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JIM MILLIOT stands on the cusp of retirement, having written his first news story in 1979, having been with Publishers Weekly for 30 years, and having risen through the magazine's [...]

NOT FAKING IT Abby Jimenez tops our trade paper list and has the #2 bestselling title in the country with Yours Truly, a 'poignant and often hilarious romance between ER [...]

The only mention of the pandemic in this little intro is in this sentence, and it's only in service of saying, well, let's not. Travel is back big time, and [...]

It's dark by five. The first frost has come and leveled the garden. The rodeo of getting the kids ready for school in the morning is suddenly five times more [...]

Hi there, and welcome to PW's first-ever issue dedicated to independent bookselling and publishing. When I sat down to write this note, I worried about preaching to the choir. Nobody [...]

We run this feature every year, and it's spring actually springs, and it's a nice exercise to imagine what we'd want to take along to read on vacation or a [...]

Happy New Year! I hope the post-holiday reentry was as painless as possible for everyone. We're ramping up here at PW for a big year and have a lot of [...]

'Most of my life is like, bow did I end up here?' That's James Comey talking--a guy who has prosecuted the New York mob, been one of the eight human [...]

Fashion, the future, and bringing overdue credit to overlooked artists are big themes in the upcoming season. TOP 10 Avedon Advertising Richard Avedon et al. Abrams, Oct. 8, $125, ISBN [...]

Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul Jamie Ducharme (Holt) When Ducharme's 2019 Time article on Juul came out, it was pretty tough to walk around New York without seeing [...]

What a difference 12 months makes. This time last year, we were sliding from delta to omicron, and companies-PW included--were hitting pause on the return-to-office program. Now the world's basically [...]

Jacques Pepin may be creeping up on 87, but he still keeps a chef's hours: never in bed before midnight, never up before 'the stroke of nine,' as he said [...]

I hope you're sitting down. We're mixing things up a little this time out. Don't worry. This is still a jam-packed season preview, even if it's a little less jam-packed [...]

There are a lot of reasons we'll never forget this year. I'd like to add 150 more here: PWs best books of 2021. Our reviews editors have selected the best [...]

Welcome to our fall 2022 books preview! Putting this feature together is always a massive job, and one we're lucky to do. We're also fortunate to have such a talented [...]

Bill Buford is sorry, but he's running late. This, perhaps, isn't surprising. He's supposed to be at lunch at a Midtown Manhattan bistro to discuss his new book, Dirt (Knopf, [...]

New titles explore the art, science, history, and business of baseball and other popular American sports. Baseball is the centerpiece of this spring's sports titles, with big-name memoirs and bios [...]

THE BEAT GOES ON Debuting at #2 in hardcover nonfiction and #2 overall is / Alone Can Fix it by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker. It's the [...]

Hollywood, perennial bestsellers, and publishing powerhouses were the engines behind the 2015 bestsellers in many categories on the adult fiction and nonfiction sides, with several of PW's category bestseller lists [...]

This marks the fourth (and hopefully final) announcements issue we've done fully remotely. Much has changed in the year since we published our fall 2020 preview, and things nearly unthinkable [...]

The most exciting novel of 2011 is a 500-pager about soul-crushing boredom. It is, of course, David Foster Wallace's The Pale King, unfinished at his 2008 death and posthumously assembled [...]

Welcome to PW's Summer Reads preview! We do this every year on the website, though this is the first time in a while that it's appearing in print. Accordingly, we've [...]

I was challenged to write this little intro bit without mentioning the weather or the beach. And so I won't. Instead, let's talk about another summer spent under the pandemic's [...]

Who else is ready to turn the page on 2020? Show of hands? But I don't want to add to your doomscroll. Instead, let me tell you about one of [...]

Welcome to our big fall preview. I usually begin this feature with an explanation of how we put it together and a bit on the mix of our selections, which [...]

As we go to press on this issue, the world's biggest sporting event--the World Cup--is in full swing down in Brazil, and while this spring saw a number of excellent [...]

Welcome to our big spring preview. Our editors have chosen 850 books publishing between February and July that you're going to want to put on your radar. Okay, probably not [...]

House of the Rising Sales YA fantasy author Leigh Bardugo hits the charts with her first adult novel, Ninth House, in at #3 in Hardcover Fiction and #8 overall. Our [...]

