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Spring 2026 New Releases
Ten of the most acclaimed new novels of the season — debuts, returns from major voices, and books worth ordering before they sell out
10 books
01Kin
Tayari Jones
The most anticipated American novel of the spring. Jones writes about marriage and family with a moral seriousness no contemporary can match.
02This Is Not About Us
Allegra Goodman
Goodman writes domestic life with the patience and precision of a watchmaker. This is her largest canvas yet.
03The Shape of Dreams
April Reynolds
A long-awaited second novel that reanimates the social novel through pure voice. The reading experience of the season.
04The Complex
Karan Mahajan
A serious bid for one of the year's important novels. Mahajan refuses easy nostalgia and writes Delhi with the rigor of a historian.
05Whidbey
T Kira Madden
Madden's prose has the texture of weather. A debut novel from a writer who has been quietly building this book for years.
06Down Time
Andrew Martin
The funniest American novel about wasted potential in years. Sentences that are quietly devastating between the laughs.
07Son of Nobody
Yann Martel
Martel's slimmest book since Self. A fable for our age of forgetting, told in his characteristic voice.
08On the Calculation of Volume IV
Solvej Balle, Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell
Few English-language reading experiences feel as singular. International Booker shortlisted; one of the great projects of the decade.
09Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
The most assured first novel of the season. Burke writes about nostalgia without succumbing to it.
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The Autobiography of Cotton
Cristina Rivera Garza, Christina MacSweeney
Rivera Garza in genre-defying mode — a book that refuses to choose between memoir, history, and natural science. Pre-order now.
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