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!

"100 Books to Live By: Literary Remedies for Any Occasion" by Joseph Piercy
"A Compass On the Navigable Sea: 100 Years of World Literature" by Daniel Simon (Editor)
"A World of Bookish Places: Travel Inspiration for Book Lovers" by DK Travel
"Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery: The Story of Crime Fiction" by Martin Edwards and Lucy Rowland
"American Sophistication: How the Casual Became Cool" by Ross Posnock
"An Archive" by Mathieu Lindon
"Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand" by Fiona Sampson
"Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction" by Suzanne R. Black
"Book Lovers' New England: A Guide to Literary Landmarks" by Sheila Moeschen
"Bookbindings: An Illustrated History" by David Pearson
"City Lights: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore" by Gioia Woods
"Cookbooking: A Fan's Guide" by Debbie Berne
"Cormac McCarthy: A Legacy Revisited" by Tracy Daugherty
"Critical Masses: The Invention of Close Reading in Nineteenth-Century Britain" by Jesse Cordes Selbin
"Darkness Becomes Bright: On the Brief Life and Immortal Art of Edgar Allan Poe" by Emily Ogden
"Digital Inc.: From Print to E-Book-Inside the Transformation of the Book Industry" by Richard Curtis
"Eleven Days: The Fascinating True Account of Agatha Christie's Mysterious Disappearance" by Laura Thompson
"En Route: A Journey Through France in the Company of Great Writers" by Peter Fiennes
"Finders, Keepers: The Secret Life of Second-hand Books" by Nicholas Royle
"Hope in the Library: How Libraries Can Help Shape Our Future with Artificial Intelligence" by Jr., Michael J. Paulus
"Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad" by Jeff Jarvis
"Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad" by Jeff Jarvis
"How to Defend Books and Why: Book Bans and How We Fight Them" by Danny Caine
"Humanistic Judgment: Ten Experiments in Reading" by Benjamin Barasch, David Bromwich, Bryan Garsten
"In Contagion's Wake: Black Writers and the Development of Modern Outbreak Narratives" by Kelly L. Bezio
"In the Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship" by Ann Blair
"Into the Badlands: America and its Crime Writers, 2nd ed." by John Williams
"Jack Rittenhouse: A Western Literary Life" by David R. Farmer
"Jean Toomer: Writer for a New America" by George Hutchinson
"Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover" by Guy Cuthbertson
"Lament for a Literature: The Collapse of Canadian Book Publishing" by Richard Stursberg
"Magic on Paper: Steidl Book Culture" by Dominika Hasse
"Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction" by Laura B. McGrath
"Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built" by Gayle Feldman
"Paper Intimacies in the Early Modern Lyric" by Dianne Mitchell
"Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary Cultures" by Oliver Scheiding
"Read Your Color: Discover Your Reading Type and Build a Life-Changing Love of Books" by Steven J. Reese
"Reader Bot: What Happens When AI Reads and Why It Matters" by Naomi S. Baron
"Reading Matters: A History for the Digital Age" by Joel Halldorf
"Reading Pictures: A History of Illustration" by D. B. Dowd
"Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop" by Jeannine A. Cook
"The Art of the Book: 75 Years of Thames & Hudson" by Anna Nyburg
"The Author of Mary Poppins: The Unknown Story of P L Travers" by Elisabeth Galvin
"The Book: 101 Definitions" by Amaranth Borsuk
"The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader" by Peter D McDonald
"The Great Age of Storytelling: The Glory Days of Adventurers and Rogues, Time Travelers, and Great Detectives" by Michael Dirda
"The Infinite Loop: Archives and Time Travel in the Popular Imagination" by Lynne M. Thomas and Katy Rawdon
"The Last Amateur: Jonathan Swift, Edward Said, and the Profession of Literature" by Helen Deutsch
"The Lightning-Bug and the Lightning: Debunking the Myths of Mark Twain, in His Own Words" by Mark Dawidziak
"The Neverending Book" by Naoki Matayoshi
"The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society" by James Marriott
"The Second Printing Revolution: Invention of Mass Media" by Jeremy M. Norman
"The Story of Printmaking: A Global History of Art" by Holly Black
"The Storytellers: Reading the Masterpieces of Nineteenth-Century Short Fiction" by Michael Gorra
"The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love" by Katie da Cunha Lewin
"Too Good to Waste: Recycling Paper in the Eighteenth Century" by Amélie Junqua, Geoffrey Day
"Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy" by Jo Walton, Ada Palmer
"Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography" by Joshua Kendall
"Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on TikTok" by Oliver James
"We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature" by Aarthi Vadde
"What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You)" by Naomi Kanakia
"When Books Go Bad: Tales of Literary Feuds, Publishing Errors and Withering Reviews" by Alex Johnson