Spring is just around the corner and even if you’re still bundling up, you can brighten your day with these incredibly new releases. From some returning romance favorites to award-winning authors dipping into new genres, this list is full of familiar facess and new must-reads. Get your TBR ready for the most anticipated books of spring 2026.

So Old So Young by Grant Ginder (2/17)

Marco, Mia, Sasha, Theo, Richie, and Adam had all been friends since college. These friendships all have come with their own trials, tribulations, and constant change. As time threatens to chip away at their bonds, the group will fumble through their relationships over time to fall apart and come back together again.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

Kin by Tayari Jones (2/24)

Vernice and Annie grew up together in Honeysuckle, Louisiana as two daughters without mothers and inseparable best friends. When Vernice eventually goes on to Spelman College and finds a community of supremely-connected Black women, she joins their sisterhood and finds a world unlike what she has known before. Annie follows a different path, trying to search for the mother who left her behind and discovers her own hidden world, one that threatens her life.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

You with the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate (3/3)

Christina Applegaate has led a life in the spotlight, and now she is finally telling her full story from her own point of view. She writes about opportunities that lit up her path as well as set-backs she was forced to work through. Her own struggles with self-doubt, depression, and MS paired with her mother’s own struggles (and victory over) addiction paint a backdrop for many of Applegate’s more exciting successes in her career and personal life, all told with her renowned comedic tone.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi (3/3)

Cleopatra has had many stories told about her in the thousands of years since she lived. Accused of many things, lauded many titles, and had many stories strung about her life and of her death. This is now a tale told by Cleopatra of her own recounting of her life, and her own terms by which she lived it.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

The Book Tour by Emily Ohanjanians (3/3)

Ana Movilian can’t help but feel the need to prove herself, and she sort of has to. Her family is still judging her for dropping out of medical school to become an influencer and the literary community are all harping on about her self-help book. None of that changes the fact that she has an incredibly popular podcast, sold-out speaking events, and an upcoming book tour that she’s sure will change everyone’s minds about her. Until, that is, her publicist resigns and leaves her with Ryan Grant, a man who turns his nose up at all but the most pretentious literature and who Ana has never seen smile once. As they work together, though, their rivalry boils into chemistry and they both need to decide what it is they really want for themselves.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum (3/10)

Benny and Joy run a podcast based around near-death experiences that is beloved around the world. People flock to their banter and hopeful insights. Joy’s husband, Xander, even works as their manager. When Benny arrives one day to record, he finds the windows of Joy and Xander’s home smashed in, and the couple nowhere to be found. Now that he is the prime suspect in their high-profile disappearance and time is running out to find them alive, he only has a draft of Joy’s memoir as a clue.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

Once and Again

Once and Again by Rebecca Serle (3/10)

What would you do if you had the ability to turn back time? For the women of the Novak family, they are able to do this only once in their lives. Marcella saved her husband’s life from a deadly car crash. Her daughter Lauren hasn’t used her ability yet and is nervously waiting whatever circumstances force her to do so. When her husband takes a job in New York, Lauren moves back to her childhood home in Malibu—next door to her first love, Stone. As she spends more time with her family and with Stone, Lauren begins to wonder if she should turn back the clock on one of her life choices.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

Chain of Ideas by Ibram X. Kendi (3/17)

Perhaps more needed now than ever, internationally bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi brings to light the “great replacement theory” and how it has been used to usher humanity into an authoritarian age. He discusses the history behind the theory, such as claims of “White Genocide,” and how the theory spread to be used to spook any ethnic majorities as well as men, Christians, heterosexuals, and even more into violently othering anyone seen as a threat against them. All of these anxieties are sewn to do one thing: erode the democratic process and force authoritarianism. With Kendi’s work, we now have a roadmap for undoing the damage.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez (3/24)

Larissa and Chris are best friends. They laugh, they understand each other, they debate about bread, and they are raising a delightfully insane Yorkie. Due to one decision at a concert, though, Larissa is dating his best friend. Despite it killing Chris to stand on the sidelines and watch his perfect love story play out without him in it, all he really wants is for Larissa to be happy.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher (3/24)

Sonia Wilson is an incredibly talented scientific illustrator, the only problem is she was only able to get a job due to her father’s standing as a famous scientist. After his death, there are no other places for her to go as a woman in science in 1899, except to work for Dr. Hadler, a recluse in North Carolina. What begins as eagerness to take the position devolves into dark questions that reveal the truth of Dr. Hadler’s research, and exactly what his discoveries cost.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke (4/7)

Six novelists are invited to spend a weekend on the private island of the world-famous author Arthur Fletch only to be met with the news that Arthur Fletch is dead and his final novel is unfinished. His agent and editor are desperate to get his final book out, and offer the deal of a lifetime to the authors: write the perfect ending, make a life-changing amount of money, and have their career skyrocketed to the top. However, they only have seventy-two hours, and who knows what can happen during then?

