Fiction
Ayad Akhtar, The Radiance (Sept.)
Sarah Addison Allen, Paper Ghosts (Sept.)
Naomi Alderman, The Strangers (Sept.)
Meg Anderson, The Memory of Borrowed Books (Oct.)
Jeffrey Archer, Adam and Eve (Oct.)
Kate Atkinson, Our Noble Selves (Sept.)
Sebastian Barry, The Newer World (Sept.)
Natalie Baszile, Friends and Family (Oct.)
Chloe Benjamin, Under Story (Sept.)
Rebecca Birrell, Venus Vanishing (Oct.)
John Boyne, The Weight of Angels (Sept.)
Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Spirits (Oct.)
Joanna Cannon, An Unlikely Visitor (Oct.)
Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie Is Working on It (Sept.)
Elizabeth Castellano, Proof of Progress (Sept.)
Susanna Clarke, The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City (Oct.)
Emma Cline, Switzy (Sept.)
Susan Coll, Word Salad (Sept.)
Philippe Collin, The Barman of the Ritz (Sept.)
Fiona Davis, Samantha: The Next Chapter (Oct.)
Patrick DeWitt, Dodge City (Sept.)
Hernan Diaz, Ply (Sept.)
Emily Dunlay, The Library of Leaving (Sept.)
Alysandra Dutton, The Stolen Women (Oct.)
Richard Paul Evans, Mercy's Child (Oct.)
Bonnie Garmus, Peck & Peck (Oct.)
Jane Green, The Many Private Lives of Missy Cooke (Sept.)
John Green, Hollywood, Ending (Sept.)
Philippa Gregory, Royal Witch (Oct.)
Chad Harbach, The Brightness (Oct.)
Joanne Harris, Sleepers in the Snow (Oct.)
Robert Harris, Agrippa (Sept.)
Kristy Woodson Harvey, Falling for Peachtree Bluff (Sept.)
Carsten Henn, The Story Baker (Oct.)
Kristan Higgins, The Me I Used to Be (Sept.)
Elin Hilderbrand, The Thoroughbreds (Sept.)
Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge (Sept.)
Silas House, The Tulip Poplars (Oct.)
Meg Howrey, Body Language (Sept.)
Marlon James, The Disappearers (Sept.)
Daisy Johnson, The Long Wave (Oct.)
Julia Kelly, The Queen of Roses (Oct.)
Laleh Khadivi, Female Life on Planet Earth (Sept.)
Barbara Kingsolver, Partita (Oct.)
Elizabeth Kostova, Mystery Play (Oct.)
R.F. Kuang, Taipei Story (Sept.)
Ariel Lawhon, The Pirate Queen (Sept.)
Min Jin Lee, American Hagwon (Sept.)
Yiyun Li, Music Against the Night (Oct.)
Will Maclean, Solace House (Oct.)
Emily St John Mandel, Exit Party (Sept.)
Madeline Martin, A Time of Witches (Sept.)
Meg Mason, Sophie Standing There (Sept.)
Imbolo Mbue, Every Story Is a Love Story (Oct.)
Eli McCann, Stitched (Sept.)
Madeline Miller, Mestra (Sept.)
Lydia Millet, Fair Ones (Oct.)
Tomas Moniz, The King of Aloe Vera (Oct.)
Sarah Morgan, Best Christmas Ever (Oct.)
Heather Morris, The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse (Oct.)
Louise Nealon, Everything That Is Beautiful (Sept.)
Audrey Niffenegger, Life Out of Order (Oct.)
Julie Orringer, Luna, Phoenix, Queen (Oct.)
Amanda Peters, The Birthing Tree (Sept.)
Deesha Philyaw, The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman (Sept.)
Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones (Sept.)
Christine Pride & Jo Piazza, I Never Knew You at All (Oct.)
Katherine Reay, The Undercover Bookshop (Oct.)
Wade Rouse, The Bluff (Oct.)
Jim Shepard, The Queen of Bad Influences (Sept.)
Danielle Steel, Ruthless (Sept.)
Neal Stephenson, D: Heavy Water (Oct.)
Nancy Thayer, Nantucket Christmas Stroll (Sept.)
Nafissa Thompson-Spires, The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford (Oct.)
Rose Tremain, The Housekeeper (Oct.)
Fiona Valpy, Sisters of the Midnight Sun (Sept.)
Bo Wang, The Chinese Lady (Sept.)
Kawai Strong Washburn, Names of the New World (Oct.)
Helene Wecker, The Gates of Midnight (Sept.)
Elizabeth Wellington Rollins, The Three Graces of Pearl Street (Sept.)
