Most Anticipated New Book Releases: July 2026

Sea of Charms: A Spellshop Novel

Sarah Beth Durst

July 28, 2026 Hardcover$29.99 Bramble

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DELUXE EDITION, a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring beautiful cerulean blue sprayed edges! Sarah Beth Durst brings cozy fantasy romance to the high seas in Sea of Charms, the third magical adventure in the New York Times bestselling Spellshop series! Marin has always belonged on the great blue sea. Betrayed by love, Marin lives and works as a supply runner, sailing from island to island, delivering an array of goods with Perri the sea serpent and Ree the sailor shrub as her crew.

The Mortons: A Novel

Justine Larbalestier

July 21, 2026 Hardcover$32.00 Pamela Dorman Books

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“Slippery, sinister, and so much fun.”, Charlotte McConaghy, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Dark Shore Meet the Mortons: In this family, murder is currency, and business is booming. The Mortons are a modern-day, old-money dynasty with impeccable taste, from their exquisitely crafted cocktails to their expertly tailored vintage garments. They are also stone-cold killers. For the Mortons, homicide is heritage.

Country People: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel

Daniel Mason

July 7, 2026 Hardcover$30.00 Random House

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GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont), leaving all the comforts of home behind, a rollicking, lyrical novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods and one of America’s greatest living writers Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles.

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

Ben Reeves

July 2026 Hardcover$28.00 Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

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The Flayed Man: A Novel

Chloe Lauter

July 21, 2026 Paperback$16.95 Soft Skull

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A complex mother-daughter relationship is taken to a new level in this fresh and propulsive novel of family curses, blood-thirsty ghouls, and budding romance set against the Mojave Desert and Las Vegas Ellis Karsten spends nights working triage in the ER and days having the same conversation with her mom. The early onset dementia is exhausting, but the real challenge is their curse, Ellis’s family must feed daily on blood, or risk becoming mindless, skinless killing machines.

Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska

Rebecca Wright Stevens

July 14, 2026 Hardcover$29.00 Counterpoint LLC

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The stunning true story of a double homicide in the vibrant native Alaskan Iñupiat community at the arctic edge of the United States, written by the public defender at its center Rebecca Wright is a defense attorney living in the Lower 48 when she suddenly finds herself a widow and an empty nester. In need of a radical change, she accepts a public defender position in Utqiagvik on Alaska’s North Slope, an oil-rich area the size of Wyoming where the Iñupiat community holds great cultural, political, and economic power.

All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir

Emilee Hackney

July 28, 2026 Hardcover$32.00 Penguin Press

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“[An] achingly intelligent memoir . . .

Moss'd in Space

Rebecca Thorne

July 7, 2026 Paperback$18.99 Bramble

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USA Today Bestselling author Rebecca Thorne delights in a brand new cozy science-fiction romance series...for fans of Martha Wells! Features original inside art! Torian Razner finally bought a starship, and contrary to Amelia’s assessment, it was not “a meteoric sign of stupidity.” Sure, the alien starship may have been abandoned for a century, and it may be covered in moss now... but it’s Torian’s ticket to freedom, regardless of what her ex... ah, captain... said.

Love You More: A Novel

Emily Giffin

July 7, 2026 Hardcover$32.00 Ballantine Books

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A woman is newly engaged to a man she adores when she receives a call from her first love with news that shatters her carefully ordered world, in this emotionally powerful novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Pact. Billie has built the perfect life. Her medical practice in New York City is thriving, and she’s finally found the right partner in Dean after years spent trying to move on from her high-school sweetheart, Mick.

Cool Machine: A Novel

Colson Whitehead

July 21, 2026 Hardcover$30.00 Doubleday Books

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy 1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture's Dealer of the Month.

Dominion

Jean Kwok

July 14, 2026 Hardcover$32.00 G.P. Putnam's Sons

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A woman with no past. A warrior with no future. Their love could save the world, or burn it down. Fourth Wing, by way of Chinese mythology, meets The Hunger Games in a perilous world where a young woman with no memory and little magic may hold the key to uniting the Dominions and saving the mortal realm, from the New York Times bestselling author of Read with Jenna pick Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation.

The Parisian Heist: A Novel

Jo Piazza

July 14, 2026 Hardcover$30.00 Dutton

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From the bestselling author of The Sicilian Inheritance and Everyone Is Lying to You comes a propulsive dual-timeline mystery drenched in art-world intrigue and brimming with family secrets, betrayal, and the intoxicating lure of power. Emma, a struggling American artist in Paris, thought she had left her dreams behind when she took a job cleaning for the city’s wealthy elite. Then she meets Stella Swanson, the widow of one of the most notorious art dealers in the business.

Sleepless

Gordon Korman

July 7, 2026 Hardcover$18.99 Scholastic Press

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From the #1 bestselling author of RESTART, the story of five kids who are up all night every night... and desperate to find out why. There's not enough time in the day. How often have Mickey, Skye, Levi, Cyrus, and Thea thought that? Well, now they have plenty of extra time... because they no longer need to sleep. None of them knows why this is happening to them. All they know is that they have to keep it a secret from their families and their friends.

