Cost up your kindle and get your bookmarks prepared, buddies. 2026 goes to be a BIG 12 months for books! With new releases from our all-time favourite authors, buzz-worthy books from new-to-us authors and — okay superb — just a few model spankin’ new picks we completely judged by their covers. Listed below are our high picks so as to add to your studying checklist for 2026. Let the countdown to publication day start!
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Publication date: March 24
A buddies to lovers trope from one in every of our favourite romance authors, Carley Fortune. You might know her from Each Summer season After or One Golden Summer season – each 5 star reads for us!
Publication date: Might 5
Nobody does summer time romance fairly like Katherine Middle. The Shippers is a swoony pretend courting, buddies to lovers learn – on a cruise ship. All aboard!
Publication date: Might 19
Single mother Dolly returns to her seaside hometown and agrees to a fake-dating association with rich Stewart Whitfield—however as their staged romance results in actual moments and sudden emotions, Dolly should resolve if she’s able to let somebody in.
Publication date: Might 26
Newly engaged physician Billie’s fastidiously constructed life is upended when her old flame calls with life-changing information, forcing her to return house and confront the previous, her selections, and what she actually needs.
Publication date: July 7
From the bestselling authors of The Paradise Downside and The Unhoneymooners return with an unforgettable novel. After a tragic accident erases her marriage from her husband’s reminiscence, pushed scientist Emery Finch breaks each rule to convey him again—giving their love one extraordinary second probability.
Publication date: July 14
The Storm by Rachel Hawkins
St. Medard’s Bay is legendary for its hurricanes, the enduring Rosalie Inn, and Lo Bailey, accused of killing her lover throughout a 1984 storm. When a true-crime author arrives with Lo in tow, inn proprietor Geneva Corliss is drawn into outdated secrets and techniques—and as one other hurricane looms, she learns some truths are as lethal because the storms themselves.
Publication date: January 6
“Laura Dave continues Hannah Corridor’s pulse-pounding journey within the riveting and deeply shifting sequel to the bestselling e-book and TV present, The Final Factor He Advised Me.“
Publication date: January 6
The Queen of Twists is again with a psychological masterpiece that can go away you questioning the whole lot you understand about love, id, and revenge.
“Nonstop thrills! The very best Feeney e-book but!” ―FREIDA MCFADDEN
“Propulsive, compulsive, addictive.” ―LISA JEWELL
Publication date: January 20
Recommendation columnist Debbie Mullen has spent years serving to different ladies survive unhealthy marriages—till her personal life falls aside. Fired, suspicious of her husband, and pushed previous her restrict, Debbie decides it’s time to take her personal recommendation and search payback. From Freida McFadden comes a darkish, subversive thriller about what occurs when justice turns lethal.
Publication date: January 27
Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
When a brand new little woman (talkative, curious, nosy) strikes into the neighborhood and stops at nothing to befriend Elsie, her carefully-constructed life threatens to come back crashing down because the secrets and techniques in Elsie’s previous begin coming to gentle.
Publication date: April 21
Jane Trevally is strolling her canine on her nation property one Might afternoon when a small white canine seems. The teenaged woman that had been staying close by with the canine is nowhere to be discovered, and Jane decides to return it to his registered proprietor hours away in London, within the deepest backwaters of Hampstead. However when Jane arrives, she is straight away unsettled—as a result of she has a darkish historical past with this home.
Publication date: June 23
Good for followers of Daisy Jones and the Six and In 5 Years—a stupendous, highly effective, and transportive new novel a few music government desperately making an attempt to convey a rock band again from the brink, from bestselling creator Ashley Winstead.
Publication date: January 20
This Is Not About Us is a narrative of rising up and rising outdated, the burden of parental expectations, and the advanced connection between sisters—a big-hearted e-book concerning the love that binds a household throughout generations.
Publication date: February 10
Pulitzer Prize–profitable creator Elizabeth Strout’s new novel follows an opportunity incident that transforms a beloved trainer’s life, exploring loneliness, friendship, parenthood, and fact in an unsure world.
Publication date: Might 5
June Child by Shannon Garvey
Each a heartfelt coming-of-age story and a young exploration of affection and grief, set in opposition to a backdrop of golden dunes and seaside sunsets, June Child exhibits us what it’d seem like to embrace a life formed not by loss, however by chance.
Publication date: Might 19
Whistler by Ann Patchett
Whistler is a narrative about two adults trying again over the alternatives they made, and the alternatives that have been made for them. It’s a narrative about bravery, reminiscence, the customarily small but consequential moments that outline our lives, and the limitless stream of loss that in time comes for us all.
Publication date: June 2
From the creator of The Brilliant Years, the story of April and Leo, a pair getting ready to collapse. When their home goes up in flames, household secrets and techniques and thorny histories emerge as they’re pressured to resolve what’s value salvaging.
Publication date: June 16
“They have been an unlikely pair—a blond bombshell and a photographer decided to be taken significantly—however Marilyn Monroe and Eve Arnold would make a deal that may change their lives on this dazzling new novel”
Publication date: January 20
On this new novel from the New York Instances bestselling creator of The Home of Eve, one American lady’s imaginative and prescient in put up WWII Germany will tie collectively three folks in an sudden approach.
Publication date: February 10
From the creator of the acclaimed bestseller The Gentle Between Oceans comes a panoramic and epic novel set within the huge outback of Australia—about tragedy, household secrets and techniques, and the enduring energy of affection.
Publication date: March 3
When Skye MacKinnon wins a lottery to purchase a run-down Greek island cottage for one euro, she escapes England in quest of a recent begin. As she renovates her new house and bonds with fellow lottery winners, Skye uncovers mysterious letters that reveal the island’s WWII previous—and discovers the therapeutic energy of connection, love, and located household.
Publication date: March 17
The multimillion-copy-selling creator of The Assist returns with a daring, big-hearted novel a few group of unbreakable ladies, combating for what’s rightfully theirs—and the facility of friendship to alter the whole lot.
“A must-read.”—Bonnie Garmus, creator of Classes in Chemistry
Publication date: Might 5
Land by Maggie O’Farrel
Set in put up–Nice Starvation Eire, Tomás and his younger son Liam map a windswept peninsula for the Ordnance Survey. When a mysterious encounter derails their work, Tomás begins to unravel, leaving ten-year-old Liam to confront his father’s secrets and techniques and discover a option to convey them each house.
Publication date: June 2