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
Minotaur Books | 9781250412607 | Published October 20, 2026
“There’s a body in Lost Nation.” “Where?” demands Armand as he scribbles on the pad by his bed. But the line goes dead before Chief Inspector Gamache can question the caller. The head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec has no idea where Lost Nation is, or who woke him in the small hours of the morning at his home in Three Pines. So Armand is thrust into the surrounding forests in search of the mythical Lost Nation. And a body. The unidentified dead man appears to be from an era more than a century old. Adding to the mystery, the early morning call appears to have come from Armand’s friend and neighbor, Clara Morrow. While she denies any knowledge of it, it becomes clear there is some connection between her, the Morrow family, and Lost Nation.
Avon | 9780063247635 | Published October 20, 2026
In Victorian England, no woman --- not even a brilliant economist like Reina Martin --- is allowed to open her own bank account. Together with her mentor, the powerful banker William Farlow, Reina will build the first all-women’s bank, where women can manage their own financial security. But soon she is shocked to discover that her enigmatic butler, John Pembroke, is an undercover police detective. He’s been assigned to investigate Farlow, who’s suspected of financial crime on a scale so massive that it could destabilize the British economy. Pembroke needs Reina’s expertise for a high-stakes nighttime heist to obtain incriminating evidence. Now she faces the agonizing choice of betraying her mentor or turning her back on thousands of working-class families who stand to lose everything.
Knopf | 9780593805084 | Published October 20, 2026
In the fall of 2014, Deacon Ronnie Lastovica visited a women’s prison in Gatesville, Texas, and gave communion to the women on death row. Moved by the meeting, the Deacon vowed to return weekly, but he knew he couldn’t help these women alone. He called upon the Sisters of Mary Morning Star, a group of contemplative nuns in Waco, Texas, to visit the seven condemned women with him. What follows is an incredible story of a spiritual alliance between two groups of women who, though they couldn't seem more different, are living uniquely similar lives. Lawrence Wright takes us into the death row unit, laying bare their stories.
William Morrow | 9780063439801 | Published October 20, 2026
1420. Eleanor Cobham arrives at the court of Henry V. Pretty but not highborn, she hopes for nothing more than to marry well. It is a golden age for England, its royal family’s dynasty stretching across Europe. But chaos waits in the shadows. Betrayals and shifts of power change the flourishing world Eleanor has stepped into. Working in the household of a Countess who commands her own army, Eleanor begins to see for the first time what a woman is capable of…what men’s promises are truly worth. As the safe, comfortable future she’d envisioned begins to shift, Eleanor changes with it. Now she must use her wits to survive --- and to rise. Her newfound ambition will carry her further than any woman before has dared. But if she is to rule England itself, she will need to turn to darker arts.
Clarkson Potter | 9780593234174 | Published October 20, 2026
Through her years of experience as a home cook, Ina Garten has learned that the best food is often the simplest. With just a little thought and a few good ingredients, you can make truly impressive dishes without spending hours in the kitchen. SIMPLY INA celebrates the delicious results of streamlined cooking, sharing Ina’s expert tips and tricks for achieving the best flavor with the least amount of effort. Whether you’re feeding unexpected guests, pulling together a Tuesday night dinner after work, or hosting a dinner party and don’t want to miss all the fun cooped up in the kitchen, you’ll be happy to have these simple, satisfying and completely doable recipes to turn to.
Bloomsbury Publishing | 9781639739813 | Published October 20, 2026
During the conquest of Northern England, the fairy host sweeps across the countryside. The city of Durham finds itself surrounded. But the encircling forces are not fairies or even other humans, but trees that trap the city within an eerie wood. Ranulf, Bishop of Durham --- a consummate politician --- understands that the survival of the Northern English people depends on his finding a way to unite the two races, human and fairy. And he's not averse to improving his own position at the same time. With these aims in view, he sets off for the New Castle in search of the new King --- the leader of the fairy host, rumored to be a mysterious human boy, no more than 14 years old, who speaks no word of any human language.
