Proving that I don’t actually care about my never-really-shrinking-TBR-list are these upcoming 2026 releases that I intend to add to my bookshelf.
From authors I’ve read (and loved) before:
A Real Piece of Work by Freya Bromley
Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy
John of John by Douglas Stuart
Land by Maggie O’Farrell
Whistler by Ann Patchett
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
Departure(s): A Novel by Julian Barnes
I Love the Whole World! by Victoria Hannan
Brawler by Lauren Groff
For the superb covers alone…
Iluka by Cassie Stroud
Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami
Hovel by Ailsa Ross
Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash
The Ruiners by Ellena Savage
For something light/ funny/ thrilling:
The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke
Last Night in Brooklyn by Xóchitl González
Just Watch Me by Lior Torenberg
So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder
The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers
A Rising of the Lights by Steve Toltz
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
The Water Takes by Sarah Walker
Griefdogg by Michael Winkler
Nonfiction/ Memoir:
Unread by Oliver James
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Land and Its People by David Sedaris
Homeschooled: A Memoir by Stefan Merrill Block
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden
A World Appears by Michael Pollan
Look After Your Feet by Rosalie Ham
Famesick by Lena Dunham
Sirens by Martin McKenzie-Murray
Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt
What’s on your radar? What have I missed?
I will do an Aussie list on Monday, which is my tradition. So I won’t go there now, but there’s a lot on your list that appeals to me.
The two Aussies that I’m most looking forward to are the Victoria Hannan and the Martin McKenzie-Murray.
Yes, Sirens does sound interesting though I was thinking as I wrote it that it’s probably one of those that would really interest me but I’m unlikely to read.
Oh dear, I just scheduled it to publish on Saturday NOT Monday!! Oh well.
Definitely a lot to look forward to! I would have predicted you’d love the Iluka cover 🙂
A Husvedt memoir!
I’m also looking forward to O’Farrell’s, Patchett’s and Strout’s. I have a few more that I posted here: https://lesleysbooknook.blogspot.com/2025/11/coming-soon-in-2026.html I’ve already received and read the ARC of Stedman’s, which I thought was exceptionally good! A few popped up after I created my collage, but I’m too lazy to make a new one. Those missing are: Jane Harper’s Last One Out, Kathryn Stockett’s The Calamity Club, and Kate Quinn’s The Astral Library. Lots of good reading lined up for the year!
There’s a new Margaret Drabble memoir coming out, The Great Good Places, and I’ve got the new Ela Lee, Minbak, Cathy Kelly, The Island Retreat, Christie Barlow, No 17 Curiosity Lane, and Eva Glyn, The Croatian Island Library, which I’ve just finished, in NetGalley.
Oh, that reminds me, I really must finish The Radiant Way trilogy!!!
You just put a bunch of things on my radar. I don’t look ahead at what’s coming out, but now I’ll be waiting for some books.
I can’t really tell from titles alone, but the authors I like are Julian Barnes, Ann Patchett (but I haven’t read the one I’ve got on the TBR so…), and Steve Toltz (as long as it’s not sooo long). What I am definitely looking forward to is Amanda Curtin’s Six Days:)
Help, so much new stuff this year. Home-Schooled intrigued me, having done this, and I know quite a few others who have, including a family in Texas and my daughter’s own maths teacher in high school before we went our own way. I just read the Foyles list of fiction in translation for Jan-June – a reissue of Taipei People, some Korean sci-fi shorts translated by Anton Hur, Favorita (Michelle Steinbeck, Swiss German set in Italy) and The Old Fire (Elisa Shua Dusapin, French) plus Sisters in Yellow and more from Olga T – helpmabob as my Glaswegian grandma used to say.
Am looking forward to the Savage, the Dunham, and the Rosalie Ham I’d not heard of but will definitely be interested in that. Am always interested in Steve Toltz. And always, always Strout. I’m sure I read there’s a new George Saunders coming 2026? A new Karl Ove K? And a new Deborah Levy? (Although the last Levy or two I haven’t got on with…)
Six of these are on my upcoming Most Anticipated list! Thanks for the reminder about the Hustvedt. Interesting that Bromley has written a novel — I’d probably take a chance on that.