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The best new books for adult of 2026

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My Novel Year

By Savannah Hendricks ,

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Hemingway's Goblet

By Dermot Ross ,

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The Zookeeper's Dragon

By Carolyn Mathews ,

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On the Wing

By L. Darby Gibbs ,

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No Home Without You

By Lena Gibson ,

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A Cat's Garden of Secrets

By Jacqueline Diamond ,

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Lady of the Quay

By Amanda Roberts ,

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No Good Deed

By Jennifer Barraclough ,

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World War H

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The Real Boys of the Civil War

By J. Arthur Moore ,

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Honeymoon at Sea

By Jennifer Silva Redmond ,

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Mother of Trees

By Steven J. Morris ,

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A Psychiatrist's Journey

By Brian Barraclough,

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Lake Song

By Lesley Pratt Bannatyne ,

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First Ascent

By Douglas Phillips ,

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Samuel Holberry: Revolutionary Democrat 1814-42

By Steven Kay, John Baxter,

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Written in Blood

By Fiona Forsyth ,

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Holy Crap

By John J. Jessop ,

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Last Stop

By Gloria Oliver ,

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What Rides at Night

By Summer Jewel Keown (editor), Elly Blue (editor),

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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

By Amanda Cockrell ,

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Bloodlines

By Rafael Canoa ,

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Serpent Visions

By Jinny Webber ,

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The Rocket Scientist

By Arthur Geis ,

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Rathuun

By David Fitz-Gerald ,

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Twelve Palominos

By Joe Kilgore ,

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A Small Compass

By Cinda Gault ,

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Dulcinea

By Ana Veciana-Suarez ,

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Demography and the Making of the Modern World

By John Rennie Short ,

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Altered Bodies

By Cody Sisco ,

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The Tao of Deep Relaxation

By Jean Brannon,

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The Titan Revenant

By J.D.L. Rosell ,

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Catching It Lovely

By Laurie Marr Wasmund ,

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The Blade in the Angel's Shadow

By Andy Darby ,

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No, You're Crazy

By Jeff Beamish ,

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Paris Polo Match

By Ami Hendrickson ,

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Blue Shield

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Death in a Shetland Family

By Marsali Taylor ,

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Nineteen: A Daughter's Memoir of Reckoning and Recovery

By Leslie Johansen Nack ,

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Bailey and the CEO

By Amy Q. Barker ,

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Her Daughter

By Fran Hawthorne ,

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Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun: Portrait of an Artist, 1755-1842

By Judith Lissauer Cromwell ,

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Here For All the Reasons

By Ilana Masad (editor) , Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais (editor), Carolyn Huynh (contributor) , Samantha Allen (contributor) , Sarah Gerard (contributor)

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Bessie

By Linda Kass ,

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Ootlin

By Jenni Fagan ,

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Hyperart

By Genpei Akasegawa , Matthew Fargo (translator) ,

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Mega Milk

By Megan Milks ,

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The Only Cure

By Mark Solms ,

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The Girl Who Made a Mouse From Her Grandfather's Whiskers

By Kenneth Hunter Gordon ,

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R.I.P. Scoot

By Sara Flemington ,

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Opposite Sully's Gym

By Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson ,

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Invitation to Murder

By Carol Floriani ,

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The Iron Garden Sutra

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This Incredible Longing

By Blair Glaser ,

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I'll Try Anything Twice

By Carly Schwartz ,

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Wreck Your Heart

By Lori Rader-Day ,

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The Culting of America

By Daniella Mestyanek Young , Amy Reed ,

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