Blackstone Publishing | 9798228808522 | Published October 20, 2026
In 1942, the Nazis come for a Jewish family living in the Montparnasse area of occupied Paris. In the chaos of their arrest, 11-year-old Josephine runs to the only person she can trust: her piano teacher, Andrée Levallois, a secret French Resistance operative. Andrée takes her in as a member of the family, spreading their rations and risking everything to keep her safe. But soon the authorities close in, and both Andrée and Josie are caught in a desperate race to stay alive.
Scribner | 9781668224632 | Published October 20, 2026
1960s, Ireland. In the wake of tragedy, a father makes choices for his 11 grieving sons. The older brothers will emigrate to England for work, while the younger ones will stay behind. The second eldest, Macdara, is offered a job on a Montana cattle ranch and sets off. His spirited younger brother, Rian, begs to come along, and Mac promises to bring Rian to America as soon as he’s old enough. But then one day Mac gets a call that Rian has gone missing. His disappearance will haunt Mac and his family across decades.
Bloomsbury Publishing | 9781639739134 | Published October 27, 2026
Deep in the heart of the continent, Koschei the Deathless is stirring. Though he's been bound to a mountain lake for millennia, the insidious threat of his return now spreads across the Fae territories, attracting powerful allies hell-bent on reclaiming what was once theirs: the human lands. The Night Court will not stand idly by while innocents are attacked. But with Prythian still piecing itself together in the wake of the devastating Hybern War, the task of uniting is proving more difficult by the day. To make matters worse, those who rule and protect the Night Court are reeling from recent betrayals and revealed truths. The rifts dividing them seem insurmountable. But to defeat Koschei's creeping shadow, they must find a way back to each other and resurrect their former alliances.
Knopf | 9798217208692 | Published October 27, 2026
Originally published in The New Yorker in 2019, and now presented in a full, unabridged form, ABANDONING A CAT is a poignant, self-reflective work by Haruki Murakami. Here he writes about his father, the son of a priest who might have become a priest himself had a clerical error not sent him into the Second World War. Murakami's father wrote accomplished haiku and eventually became a teacher. As Murakami grew older, as he became an adult and then a writer, he and his father found they had little in common. They were later estranged for 20 years, only reconciling on his father's deathbed.
Gillian Flynn Books | 9781638933625 | Published October 27, 2026
From an early age, Gina Fiore wanted to win. Her desire was borne from her family’s financial instability --- countless evictions, living in a motel, learning to stave off debt collectors with a tightly rehearsed script dictated by her parents. After Gina dropped out of college, her mother taught her how to deal blackjack, and she got her first job dealing in a Las Vegas casino. It was there that she discovered some players win using skill and not luck. She wanted to learn how. ADVANTAGE PLAYER follows Gina’s journey to becoming one of the best advantage players in the world, beating casinos out of millions by playing the games they offered better than they did.
Grand Central Publishing | 9781538778869 | Published October 27, 2026
After the bloodshed in Fenton, Arizona, former Detroit cop Kurt Argento had to disappear. He reemerges in the small town of Barton, South Dakota, working under an assumed name as a church handyman. But then he meets 17-year-old Majed, a Syrian refugee trying to build a life in Barton with his single mother. Two men with hard eyes are close behind. Argento steps in, and Majed’s pursuers retreat with a thin excuse about a stolen wallet. It turns out that Majed isn’t just in trouble --- he’s a target. And the hunters are closing in. To safeguard Majed, Argento hits the road with the boy, pushing west. And along the way it becomes clear that whatever Majed knows --- or carries --- someone powerful wants it and will kill to get it.
The Mysterious Press | 9781613168257 | Published October 27, 2026
In the wilderness bordering Afghanistan, an American soldier dies in a devastating explosion. Across the world, in a withering Pennsylvania factory town, his father is stabbed to death and left in the surrounding woods amidst colonial ruins known as Nowhere. The Recruiter wants Cameron Winter to find out why. Winter journeys into America’s aching heartland, to a small town called Kinnecombe, which is left to suffer through a triple plague of poverty, drugs and crime. His assignment is to solve a murder, and all that stands in his way is a deceptively soft-spoken gangster, a mob of local thugs, an American spy as crazy as she is beautiful, and a well-trained killer who can make himself invisible right up until the moment he puts a bullet in your brain.
