 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-10       From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/       We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months […]