Summer Reading, 2026

Updated April 27, 2026
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A bad, bad place
Crawford, Frances.
Paper Book
Don't miss the debut crime thriller of 2026 - perfect for fans of The List of Suspicious Things. A murder mystery unlike any other... 'Clever, honest, heart-rending.' VAL MCDERMID 'Richly authentic, funny, moving and insightful.' JANICE HALLETT ...
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. ...
Cold zero : a thriller
Thor, Brad
Paper Book
From #1New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor and USA TODAY bestselling author Ward Larsen, comes a heart-pounding thriller of survival, espionage, and global brinkmanship, where the frozen Arctic becomes the deadliest battlefield on Earth. A vanished...
A deadly episode
Horowitz, Anthony.
Paper Book
From the globally bestselling author of Close to Death comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series. 'Easily the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times 'Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz<...
Dear Debbie
Mcfadden, Freida
Paper Book
A brand new twisted thriller that will have you cheering "good for her!" from the #1 New York Times bestselling and global sensation Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid! Sometimes, enough is enough... Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years,...
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...
The Everlasting
Harrow, Alix E.
Paper Book
From Alix E. Harrow, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest.A legend. A lie. A love story.A lady-knight whose legend built a nation meets a retiring historian in awe of her fame. He's sent back...
A far-flung life
Stedman, m L.
Paper Book
Western Australia, 1958- here, for generations, the MacBrides have lived on a remote sheep station, Meredith Downs. A million acres, it's an ocean of arid land. One ordinary day, on a lonely road, patriarch Phil MacBride swerves to avoid a kangaroo. In seconds, the lives of his entire...
Feeding the machine : the hidden human labour powering AI
Muldoon, James
Paper Book
The first book to tell the stories of the army of underpaid and exploited workers powering artificial intelligence, Feeding the Machine tells the story of a global technology through the eyes of the people who produce it
Is a river alive?
Macfarlane, Robert
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SHERBORNE PRIZE FOR TRAVEL WRITING 2026 ...
Japanese Gothic: The All-New Haunted House Samurai Horror From Sunday Times Bestselling Author Of Bat Eater!
Baker, Kylie Lee.
Paper Book
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...
Kin
Jones, Tayari.
Paper Book
Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I'm always hoping to find- smart and funny. ANN PATCHETT A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage-a novel that sparkles with wit, intelligence...
London Falling : A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City, and a Family's Search for Truth
Keefe, Patrick Radden
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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...
Marble hall murders
Horowitz, Anthony
Paper Book
From bestselling author, Anthony Horowitz, a new novel in the bestselling Magpie Murders series in which editor, Susan Ryeland, uncovers the clues in an Atticus Pund mystery to solve a murder. 'A masterclass in mystery writing' Ragnar Jónasson 'Expect plenty of...
MIDNIGHT TRAIN
HAIG, MATT.
Paper Book
When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?
Monsters in the Archives : My Year of Fear with Stephen King
Bicks, Caroline
Paper Book
A fascinating, first of its kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King - all conducted by the first scholar to be given extended access to his private archives. After Caroline Bicks was named the...
Mood machine : the rise of Spotify and the cost of the perfect playlist
Pelly, Liz
Paper Book
Morsel
Keane, Carter
Paper Book
Carter Keane's Morsel is a delicious folk horror debut about learning to bite back when the world is determined to eat you alive. Lou did what the children of parents with backbreaking, poorly paying jobs are supposed to do: pulled up her bootstraps, went to college,...
My Husband's Wife
Feeney, Alice.
Paper Book
GLOBAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE SALES ACROSS ALICE'S 7 NOVELS IS ABOUT TO SURPRASS 4 MILLION COPIESHIS & HERS Netflix show now #1 in 80 COUNTRIES (as of 14th January 2026)The Sunday Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ugly is back with a psychological masterpiece that will...
People we meet on vacation
Henry, Emily
Paper Book
NOW A NETFLIX FILM! * From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Funny Story comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall...
Queen of Faces
Lord, Petra.
Paper Book
An epic and unforgettable fantasy adventure from a phenomenal new voice - NOW AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A work of wild imagination, this is an outstanding debut' Juno Dawson, Sunday Times bestselling author of Her Majesty's Royal Coven 'If you want to be...
Small things like these
Keegan, Claire
Paper Book
**OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2024** **NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK 2024** NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY A New York Times Bestseller * Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize * Winner of the Orwell Prize for...
So Old, So Young
Ginder, Grant
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Most Anticipated Novel of 2026 by Time, Town & Country, Bustle, and Zibby Media * A Best New Book by People, New York Post, Library Journal, and BookBub * February Book Club Pick by Good...
Vigil
Saunders, George
Paper Book
Pre-order the latest book from the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo - a playful, wise, electric novel taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO, in the twilight hours of his life, as he is ferried from this world into the next 'He will be read...
Yesteryear
Burke, Caro Claire
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS BOOK' BELLA MACKIE 'NIGHTMARISH, SHOCKING, BRILLIANT' STYLIST 'MADDENING, MESMERISING, INGENIOUS' NEW YORK TIMES 'INTELLIGENT, INCISIVE, INSANELY READABLE' JENNIE GODFREY 'DERANGED,...
You with the Sad Eyes: ; A Memoir
Applegate, Christina.
Paper Book

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