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