Welcome to PW's fall preview. These are our editors' picks for autumn--a mix of surefire blockbusters, promising debuts, potential breakouts, and indie dark horses. And for some, we just plain [...]

The House of Meetings Martin Amis (Knopf) Angry Martin wrote the hell out of this novel--a Soviet gulag survivor's memoir to his daughter--and if by the end you aren't at [...]

The article from Publishers Weekly announces a major redesign of the print magazine after 20 years, focusing on creating a more elegant, informative, and thoughtful publication. The redesign includes new sections like Currents for quick recaps and analysis, People for author interviews, and a refreshed Reviews section. The magazine retains its bestseller charts and incorporates elements from its historical design, with a new logo, badge, and fleuron. Readers are encouraged to explore the new changes and provide feedback to the editorial director. [Extracted from the article]

Here it is, our spring preview. We've once again read the tea leaves of the upcoming season to pick promising titles in 15 categories and provide you with what we [...]

In putting together our fall preview, we didn't consult a crystal ball so much as a spreadsheet so massive the lights in the PW office dimmed when one of our [...]

New additions to two popular series top our Children's Fiction list. At the summit is Rick Riordan's The Burning Maze, which continues the adventures of Greek god Apollo, who has [...]

TOP 10 OVERALL RANK TITLE AUTHOR 1 A Day in the Life of Twiss/ Keller Marlon Bundo 2 Magnolia Table Joanna Gaines 3 The Burning Maze (The Trials Rick Riordan [...]

Chuck Palahniuk #5 Hardcover Frontlist Fiction Palahniuk returns to Norton (publisher of Fight Club) for his latest apocalyptic romp, which is set in a near future where the U.S. has [...]

Last year was the busiest year yet for publishersweekly.com. We served 28 million page views to nearly 11 million visitors and published more than 8,600 book reviews and 3,300 articles--many [...]

PW BESTSELLERS DECEMBER 18-24, 2017 TOP 25 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK RANK LW WKS TITLE 1 1 3 Dangerous Games 2 2 4 Dragon Teeth 3 3 24 The Whistler 4 [...]

TOP 25 HARDCOVER NONFICTION RANK LW WKS TITLE 1 1 9 The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It! 2 4 11 Grant 3 2 10 Leonardo da Vinci 4 [...]

TOP 25 CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS RANK WKS TITLE 1 149 First 100 Words 2 8 A Loud Winter's Nap 3 7 How the Grinch Stole Christmas 4 8 Little Blue [...]

TOP 25 CHILDREN'S FRONTLIST FICTION RANK WKS TITLE 1 1 The Getaway (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #12) 2 11 Turtles All the Way Down 3 10 Tales from a [...]

Santa was good to booksellers this year. The week before Christmas, overall print unit sales were 7% higher than in the comparable week last year, and a lot of books [...]

TOP 25 TRADE PAPERBACK RANK LW WKS TITLE 1 1 12 The Sun and Her Flowers 2 2 4 Darker 3 3 12 Instant Pot Miracle 4 5 38 All [...]

TOP 25 HARDCOVER FICTION RANK LW WKS TITLE 1 1 9 The Rooster Bar 2 2 12 Origin 3 6 6 The People vs. Alex Cross 4 5 6 Artemis [...]

Aug. 2016, 8,841 Dec. 2016, 2,439 Aug. 2017, 43,750 Dec. 2017. 17,420 Captain Underpants creator Dav Pilkey's latest gigglefest, the fourth in his Dog Man series, debuts a new character: [...]

Welcome to our spring preview. You might want to make yourself comfortable. What follows over the next 110-plus pages is your one-stop guide to which books people are going to [...]

RANK WKS TITLE 1 9 Room on the Broom 2 9 Pete The Cat: Trick or Pete 3 9 Little Blue Truck's Halloween 4 8 Room on the Broom (board [...]

TOP 25 CHILDREN'S FRONTLIST FICTION RANK WKS TITLE 1 3 Turtles All the Way Down 2 2 Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe (Dork Diaries #12) 3 4 Harry Potter [...]

TOP 25 TRADE PAPERBACK RANK LW WKS TITLE 1 1 4 The Sun and Her Flowers 2 -- 1 The Black Book 3 2 8 It 4 3 29 The [...]

TOP 25 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK RANK LW WKS TITLE 1 -- 1 Leopard's Blood 2 5 2 Twelve Days of Christmas 3 6 2 The Games 4 1 5 Cross [...]