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!
Thank you!
This is the best list - excited to make my summer reading plans from this🤗