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Happy New Year Friends! With 2025 having drawn to an end, it is time to look forward to what 2025 has in store for avid book lovers! Similar to past years (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), I’ve compiled a list of the top books in 2026 that I’m looking forward to being released. Quite a few books on the following list might better be classified as wishful thinking, i.e., Winds of Winter and Doors of Stone. Ever the optimist, I couldn’t help but group them in with the rest, along with a few on the radar for 2027. Here’s to a fantastic reading year for all!

Let me know what you think of the titles on my lineup. Have I missed any key books that are on your list?

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Parenting Anxiety by Meredith Elkins, PhD – January 20, 2026

Nine Goblins: A Tale of Low Fantasy and High Mischief by T. Kingfisher – January 20, 2026

A Heart so Green by Lyra Selene – January 20, 2026

How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days by Jessie Sylva – January 20, 2026

Flourish by Daniel Coyle – February 3, 2026

Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman – February 10, 2026

Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett – February 17, 2026

We the Women by Norah O’Donnell and Kate Andersen Brower – February 24, 2026

The Trident and the Pearl by Sarah K. L. Wilson – February 24, 2026

Daughter of Crows (The Kindness Academy #1) by Mark Lawrence – March 24, 2026

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying #1) by Ilona Andrews – March 31,2026

The New Perimenopause by Mary Claire Haver, MD – April 7, 2026

The Demon King (Nightfall Saga #3) by Peter V. Brett

The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu – April 7, 2026

Shy Girl by Mia Ballard – April 7, 2026

The Faith of the Beasts (The Captive’s War #2) by James S. A. Corey – April 14, 2026

Thistlemarch by Moorea Corrigan – April 21, 2026

The Nightshade God by Hannah Whitten – April 21, 2026

A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl #8) by Matt Dinniman – May 12, 2026

The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden – June 2, 2026

Red God by Pierce Brown – July 1, 2026

Adversary to the Villain (Assistant to the Villian #4) by Hannah Nicole Maehrer – August 4, 2026

The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke –

The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig – September 1, 2026

Horneater (The Stormlight Archive #4.5) by Brandon Sanderson – December 1, 2026

The Fires of December (Hoid’s Travails #3) by Brandon Sanderson – December 1, 2026

Books Without Set Release Dates:

The Book of Lorn by Pierce Brown

The Seven Sisters (Neverwhere, #2) by Neil Gaiman – Expected 2025

Alecto the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #4) by Tamsyn Muir – Optimistically 2025

Winds of Winter (A Song of Ice and Fire #6) by George R. R. Martin – Optimistically 2025

The Doors of Stone (The Kingkiller Chronicle #3) by Patrick Rothfuss – Optimistically 2025

Laniel’s Tale (The Kingkiller Chronicle) by Patrick Rothfuss – Optimistically 2025

The Mad Baron’s Mechanical Attic (The Gentleman Bastard Sequence) by Scott Lynch – Optimistically 2025

Fractured Fables #3 by Alix E. Harrow – Optimistically 2025

The Thorn of Emberlain by Scott Lynch – Optimistically 2025

Nightblood (Warbreaker #2) by Brandon Sanderson – Optimistically sometime