Autumn Reads 2026
The most anticipated releases of the season — big literary comebacks, thrillers and one very awaited fantasy.
American Hagwon
Min Jin Lee
A maximalist novel of the Korean diaspora that stretches from Seoul to Sydney to Southern California, tracing families who stake everything on education in the wake of the 1997 financial crisis.
A Court of Splintered Harmony
Sarah J. Maas
The long-awaited return to the Courts, where an uneasy peace splinters and old alliances are tested by a threat rising beyond the wall.
The Weight of Angels
John Boyne
A witty, melancholy act of literary resurrection, in which a forgotten writer is dragged back into the light by the people who once buried him.
Department of Fate
Rachel Maddow
Maddow turns her reporter's eye on the machinery of government power, telling the story of an agency whose quiet decisions shaped American life.
Crossing the Quiet
Barbara Kingsolver
Kingsolver returns to Appalachia with the story of a rural nurse holding together a town that the rest of the country has decided to stop looking at.
The Birthing Tree
Amanda Peters
From the author of a breakout debut comes a tender novel about a Mi'kmaw family, a stretch of forest they refuse to sell, and the child who returns to claim it.
The Long Drum
Marlon James
James delivers a ferocious, mythic novel of power and inheritance, told in voices that argue with each other across centuries.
The Borrowed Year
Yiyun Li
A spare, piercing novel about a translator who agrees to spend twelve months living someone else's life — and finds she prefers it.
The Lamplighter's Daughter
Louise Kennedy
A November novel of small-town Ireland, where a young woman's love affair collides with the loyalties her family cannot afford to break.
The Glass Innings
Chad Harbach
Fifteen years after his bestselling debut, Harbach returns with a campus-and-ambition novel about a data analyst who thinks he has solved human potential.
Summer Reads 2026
Beach-bag essentials — page-turners for long sunny days.
Land
Maggie O'Farrell
A sweeping historical novel set in 19th-century Ireland, following three generations of women bound to a windswept stretch of coast as famine, love and revolution reshape their world.
Whistler
Ann Patchett
When a long-lost brother reappears at a family reunion in the North Carolina mountains, decades of buried secrets begin to surface. A literary, absorbing portrait of siblings learning to forgive.
Cool Machine
Colson Whitehead
Whitehead's latest is a high-voltage caper set in 1970s New York, where a jukebox engineer with a sideline in stolen art gets pulled into the heist of his life.
The Shampoo Effect
Jenny Jackson
From the author of Pineapple Street, a sparkling satire of a Manhattan beauty heiress whose family empire — and personal life — start to unravel one summer in the Hamptons.
Big Little Truths
Liane Moriarty
The Big Little Lies author returns with a propulsive beach thriller about four women whose perfect coastal book club hides a deadly secret.
The Children
Melissa Albert
A dark, atmospheric page-turner about a woman who returns to the eerie summer camp where, twenty years ago, three children vanished — and where someone clearly remembers her.
Villa Coco
Andrew Sean Greer
A Tuscan coming-of-age story from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less. One impossible summer at a crumbling villa changes the lives of three young Americans forever.
Sunrise
Téa Obreht
From the author of The Tiger's Wife, a hypnotic novel set across a single summer night on the Adriatic coast, where myth, memory and the sea collide.
The Missed Connection
Tia Williams
A romance with depth: two strangers who almost met on a Brooklyn subway platform fifteen years ago finally find each other one impossibly hot summer in New York.
It Could Have Been Her
Lisa Jewell
A twisty poolside thriller about two women who swap houses for a summer in the south of France — until one of them disappears, and the other realizes she was never meant to come home.
Top 10 Popular Books in 2026
American Hagwon
Min Jin Lee
A maximalist novel of the Korean diaspora that stretches from Seoul to Sydney to Southern California, tracing families who stake everything on education in the wake of the 1997 financial crisis.
Land
Maggie O'Farrell
A sweeping historical novel set in 19th-century Ireland, following three generations of women bound to a windswept stretch of coast as famine, love and revolution reshape their world.
My Husband's Wife
Alice Feeney
Eden Fox returns home after a run to find her key doesn't fit, a woman eerily similar to her answers the door, and her husband insists the stranger is his wife. A tangled web of deception, obsession, and mystery from the NYT bestselling Queen of Twists.
