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New Fiction, Mystery & Science Fiction February 2026 |
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This Is Not about Us by Allegra GoodmanWhen their beloved older sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into decades of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives -- divorces, dating, career setbacks, college applications, bat mitzvahs and ballet recitals -- their children do not want to get involved. Sharply observed and laced with humor, this is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight of parental expectations, and the complex connection between sisters. A big-hearted book about the love that binds a family across generations.
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So Old, So Young
by Grant Ginder
From East Village apartment parties and disastrous destination weddings, to fortieth birthdays and suburban backyard barbecues, five parties over the course of twenty years bring six college friends together. For Marco and Mia, Sasha and Theo, Richie and Adam, the one constant in life after college together has been change. New jobs. New cities. New spouses. New children. Through it all, one thing they thought would always stay the same is their friendship. But time has a way of breaking even the strongest bonds..
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Keeper of Lost Children
by Sadeqa Johnson
In 1950s Germany, Ethel Gathers, the wife of an American officer, volunteers at an orphanage filled with the abandoned mixed-race children of German women and Black American GIs. Her story becomes intertwined with that of Ozzie Phillips, who joined the desegregated army in 1948 and had a relationship with a local woman while serving in Germany, and Sophia Clark, a girl at a prestigious all-white boarding school in 1965 Maryland who discovers a secret that upends her world and sends her on a quest to unravel her own identity.
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Kin
by Tayari Jones
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood. Their lives diverge dramatically after their last year of high school, as Vernice graduates and reinvents herself at Spelman College, while Annie runs away, hoping to track down her errant mother in Memphis. As each faces her personal demons and disappointments, their unbreakable childhood bond keeps them anchored to each other.
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The Reservation
by Rebecca Kauffman
In a Midwestern college town, the staff at Aunt Orsa's have been gearing up for the restaurant's most important booking. Author John Grisham has reserved a table, and Orsa is desperate to make a good impression to counteract some negative online reviews. To her dismay, everything starts going wrong: 22 steaks are stolen, the dishwasher breaks, and there's an injury in the kitchen, not to mention the daily frictions among her staff. It seems like a deliberate sabotage, but who among the employees she thinks of as extended family could be the culprit?
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More Than Enough
by Anna Quindlen
High school English teacher Polly Goodman can talk about everything and anything with the women in her book club, which is why they've become her closest friends and the bedrock of her life. Her students, her fraught relationship with mother, her struggles with IVF -- Polly's book club friends have heard it all. But when they give Polly an ancestry test kit as a joke, the results match her with a stranger, and she combs through her family history for answers. Along the way, Polly learns how friendships can change your life in the most profound ways.
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The Astral Library
by Kate Quinn
Alix takes refuge at the Boston Public Library, reading and dreaming of far-off lands, until the day she stumbles through a hidden door and meets the Librarian: the ageless guardian of a hidden library where the desperate and the lost start new lives inside their favorite books. But before Alix can escape into the pages of her new life, a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone the Astral Library has ever helped protect. Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane Austen to the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes and the champagne-soaked parties of The Great Gatsby as danger draws inexorably closer.
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Her Last Breath
by Taylor Adams
Two friends embark on an ill-fated expedition into the Cascade Range's notorious Devil's Staircase cave system, where an encounter with a stranger leads one into a fight for survival in a narrow crawl space hundreds of feet underground. Meanwhile, an aging detective sidelined during the rescue is determined to get to the truth of what happened.
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The Crossroads
by C. J. Box
Marybeth Pickett gets the call she has always dreaded: her husband Joe is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. Joe was found in his pickup at Antler Creek Junction, a crossroads connecting three ranches, each owned by a different family with a bone to pick with the local game warden. With Joe unconscious and fighting for his life, his three daughters split up and investigate each of families to uncover the truth of what happened to their father, before it's too late..
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The Hadacol Boogie: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
by James Lee Burke
When a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux's property, he embarks on an investigation that brings him into the most dangerous moments of his career, pulling him into a vortex of corruption and violence in the Louisiana bayou and threatening the lives of his colleague, Valerie, and his daughter, Alafair.
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The Hard Line
by Mark Greaney
Security experts and operations worldwide are being threatened. It starts with a blown safe house in Tunis. Then Court Gentry himself barely escapes from an ambush in the jungles of Nicaragua, and key members of the US counterintelligence community are assassinated in their own neighborhoods. With the feds compromised, it's up to Court and his team to stop the hit squads. But that may be the least of the Gray Man's worries when he finds himself targeted by a legendary assassin on a personal quest to destroy Court and everyone he's ever loved, starting with the father he hasn't seen in twenty years.
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Crown City
by Naomi Hirahara
In 1903, 18-year-old Ryui Wada leaves Yokohama, Japan, for Pasadena, California, ready to reinvent himself after the untimely deaths of his parents. Though battling loneliness and culture shock, Ryui does his best to settle into his work as an art dealer's apprentice while adjusting to his new home. When a painting is stolen from the studio of Pasadena's most successful Japanese artist, Ryui and his friend Jack to investigate, but it's not long before their sleuthing leads them into real danger.
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It's Not Her
by Mary Kubica
Courtney Gray's peaceful vacation turns into a nightmare when she discovers her brother and sister-in-law dead in their lakeside cottage. Her niece Reese is missing. Her nephew Wyatt is asleep upstairs, unharmed. As police swarm the quiet resort, dark truths about Courtney's family -- and the town itself -- begin to surface. Is Reese a victim ... or the killer? With everyone hiding something, Courtney races to uncover the terrible mystery. But the closer she gets, the harder it is to know who, or what, to trust.
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How to Get Away with Murder
by Rebecca Philipson
When a girl is murdered in a local park, one of the only leads is a copy of a self-help book found in the victim's backpack called How To Get Away With Murder by a man named Denver Brady, who claims to be the most successful serial killer of our time, which is why no one's ever heard of him. Is Denver Brady really the killer? Is the murder the work of a copycat? Or is Denver's extended confession nothing more than an ingenious distraction?
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New Science Fiction & Fantasy
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The Wicked and the Damned
by Rebecca Robinson
In the exhilarating second romantasy novel in Rebecca Robinson's Dark Inheritance Trilogy, a fiery couple forced apart must navigate a deadly maze of politics and power to reunite across a continent at war.
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The Red Winter
by Cameron Sullivan
In 1785, Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the terrible Beast of Gévaudan has returned, and the French countryside runs red in its wake. A monster-slayer with centuries of experience, Sebastian joined the hunt for the creature twenty years ago and watched it slaughter its way through a long and bloody winter. Even with the help of his indwelling demon, Sarmodel -- who takes payment in living hearts -- it nearly cost him his life to bring the monster down. Now he has been recalled to the hunt by an estranged lover who shares a dark history with the Beast and a terrible secret with Sebastian.
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