With a fresh year comes a brand-new stack of stories to get excited about. Filled with highly anticipated releases from favorite authors and unforgettable new characters, these are the books we cannot wait to read in 2027!

Paradox Inc. by Forrest Brazeal (1/5)

Silicon Valley’s latest obsession is the Bleb 1, a personal time machine that tech founders, investors and influencers immediately attempt to monetize. As reckless users begin damaging the timeline, three unlikely whistleblowers race to stop a charismatic CEO—and an entire industry built on moving fast and breaking things—from breaking reality itself.

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Habila by Wayétu Moore (1/12)

After losing their patriarch, a Liberian family relocates to an unwelcoming Texas town, where young Melanctha discovers she can breathe underwater. Her power comes from Habila, a captivating water deity who gives her a comb capable of drawing people into the depths, but their growing connection reveals a dangerous history of vengeance and long-buried family secrets.

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The Things You’ll Never Know by Ashley Audrain (1/12)

After Fiona dies unexpectedly inside her home, she remains behind as an unseen witness to her family’s grief—and their growing suspicions about what happened to her. When her teenage daughter discovers Fiona’s diary, a carefully concealed betrayal threatens to expose the desires, resentments and secrets connecting everyone Fiona left behind.

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Always One More Time by Nicola Yoon (2/2)

Living with a life-threatening heart condition, Tallie becomes determined to locate the boy she believes is destined to be her soulmate. A wrong number unexpectedly connects her with Owen, a boy who does not believe in love, and Tallie begins to wonder whether the person she has been searching for might already be in her life.

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Eclipse & the Wolf by Akwaeke Emezi (2/16)

Ten years after a massacre nearly destroys her family, Eclipse Orinabe has become a glamorous weapon in a city controlled by blood magic, powerful clans and a dangerously addictive drug. As she becomes entangled with Wolf, the fugitive heir to a devout clan, and Noah, the volatile heir hiding a devastating secret, their inherited powers threaten to ignite all of St. Paradise.

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Wife & Wife by Elizabeth Harris (2/23)

In 1955, suburban mother Ruth Wolf secretly reads lesbian pulp novels but remains unprepared for the connection she feels when she meets artist and socialite Sylvie Fein. Their love unfolds across more than fifty years as the women struggle against the expectations of their marriages, families and community, carrying them from the restrictive suburbs of the 1950s to the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2011.

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A Diplomat’s Guide to Book Smuggling by Layla McCay (2/23)

In 1974, bookseller Jane Beaumont enters a marriage of convenience with a closeted diplomat, giving them both an opportunity to escape the lives others expect them to lead. After finding a novel about two women in love, Jane begins corresponding with its former owner and secretly smuggling queer books to isolated diplomats around the world—until unwanted attention threatens her operation, her marriage and a budding romance.

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Twist by Alice Feeney (2/23)

Flight attendant Ariella has constructed two separate marriages: one with Noah in a picturesque village and another with Luka in a luxurious London penthouse. When a husband is murdered, another wife begins searching for answers, revealing just how little people may know about the partners—and marriages—they believe are perfect.

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The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid (3/2)

Victoria “Vic” Lucchese and Colette “Coco” Wilson have spent years traveling the country and hustling overconfident men at pool. By the summer of 1974, their reputation has made finding new marks increasingly difficult, pushing the friends toward one final scheme that could secure their futures or destroy the only family either has ever known.

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Serious Music by Percival Everett (3/2)

In 1918, Black conservatory student Arthur Champion crosses the wrong professor and is abruptly sent from Oberlin to the battlefields of World War I. His journey carries him from the trenches of the Somme to Harlem’s jazz clubs and even the private rooms of Woodrow Wilson’s White House, revealing a rapidly changing America and the forces attempting to control who can create—and claim—art.

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Whiteout by Carola Lovering (3/9)

June Lyons appears to have an enviable life in Aspen with her successful husband, young daughter and beloved sister nearby—until a late-pregnancy skiing accident ends in an unimaginable loss. Unable to remember the crash, June becomes convinced that it may not have been an accident and begins investigating the secrets hidden inside her marriage, her family and possibly her own mind.

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Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger by Kazuo Ishiguro (3/9)

In 1938 London, Richard Hadley meets the mysterious Miss Lambert after a music-hall performance and becomes determined to protect her from the hostile figures apparently pursuing her. His chase takes him to a grand country hotel and aboard a train bound for Scotland in a playful espionage caper where appearances—and intentions—cannot be trusted.

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Need Blind: A Memoir of Class and Climbing in America by Xochitl Gonzalez (3/9)

Xochitl Gonzalez traces her path from a working-class Brooklyn upbringing to an Ivy League education and eventual access to some of America’s most elite cultural and political spaces. Blending personal experience with research, she examines the country’s widening class divide and how wealth and status have separated powerful institutions from the people they are meant to serve.

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Smog by Stephanie Danler (3/23)

In 1990s Los Angeles, celebrated journalist Hugo Byrne checks into the Chateau Marmont to cover the sensational Menendez brothers trial. Still haunted by his daughter’s violent death, Hugo becomes equally fascinated by what happens beyond the courtroom—particularly the mysterious obsession his glamorous friend Liv Ellis has developed with the accused brothers.

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All Together Now by Julie Buxbaum (3/30)

Every decade or so, Hazel Stein awakens on a party bus surrounded by seven past and future versions of herself, ranging in age from eight to seventy-seven. Together, the Hazels recount one ordinary but extraordinary life shaped by romance, friendship, motherhood, loss and three defining loves.

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Modern Classic by Emily Henry (4/6)

Screenwriter Beckett Heyburn has always dreamed of creating the kind of sweeping romance found in classic films, but burnout has left her unable to write. After inheriting her late mentor’s Santa Barbara home, Beckett escapes to the coast, where a rescue dog—and the frustratingly mysterious man fostering her—may inspire the cinematic love story she has been searching for.

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Grenade by Coco Mellors (4/20)

Filmmaker Zuzu arrives in Paris to premiere her first feature before returning to Los Angeles, where she and her husband plan to try once more to have a child after multiple miscarriages. Surrounded by an uninhibited best friend, a famous former girlfriend and the first real success of her career, Zuzu must confront her competing desires for motherhood, stability, ambition and freedom.

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Nobody Panic! by CJ Vick (4/20)

During the sweltering summer of 1986, small-town misfit Janet Morgan joins the local PTA only to discover that several women have disappeared—and their husbands seem strangely unconcerned. When her best friend vanishes, Janet and an unconventional group of amateur investigators uncover a generations-old secret tied to a dangerous supernatural bargain.

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Thank You for Your Suffering by Michelle Zauner (4/27)

After discovering a diary written in Korean by her late mother, Michelle Zauner moves to Seoul for a year to study the language she never learned growing up. Her memoir follows the difficult, often funny process of reconnecting with her mother’s relatives and discovering new ways to understand her heritage, her grief and the woman her mother was before motherhood.

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The Fire by Kristin Hannah (5/4)

Merritt Locke has spent her life being a devoted wife, mother and daughter, until a devastating betrayal places her at the center of an unforgiving public spectacle. Breaking the rule everyone expects her to follow, she begins an impulsive cross-country journey to reconnect with her estranged daughter and finds strength among other women who are finally ready to make themselves heard.

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