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

American Fantasy by Emma Straub (4/7)

One cruise ship, one nineties boyband, one reluctant divorcee. Annie is only here to escape her newly empty nest and to please her sister who begged her to come, but between the booze and the tunes can’t help but find herself reconnecting with a part of her she had thought long lost. When she befriends a member of the boyband she used to adore, her friendship helps her blossom into a new season of her life.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker (4/14)

Lee Turner couldn’t say why or how he killed his roommate in October 2026, but his roommate’s dead, and he needs to flee. He escapes to his father’s home in Japan, but there’s something not quite right about it. Among the many questionable details like the window that isn’t always a window, there’s also a woman who appears in his yard with a sword after nightfall. Sen, however, is hiding from imperial soldiers in October 1877 in the very same house. Her father had not come home from war, but a monster wearing his face had, and Sen is willing to do whatever it takes to appease him, even when it takes turning her sword against her mother. When Sen sees a foreigner outside her house, she knows it is an ill omen. The problem is that one of these two stories is a total lie.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell (4/14)

Cherry’s husband Tom went to Hollywood to make a movie based off his viral, “semi-autobiographical” webcomic, Thursday. However, he won’t be coming back. Not as Cherry’s husband, anyway. Not after he wrote Baby, a character based on Cherry down to the wide hips and double chin, so perfectly alike that Cherry keeps getting recognized in public for her caricature. But she had vowed herself to Tom, and loved him, and was stuck raising his dog and tending to his house alone. When she takes a night to herself, she meets Russ again. Russ is someone who remembers her from art school, for her love of pin-up and before she had become entangled with Tom. He knows so much about Cherry, and absolutely nothing about Thursday.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

The Take by Kelly Yang (4/14)

Maggie Wang is a struggling, Asian-American, young writer with seemingly nowhere to go but down. Ingrid Parker is an aging, white, incredibly successful Hollywood producer with her career on a cliff, and she offers Maggie $3 million to partake in ten transfusion sessions that would reverse Ingrid’s aging along with giving Maggie the resources she needs to support her parents and publish her novel. What seems like the perfect deal turns into psychological chaos, with both women questioning exactly what they will do to come out on top.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez (4/21)

Alicia Canales Forten has her whole life planned out for her, and nothing could be worse. Eager to escape the incessant wedding planning with her mother, Alicia ventures out to the neighborhood of Fort Greene in Brooklyn, a neighborhood full of alluring, young creatives who offer a more colorful version of life. Alicia moves in. Alicia’s new neighbor, La Garza, is the image of everything Fort Greene: a rising star in fashion design who throws insane house parties. When Alicia’s wealthy cousin moves to the neighborhood, she can’t help but get drawn into their fabulously dangerous lives. With all of this as well as a life in the shadow of a looming presidential election alongside a glaring financial crisis, the novel comes to explore what the American Dream can come to mean for people of color.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

How to Fake it In Society by KJ Charles (4/28)

Nicolas-Marc, Comte de Valois de La Motte is trying to restore his dead mother’s reputation for stealing a necklace from Marie Antoinette, but he cannot do so without funds. He must also operate with total secrecy, as the Bourbon dynasty that took his mother’s life is after his, as is the story he tells Titus Pilcrow. Titus had married an immensely wealthy woman who disinherited her nephew on her deathbed, leaving Titus all of her wealth as well as the target for all of London’s shadiest– including Nico. After being offered a space in Titus’ house, it should be an easy cheat for Nico to get the money and run, but he hadn’t counted on falling in love.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon

We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune (4/28)

Don and Rodney had experienced the brilliance of life in their forty years of marriage. The highs of love and family as well as the deepest lows where it felt like the world was over. Well, now the world really is ending; they only have about a month before a black hole swallows the entire world. The two husbands decide to make one final trek from Maine to Washington state before it all ends, and under a cracked moon they will meet so many different kinds of people, all who each burned so brightly in their own ways.

Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon