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Publishing This Week: George Saunders, Brigid Kemmerer, William J. Mann, and 20 more

Publishing This Week: George Saunders, Brigid Kemmerer, William J. Mann, and 20 more

Discover new and notable books publishing this week!

January 25, 2026

Publishing This Week

Hello Readers,

Discover this week’s 23 must-read releases, including a gripping tale of resistance and injustice in 1940s North Carolina.

In Women of a Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everhart, “Everhart writes movingly about the American Plan (a real government program that tried to regulate women's bodies and sexuality) and its consequences in the first part of the 20th century. With its strong women characters, the novel is a brutal but unforgettable read.” —Library Journal

You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and logged in members will find descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section.

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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.

Women of a Promiscuous Nature
by Donna Everhart

On sale Jan 27 from Kensington Publishing
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages

Girl, Interrupted meets The Handmaid's Tale in 1940s North Carolina, as a young woman is accused of "promiscuity" and unjustly incarcerated at The State Industrial Farm Colony for Women…

Based on the long-buried history of the American Plan, this powerful and shockingly timely story of resistance and resilience exposes the real government program designed to regulate women's bodies and sexuality throughout the first half of the 20th century.

Beckomberga: A Novel
by Sara Stridsberg

On sale Jan 27 from FSG Originals
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

A haunting novel of a woman's lifelong witness to her father's illness, and Stockholm's mythic mental hospital.

Freddie and Stella Got Hot
by Maggie Horne

On sale Jan 27 from Feiwel & Friends
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

Jenny Han meets Mean Girls in Freddie and Stella Got Hot, Maggie Horne's YA rom com about getting revenge and falling in love.

Persona
by Aoife Josie Clements

On sale Jan 27 from LittlePuss Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 280 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

A trans woman discovers pornography of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil.

The Seven Daughters of Dupree: A Novel
by Nikesha Elise Williams

On sale Jan 27 from Gallery/Scout Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

From the two-time Emmy Award–winning producer and host of the Black and Published podcast comes a sweeping multi-generational epic following seven generations of Dupree women as they navigate love, loss, and the unyielding ties of family in the tradition of Homegoing and The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois.

Vigil: A Novel
by George Saunders

On sale Jan 27 from Random House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 192 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

A wise, playful, electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next.

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing: A Novel
by Alice Evelyn Yang

Debut Author
On sale Jan 27 from William Morrow
Genre: Historical Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

A dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate.

The Case of the Murdered Muckraker: Harriet Morrow Investigates #2
by Rob Osler

On sale Jan 27 from Kensington Publishing
Genre: Mysteries. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

Harriet Morrow, a spunky, bike-riding, independent, lesbian P.I. in turn-of-the-20th century Chicago, is back on the case in this brilliant historical mystery inspired by a real-life Windy City detective – from the acclaimed author of the Anthony, Agatha, Macavity, and Lefty Award-nominated Devil's Chew Toy. For fans of Lev AC Rosen, Ashley Weaver, and Stephen Spotswood.

Sparking Fire Out of Fate: Forging Silver into Stars #3
by Brigid Kemmerer

On sale Jan 27 from Bloomsbury YA
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 416 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

Broken loyalties. Uncertain fates. Two kingdoms hanging in the balance...The exhilarating finale in bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer's Forging Silver series will leave readers breathless!

The Hour of the Wolf: A Memoir
by Fatima Bhutto

On sale Jan 27 from Scribner
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 192 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

From acclaimed journalist and novelist Fatima Bhutto, whose work has been hailed as "intense and powerful" (NPR), comes a searing, intimate memoir of grief, heartbreak, and what we owe the natural world—all learned from the dog who saved her life.

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