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2026 Tournament of Books March 16-April 12 |
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Alchemised by SenLinYuAlchemist Helena Marino, a prisoner with amnesia, fights to survive in a necromancy-ridden world as the ruthless High Reeve attempts to unearth the vital secrets hidden within her missing memories. |
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Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins ReidJoan Goodwin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University, dreams of going to space after seeing an ad for NASA’s space shuttle program. Selected in 1980, she trains at Johnson Space Center with fellow candidates. As they prepare for their first flights, Joan finds new passion and love, questioning her place in the universe. Everything changes on mission STS-LR9 in December 1984. |
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Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah AdamsRomance writer Emily Walker finds herself in a love-hate relationship with her neighbor and former nemesis, Jack Bennett, when he threatens to expose her secret identity in the new novel from the best-selling author of The Rule Book. |
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The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley GelfusoA spectacular historical and speculative novel about a WWII-era girl who grows up trapped in the time space, a cavernous library featuring books that house memories--but while government agents burn memories they wish to erase, she saves them, until an affair with an American CIA agent as a young woman changes the course of her life. |
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Buckeye by Patrick RyanIn postwar Bonhomie, Ohio, a fleeting passion after V-E Day ties Cal Jenkins—scarred by his inability to serve—to Margaret Salt, a woman hiding her past. As Cal’s wife, a gifted seer, communes with the dead and a telegram casts doubt on Margaret’s husband’s fate, a secret takes root in the rebuilding town—and in a place like Bonhomie, nothing stays buried for long. |
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham JonesA chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. |
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Don't Let Him in by Lisa JewellWhen charming Nick Radcliffe enters Nina's life, her daughter Ash grows suspicious, uncovering unsettling secrets that connect them to Martha, a florist with a husband who keeps disappearing, leading all three women toward a chilling truth they never expected. |
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Fake Skating by Lynn PainterExcited to return to Minnesota and reconnect with her childhood sweetheart Alec, Dani discovers her nerdy best friend is now a hunky hockey star, and only a fake-dating situation may truly reunite them. |
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Heartwoodby Amity GaigeHeartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team race against time when an experienced hiker mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail in Maine. |
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Isolaby Allegra GoodmanInspired by a real 16th-century heroine, an orphaned and betrayed young woman, Marguerite, is marooned on a desolate island with her lover, where she must confront nature's harshness and her own strength in a desperate fight for survival. |
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Katabasis
by R. F. Kuang
Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this dark academia fantasy, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul--perhaps at the cost of their own.
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King of Ashes by S. A. CosbyWhen eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home to Jefferson Run, Virginia after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family crematorium business—together. Neveah and their father see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Dante’s recklessness has placed them all in real danger. |
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My Friends by Fredrik BackmanMost people overlook them—three tiny figures at the end of a pier in a famous painting. But eighteen-year-old Louisa, an aspiring artist, is determined to uncover their story. Twenty-five years earlier, in a seaside town, a group of teenagers escape troubled homes by spending summers on an abandoned pier, sharing jokes, secrets, and small rebellions. Louisa sets out on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting was made—and what she should do with it. |
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Say You'll Remember Me by Abby JimenezThere may be no such thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes dangerously close—a gorgeous veterinarian with Greek god vibes who cuddles kittens. That is, until he opens his mouth and says exactly the wrong thing. Samantha loves proving an asshole wrong… unless he can admit his mistake. After one incredible, possibly best-ever date, Samantha must face the truth: her family is in crisis, and any relationship is impossible. |
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Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne CollinsIt's the 50th annual Hunger Games and as the games begin, District 12 tribute Haymitch Abernathy realizes he's been set up to fail, but something in him wants to fight, in the fifth book in the Hunger Games series.
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Wild Dark Shoreby Charlotte McConaghy Dominic Salt and his three children are the last caretakers of Shearwater, a remote island near Antarctica that holds the world’s largest seed bank. Battling rising seas and isolation, they rescue a mysterious woman, Rowan, after a violent storm. As hope grows, secrets emerge—Rowan’s true motives, Dominic’s past, sabotaged radios, and a fresh grave. With storms worsening, they must decide whether they can trust one another to protect the seeds and build a future beyond their shared tragedies.
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