Our Most Anticipated New Books of 2026 – Living in Yellow

Anything Abby Jimenez writes is an automatic pre-order for us! This is Book 2 of Say You’ll Remember Me – one of our fav book club picks of 2025!

Publication date: March 24

A friends to lovers trope from one of our favorite romance authors, Carley Fortune. You may know her from Every Summer After or One Golden Summer – both 5 star reads for us!

Publication date: May 5

No one does summer romance quite like Katherine Center. The Shippers is a swoony fake dating, friends to lovers read – on a cruise ship. All aboard!

Publication date: May 19

Single mom Dolly returns to her seaside hometown and agrees to a fake-dating arrangement with wealthy Stewart Whitfield—but as their staged romance leads to real moments and unexpected feelings, Dolly must decide if she’s ready to let someone in.

Publication date: May 26

Newly engaged doctor Billie’s carefully built life is upended when her first love calls with life-changing news, forcing her to return home and confront the past, her choices, and what she truly wants.

Publication date: July 7

From the bestselling authors of The Paradise Problem and The Unhoneymooners return with an unforgettable novel. After a tragic accident erases her marriage from her husband’s memory, driven scientist Emery Finch breaks every rule to bring him back—giving their love one extraordinary second chance.

Publication date: July 14

The Storm by Rachel Hawkins

St. Medard’s Bay is famous for its hurricanes, the enduring Rosalie Inn, and Lo Bailey, accused of killing her lover during a 1984 storm. When a true-crime writer arrives with Lo in tow, inn owner Geneva Corliss is drawn into old secrets—and as another hurricane looms, she learns some truths are as deadly as the storms themselves.

Publication date: January 6

“Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall’s pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the bestselling book and TV show, The Last Thing He Told Me.“

Publication date: January 6

The Queen of Twists is back with a psychological masterpiece that will leave you questioning everything you know about love, identity, and revenge.

“Nonstop thrills! The best Feeney book yet!” ―FREIDA MCFADDEN
“Propulsive, compulsive, addictive.” ―LISA JEWELL

Publication date: January 20

Advice columnist Debbie Mullen has spent years helping other women survive bad marriages—until her own life falls apart. Fired, suspicious of her husband, and pushed past her limit, Debbie decides it’s time to take her own advice and seek payback. From Freida McFadden comes a dark, subversive thriller about what happens when justice turns deadly.

Publication date: January 27

Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth

When a new little girl (talkative, curious, nosy) moves into the neighborhood and stops at nothing to befriend Elsie, her carefully-constructed life threatens to come crashing down as the secrets in Elsie’s past start coming to light.

Publication date: April 21

Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate one May afternoon when a small white dog appears. The teenaged girl that had been staying nearby with the dog is nowhere to be found, and Jane decides to return it to his registered owner hours away in London, in the deepest backwaters of Hampstead. But when Jane arrives, she is immediately unsettled—because she has a dark history with this house.

Publication date: June 23

Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and In Five Years—a beautiful, powerful, and transportive new novel about a music executive desperately trying to bring a rock band back from the brink, from bestselling author Ashley Winstead.

Publication date: January 20

This Is Not About Us is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight of parental expectations, and the complex connection between sisters—a big-hearted book about the love that binds a family across generations.

Publication date: February 10

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout’s new novel follows a chance incident that transforms a beloved teacher’s life, exploring loneliness, friendship, parenthood, and truth in an uncertain world.

Publication date: May 5

June Baby by Shannon Garvey

Both a heartfelt coming-of-age story and a tender exploration of love and grief, set against a backdrop of golden dunes and seaside sunsets, June Baby shows us what it might look like to embrace a life shaped not by loss, but by possibility.

Publication date: May 19

Whistler by Ann Patchett

Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. It’s a story about bravery, memory, the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives, and the endless stream of loss that in time comes for us all.

Publication date: June 2

From the author of The Bright Years, the story of April and Leo, a couple on the brink of collapse. When their house goes up in flames, family secrets and thorny histories emerge as they are forced to decide what is worth salvaging.

Publication date: June 16

“They were an unlikely pair—a blond bombshell and a photographer determined to be taken seriously—but Marilyn Monroe and Eve Arnold would make a deal that would change their lives in this dazzling new novel”

Publication date: January 20

In this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve, one American woman’s vision in post WWII Germany will tie together three people in an unexpected way.

Publication date: February 10

From the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Light Between Oceans comes a breathtaking and epic novel set in the vast outback of Australia—about tragedy, family secrets, and the enduring power of love.

Publication date: March 3

When Skye MacKinnon wins a lottery to buy a run-down Greek island cottage for one euro, she escapes England in search of a fresh start. As she renovates her new home and bonds with fellow lottery winners, Skye uncovers mysterious letters that reveal the island’s WWII past—and discovers the healing power of connection, love, and found family.

Publication date: March 17

The multimillion-copy-selling author of The Help returns with a bold, big-hearted novel about a group of unbreakable women, fighting for what’s rightfully theirs—and the power of friendship to change everything.

“A must-read.”—Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry

Publication date: May 5

Land by Maggie O’Farrel

Set in post–Great Hunger Ireland, Tomás and his young son Liam map a windswept peninsula for the Ordnance Survey. When a mysterious encounter derails their work, Tomás begins to unravel, leaving ten-year-old Liam to confront his father’s secrets and find a way to bring them both home.

Publication date: June 2