Harper | 9780063291133 | Published October 27, 2026
Frank Capra --- the director of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It Happened One Night and, supremely, It’s a Wonderful Life --- remains one of the great chroniclers of the American heart, how we love, lead, dream, hope and fight for our individuality. But Capra was a more complex artist than is usually reckoned and a more complicated man than anyone knows. This extraordinary book, making full use for the first time of Capra’s own archives, including deeply personal writings from his later years, has brought this seminal artist into urgent life. At the same time, it offers a dazzling portrait of both a lost America and an enduring one.
Hogarth | 9780593978382 | Published October 27, 2026
On September 3, 1988, Dallas weatherman Ray Davino makes passing reference to Public Access Afterworld during a rambling monologue, right before he puts a gun to his head and pulls the trigger. On June 12, 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two lonely suburban teens, gather in Erin's basement to watch TV's analog-to-digital transition. But Erin witnesses surreal broadcasts from a pirate TV network called Public Access Afterworld, and their lives are changed forever. Seventeen years later, Bethany Peters toils through the night shift at megacorp GlobalVill’s bleak Austin campus. A trans content moderator, she spends her evenings reviewing an endless stream of horrific videos. Then a young streamer begins to crop up in her feed calling out to Public Access Afterworld. But what is Public Access Afterworld?
Berkley | 9780593952177 | Published October 27, 2026
The passing of her estranged father leaves Nell Marin with no choice but to take her teenage son, Oscar, back to the run-down family cabin on Torchlight Lake, where horrific memories linger. The two will fix the place up, sell it, and ensure Nell never has to return to that dreaded lake again. But when the roads --- which pass through Native land --- are barricaded by the local Tribe, the quick trip turns into weeks. Oscar, a horror movie buff, knows this is exactly how it starts. As the long summer days drag on, unsettling things begin to occur. Most disturbing of all, his mother is becoming less and less herself. As the strange events lead Oscar to uncover the secrets Nell has shielded him from, he is forced to confront a reality that is far more frightening than movie monsters.
Little, Brown and Company | 9780316455695 | Published October 27, 2026
At 27, Pella’s life looks settled. She’s a recent college grad; engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Mike; and helping her friend, Owen, pull off his own destination wedding on Block Island. But over that wild wedding weekend, Pella’s past and present collide spectacularly, blowing up her plans and sending her spiraling toward an unplanned future in New York City. Meanwhile, back at Westish College, 21-year-old Irma’s involvement with a politically charged prank --- one that has roiled both the campus and the world beyond --- threatens to derail her brilliant future. As Irma and Pella cycle through possibilities and identities, both navigate the heights and depths of passion and ambition, and the incalculable wages of love and loss.
Kensington | 9781496754295 | Published October 27, 2026
Mere days before Christmas, Thad Wright’s estranged daughter passes away --- leaving behind a baby, Laura. And when Thad discovers that time is not on his beloved wife Lia’s side either, he takes Lia’s last plea to heart: that Laura is not raised by strangers, that he gives the child a loving home. Thad’s granddaughter is a singular source of light in an otherwise dark season. His friends in Morehead City are there for him, including Akila, his coworker at the local hotel where he’s an assistant chef. She’s kind, comforting, gentle, and everything her teenage son, Juri, is not. In that boy, Thad sees the same rebellion that led his own daughter astray. Yet as Thad’s relationship with Akila deepens, he’s determined to forge a bond with the young, defiant aspiring musician.
Little, Brown and Company | 9780316563857 | Published October 27, 2026
When Harry Bosch was 11 years old, his mother was murdered. He became a ward of the state, housed in MacLaren Children’s Center, a notorious facility where abuse was rampant. Decades after its closure, a lawsuit has resulted in a massive settlement for former residents. But when Bosch’s half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, brings him word that he is entitled to part of it, Bosch says he doesn’t want the money. He wants justice. The news awakens Bosch’s memories of a place he had hoped never to revisit, and of a boy nicknamed Chops, a fellow ward who wound up dead. Bosch is certain that Chops was killed in a hidden space under the stairs --- the kids knew it as “the hollow” --- and his murder covered up. Now he is determined to reopen the investigation and learn the truth.
