New Releases/Forthcoming

Jenny Jackson, Margaret Atwood, and Claire Jimenez have new fiction publishing this week, while nonfiction includes new work from Dina Nayeri, Debra Lee, and Dan Egan. Marie Lu, Kalynn Bayron, Elizabeth Wein, and Garth Nix all publish new YA titles this month. We also have a wealth of excerpts of today’s notable releases in our Buzz Books collections: novels by Eleanor Catton, Jessa Maxwell, and Shelley Read appear in Buzz Books 2023: Spring/Summer; Rafael Frumkin‘s CONFIDENCE appears in Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter; and new books from Sarah Hawley and Anita Kelly appear in Buzz Books 2023: Romance. Read was also […]

Penguin Press will publish THE FRAUD by Zadie Smith, historical fiction “set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England,” on September 5. This is Smith’s first novel since publishing Swing Time in 2016. The publisher calls it a “novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity and the mystery of ‘other people.'”

C.J. Box and J K Chukwu lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes Cristina Rivera Garza, Katherine May, and Alice Robb. 10 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-february-28       14 nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-february-28       We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use this form to submit brief details as well: publun.ch/submitNotable. Please submit your notable titles at least 3 months prior to pub date.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises and Random House Children’s Books have announced the forthcoming publication of a sequel to How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, called HOW THE GRINCH LOST CHRISTMAS! on September 5. Beginning one year after the original story, the book follows the Grinch, as he attempts “to win Who-ville’s Christmas Crown by making the largest, most spectacular Christmas  tree the Whos have ever seen.” Later, his “heart turns ice-cold, and he threatens to leave Who-ville for good.” The book is “written and illustrated in classic Dr. Seuss style” by author Alastair Heim and artist Aristides Ruiz. Heim has written the […]

Blackstone Publishing has acquired eight books Michael Crichton wrote under the pseudonym John Lange in a reported seven-figure world rights deal with CrichtonSun. Crichton wrote the John Lange books when he was at Harvard Medical School in the late 1960s and early 70s, before he was a bestselling author. They are about “secret treasures, heists, archaeology, unlikely heroes, seductive and at times treacherous lovers, classic villains, and much more,” and many of them are stand alone novels. Crichton’s widow and ceo of CrichtonSun Sherri Crichton said, “In these eight early adventure books, Michael was honing his skills and themes that […]

This week’s fiction releases include novels by Rebecca Makkai, Walter Mosley, and Veronica Roth, while nonfiction includes Michael Schulman, Will Sommer, and Will Schwalbe. Also out this week is Sink, by Joseph Earl Thomas which is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2022: Fall Winter anthology. 18 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-february-21       18 nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-february-21         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 three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure […]