58 new books coming out April 28 – May 4, 2026

58 new books coming out April 28 – May 4, 2026

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

                                 

🧰 Help and How-to

Just a Busy Season: Essays on Motherhood, an Unexpected Comedy by Taylor Wolfe - Comedian and author of Birdie & Harlow @thedailytay shares an honest and hilarious essay collection on parenting young children, navigating social anxiety, and being a millennial woman.

Invincible: Defy Your Genetic Destiny to Live Better, Longer by Florence Comite

Forbidden Feasts: The Official Lights Out Cookbook by Navessa Allen

 

💡 Big Ideas

When the Ache Remains: Lessons on Tending to the Unfixable and Finding Beauty Anyway by Lisa Olivera

The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present by Steve Brusatte - From the renowned paleontologist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a sweeping evolutionary history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to the 10,000+ extraordinary species alive today.

 

 

🗣 True Stories

Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About: A Memoir by Isabel Klee - From the social media superstar behind @SimonSits, Isabel Klee—known for her heartwarming tales of dog rescue—comes an utterly winning memoir about a twentysomething woman’s search for true love in New York City and the dogs who helped her find it.

Driven by Susie Wolff

This Is Not About Running: A Memoir by Mary Cain

When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine by Francesca Albanese

Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay by Mary Lisa Gavenas

Pope Leo XIV: The Biography by Elise Ann Allen

The High Road: Confessions of a Homicide Cop by Hank Idsinga

 

💘 Romance

JAY BIRD by Jaime Lewis

How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles

Knocked Up By Number Ninety by Elise Faber

Charming Mr Carrington by Juliette N. Banks

Hell to Pay by Sherrilyn Kenyon - Brand new from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon—a darkly witty supernatural thriller where the Devil's exiled son must solve crimes on Earth or be damned for eternity.

Death Meets Cute by J. Penner

The Sea Spinner by Julie Johnson

Rite of Lies and Loyalty by Laura Greenwood

The Moon Blessed King by Lindsey Byrd

 

🗡️ Crime, Mystery, and Action

26 Beauties by James Patterson

Burn of Summer by Rebecca Zanetti

SNOW by Jaime Lewis

A False and Fatal Claim by Iona Whishaw

No Good Deed by B. E. Baker

A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz

Break Room by Miye Lee - Eight unsuspecting people receive an invitation to participate in a new reality show called Break Room. But what starts as an opportunity for fame is quickly revealed to be something far more unsettling when they learn how they were chosen--voted in by their respective coworkers as "the office villain."

Boring Asian Female by Canwen Xu

 

🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction

Bertie's Theory of Ice Cream by Alexander McCall Smith

Wildwood by Elinor Florence

The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Oliva

Ghost Town by Tom Perrotta - A gripping and darkly nostalgic tale about a tumultuous summer in 1970s suburban New Jersey, from the perspective of a middle-aged writer looking back on a series of events that changed his life—and the story he finally has the courage to tell.

Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block by Jesse Q Sutanto

Dreamt I Found You by Jimin Han

Liar's Dice by Juliet Faithfull

 

🩸 Horror 

Molka by Monika Kim - Molka: an abbreviation of molrae-kamera, a “sneaky camera” hidden to capture covert images and videos for voyeurs.

Dark Is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce

How to Survive Camping: The Lady in Chains by Bonnie Quinn

 

✨ Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction

Cast in Blood by Michelle Sagara

We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune - Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. Together they’ve experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt like the end of the world. Now, the world is ending for real. A rogue black hole is coming for Earth and in a month everything and everyone they’ve ever known will be gone.

Master Alvin by Orson Scott Card

The Call of the Rift: Fuse by Jae Waller

Hex House by Amy Jane Stewart

The Heroic Legends Series - Kull: The Undoomed Man by Adam Rose

A Sea Change: A Shadowhunters novella by Cassandra Clare

Star Trek: Picard: To Defy Fate by Dayton Ward

Certainty by John Twelve Hawks

Project V by Park Seolyeon

 

🗯 Manga & Graphic Novels

Spy School Secret Service the Graphic Novel by Stuart Gibbs

[Oshi No Ko], Vol. 13 by Aka Akasaka

From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman, Vol. 5 by Shigeru Sagazaki

My Lover Is Just Too Innocent to Handle, Vol. 1 by Hirota

To Sir, Without Love: I'm Divorcing You, Vol. 3 (manga) by Kori Hisakawa

Touring After the Apocalypse, Vol. 7 by Sakae Saito

Hirano and Kagiura, Vol. 5 (manga) by Shou Harusono

The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 7 by Mokumokuren

Anxietyland by Gemma Correll - Gemma Correll's graphic memoir debut chronicling her lifelong experience with anxiety and depression.

 

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