Grand Central Publishing | 9781538780824 | Published October 27, 2026
Alone in her snowbound oceanfront cottage, Caroline Ora mourns the loss of her beloved husband Forest, killed earlier that year in a violent hit-and-run. Once a celebrated poet, Caroline now spends her days drowning in grief…until an unlikely discovery changes everything. Buried deep in her attic in a dusty wooden case, Caroline finds several ancient typewriter ribbons. Spontaneously using one to write a story --- a simple “what if” wherein her anguish has loosened its grip --- Caroline wakes to find it’s miraculously come true. Moment by moment, word by word, Caroline sets about rewriting her life, resurrecting her husband through ink and memories. But as the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur, Caroline learns that every wish has its cost, and every miracle has its reckoning.
Paperback
The Red Herrings Press | 9781966678175 | Published October 1, 2026
When hedge fund owner Jay Montgomery raids his own fund, he disappears with millions belonging to his investors --- who include his wife, Grace; his dead partner's widow; and a vengeful Russian oligarch. Longtime frenemies, Grace and widow Dana want their money back and reluctantly team up. Their pursuit turns deadly when two people connected to Jay are killed. Tracking down a disenchanted AI pioneer in the UK confirms their suspicions: Their every move is being monitored, analyzed and anticipated by a sophisticated AI system programmed to optimize outcomes, not protect people. But there is one thing the system cannot fully account for: the irrational, emotional, deeply human choices determined people make when everything is at stake.
Montlake | 9781662530333 | Published October 1, 2026
After 17 years away, public defender Raine Hale returns to her family’s crumbling Virginia estate when her estranged cousin, Maria, is hospitalized following a near-fatal cyanide poisoning. As sole beneficiary of Hale House and guardian to Maria’s five-year-old daughter, Molly, Raine confronts a troubling legacy she vowed never to revisit --- and is thrust into a deadly mystery. But she can’t trust anyone. When people begin dying, Hale House becomes as dangerous as the secrets it holds. With a killer circling closer and Molly’s life in her hands, Raine must unravel generations of family deceptions before she becomes the next victim buried in the family plot.
Atria/Emily Bestler Books | 9781668087701 | Published October 6, 2026
Carrie is on her way home from work on an ordinary evening, looking forward to seeing her family, when her phone blares: SEVERE ALERT. NUCLEAR MISSILE THREAT TO SOUTH ENGLAND. 59 MINUTES UNTIL IMPACT. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A TEST. When Frankie and her fiancé get the terrifying alert, they are on their way to a country retreat. Frankie is blissfully and newly pregnant, but her joy is shattered by the realization that there may be no world to bring her baby into. Mrs. Dabb is already spiraling because her 13-year-old daughter is missing. Panicked, she is on a mission to track her down. Then she hears sirens wailing across the moor. Three women, three families, one last chance to be together before the end. All they have is 59 minutes.
Thomas & Mercer | 9781464273933 | Published October 6, 2026
Fresh from solving a high-profile case in Paris, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr. Alexander Gregory is pulled into another nightmare. The FBI is on the brink of losing its biggest trial yet: the wife of a notorious criminal --- their star witness --- has been committed to a private psychiatric hospital and declared unfit to testify. Without her, their case collapses. Buchanan Hospital is locked down tight, and its formidable staff are as secretive and unpredictable as the patients they treat. With no one left to trust, the FBI has no choice but to turn to Gregory. Now he must enter the hospital and untangle a web of manipulation and murder before the clock runs out. But inside these walls, nothing is what it seems --- and once he uncovers the truth, he may not walk away unchanged.
Flatiron Books | 9781250368539 | Published October 6, 2026
In 1987, Leo Schofield was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Michelle. Always insistent on his innocence, he was poorly served by his legal defense: the investigation was sloppy, the case was flimsy, and numerous pieces of evidence were ignored. He was sentenced to life in prison. Over 30 years later, Gilbert King is tipped off to Leo’s case and is astonished by what he finds: layers of corruption, flawed evidence and deep-seated errors. He can’t shake the story and starts to get to know Leo and his family. Leo shows an incomprehensible amount of grace and love about his situation, which spurs Gilbert even more to tell his story.


