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Publishing This Week: Benjamin Markovits, Laura Restrepo and Martha Ackmann

Publishing This Week: Benjamin Markovits, Laura Restrepo and Martha Ackmann

Discover new and notable books publishing this week!

December 28, 2025

Publishing This Week

Hello Readers,

This quiet week offers a rich blend of personal reflection, sweeping romance, and an unforgettable real-life story.

You'll find brief information on 3 titles below, and you will find descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section.

For more soon to publish books including paperbacks, check out BookBrowse's "What's New" section. You can also check out the latest topics and posts in the BookBrowse Community Forum.

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The BookBrowse Team

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This Week's New and Notable Books

There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.

More about how we pick and rate books.

The Rest of Our Lives
by Benjamin Markovits

On sale Dec 30 from Summit Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages

A triumphantly life-affirming road trip novel about a man at a crossroads in his life.

Song of Ancient Lovers: A Novel
by Laura Restrepo

On sale Dec 30 from HarperVia
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

Award-winning Colombian author Laura Restrepo weaves contemporary themes and ancient myth in this story of star-crossed lovers in a world on the brink of collapse.

Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
by Martha Ackmann

On sale Dec 30 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 304 pages

A larger-than-life new biography of country music legend and philanthropist Dolly Parton.

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