Coming Soon
Curious about what books will be released in the months ahead so you can pre-order or reserve them? Then click on the months below.
Please note we have not included every book that is coming out, but rather some that caught our eye --- and that we thought should catch yours as well.
Hardcover
Doubleday | 9780385552387 | Published September 1, 2026
Agrippa was a mere commoner, a plebeian, his father a humble Stoic, but he earned the respect and fear of his peers. He defended a bullied young boy, Octavius, who turned out to be the nephew of Caesar himself, a chance encounter that would change the trajectory of his life. He eventually joined the ranks of the legionnaires and marched against their enemies. His prowess on the battlefield spoke for itself, and Caesar relied on him to protect his favored nephew. When Caesar was murdered in the Senate, Octavius inherited the empire in name only. To assume the mantle he would have to fight for it, and Agrippa, forever by his side, would be his closest advisor and the merciless agent of his military will.
Doubleday | 9780385551755 | Published September 1, 2026
Sloane is determined to find a meaningful way through menopause. Her sister Laurel is managing her own growing rage and restlessness. Nanette, the youngest, has answered a religious calling and is living as a novice in a convent. All three lives will be further disrupted when Sloane receives a call summoning her to their mother’s house, Laurel discovers possible evidence of her husband’s infidelity, and Nanette finds herself in the middle of a media frenzy. Soon, all three are reunited under their mother’s roof. Will it be an opportunity for the closed door of their very private mother’s inner life to crack open? A lesson in care; a shared responsibility that will be the making of this family? Or will a stunning revelation divide the sisters permanently?
Minotaur Books | 9781250350022 | Published September 1, 2026
The sole survivors of the fiery plane crash that killed their parents, Eliza Ramsey and her sister Bea share an unbreakable bond. But now, on the 11th anniversary of the tragedy, Bea fails to retrieve her pre-teen daughter from a sleepover at Eliza’s. Eliza knows her sister would never leave her precious Piper behind, and fears the worst. But did Bea plan her own disappearance? The Ramsey’s lives have already crashed and burned once. Now, Eliza discovers she's the only one who can protect her niece from the horrifying legacy of her family’s sinister history. Together, the two must prevent their lives from going up in flames once again.
St. Martin's Press | 9781250283429 | Published September 1, 2026
For generations, Wester House has stood as a monument to influence and mystery in a small North Carolina town, and the Wester women have held the community enthralled. People respect them, many fear them, but no one truly understands them. How do they possess such an intimate, unsettling knowledge of those around them? Why is no one ever allowed inside the house? And why is Willamena Wester finally reaching out to the granddaughter she once pushed away? To truly understand, you have to meet Willamena 50 years ago. As a young woman trapped in a stifling, picture-perfect life, she makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever. Now Willamena's granddaughter, Bailey, is coming back to a town she tried to outrun. In a world of hidden truths, can a legacy of unhappiness be unmade? And what does it take to finally break a curse?
S&S/Saga Press | 9781668239247 | Published September 1, 2026
My job, when you think about it, isn’t so different from a lot of people’s. The more old-fashioned crowd do still get hung up on the "killing people" part of it, I guess, but that’s a them problem. So, sure, I have to deal with a ton of boring planning. Inconvenient hours. Some pretty awkward face-to-face interactions. And like most of us, I’m really only clocking in to try to crawl out from beneath my debts. But someone’s got to do it. Luckily, my genetic compatibilities make me really, really good at doing it. Still. This next job...I don’t know. It’s something I haven’t had to deal with in years. Kind of the opposite of my regular duties. Strange, that it got thrown my way. I’m sure it’ll all go totally fine though.
Scribner | 9781668097199 | Published September 1, 2026
Paris, 1940. The Nazis have descended on Paris and the Occupation has begun. Businesses across the city have shuttered, but the legendary Ritz Hotel remains open, its dazzling lights still burning bright on the Place Vendôme. When it becomes the favorite watering hole of the occupying forces, its barman, Frank Meier, is forced to adapt to a new clientele. But Frank has a secret: he is Jewish. Tensions rise as the war progresses, but Frank refuses to leave his post behind the bar. Unbeknownst to the Nazi officers he serves night after night, Frank forms precarious alliances with unlikely accomplices in order to save other Jewish families in the city and keep his loved ones alive.