A Court of Splintered Harmony
Sarah J. Maas
The long-awaited return to the Courts, where an uneasy peace splinters and old alliances are tested by a threat rising beyond the wall.
Big Little Truths
Liane Moriarty
The Big Little Lies author returns with a propulsive beach thriller about four women whose perfect coastal book club hides a deadly secret.
Dear Debbie
Freida McFadden
Debbie Mullen, an advice columnist for wives across New England, loses her job and discovers her husband is keeping secrets. She's done being reasonable — now it's time for payback against everyone who deserves it. A biting, subversive thriller from the author of The Housemaid.
It Could Have Been Her
Lisa Jewell
A twisty poolside thriller about two women who swap houses for a summer in the south of France — until one of them disappears, and the other realizes she was never meant to come home.
Whistler
Ann Patchett
When a long-lost brother reappears at a family reunion in the North Carolina mountains, decades of buried secrets begin to surface. A literary, absorbing portrait of siblings learning to forgive.
Cool Machine
Colson Whitehead
Whitehead's latest is a high-voltage caper set in 1970s New York, where a jukebox engineer with a sideline in stolen art gets pulled into the heist of his life.
Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy
From the bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died comes a startlingly perceptive novel about Waldo, a yearning seventeen-year-old who becomes obsessed with her creative writing teacher. A rich character study of desire, loneliness, and the lengths we'll go to be seen.
Best Sellers
American Hagwon
Min Jin Lee
A maximalist novel of the Korean diaspora that stretches from Seoul to Sydney to Southern California, tracing families who stake everything on education in the wake of the 1997 financial crisis.
Land
Maggie O'Farrell
A sweeping historical novel set in 19th-century Ireland, following three generations of women bound to a windswept stretch of coast as famine, love and revolution reshape their world.
My Husband's Wife
Alice Feeney
Eden Fox returns home after a run to find her key doesn't fit, a woman eerily similar to her answers the door, and her husband insists the stranger is his wife. A tangled web of deception, obsession, and mystery from the NYT bestselling Queen of Twists.
One Piece, Vol. 1
Eiichiro Oda
The beginning of the epic pirate adventure following Monkey D. Luffy's quest to become King of the Pirates.
A Court of Splintered Harmony
Sarah J. Maas
The long-awaited return to the Courts, where an uneasy peace splinters and old alliances are tested by a threat rising beyond the wall.
Latest Releases
A Court of Splintered Harmony
Sarah J. Maas
The long-awaited return to the Courts, where an uneasy peace splinters and old alliances are tested by a threat rising beyond the wall.
American Hagwon
Min Jin Lee
A maximalist novel of the Korean diaspora that stretches from Seoul to Sydney to Southern California, tracing families who stake everything on education in the wake of the 1997 financial crisis.
Anatomy of an Alibi
Ashley Elston
Two women, one dead husband, and only one alibi. Camille believes her husband Ben hides dirty secrets, and Aubrey is convinced Ben knows about the night that ruined her life. They hatch a twelve-hour plan to swap places — but when Ben is found murdered, everything unravels.
Big Little Truths
Liane Moriarty
The Big Little Lies author returns with a propulsive beach thriller about four women whose perfect coastal book club hides a deadly secret.
Cool Machine
Colson Whitehead
Whitehead's latest is a high-voltage caper set in 1970s New York, where a jukebox engineer with a sideline in stolen art gets pulled into the heist of his life.
Top Rated
Maus
Art Spiegelman
A Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel depicting the Holocaust through the author's father's experiences.
American Hagwon
Min Jin Lee
A maximalist novel of the Korean diaspora that stretches from Seoul to Sydney to Southern California, tracing families who stake everything on education in the wake of the 1997 financial crisis.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Tiny changes, remarkable results. A practical guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones.
Attack on Titan, Vol. 1
Hajime Isayama
Humanity fights for survival against giant man-eating Titans behind massive walls in this dark fantasy.
Educated
Tara Westover
Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when her father became more radical and abusive. Despite never attending school, Tara taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to gain admission to Brigham Young University. Her quest for knowledge would transform her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University, but her remarkable education came at a terrible cost.
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