2026 - New Books I Am Excited About

This page is where I track all the 2026 upcoming titles that most interest me and that I hope to read. The list is alphabetized for easy lookup. I also keep a list organized buy release date (also including publisher name, ISBN, price, etc.) to help out with planning and book buying. To view that list you simply have to register for the site here. It's free to join!

I focus mainly on books about publishing, authors, printing, book selling, bookstores, book collecting, book design, bibliophilia, book history, etc. Each book I read is a contender for the annual Books About Books Awards. If you would like to see past lists of the books about books I tracked last year, you can find them here: 2025, 2024.

Do you know of a book related book that I have missed? If so, please drop me a line info [at] booksaboutbooks.com and I’ll check it out to see if I’d like to add it to my to-be-read pile. Thanks!

1. "100 Books to Live By: Literary Remedies for Any Occasion" by Joseph Piercy
2. "A Compass On the Navigable Sea: 100 Years of World Literature" by Daniel Simon (Editor)
3. "A World of Bookish Places: Travel Inspiration for Book Lovers" by DK Travel
4. "Book Lovers' New England: A Guide to Literary Landmarks" by Sheila Moeschen
5. "Bookbindings: An Illustrated History" by David Pearson
6. "City Lights: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore" by Gioia Woods
7. "Digital Inc.: From Print to E-Book-Inside the Transformation of the Book Industry" by Richard Curtis
8. "En Route: A Journey Through France in the Company of Great Writers" by Peter Fiennes
9. "Hope in the Library: How Libraries Can Help Shape Our Future with Artificial Intelligence" by Jr., Michael J. Paulus
10. "Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad" by Jeff Jarvis
11. "Into the Badlands: America and its Crime Writers, 2nd ed." by John Williams
12. "Jack Rittenhouse: A Western Literary Life" by David R. Farmer
13. "Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover" by Guy Cuthbertson
14. "Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction" by Laura B. McGrath
15. "Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built" by Gayle Feldman
16. "Reader Bot: What Happens When AI Reads and Why It Matters" by Naomi S. Baron
17. "The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader" by Peter D McDonald
18. "The Neverending Book" by Naoki Matayoshi
19. "The Second Printing Revolution: Invention of Mass Media" by Jeremy M. Norman
20. "The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love" by Katie da Cunha Lewin
21. "Too Good to Waste: Recycling Paper in the Eighteenth Century" by Amélie Junqua, Geoffrey Day
22. "Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy" by Jo Walton, Ada Palmer
23. "Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on TikTok" by Oliver James
24. "What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You)" by Naomi Kanakia