2026 in books

Follow My Voice

Ariana Godoy • 2025

House of Hollow

Krystal Sutherland • 2022

Rules for Rule Breaking

Talia Tucker • 2024

Gods of Jade and Shadow

Silvia Moreno-Garcia • 2020

The Last Tiger

Julia Riew • 2025

Voice of the Ocean

Kelsey Impicciche • 2025

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Kelly Barnhill • 2019

AGATHA ODDLY SERIES 3 BOOKS COLLECTION.

LENA. JONES • 2020

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

Silvia Moreno-Garcia • 2022

Girls Who Play Dead

Joelle Wellington • 2025

Diary Of A Murderer

Kim Young-ha • unde

Sisters of the War

Rania Abouzeid • 2022

Stalking Jack the Ripper

Kerri Maniscalco • 2016

Love from A to Z

S. K. Ali • 2019

Jade City

Fonda Lee • 2018

Break Room

Miye Lee • 2025

The Secret History

Donna Tartt • 2004

<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>

Kill Creatures

Rory Power • 2025

Beasts of a Little Land

Juhea Kim • 2021

Picking Peaches

Ansley B. Calloway • 2023

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

Ashley Winstead • 2021

Dating & Dragons

Kristy Boyce • 2025

Dungeons & Drama

Kristy Boyce • 2025

Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Coco Mellors • 2022

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar • 2020

All the Lovers in the Night

Mieko Kawakami • 2022

Masters of Death A Novel

Olivie Blake • 2023

A Novel Love Story

Ashley Poston • 2024

Legends & Lattes

Travis Baldree • 2022

Hotel Magnifique

Emily J. Taylor • 2022

Weyward

Emilia Hart • 2023

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

Grady Hendrix • 2021

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches A romantic cozy fantasy

Sangu Mandanna • 2022

<b>“This is one of my coziest reads of the last year, and I find myself thinking about its enchanted setting all the time.”−Emily Henry, #1<i> New York Times </i>bestselling author</b><br><b><br><i>USA TODAY </i>BESTSELLER • A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family—and a new love—changes the course of her life.</b><br><br>As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she’s used to being alone and she follows the rules...with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos "pretending" to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously.<br><br>But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and…Jamie. The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he’s concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. An irritatingly appealing threat.<br><br>As Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House, the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility. But magic isn't the only danger in the world, and when peril comes knocking at their door, Mika will need to decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn’t know she was looking for....

Out on a Limb

Hannah Bonam-Young • 2023

Writers & Lovers

Lily King • 2020

Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll • 2023

The Maidens

Alex Michaelides • 2021

Dance of Thieves

Mary E. Pearson • 2018

To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo • 2018

The Lonely Hearts Book Club

Lucy Gilmore • 2023

The House Witch

Delemhach • 2022

Hell Bent

Leigh Bardugo • 2023

These Violent Delights

Chloe Gong • 2020

The Thursday Murder Club

Richard Osman • 2021

The Winter of the Witch

Katherine Arden • 2019

The Sad Ghost Club

Lize Meddings • 2021

Truly Devious

Maureen Johnson • 2018

The Paper Daughters of Chinatown

Heather B. Moore • 2021

The Herbwitch's Apprentice

Ireen Chau • 2022

She Who Became the Sun Sneak Peek

Shelley Parker-Chan • 2021

The Honey Witch

Sydney J. Shields • 2024

Wings of Starlight

Allison Saft • 2025

Six Crimson Cranes

Elizabeth Lim • 2021

The Bear and the Nightingale

Katherine Arden • 2017

Draw Down the Moon

P. C. Cast • 2024

The Red Palace

June Hur • 2022

A Magic Steeped in Poison

Judy I. Lin • 2022

I Ran Away to Evil

Mystic Neptune • 2024

The Origin of Storms

Elizabeth Bear • 2023

The Forty Rules of Love

Elif Shafak • 2011

The Bone Witch

Rin Chupeco • 2017

Fallen Stars

Imani Erriu • 2022

The Second Death of Locke

V. L. Bovalino • 2026

Foxglove

Adalyn Grace • 2023

All This Twisted Glory

Tahereh Mafi • 2024

This Woven Kingdom

Tahereh Mafi • 2022

These Infinite Threads

Tahereh Mafi • 2023

Curse of Death

ELLIE. OWEN • 2025

Dragonfall

L. R. Lam • 2023

Alchemised

SenLinYu • 2025

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V. E. Schwab • 2023

We Free the Stars

Hafsah Faizal • 2022

We Hunt the Flame

Hafsah Faizal • 2019

Babel

R. F. Kuang • 2022

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War   “Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide… Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?

Katabasis

R.F. Kuang • 2025

Wisteria

Adalyn Grace • 2024

Bloodmarked

Tracy Deonn • 2022

Belladonna

Adalyn Grace • 2022

A Tempest of Tea

Hafsah Faizal • 2024

The Jasad Crown

Sara Hashem • 2025

Ruthless Vows

Rebecca Ross • 2024

The Ex Hex

Erin Sterling • 2021

Divine Rivals

Rebecca Ross • 2023

Heated Rivalry

Rachel Reid • 2024

One Dark Window

Rachel Gillig • 2022