William Young, Return to the Shack (Oct.)
Thrillers
Kelley Armstrong, Dive Bar at the End of the Road (Oct.)
Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat (Sept.)
Amber Blaeser-Wardzala, Another Name for Red (Oct.)
Allison Brennan, I'll Be Watching You (Sept.)
Lee Child, Chain Reaction (Oct.)
Tom Clancy's Pressure Depth (Sept.)
Lucy Clarke, You Let Me In (Oct.)
Mason Coile, Driven (Sept.)
S.A. Cosby, Truth to Power (Oct.)
Tananarive Due, Mazywood (Sept.)
Robert Dugoni, One Split Second (Sept.)
Kendra Elliot, Until She Dies (Sept.)
Jasper Fforde, Dark Reading Matter (Oct.)
Vince Flynn, Double Tap (Sept.)
Brian Freeman, Where the Road Ends (Oct.)
Seraphina Nova Glass, Old Ham (Oct.)
Stephen Graham Jones, Off the Reservation (Oct.)
John Grisham, The French Illusion (Sept.)
Elizabeth Hand, Unspeakable Things (Oct.)
Rachel Harrison, Kiss Slay Replay (Sept.)
Alex Hay, The Midnight Guests (Sept.)
Emiko Jean, Before You Were Anne (Sept.)
Alma Katsu, Incarnate (Sept.)
Stephen King & Peter Straub, Other Worlds Than These (Oct.)
Sarah Langan, Trad Wife (Oct.)
Josh Malerman, Pictures of You (Sept.)
Anna Maloney, The 10:12 (Oct.)
David McCloskey, London Station (Sept.)
Freida McFadden, The Witch (Oct.)
Nick Medina, Savage Lake (Oct.)
Alan Parks, Deception (Sept.)
MrBeast & James Patterson, The Most Dangerous Games (Sept.)
James Patterson, The Munich Affair (Sept.)
James Patterson, The Family Cross (Oct.)
James Patterson, The Girl in the Lake (Oct.)
Adam Plantinga, Dark Country (Oct.)
Jason Rekulak, Look What the Cat Dragged In (Oct.)
Jeneva Rose, Sometimes I Scare Myself (Sept.)
Hank Phillippi Ryan, Mother Daughter Sister Stranger (Sept.)
Jane Schoenbrun, Public Access Afterworld (Oct.)
Michael Wehunt, Nightjars (Oct.)
Loreth Anne White, The Black Orchid (Oct.)
Mathilda Zeller, It Looks Like You in the Dark (Oct.)
Mysteries
Ellery Adams, The Liars' Book Club (Oct.)
Rachel Louise Adams, Where There's Smoke (Oct.)
Jussi Adler-Olsen, No Song for the Dead (Sept.)
Ellie Alexander, Pumpkin Vice Café (Sept.)
Ellie Alexander, A Murder at Midnight (Oct.)
Tasha Alexander, Murder on the Sacred River (Sept.)
Donna Andrews, Jay to the World (Oct.)
Lorna Barrett, A Critical Conjunction (Sept.)
M.C. Beaton, Dead before Tea Time (Oct.)
James Benn, The Ninth Circle (Sept.)
SJ Bennett, Death on the Royal Yacht (Oct.)
Laurien Berenson, Peg and Rose Deck the Halls (Sept.)
Tamara Berry, The Claus Conspiracy (Oct.)
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2026 (Oct.)
Jessica Brody, How to Write a Murder (Sept.)
Colleen Cambridge, Death Down the Aisle (Oct.)
Laurie Cass, Murder on Thin Ice (Oct.)
Michelle Chouinard, A Map to Murder (Sept.)
Ann Cleeves, The Dying Light (Sept.)
Michael Connelly, The Hollow (Oct.)
Elle Cosimano, Home for the Homicides (Oct.)
Cleo Coyle, The Ghost and the Dead Librarian (Oct.)
Cleo Coyle, Eat, Drink, and Get Buried (Sept.)
Michelle Cullen, Field Guide to Death and Deceit (Sept.)
Jeanne Dams, A Thief's Folly (Sept.)
Vicki Delany, 'Tis the Season to Be Scary (Sept.)
Alex Erickson, Death by Red Velvet Latte (Oct.)
Lucy Foley, Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel (Sept.)
Felix Francis, The Chase (Sept.)
Mariah Fredericks, Murder on 34th Street (Oct.)
Dianne Freeman, A Christmas Guide to Family and Murder (Sept.)
Jacqueline Frost, Deck the Halls with Boughs of Murder (Oct.)
Daryl Wood Gerber, A Classic Case of Murder (Oct.)
