Summer 2026: Most Anticipated List

Can you get through all 90+ titles this summer?!

Every season, I go through all the upcoming books and select the ones I’m most excited about. Here are the books, by month and topic (with links below), that you should have on your radar! We’ll be selling all of them at Zibby’s Bookshop in Santa Monica, CA. Let me know what you think!

Links to all books on the list:

Alison Leiby, I’m A Lot: Surviving Myself

Alyssa Rosenheck, White. Blonde. Jew.

Amanda Eyre Ward, Arrivals and Departures

Amy Bloom, Blunt Instrument

Amy Chozick, With Friends Like You

Amy Ephron, Unseasonably Cold

Angela Brown, Ways to Find Yourself

Ann Patchett, Whistler

Anna Johnston, When Lemons Give You Life

Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

Ashley Poston, The Someday Garden

Ashley Winstead, Hot Girl Murder Club

Beatriz Williams, When You Loved Me

Ben Mezrich, Checkmate

Ben Reeves, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

Brenda Janowitz, The Introvert’s Guide to Kissing in Europe

Caitlin Mullen, Heather

Caitlin Shetterly, The Gulf of Lions

Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm

Caroline Hallemann, The Kennedys and the Windsors

Chris Young, The Wound is Where the Light Enters

Cinelle Barnes, A Way Home

Dara Levan, Shaken to the Core

Dave Eggers, Contrapposto

David K. Israel, The Lost Mozart

David Sedaris, The Land and Its People

Diane Debrovner and Stacy Cervenkas, Roxie in Color

Douglas Brunt, The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel

Dr. Lucy Hone, How Will I Ever Get Through This?

Elisa Port, The Breast Advice

Eliza Reid, The First Lady Next Door

Elizabeth Jannuzzi, Sober Mom

Emily Giffin, Love You More

Eva zu Beck, The Wilder Way

Evann Normandin, The Good Parts

Gabrielle Korn, Long Island Girls

Jacqueline Friedland, Breathing Under Water

Jamie Brenner, Blue Angel

Jamie Lynn Sigler, And So It Is...: A Memoir of Acceptance and Hope

Jane Costello, Forty Love

Jason Arday, Great and Unfortunate Things

Jean Kwok, Dominion

Jenny Hagel, Advice No One Asked For: Essays

Jenny Jackson, The Shampoo Effect

Jessica Knoll, Helpless

Jo Piazza, The Parisian Heist

John Searles, Single Girls

Joyce Maynard, In Wonderland

Justin Halpern, Get Lost

Kate Christensen, Good Company

Katherine Center, The Shippers

Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

Kimberly McCreight, Someone Else’s Husband

Kristy Woodson Harvey, Summer State of Mind

Kyleigh Leddy, Worse Than Strangers

Laura Marie Meyers, The Mash Up

Laura Moriarty, Sunlight Finds You

Laurie Frankel, Enormous Wings

Leslie Bazzett, Mia

Lindsay Bartels, Imogen in Waiting

Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her

Lisa Owens, Natural Disaster

Lisa Roe, Big & Lily

Lisa Scottoline, This Changes Everything

Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon

Lois Cahall, Maybe Marilyn

Lu Chekowsky, Don’t Buy What I’m Selling

Margie Lachman, Primetime

Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, A Pair of Aces

Matthew Quick, Dad, Love, Me

Michael Cunningham, Unsayable: A Life in Writing

Mikki Brammer, Good Joy, Bad Joy

Morgan Radford, Now Then

Naima Coster, Take What You Can

Natalie Messier, Every Version of You

Natalie Sue, You’ll Love it Here

Rachel Beanland, The Half Life

Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone

Richard Russo, Under The Falls

Robinne Lee, Crash Into Me

Rosie Walsh, The One Day You Were My Husband

Rowan Beaird, Tenderness

Ruth Ozeki, The Typing Lady

Ryan Effgen, Make Nice

Sara Bliss and Kate Doerge, Reimagining Grief

Sarah Damoff, The Burning Side

Sarah Pekkanen, The Women in White

Sarah Vaughan, Based on a True Story

Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvelous Ways

Soon Wiley, Cece Downing’s Start Over Summer

Teddy Wayne, The Au Pair

Tia Williams, The Missed Connection

Whitney Hanson, The Love of My Life

Enjoy!