Book release news we missed in October 2024

Our newswire editor was off on vacation most of this month, but she's back on the clock now and clearing out her RSS feeder with all the literary news she (and perhaps you) missed.

Here are the updates on upcoming, new, and rediscovered releases from that time:

• Polarizing French novelist Michel Houellebecq says he’s written his last book (NPR)

• Boris Johnson’s memoir sells more than 40,000 copies in first week on sale (The Guardian)

• Bob Woodward talks about his new book and the most serious nuclear threat he’s covered (NPR)

• Pope Francis to publish the first memoir from a sitting pontiff (The Guardian)

• Siri Hustvedt to write a book about her late husband, Paul Auster (The Guardian)

• Salman Rushdie to publish first work of fiction since 2022 stabbing (The Guardian)

• Learn more about Emily Henry's next book, Great Big Beautiful Life (Book Riot)

• Here's what's next from Heartstopper, on screen and on page (Book Riot)

• Official Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Book comes out on Black Friday (Target)

• Courtney Milan's WIP is a novella about a sock gremlin (Smart Podcast Trashy Books)

• Jason Reynolds discusses his YA romance Twenty-Four Seconds from Now (CBS)

• Reader stumbles on Dracula’s ancestors in a Dublin library (The Guardian)

• Eddie Van Halen changed rock history; now his brother is telling their story (The New York Times)

• Evan Gershkovich, US journalist imprisoned in Russia, will publish a memoir (The New York Times)

• Book brings new, deserved attention to Dust Bowl interviewer Sanora Babb (The New York Times)

• How Aleksei Navalny’s prison diaries got published (The New York Times)