Atria Books | 9781668224861 | Published September 1, 2026
Graziella, the 96-year-old matriarch and former nun, spends her days running the parish’s food kitchen, convinced it is her responsibility to keep everyone fed in their working-class New York neighborhood. Her daughter, Grace, a respected psychology professor, appears accomplished and composed, yet finds herself unmoored as her personal life falters. Ella --- Graziella’s granddaughter and Grace’s daughter --- is weary of defending her vegan diet and anti-capitalistic lifestyle; blind to her own brilliance, she longs, above all, for a place to belong. Living together again, the three Graces reckon with the distances that have shaped them, and with what it means, at last, to be fully known.
Gallery/Scout Press | 9781668204658 | Published September 1, 2026
Sixteen-year-old Ruby and her older sister, Erin, live comfortably in their Boston home with their pastor father and Irish mother, until one day Ruby is involved in an incident with Erin’s boyfriend, Milo, that causes her family to implode. Ruby and her mother leave in a hurry for Ireland, while Erin and her father stay behind. As the story alternates between Erin and Ruby’s perspectives over decades, two very different women emerge. Erin struggles with trust issues. Ruby is set on a course of self-destruction. When the truth threatens to emerge from this “brilliantly dark and tangled web” (Graham Norton), the sisters’ lives may be upended all over again. Can either of them ever truly recover from the events of that day in 1999?
Ballantine Books | 9798217298549 | Published September 1, 2026
After the loss of his wife, Marconi Franco is content drifting alone on his boat through the isolated waters of Southeast Alaska. But when a mysterious distress signal cuts through the static on his radio, Marco feels an overwhelming pull to help the woman whose plea he heard. His search for the missing woman draws him to Radioville, an abandoned 1930s communication outpost now decaying on an uninhabited island off the coast of Alaska. There, Marco begins uncovering fragments of a story long forgotten: a Depression-era theft, a shattered marriage, and a disturbing pattern of disappearances. As he sifts through the past, his own grief starts to mirror the tragedies that echo across decades, and his search draws the attention of someone determined to keep the truth buried.
St. Martin's Press | 9781250414564 | Published September 8, 2026
NYSPD Lieutenant Eve Dallas never knows what to expect when she gets word of a body. It could be a wealthy biotech executive beaten to death in his home office. But what was Larry Chu’s mistake? The victim’s corpse is so mangled and damaged it’s hard to believe a lone, unarmed assailant could have managed it. The excessive violence leads Dallas to conclude that this was a deeply personal act, born of a rage that she can’t excuse but can understand thanks to her own traumatic past. And she can’t ignore the suspicious bank account in the Cayman Islands, or the shadowy, profit-hungry company Chu worked for. The mystery only grows when it turns out Chu isn’t the only victim --- and Dallas will need to tear through one layer of secrecy after another to reveal what lies behind this explosion of fury.
Mariner Books | 9780063474857 | Published September 8, 2026
Devi is a Sri Lankan village girl who dreams of going to Harvard. Katrina is a middle-class American girl whose life has been designed to get her into an elite liberal arts college. Devi’s father cleans toilets in a five-star hotel to pay for his daughter’s Indian tutor, who might not be the Oxford student he claims to be on WhatsApp. Katrina’s father teaches extra courses at a mediocre technical university to pay for his daughter’s academic lifestyle experiences. Meanwhile, his tech-bro TA expertly extorts money from international students worried about flunking and getting deported.
Harper Voyager | 9780063292017 | Published September 8, 2026
It’s business as usual for Ship Leader Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the corvette Sassafras. Ride a Massif to a new system, fight the enemy, repeat. For more than 200 years humans have been hitching rides on these sentient, starfaring mountain ranges, colonizing planets and exporting an on and off again war between Earth and Mars. But the big questions are always there, behind every battle, every new colony, every new star system discovery. Why do the Massifs carry humans to the stars? Why do they help us export our wars? What’s in it for the Massifs? Ship crews aren’t supposed to ask these questions, they aren’t supposed to think about these questions, and they definitely aren’t supposed to go deep and talk to Massif avatars. But now Parnell and his tight-knit crew must try to find the answers, to save not only themselves but the future of humanity.
Del Rey | 9780593723159 | Published September 8, 2026
After a magical night out on the town with her boyfriend Jack, Emily wakes alone in a huge bed in a well-lit room. But the pink ceiling and dark corners are nothing like the hotel she and Jack rented. More worrisome yet: Emily has no memory of this place from the night before. A woman’s voice directs her to remain in bed. And beyond the end of the bed, a picture frame upon an easel --- a frame with no canvas, no painting, no art. Only...there is the silhouette of a person Emily does not recognize. And the way the woman talks...and the things she says. She’s acting as if Emily herself is the painting. The still life. The art. Emily is scared. But it’s immediately clear Jack’s life is on the line with her own. And if she attempts to escape the bed neither will survive the experience.
