Brandon Sanderson, Melissa Broder, and Lydia Davis publish new fiction this week, while new nonfiction includes a National Book Award Finalist by Viet Thanh Nguyen, plus Patrick Stewart’s memoir and Michael Lewis’s deep dive on Sam Bankman-Fried. In children’s books, Brandy Colbert, Elana K. Arnold, and Deb Caletti publish new YA novels this month. Also out this week are Jonathan Lethem’s Brooklyn Crime Novel, a Read with Jenna pick by Safiya Sinclair’s Read with Jenna pick How to Say Babylon, Brittany Means’ Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways, and Ashley Winstead’s Midnight is the Darkest Hour, all available to sample […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
New Books Publishing September 26
Ayana Mathis, Ken Follett, Vauhini Vara all publish new fiction this week, while new nonfiction includes work from Cassidy Hutchinson, Kerry Washington, and Jann Wenner. Finally, there is the release of C. Pam Zhang’s LAND OF MILK AND HONEY, Nnedi Okorafor’s SHADOW SPEAKER, and Ariel Kaplan’s THE POMEGRANATE GATE, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter anthology. 18 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-26 16 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-26 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 […]
New Books Publishing September 19
Amy Chua, Jessica Knoll, Daniel Mason, Richard Osman, John Scalzi, and Lawrence Wright all publish novels this week, while new nonfiction includes work from Tiya Miles, Leslie Jones, and Ross Gay, plus Jonathan Raban’s posthumous memoir and former Macmillan publisher John Sargent‘s book. Also out this week is Nathan Hill’s second novel WELLNESS, which was picked today as the next selection for Oprah’s Book Club. Finally, there is the release of Freda Love Smith’s I QUIT EVERYTHING, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter anthology. 17 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-19 24 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-19 […]
Favorite Finger?
When compiling the most recent bestseller lists last week, we noticed two different versions of Fran Littlewood’s AMAZING GRACE ADAMS charting (under two different ISBNs). There is the “original recipe” jacket, displaying a full middle finger — as well as a more TV- and retailer-friendly version, with a quote burst that covers the finger. Holt executive director of publicity Caitlin Mulrooney-Lyski writes in answer to our query, “The full finger was the primary edition, but we created the burst cover for any accounts that preferred it as well as the Today Show for the Jenna pick,” which is apparently a […]
Excerpt Highlights October Romney Biography
A newsmaking excerpt from McKay Coppins’ forthcoming biography ROMNEY: A Reckoning aligned with the Senator’s announcement he will not seek re-election. And the serial in the Atlantic adds the book to the list of high-profile memoirs and biographies looking to lift nonfiction sales this fall. Romney told Coppins of his decision not to run “earlier this year.” He “began meeting with Romney in the spring of 2021. The senator hadn’t told anyone he was talking to a biographer, and we kept our interviews discreet.” The excerpt includes many quotable stories, including the revelation that Romney texted Senator Mitch McConnell on […]
New Books Publishing September 12
James Ellroy and Kelley Armstrong publish new novels this week, while new nonfiction includes work from Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey, Walter Isaacson, and Alejandra Campoverdi. Also out this week are THE VASTER WILDS by Lauren Groff and FAIR ROSALINE by Natasha Solomons, collected in our Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter anthology, and AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME by Marianna Leal, available in our Buzz Books 2023: Romance collection. 26 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-12 10 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-12 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources […]