New Adult Books February 2026

Updated February 1, 2026
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New Adult Books February 2026

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99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them
Alker, Ashely
An illuminating, hilarious, and practical guide to 99 of the most terrifying ways to die and how to avoid them from an emergency medicine doctor. Dr. Ashely Alker is a self-described death escapologist--or, in more familiar terms, an emergency medicine doctor. She has seen it...
The Bookbinder's Secret
Bell, A D
Every book tells a story. This one tells a secret. A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder. Lilian ("Lily") Delaney,...
The Elsewhere Express
Sotto Yambao, Samantha
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * When you lose your way in life, the Elsewhere Express just might find you. Step on board the train that may take you to your life's purpose in this wistful, Ghibli-esque fantasy from the bestselling author of Water Moon. This deluxe...
Football
Klosterman, Chuck
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Could this be the best book on football ever?" --Tyler Cowen "Another masterwork from one of our greatest minds." --Esquire "[An] essential playoff-season read." --People A hilarious but...
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
McConigley, Nina
A bold, inventive, and fiercely original debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece's private confession to the reader--she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British. "I have been waiting for Nina McConigley's debut novel for years and it's even better...
Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America
Bryant, Howard
"I loved this book.... I looked forward to [it] more than any other in a long time, and Howard Bryant exceeded my great expectations. Kings and Pawns is brilliantly conceived and powerfully written." -- David Maraniss, author of Path Lit by Lightning A path-breaking work of biography of...
The living and the dead : a novel about a crime
Carlsson, Christoffer
THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER One town. Two crimes. Twenty years of silence. A "brooding and brilliant" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) murder mystery set in a rural Swedish town, where one community's secrets will be laid bare over the...
Lost lambs : a novel
Cash, Madeline
National bestseller. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Vulture, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Playboy, The Times (UK), Our Culture, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Harper's Bazaar. Belletrist's January Book...
The Murder at World's End
Montgomery, Ross
Knives Out meets Downton Abbey! Secrets, murder, and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo--an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogenarian--hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world, in this locked-room mystery by #1 New York Times...
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Sancton, Julian
The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silver--and one man's obsessive quest to find it--from the New York Times bestselling author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth "Splendid...
The Rest of Our Lives
Markovits, Ben
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE "Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend as he navigates the road up ahead. A profoundly moving experience." --Ann Patchett "Deeply human...a...
This is where the serpent lives
Mueenuddin, Daniyal
A stunning new work from universally acclaimed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose debut short story collection won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE. NAMED A...
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