New Releases/Forthcoming

This week’s notable releases include new novels from Jessica George, C.J. Tudor, and Annalee Newitz, as well as nonfiction by Pamela Anderson and Daniel Black. 11 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-31 6 nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-31 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.

Scribner will publish two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s next novel, LET US DESCEND, on October 3. In an announcement, the publisher described the book as, “the astonishing story of Annis, an enslaved teenage girl who is sold by her white father after being separated from her mother. Annis is walked from a rice plantation in the Carolinas to a slave market in New Orleans, and ultimately to a sugar plantation in Louisiana.” “I wanted to look at this hard truth from our past, to explore what it would have been like for my character, Annis, to have little to […]

Notable releases this week include new novels from Paul Harding, Aleksandar Hemon, and Brad Taylor, as well as nonfiction by David Graeber and Lisa Guerrero. Also out this week is new work from Iliana Regan, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter anthology, and Kate Clayborn’s Georgie, All Along, available in our Buzz Books 2022: Romance sampler. 15 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-24 12 nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-24 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 […]

Today is publication day for longtime publisher Stephen Rubin’s memoir, Words and Music: Confessions of an Optimist. As promised, the book is a deliciously candid (sometimes impolitic) account of his illustrious career, covering both his hits and his missteps, and sharing stories about some of the industry’s best-known personalities. The following excerpt, from the chapter “More Corporate Claptrap” — Rubin notes a few times, “I have always said that corporations do dumb things” — is just a taste, recounting his final days at Random House. Why didn’t it work for me as Random House’s Publisher at Large? Why was the […]

Viking announced that Ken Follett’s next novel, THE ARMOR OF LIGHT, will be published worldwide on September 26. The novel will be the last in his eight-volume series that “chronicles the last thousand years of Western civilization.” Set in the 18th century, the book “tells of a group of linked families whose lives are turned upside-down by the new age of machinery.” Follett comments, “I’m fascinated by how people have struggled for freedom—and won. Most of my stories are about just that. The issue underlying The Armor of Light is freedom of speech.”