Midterm election news will be big this fall.

But fiction will probably sell more books.

Political books are not selling well now.

Nonfiction sales have gone down in recent years.

Analyst Kristen McLean says political books feel quiet.

People are "ranted out," she says.

Barnes & Noble's Shannon DeVito says the news changes too fast.

So specific political books do not catch on.

Former President Joe Biden wrote a book.

It is called "Promise Me, America."

It is a rare big political release.

Michael Lewis wrote "Blockers."

It may be as big as a summer bestseller.

Other political books look back at the Biden years.

Brett McGurk wrote "Brink."

Akbar Shahid Ahmed wrote "Crossing the Red Line."

Bob Woodward has a new book.

It is called "Secrets."

It looks at his own career, not today's politics.

Novelists Barbara Kingsolver and Hernan Diaz won a prize together three years ago.

Now they both have new books.

Kingsolver wrote "Partita."

Her last book was "Demon Copperhead."

Diaz wrote "Ply."

It is a story about a bad future.

Diaz says books are not a race.

More good books help the talk.

Fiction sales are strong.

New books by Rebecca Yarros and Sarah J. Maas help.

They write romantasy stories.

This season has memoirs too.

Sylvester Stallone wrote one.

Michael Douglas wrote one.

Dustin Hoffman wrote one.

Gloria Steinem and Colin Kaepernick write about their lives and their work.

Christopher Nolan made a film called "Odyssey."

It made old poetry sell more.

Emily Wilson has new essays.

Joy Harjo wrote "Cloud Runner."

It is about her daughter's death.

Other books look at democracy's fall in Germany in the 1930s.