Anticipated Reads of Spring 2026

Updated April 24, 2026
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Anticipated Reads of Spring 2026

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26 Beauties
Patterson, James.
Paper Book
The twenty-sixth thrilling novel in the globally bestselling Women's Murder Club series. ______________________________________________________ Beautiful young women are disappearing by the dozen. A celebration is cut short when a...
American fantasy
Straub, Emma
Paper Book
Annie is: On a cruise with her one-time favourite boyband and a thousand female super-fans Still reeling from her divorce Being replaced at work by her intern Keith is: Fifty years old and in a band that...
The calamity club
Stockett, Kathryn
Paper Book
'Smart, funny, and driven by unforgettable characters ... a must-read' Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry 'With exquisite storytelling and unforgettable characters, The Calamity Club is a joyful, heartbreaking, heartwarming read. I loved it so much'...
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
Kendi, Ibram X
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The acclaimed author of How to Be an Antiracist and the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning charts how "great replacement theory" has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age. ...
Cherry Baby
Rowell, Rainbow.
Paper Book
Pre-order the big-hearted, grown-up new novel about love and second chances from million-copy international bestselling author Rainbow Rowell Praise for Rainbow Rowell: 'Extraordinary humour and tenderness' Curtis Sittenfeld ...
The divorce
McFadden, Freida
Paper Book
The Ending Writes Itself
Clarke, Evelyn.
Paper Book
The instant Sunday Times bestseller! 'My favourite book I've read this year' Reader review 'Definitely a book that lives up to the hype' Reader review 'An absolute cracker of a book. Perfectly plotted' Reader review 'Absolutely worth the time it will take you to...
The Final Target
Roberts, Nora.
Paper Book
Go Gentle
Semple, Maria.
Paper Book
Hope Rises
Baldacci, David
Paper Book
Walter Nash began a journey down a dark path of seemingly no return, and now he  finds himself questioning everything that got him there in this thrilling sequel to Nash Falls from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. ...
Japanese Gothic: The All-New Haunted House Samurai Horror From Sunday Times Bestselling Author Of Bat Eater!
Baker, Kylie Lee.
Paper Book
Joyful, anyway : finding delight in impossible times.
Bowler, Kate
Paper Book
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and Duke University professor Kate Bowler offers a profound, funny and deeply human case for joy that doesn't depend on everything getting better. 'Bowler interrogates the idea...
Judge Stone
Patterson, James.
Paper Book
An extraordinary new courtroom drama from Sunday Times bestselling thriller author James Patterson and Academy Award winner Viola Davis. Get ready to meet the most unforgettable character in years. All rise...for Judge Stone. The most...
The keeper
French, Tana
Paper Book
The gripping new mystery from the million-copy-bestselling author of In the Woods and The Hunter, perfect for fans of Jane Harper and Chris Whitaker. 'Crime fiction's biggest contemporary star' Guardian 'A masterpiece' Liz Nugent, bestselling...
The land and its people
Sedaris, David.
Paper Book
The last mandarin
Penny, Louise.
Paper Book
London Falling : A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City, and a Family's Search for Truth
Keefe, Patrick Radden
Paper Book
In 2019, teenager Zac Brettler mysteriously fell to his death from a luxury apartment balcony into the Thames. As his grieving parents began to investigate his final days, they were shocked to learn that he'd been leading a double life, in which he was posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch...
Mad Mabel
Hepworth, Sally
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate and Darling Girls comes the story of Mad Mabel. They called it murder. She called it justice.In 1959, at just fifteen years of age, Mabel Waller became the youngest Australian in history to be convicted of...
MIDNIGHT TRAIN
HAIG, MATT.
Paper Book
When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?
Our perfect storm
Fortune, Carley
Paper Book
Pre-order the breathtaking new novel from #1 New York Times and international bestseller Carley Fortune. 'Our Perfect Storm is a dream of a love story: breathtakingly romantic, sizzling with chemistry and set in a stunningly...
Paradox
Preston, Douglas.
Paper Book
The new powerhouse team of Douglas Preston & Aletheia Preston are joining together to "enter the world" of the New York Times bestselling Extinction. One of the holiest relics in Christendom, inexplicably defaced... A paranoid old...
Platform Decay
Wells, Martha.
Paper Book
Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know.Including human children. Ugh.This may well call for... eye contact!...
Rites of the starling
Perry, Devney
Paper Book
The epic, heart-pounding sequel to Devney Perry's #1 New York Times bestselling SHIELD OF SPARROWS. A princess journeys across a cursed realm to find the truth about her family, only to discover her quest intertwines with the fate of a lost warrior. Love, danger, and magic...
Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency
Garber, Megan
Paper Book
An eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing entertainment--and how we can fight back, from the popular and award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic. Whether it's our reality-television...
This story might save your life
Crum, Tiffany
Paper Book
We burned so bright
Klune, TJ
Paper Book
We Burned So Bright is the heartfelt, queer, road trip of a novel from TJ Klune, the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Cerulean Chronicles and The Bones Beneath My SkinHusbands Don and Rodney have lived a good, long life. Together, they've experienced the highest...
Yesteryear
Burke, Caro Claire
Paper Book
'EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS BOOK' BELLA MACKIE 'NIGHTMARISH, SHOCKING, BRILLIANT' STYLIST 'THE BOOK THAT WILL BE EVERYWHERE' INDEPENDENT 'INTELLIGENT, INCISIVE, INSANELY READABLE' JENNIE GODFREY 'BOLD, BITING. WILL LEAVE YOU GASPING' NITA PROSE ...
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