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Publishing This Week: R. F. Kuang, Leigh Stein, Miriam Toews, and 29 more

Publishing This Week: R. F. Kuang, Leigh Stein, Miriam Toews, and 29 more

Discover new and notable books publishing this week!

August 24, 2025

Publishing This Week

Hello Readers,

This week, we’ve curated 32 brand-new books being released.

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.

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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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.

A New New Me: A Novel
by Helen Oyeyemi

On sale Aug 26 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 224 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

From the award-winning, bestselling "literary pied piper" (The New York Times) who brought us Boy, Snow, Bird comes a masterful story that asks: What if the different sides of your personality had trust issues with each other?

New Day, New You!

If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You: A Novel
by Leigh Stein

On sale Aug 26 from Ballantine Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

Fates collide after a tarot influencer disappears from a decaying Hollywood mansion in this unnerving gothic mystery and audacious social comedy from the acclaimed author of Self Care.

My Perfect Family
by Khadijah VanBrakle

On sale Aug 26 from Holiday House
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

Sixteen-year-old Leena has always wished for a big family… but when she discovers she has a Muslim grandfather and aunt she never knew, she learns that family comes with tangled histories she may not be able to heal.

The Devil's in the Dancers
by Catherine Yu

On sale Aug 26 from Page Street YA
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

Accepted to the prestigious summer ballet intensive at Allegra Academy on scholarship, sixteen-year-old Mars Chang is thrust into the world of wealthy―and she's determined to stay.

Isabella's Not Dead
by Beth Morrey

On sale Aug 26 from G.P. Putnam's Sons
Genre: Mysteries. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

A hilarious and thought-provoking murder mystery about the death of a friendship, and one woman's quest to track down the best friend who disappeared, for fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette.

Forget Me Not
by Stacy Willingham

On sale Aug 26 from Minotaur Books
Genre: Thrillers. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

A pulse-pounding new Southern thriller from the author of the runaway bestseller A Flicker in the Dark.

Wish You Were Her
by Elle McNicoll

On sale Aug 26 from Wednesday Books
Genre: Romance (Young Adult). 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

Book Lovers meets Notting Hill with a slice of You've Got Mail in Wish You Were Her, the brand new rivals-to-lovers romance from bestselling, award-winning Elle McNicoll.

An unforgettable romcom about finding the one person who makes you feel yourself when the whole world is watching.

Katabasis: A Novel
by R. F Kuang

On sale Aug 26 from Harper Voyager
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 560 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor's soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.

Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City
by LaShawn Harris

On sale Aug 26 from Beacon Press
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 376 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

The life and 1984 murder of a beloved Black grandmother that changed community activism forever—and sparked the ongoing movement against racist policing and brutality.

#SayHerName: The story of Eleanor Bumpurs, told for the first time by decorated historian and Bumpurs's former neighbor LaShawn Harris.

The Call of the Honeyguide: What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life
by Rob Dunn

On sale Aug 26 from Basic Books
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

How rethinking our relationships with other species can help us reimagine the future of humankind.

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