Kristina's Reads of 2026

A mixture of new books, older books and re-reading classics for 2026. Check back for more.

Updated June 19, 2026
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Shutter Island
Lehane, Dennis.
Paper Book
A female patient has escaped from a Massachusetts mental institition, leaving behind encoded clues about mind control, eugenics and CIA drug trials. The investigating officers fear that they have stumbled into something far more dangerous than the usual missing person scenario.
Parable of the talents
Butler, Octavia E.
Paper Book
From a celebrated author, the thrilling sequel to The Parable of the Sower--a cautionary novel ahead of its time, perfect for fans of The Broken Earth trilogy. In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction and ruin of everything she knew. Her peaceful community...
Margo's got money troubles : a novel
Thorpe, Rufi
Paper Book
Now a series from A24 & Apple TV+ starring Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer, & Nick Offerman! "Margo's Got Money Troubles is the feel-good novel we need right now." --The Washington Post "[An] enormously entertaining and lovable book." -...
Heart the lover
King, Lily
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret' DAVID NICHOLLS'Steeped in yearning, melancholy and the reckoning with mortality that must come to us all . . . King's writing still pierces you' The Times'Exploring how first love shapes a...
Heartwood
Gaige, Amity
Paper Book
"Heartwood will keep you guessing the whole way through. I didn't want it to end." --Liz Moore "The best thriller of 2025." --The Boston Globe * "Genius." --The Washington Post "A literary thriller of the highest order" (Elin...
Nobody's Girl
Giuffre, Virginia Roberts
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The unforgettable memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who dared to take on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell "Make no mistake: this is a book about power, corruption, industrial-scale sex abuse and the way in which...
Say you'll remember me
Jimenez, Abby
Paper Book
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller! "No one does funny, emotional, life-affirming love stories quite like Abby Jimenez. She just keeps outdoing herself." ―Emily Henry There's no such thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier...
Pride and prejudice
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
A beautiful, display-worthy collector's hardcover of one of the most beloved novels ever written, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics...
The wedding people : a novel
Espach, Alison
Paper Book
The runaway New York Times bestseller with over one million copies sold A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick, New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and a #1 Indie Next Pick Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Time,...
Emma
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage-now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Now a major motion picture starring Anya Taylor-Joy Beautiful, clever, rich-and single-Emma Woodhouse is perfectly...
Whistler
Patchett, Ann.
Paper Book
THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NEW NOVEL FROM THE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE DUTCH HOUSE AND TOM LAKE 'Few writers are more adept than Patchett at delineating the collisions between present and past' Observer 'Whistler...
Wuthering heights
Bronte?, Emily
Paper Book
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before- of the intense passion between the foundling...
The night guest
Hildur Knútsdóttir
Paper Book
Dark things can happen on a long, cold Icelandic night... Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, but physicians dismiss her symptoms and blood tests don't reveal any cause. When she talks to...

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