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Most Anticipated Book Club Books of 2026
Is there anything more exciting than adding new titles to your TBR (to be read) list? As we turn the page to the new year, here are some of the many upcoming book releases we're looking forward to in 2026.
The Most Anticipated Book Club Books of 2026
The following titles are listed in order of publication date.
Woman Down by Colleen Hoover
Publication date: January 13, 2026
The perennial book club fave is back with a twisty new thriller that follows an author hunkered down in a remote lakeside cabin attempting to work on her comeback novel. When a detective shows up with disturbing news she is finally struck with inspiration, but the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.
The Last of Earth by Deepa Anappara
Publication date: January 13, 2026
This highly anticipated historical novel set in nineteenth-century Tibet follows two outsiders—an Indian schoolteacher spying for the British Empire and an English "lady" explorer—as they venture into a forbidden kingdom.
My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney
Publication date: January 20, 2026
The "Queen of Twists" is back again with a psychological marriage thriller in which a woman comes back home from a run to find that her key doesn't work and that her husband claims that the strange - yet eerily similar to her - woman who answers the door is his wife.
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Room 706 by Ellie Levenson
Publication date: January 20, 2026
In this tense and thrilling exploration of desire, a married woman is trapped with her lover in a hotel under siege: If she knew it would end this way, would it ever have begun?
The Astral Library by Kate Quinn
Publication date: February 17, 2026
Historical fiction fave Kate Quinn dips her toe into fantasy with this adventure novel for anyone who has ever wished they could live inside a book. Foster child Alix Watson discovers a hidden door in the Boston Public Library and meets the Librarian, who guards a fantastical hidden library. When danger arises, Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane Austen to the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes and the champagne-soaked parties of The Great Gatsby.