Gallery/Scout Press | 9781982178116 | Published September 8, 2026
Queenie Jenkins is 33 and the editorial director for The Good Sis, a thriving media network amplifying the voices of Black women. With a great platform and a renewed sense of purpose, she’s fighting the good fight. So when an appointment reveals startling truths about her own fertility, Queenie is confronted with a racing biological clock when she’s not even sure she wants kids in the first place. Surrounded by loyal friends who seem to fall in love with their person and get pregnant at the drop of a hat, Queenie feels they just don’t get her. After a series of confusing “situationships” that prove more trouble than they’re worth, an old flame that she’s now second-guessing why she ended it with and her beloved grandfather’s failing health, Queenie feels as though time is running out in all the parts in her life. And she’s going to do what she thinks is best to get back on track, no matter how inadvisable.
Harper | 9780063493131 | Published September 8, 2026
Sophie Pattison loves books. And as well as a dream job at a local book festival, she has a husband she adores, a lifelong best friend, Emma, and a brother she’s always been close to. Which makes you wonder why since Christmas Sophie has been living alone, estranged from Emma, avoiding her brother and about to be fired. Now it feels like the only thing she has left is reading. When Sophie rediscovers an author she first read in her 20s, the words on the page reach her in a new way --- becoming both solace and company. Sophie devours every one of the author's novels and begins to dream of meeting her, but knows they never will. But what if she did? What if, by then, the author feels like a friend? What if, for Sophie, it feels almost like love?
Tor Books | 9781250910882 | Published September 8, 2026
STRANGE IS THE LIGHT follows a passionately entangled group of childhood friends, fractured by the betrayals and secrets kept as they grew into adulthood. Now, after 20 years, Daphne, Ronan, Leonie and Finn will finally have to face the consequences of cutting their last adventure short --- having accidentally opened a rift into a dangerous alternate dimension while playing a mysterious RPG version of their childhood game. Daphne never took her final turn...And there is a debt that must be paid.
Random House | 9780593595244 | Published September 8, 2026
A private plane cuts through the winter night. David sits back in his leather seat. The notebook in his jacket pocket is filled with familiar phrases, urgent reminders, but he struggles to recognize his own handwriting. A mystery. The world, once so knowable, has been rendered inscrutable.This is what David knows: Cody, his assistant, will shepherd him along the voyage. A stopover in London. Dinner with his adult daughter. His final destination is Zurich. David glides through hotel rooms and foreign cities, running out the clock on his mortal life. His grasp on the present slips away, and the past rushes in: the Sunday roasts of childhood. The stiff clothes meant only for church. The losses and missteps that punctuate a life. As David’s arrival in Zurich looms, a portrait of an unraveling mind emerges.
HarperVia | 9780063467736 | Published September 8, 2026
Little Sparrow, Julia, Afong Moy, Madame Moy, The Chinese Lady, were her many names...but her true name has been lost to time. In 1834, Afong Moy was brought to New York as a live exhibit. Rising to fame as the first Chinese female in the United States, she became an oddity among curios as Americans marveled at the opportunity to observe her astonishing little feet, broken and bound to resemble lotuses. As the story moves from 1820s Canton to Gold Rush San Francisco, three women introduce us to her many names. Her mother calls her Little Sparrow and sells her to a captain who sails her to New York. The captain’s wife names her Julia and “graciously” treats her as her own. And when she is shunted off to P.T Barnum, her fellow human exhibitions call her China. Eventually arriving in San Francisco's Chinatown, she will at long last claim her name and her own story.
Doubleday | 9780385550345 | Published September 8, 2026
Grace O’Malley was born to be a sea captain. But despite her natural skill, Grace learns early that her dreams of a life at the helm are not compatible with the expectations of her noble family. Her role is to secure a strong alliance and bear children. But when she’s sent to foster with a nearby clan, Grace falls for a clever and open-minded second son. Married off against her will to a brutal warrior, Grace performs her duty, all the while gathering loyal followers and consolidating her husband’s power, only to be ousted from his lands. But this betrayal offers Grace the opportunity to return to sea, finally leading clan O’Malley’s mighty fleet. But Queen Elizabeth’s incursions into Ireland grow bolder and Grace must fight to defend her land, her ships, and the people she loves most.