Lee Goldberg, Split Screen (Oct.)
Carolyn Haines, Joy to the Bones (Oct.)
Keigo Higashino, Laplace's Witch (Oct.)
Lee Hollis, Death of a Grill Master (Sept.)
Eva Jurczyk, The Paris Files (Oct.)
Laurie R. King, Those Who Are Gone (Sept.)
Michael Koryta, Die Famous (Sept.)
Joe Lansdale, Petrified Dreams (Oct.)
Jess Lourey, The Crying Killer (Sept.)
Clare Mackintosh, It's Not What You Think (Sept.)
Alicia Malone, Murder at the Movies (Oct.)
Alexander McCall Smith, Big Cats Dance Party (Sept.)
Leslie Meier, Countdown to Christmas Murder (Sept.)
Margaret Mizushima, Fighting Edge (Sept.)
Walter Mosley, Hanging and Burning (Oct.)
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2026 (Sept.)
Carlene O'Connor, Bury the Wren (Oct.)
Richard Osman, We Chase Shadows (Sept.)
Cathy Pegau, A Deadly Entanglement (Sept.)
Louise Penny, Miss Wolcott's Ghost (Oct.)
Andrea Penrose, Murder on Threadneedle Street (Sept.)
Mindy Quigley, Murder in the Upper Crust (Oct.)
Vanessa Riley, Murder in St James Park (Sept.)
J.D. Robb, Fury in Death (Sept.)
David Rosenfelt, Bark Humbug (Oct.)
Tom Ryan, Return to Breakneck Island (Oct.)
Paige Shelton, The Bone Woman (Oct.)
Sherry Thomas, The Vanished Sister (Sept.)
Peter Tremayne, Blood on the Wind (Oct.)
Vikki VanSickle, The Mystic and the Missing Girl (Sept.)
John Verdon, Ghost Barn (Sept.)
Kate Westbury, Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies (Sept.)
KJ Whittle, A Reunion to Die For (Oct.)
Romance
Tessa Bailey, Broken Rival (Oct.)
Mary Balogh, A Waltz to Remember (Oct.)
Ashley Herring Blake, Take a Chance Sasha Sinclair (Oct.)
B.K. Borison, Grim Tidings (Oct.)
Amy Buchanan, The Best I Never Had (Sept.)
Melody Carlson, We Wish You a Messy Christmas (Oct.)
Ally Carter, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder (Oct.)
Liana de la Rosa, Mutual Discord (Sept.)
Elliot Fletcher, One for the Road (Sept.)
Pippa Grant, The Gossip and the Grump (Sept.)
Rachel Griffiths, Just for the Season (Sept.)
Shannon Hale, Christmas in Austenland (Sept.)
Ali Hazelwood, Bound and Unbound (Oct.)
Denise Hunter, Falling into Us (Oct.)
Abby Jimenez, A Married Little Christmas (Oct.)
Brittany Kelley, Keeping Score (Sept.)
Rina Kent, Deviant King (Sept.)
Lisa Kleypas, Queen of Lombard Street (Oct.)
Kat MacKenzie, Experiments in Offline Dating (Sept.)
Debbie Macomber, A Date with Santa (Oct.)
Fern Michaels, Blood Money (Oct.)
Fern Michaels, A Season of Secrets (Sept.)
Brenda Novak, A Hard Luck Christmas (Oct.)
Julie Olivia, Love Felt Like This (Sept.)
Stephanie Parente, Return to Sender (Sept.)
Rioghnach Robinson, Bad Words (Oct.)
Lyla Sage, Free Falling (Oct.)
Heidi Swain, All Wrapped Up (Sept.)
RaeAnne Thayne, Cozy Little Christmas (Oct.)
Lauren Willig, What Happens at Nightfall (Oct.)
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Becky Chambers, As You Wake, Break the Shell (Oct.)
Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon (Sept.)
Adalyn Grace, The Wretched Divine (Sept.)
Alix Harrow, Slantwise Histories (Oct.)
James Islington, Scion (Sept.)
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Splintered Harmony (Oct.)
Gregory Maguire, Galinda (Sept.)
Freya Marske, Bodies of Magic (Oct.)
Annalee Newitz, A Wall Is Also a Road (Oct.)
Garth Nix, Massif (Oct.)
Charlotte B. Plumb, Reap & Sow (Oct.)
Rebecca Roanhorse, Star Wars: Edge of the Abyss (Sept.)
V.E. Schwab, Victorious (Oct.)
Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Engines of Reason (Sept.)
Nghi Vo, The Scarlet Ball (Oct.)
Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day (Sept.)