Just a Highland Fling: A Novel

Naina Kumar

July 21, 2026 Paperback$20.00 Dell

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“Naina Kumar is quickly becoming a favorite author of mine. Her books are brilliant, witty, sexy, and so damn good.”, Hannah Bonam-Young, bestselling author of Out on a Limb Sparks fly on a road trip through the Scottish highlands in this delightful forced proximity romance from the bestselling author of Flirting With Disaster. Neelu Pillai makes a last-minute decision to fly to Scotland for her estranged father’s wedding with one goal: to get through it with as little conflict as possible.

Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies

David Thomson

July 2026 Hardcover$30.00 Simon & Schuster

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Biological War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

July 28, 2026 Hardcover$33.00 Dutton

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One of People's 15 Most Anticipated Books of Summer The Next Big Idea Club's July 2026 Must-Read Books One of the New York Times Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer Sunset Magazine's 15 New Books You Don't Want to Miss From Annie Jacobsen, the author of the bestselling Nuclear War: A Scenario, a book on a subject that has long orbited her reporting: biological warfare. A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society.

Oodles of Noodles (A Counting Word Play Board Book for Toddlers)

Jessie Atkin

July 14, 2026 Board Books$12.99 Little Bee Books

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Count to 10 in this book that uses rhyme and word play to humorously show hungry animals eating! This is the fox who feasts on the lox. One box of lox for this hungry fox. These are the mice who munch on the rice. Twice as much rice for all of the mice. This counting book is a silly, tongue-twisting food and animal adventure! Each animal is paired with a favorite food and a unit of measurement--from one box of lox to ten skies full of fries--until all plates are clean and every tummy is full.

The Romance Revival

Christina Lauren

July 2026 Hardcover$29.00 Gallery Books

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Scavenging Beauty: A Memoir in Walks

Angelica Glass

July 7, 2026 Hardcover$32.00 Riverhead Books

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In this beguiling memoir of discovery and transformation, a woman walks every street in Santa Cruz County, California, and finds unexpected healing Angelica Glass spent decades as a social worker helping families struggling with poverty, addiction, abuse and neglect. Needing relief from work-related stress, she turned to walking as an outlet.

Dad, Love, Me: A Memoir

Matthew Quick

July 2026 Hardcover$30.00 Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

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The Felicity Complex

august clarke

July 28, 2026 Hardcover$28.00 Erewhon Books

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Annie Bot meets Fallout in this dystopian satire: six women created in a lab, designed to serve the billionaires of the future in a luxury fallout shelter, rebel against their programming after the end times arrive. Welcome to the Felicity Complex! Constructed during the height of the Cold War, our unique hotel is prepared to protect you, the billionaire class, from nuclear annihilation!

Fierce Country: The Untold Story of Three Women Who Ignited America's Love for the Wild (Original)

Heather Hansman

July 14, 2026 Hardcover$30.99 Hanover Square Press

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For readers of Susan Casey and Rinker Buck, the inspiring, untold story of three incredible women who pioneered the outdoor movement in America In the spring of 1945, when even the most courageous outdoor enthusiasts had yet to see the depths of the Grand Canyon, Georgie White jumped into the river at Diamond Creek with just a lifejacket and a backpack full of food. Shortly thereafter, she became the first woman to row the Grand Canyon.

The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness

Cal Flyn

July 28, 2026 Hardcover$35.00 Viking

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A lyrical exploration of the world’s wildest, most forbiddingly remote places, and the humans who have always been there, by an award-winning and critically acclaimed writer From the blacksand beaches of Iceland, to river crossings deep in the Amazon jungle, to the barren beauty of Antarctica, wildernesses make up some of the world's more alluring natural landscapes. But what is a wilderness, really? It is a powerful, ancient concept, lying at the intersection of landscape, philosophy, and ecology.

The Skeleton and the Cat

Brandon James Scott

July 2026 Hardcover$19.99 HarperCollins

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The Gilded Blade

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

July 28, 2026 Hardcover$21.99 Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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ALL GAMES MUST COME TO AN END. In the stunning finale to the global phenomenon of the Inheritance Games Saga (over 6 million copies sold!), discover danger, riches, romance--and the staggering answers to long-brewing mysteries. All games must come to an end. In this series-shattering conclusion, everyone is a player, long-held secrets are unveiled, precious threads are unraveled, and impossible mysteries are solved. In the grandest of games, there is so much to win--money, love, power, revenge--but there is also everything to lose.

Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures Into the Unknown

Roberta Kwok

July 21, 2026 Hardcover$27.99 Sourcebooks

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The real story of science isn't a triumphant breakthrough. It's messy, mysterious, and deeply human. In Lost in Curiosity, award-winning journalist Roberta Kwok pulls back the curtain on what scientific discovery actually looks like... Not a Eureka moment, but a fraught, often chaotic pursuit of truth.

The Bats on the Bus

Alison Jackson

July 2026 Hardcover$18.99 Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hachette

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In this twist on the classic song "The Wheels on the Bus," a school bus full of monsters cannot wait to celebrate Halloween.

The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy

Brigitte Knightley

July 7, 2026 Hardcover$31.00 Ace Books

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The stakes are high, the love is forbidden, and the slow burn turns steamy in this swoony, witty, and heart-stoppingly romantic sequel to instant New York Times bestseller The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy. This stunning hardcover features a cover with foil, beautifully designed endpapers, and a black-and-white interior map! Osric is a member of the Fyren Order, a guild of assassins who gleefully murder for money. Aurienne is a Haelan, a scholar-healer whose Order’s motto is Harm to none.