57 new books coming out April 21 – 27, 2026

57 new books coming out April 21 – 27, 2026

The new books coming out this week that we’re most excited about

                                 

🧰 Help and How-to

Love, Finally: Untangling the Knot Between Mothers, Daughters, and Food by Geneen Roth

The Noma Guide to Building Flavour: Including recipes and techniques for sauces, butters, broths, reductions, preserves, vinaigrettes, flavoured salts, and infused oils by René Redzepi

Antifascist Dad: Urgent Conversations with Young People in Chaotic Times by Matthew Remski

How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work by Jodi Kantor

The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic by Gary Slutkin - As an epidemiologist, Dr. Slutkin led teams to end epidemics of cholera and tuberculosis, then HIV/ AIDS in Africa and Asia with the World Health Organization. In this book Dr. Slutkin reclassifies violence as a disease: one that enters the brain and infects people, communities, and countries via the same process as other epidemics. 

Anchored, Aligned, Accountable: A Framework for Transcending Bullsh*t and Transforming Our Lives and Work by Aiko Bethea

 

💡 Big Ideas

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King by Caroline Bicks

American Men by Jordan Ritter Conn - A deeply intimate portrait of the lives of four men that examines—in profound and comprehensive ways—what it means to be a man in America.

Why We Talk Funny: The Real Story Behind Our Accents by Valerie Fridland

How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves by Megan O'Grady

A History of Horror, Fear, and the Uncanny by DK

 

🗣 True Stories

Where the Earth Meets the Sky: A Story of Penguins, People, and Place in Antarctica by Louise K. Blight - A stunning work of natural history, science and polar travelogue, chronicling one woman's journey to study penguins in Antarctica, the most isolated place on the planet.

Interregnum: Inside the Gruelling and Glamorous Battle to Become the Next King of Chess by Jordan Himelfarb

Small Town Girls: a writer's memoir by Jayne Anne Phillips

Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare by Greg Doran

The Rolling Stones: The Biography by Bob Spitz

Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller by Miriam Horn

 

💘 Romance

Break Inside by Karen Renee

Renegade Hawke by Gwyn McNamee

The Antiquarian's Object of Desire by India Holton

The Hotel by the Sea by Julie Caplin - Rebecca needs to escape. After making a complete fool of herself watching the man she's secretly loved for years run off with someone else—she jumps at a temporary job at the family-run Quinta do Mar hotel. Sun, sea, and a fresh start sound perfect. What she doesn't expect is Felipe Rebelo.

Navy Captain's Convenient Wife by Carla Kelly

A Woman's Place by Danielle Steel

In Pursuit of Civility by Jennifer Turano

Honor & Heresy: A Gothic Academia Novel by Max Francis

 

🗡️ Crime, Mystery, and Action

Paradox by Douglas Preston & Aletheia Preston

Shadow Strike by Brad Taylor

Dirty Tricks by Evie Hunter

The Secrets of the Abbey by Jean-Luc Bannalec

The Duke's Indecent Purchase by Golden Angel

Mrs. Shim Is a Killer by Kang Jiyoung - When a middle-aged widowed loses her job at the butcher shop, she’s at a loss as to how to provide for her family—until she’s offered a position that puts her carving skills to new uses in this darkly humorous bestselling Korean thriller.

 

🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction

The Chambermaid's Key by Genevieve Graham

The Brink of Something Beautiful by Bobbi French

The Unforgettable Mailman by April Howells

Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez

Temporary Palaces by Jeff Miller

Livonia Chow Mein by Abigail Savitch-Lew

Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix

 

🩸 Horror 

The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer - A supernatural horror about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job from Craigslist, only to discover the position has consequences far greater—and more dangerous—than she ever could have imagined.

Odessa by Gabrielle Sher

 

✨ Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction

Thief of Hearts by Bec McMaster

The Thrifty Fae And The Repair Shop by Ariana Jade

The Rebel and the Final Blood War by K.A. Linde

Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan

Burn the Sea by Mona Tewari

Witch Queen Rising by Savannah Stephens

The Language of Liars by S. L. Huang

Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham

The Photonic Effect by Mike Chen - The starship Horizon’s crew spent ten years trapped across the expanse of space. Now they’re finally home—only it’s not the home they knew. The Cluster, once a peaceful coalition of planets, has fractured in the wake of civil war.

The Many by Sylvain Neuvel

 

🗯 Manga & Graphic Novels

Dawn on the Coast: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-sitters Club #19) by Arley Nopra

My Dress-Up Darling 15 by Shinichi Fukuda

Father, I Don't Want This Marriage, Volume 6 by Hong Heesu

Someday Perfect by Kat Schneider - In this beautiful graphic novel, a teen is tested when she falls for another camper at a Christian sleepaway camp, sparking feelings she was taught to suppress. As she grapples with the rigid expectations of her faith, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery that challenges her deepest beliefs.

Lover Boy, Vol. 5 by ZEC

I Tamed My Ex-husband’s Mad Dog, Vol. 6 by Jagae

 

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