Books hitting stores in the next week, author interviews and original essays from bestselling writer
VIEW ONLINE | FORWARD TO A FRIEND
The Cockfight
PW Picks Header Graphic
Story Image
Diving Back In
Among the noteworthy books publishing next week are a romance about a middle-aged woman torn between two long-ago exes with whom she’s just reconnected, a literary and personal study of Romani history, a myth-infused memoir, a novel from a child’s perspective, and a century-old speculative tale of climate disaster.
July 18, 2025
Story Image Starred Reviews Releasing Next Week
Check out all the books to receive starred PW reviews that are hitting shelves next week. more
Story Image Christine Pride’s Second-Chance Romance
The author dated the same two men in her 20s and in her 40s—and used the experience as fuel for her first solo novel. more

PW Star Watch 2025
Story Image The Harmful Tropes of Gothic Literature and Other Reflections on Roma History: PW Talks with Madeline Potter
The Roma blends a history of Romani persecution and civil rights struggles with the literary scholar's own experiences of discrimination as a Roma woman in Britain. more
Story Image How Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart Got Made
The bestselling author’s novel follows a 10-year-old girl caught up in her parents' marital woes and her country's nightmarish divisions. more

Editors’ Picks
Story Image
Into the Sun

By C. F. Ramuz, tr. by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan (New Directions)

I’ll admit I’m exhausted by climate fiction. The weather is already so extreme, and the warning signs so unheeded, that I don’t need fiction to guide my mind toward the possible consequences (don’t get me started on the term cli-fi). But in some twisted way I found this 1992 Swiss novel to be a breath of fresh air. Using a purely theoretical disaster—Earth’s one-way trajectory toward the sun—Ramuz casts an all-too-human drama of denial and wanton destruction. —David Varno, literary fiction reviews editor
Story Image
Salt Bones

By Jennifer Ghivan (Little, Brown)

Reframing the story of Persephone and Demeter as a tale of maternal struggle set on the California/Mexico border, Givhan mashes up folk horror, whodunit, and hero's journey into a haunting, lyrical pulp. Flush with arid atmosphere and family secrets, it's as propulsive as it is emotionally substantial. —Conner Reed, mystery and memoir reviews editor
Story Image
So What If I’m a Puta: Diaries of Transness, Sex Work, Desire

By Amara Moira, tr. by Amanda De Lisio and Bruna Dantas Lobato (Feminist Press)

A Brazilian travesti revisits her own diaries of her former life as a sex worker in this quick, light, and utterly engrossing literary memoir. “Diary open, I’m traveling back ten years. It’s a shame I wrote so little back then; in one hour I read all the pages of a story I’d forgotten long ago.” —Dana Snitzky, history and current affairs reviews editor

Sign up to the Fanatic Newsletter for FREE
Download a printable PDF of this bestsellers list.

For more PW bestsellers lists, click here.