Scribner | 9781668074640 | Published September 8, 2026
By the 1950s, Cambridge, Massachusetts feels far removed from the legendary witch trials that marked its early days as a colony. Ava, a bright young woman from a small town in Maine, arrives for her first year at Radcliffe College. There, she meets Lauren, her opposite in every way. But the two have more in common than they think. Both are recruited by the Lilith Society, a secret organization of witches at Radcliffe dating back to colonial times. As they learn more, Ava and Lauren form a close bond that is put to the test as they learn to navigate their new power, friendship and love. While Radcliffe seems like a safe haven, the shadow of McCarthyism looms large, an ever-present threat to the flourishing creative and intellectual life in Cambridge. And as girls from the Lilith Society begin to go missing, Ava and Lauren realize the witch trials of the past may not be as deeply buried as they once believed.
Bantam | 9780593874011 | Published September 8, 2026
SFPD Homicide Inspector Raquel Laing had a “difficult childhood,” until she was taken in by a loving family. She still lives with her adoptive sister, Dee, an online investigator. Trouble arrives with a case for Inspector Laing: the homicide of a drug dealer in San Francisco. But the everyday spirals into complications --- just as a search into the family’s ancestry is throwing Dee into her own world of turmoil. Raquel’s case blows up and she is removed from Homicide and put onto the Cold Case Unit. It leaves her free to look at some disturbing facts about her past --- and at the devastating news that Dee has uncovered in her search for the truth. The two sisters begin to suspect that they are tied together in ways that threaten attention from a powerful and vicious international cartel.
Tor Books | 9781250341655 | Published September 15, 2026
At the Academie of the Grand Duchy of Sieuxerr, every mage with the healer’s gift has five years to master their power and to prepare for the infamous Grand Exam --- a five-day trial whose results will determine their entire future. The list of exam rules includes: You will perform five practical cases. Your exam group is chosen at random. You pass together, or fail together. It does not include: On the first day, your exam group will find a classmate's dead body in the exam hall. And as they will soon discover, this particular group all have something to hide...and all have a connection with the dead girl, a brilliant scholar who would have been first in their class. Five scholars. Five secrets. Five days in which to solve a murder, pass the most important exam of their lives and uncover a secret larger than all of their own combined. One with the potential to change the world.
Flatiron Books | 9781250884312 | Published September 15, 2026
Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living, terrifying the dead. To stop it, they’ll have to reach deep into the secrets of Yale and its societies, and discover the truth hidden in Alex’s own blood. But for the first time in her life, she won’t have to face the fight alone. Dawes, Turner, Mercy and even Tripp will have a role to play, none more so than Alex’s mentor Darlington, the golden boy who lived so long in her head, now back in the flesh and cursed with dangerous powers of his own. Hell itself is stalking the delegates of Lethe House, and they’re all about to learn that demons don’t play by human rules.
Atria/Emily Bestler Books | 9781668045916 | Published September 15, 2026
Mitch Rapp signed up to be an assassin. Now, he has a new mission. When Mitch’s target --- a Pakistani chemical weapons scientist for hire --- is snatched from the streets of Verona, the American Assassin must penetrate the jihadi cell responsible for the brazen kidnapping before they can make use of the scientist’s deadly expertise. But Mitch isn’t the only one interested in the scientist. The Pakistani represents an existential threat. A threat that will fray alliances, force enemies to seek common ground and resurrect long settled vendettas. As the events triggered by the kidnapping cascade out of control, Mitch Rapp must stop the chain reaction before the Middle East reaches critical mass.
St. Martin's Press | 9781250399588 | Published September 15, 2026
Long before Jurassic Park was the embryo of an idea in Michael Crichton's mind, there was "ER." A medical student who dreamt of a career in Hollywood, Crichton did what any aspiring writer would: he created a script based on time working in a high-octane hospital emergency department. It wasn't until Crichton turned his attention to dinosaurs and his 1990 novel JURASSIC PARK became a megahit that Steven Spielberg's camp asked the former doctor what other ideas he was kicking around. And, thus, "ER" was born. Despite some resistance from NBC's top brass, the Warner Bros. Television drama became an overnight hit. It would, in its heyday, average 35 million viewers per season (in an era before streaming and DVRs), and was either the number one or number two most watched show on television for six years.


