Norton and Pushkin Industries will publish BLOCKERS: Rebels in the Deep State by Michael Lewis on October 6. Norton will publish the hardcover and Pushkin will produce and release an audiobook edition, available exclusively at blockers.fm for the first three weeks of publication. Norton writes in the announcement, “In BLOCKERS, Lewis views the “meteor strike” of the second Trump administration through the eyes of the public servants targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As he says, ;Every now and then the world hands you the material for a wild story. The collision between the Trump Administration and the civil service is one of […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
New Books Publishing June 2
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Maggie O’Farrell, Ann Patchett, Ruth Ozeki, and Rachel Ekstrom Courage, while nonfiction includes work by Jill Biden, Liaquat Ahamed, Ben Mezrich, and Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor. June’s children’s releases include books by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Deb Caletti, and the author team behind Blackout and Whiteout. 45 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-june-2 17 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-june-2 31 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/june-2026-children-s-releases Also publishing this week are books by Tessa Yang, Tim Sullivan, Lynette Noni, and Cindy Pham, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Spring/Summer anthology. We consult a number […]
The Edit: Staff Picks Edition
Welcome back to The Edit, our monthly column about the galleys everyone in publishing is talking about. All the big summer previews are out by now, including lists from New York Times, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and Literary Hub, and people are already looking ahead to the next season. This month, we’re highlighting picks from the staff of Publishers Lunch. Our Buzz Books Fall/Winter anthology came out yesterday, so we’ve all spent the last several months reading for fall. Here are some of our favorites. The PL staff is excited for Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel Exit Party […]
New Books Publishing May 26
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Walter Mosley, Freida McFadden, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Matt Haig, and Nora Roberts, while nonfiction includes work by David Sedaris and Sen. Chris Murphy. 37 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-may-26 14 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-may-26 Also publishing this week are a new books by Francesca Cocchi, Casey Sherman, and Amanda Skenandore, all 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 May‘s 154 fiction releases, 67 works of […]
Forthcoming: A History of the Justice Department by Rachel Maddow
Crown will publish Rachel Maddow‘s next book, DEPARTMENT OF FATE: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America’s Most Consequential Institution on November 10, directly after the midterm elections. The book is a history of the Justice Department, writes the publisher, tracing its “triumphs and misdeeds through the founding and rise of the KKK, the riotous chaos of the Red Scare, civil rights murders and violence, railroad barons’ crushing the unions, cabinet scandals that make Watergate look like Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, the faux erudite lawlessness of the Reagan Administration, and the collapse into thug rule in the Trump Administration.” […]
New Books Publishing May 19
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Ali Smith, Ayelet Waldman, and Michael Connelly, while nonfiction includes work by Jesmyn Ward and Ada Ferrer. 39 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-may-19 15 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-may-19 Also publishing this week is a new novel by Jane Costello, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Romance anthology. Watch her discuss her midlife romcom with her editor on our Authors and Editors panel here. We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on […]