This week’s fiction releases include books from David Baldacci, Seán Hewitt, and Denne Michele Norris, while new nonfiction includes work from Malcolm Harris, Melinda French Gates, and Shaun Walker. Also publishing this week are novels by Amelia Ireland, Nicole Knight, Renee Swindle, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer sampler. 18 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-15 9 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-15 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 April‘s […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Fearless By Lauren Roberts Sells 266,000 Copies On First Day
Simon & Schuster announced that FEARLESS by Lauren Roberts, the latest in the YA romantasy Powerless series, sold 266,000 units globally on its first day across all formats. The publisher writes that these are the highest ever first-day sales for an S&S YA book. FEARLESS is the third book in the series, following Powerless and Reckless, which have sold a total of 5.5 million units globally. Barnes & Noble and other bookstores hosted midnight release parties for the book. S&S president and ceo Jonathan Karp says, “When an author becomes this big, this fast, at such a young age, publishers often use words […]
Forthcoming: Thomas Pynchon, Patti Smith
Penguin Press will publish SHADOW TICKET, a new novel by Thomas Pynchon on October 7 in the US and Canada. The publisher writes in a release that the book is set in 1932 during prohibition: “Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering… By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, […]
New Books Publishing April 8
This week’s fiction releases include books by Jennifer Weiner, Nita Prose, Lynn Steger Strong, and Katie Kitamura, while new nonfiction includes work from Andrea Long Chu, David Denby, and Viet Thanh Nguyen. Also publishing this week are novels by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer sampler, and Jasmine Guillory, London Sperry, and Juliette Cross, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Romance collection. 24 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-8 12 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-8 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and […]
New Books Publishing April 1
This week’s fiction releases include books by Abby Jimenez, Amity Gaige, Amelia Hart and Olivie Blake, while new nonfiction includes work from Maria Shriver, Maggie Smith, Gretchen Rubin, and Eamon Dolan. March’s children’s releases include novels from Brian Selznick, Tahereh Mafi, Huda Fahmy, and Patrice Caldwell. Also publishing this week are novels by Jill Tew and John Kenney, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer sampler. 29 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-1 16 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-1 32 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/april-2025-children-s-new-releases From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number […]
The Edit: Nonfiction Reads For Spring And Summer
Welcome back to our new monthly column about buzzy upcoming releases. Earlier this month at the London Book Fair, we heard a lot of discussion about how to revive nonfiction. David Shelley, ceo of Hachette Book Group USA and Hachette UK, mentioned the ascendance of a subset of self-help he called “mind body spirit meets business development” (Shelley touted INNER EXCELLENCE by Jim Murphy, a recent acquisition by Grand Central publishing. republishing in trade paperback on 4/29.) Meanwhile, Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Meta tell-all, CARELESS PEOPLE, sold 60,000 units across all formats in its first week on sale according to the publisher […]