Best Books To Read in 2026

FROM THE PULITZER-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED ELIZABETH STROUT COMES A STUNNING STANDALONE NOVEL OF LOVE, LONELINESS AND NEW BEGINNINGS'Emotionally stunning, devastatingly wise . . . her best novel yet' RACHEL JOYCE'A moving,...

Wild Iris''Wild Iris is wonderfully inventive, by turns grim as a Belfast Sunday and raucous as a Dublin Saturday night. Ruth McKee writes with dash and daring, and the result...

'EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THIS BOOK' BELLA MACKIE 'NIGHTMARISH, SHOCKING, BRILLIANT' STYLIST 'THE BOOK THAT WILL BE EVERYWHERE' INDEPENDENT 'INTELLIGENT, INCISIVE, INSANELY READABLE' JENNIE GODFREY 'BOLD, BITING....

Prepare for one hell of a journey… ''A big, bold fantasy romp'' GUARDIAN ''R.F. Kuang is making magic'' ELLE ''[A] truly original and spellbinding hero''s-journey story'' VOGUE ''I devoured it''...

A once-in-a-generation debut from a major new talent, The Names is the story of three names, three versions of a life, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can...

AN INVESTIGATION INTO ONE OF THE OLDEST UNSOLVED CASES ON THE FBI'S BOOKS, SPANNING SIX DECADES AND THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.1967. ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.At his son's fifth birthday party, Joseph Maloney...

'Since I've had my first book published, I've earned more from cleaning than from writing. The home economics don't add up.' HOME ECONOMICS is Caitriona Lally's humorous, thought-provoking memoir of...

SHORTLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane...

From the master storyteller behind 2023's critically acclaimed KILLING THATCHER A Rebel and a Traitor is the story of a rogue imperial consul who sought to forge a new nation...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'A NEW NAME TO WATCH OUT FOR' THE TIMES'THE DEBUT OF THE YEAR' STYLIST'ELECTRIC' GUARDIAN A wildly funny and razor-sharp exploration of love,...

From the author of A Ghost in the Throat, an unforgettable book - both history and ghost story - that will leave you gasping by its final page.In the city...

'A magnificent novel' Belinda McKeon, author of Solace and Tender'Truly unforgettable' Fiona Scarlett, author of Boys Don't CryA heart-swelling beauty of a debut novel of love, trauma and found family...

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.'John of John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier...

'A chillingly addictive Southern Gothic tale' - CosmopolitanAn instant Sunday Times bestseller'I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I'm going to have to do an evil...

In The News from Dublin, a beautiful collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island, Colm Toibin delves into the days and nights of those...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Breathtaking' HANNAH KENT'Spellbinding' Washington Post'A wildly talented writer' EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL'Had me gripped from the very first page' RACHEL JOYCEA family on a remote...

The players call it the Game, and its aim is simple: to abduct and kill a stranger without getting caught. They're very good at it. They've been playing it for...

Pre-Order Signed Editions of Hungry; the powerful new memoir from Number One bestselling author Katriona O''Sullivan - a raw, courageous exploration of survival, identity and the lifelong search for self-acceptance.Raised...

'A quirky and original debut that sizzles with scintillating prose.' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Michael Pedersen is a rare writer of real passion and power and this debut is phenomenal.' MATT HAIGLife on...

Inspired by the mapping of Ireland in the mid nineteenth century, Land, the new novel from the author of Hamnet, is at once intimate and epic: a portrait of a...

If my sister hadn't been beautiful, none of it would have happened.Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when...

A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not...

A Man Called Ove and 84 Charing Cross Road**A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING "TOP 10 DEBUT NOVELS TO PRE-ORDER"''Subtly told and finely made'' ANN PATCHETT ''I can''t praise it enough . ....