2026
2026 Releases
From Bookbub: The Most Anticipated Books of 2026
August New Releases
From Bookshop.org: August 2026 Fiction Releases
From The New York Times: 6 New Books We Love This Week
Summer Reading
From BookBub: These New Books Are Truly Unputdownable
From Real Simple: Looking for Your Next Summer Read? These Are the Books Everyone’s Adding to Their TBR List Right Now, According to Goodreads
From The Boston Globe: Ready to get into summer reading? Here are 75 books to keep
From The New York Times: Summer’s Best Beach Reads
Thriller and Mystery
From Bookbub: The Best Mysteries and Thrillers of Summer 2026
From CrimeReads: The Most Anticipated Mysteries, Thrillers, and Crime Novels of Summer 2026
Romance
From Bookbub: The Best Romances of Summer
Book Club Picks
Books Adaptations
From Netflix: 22 TV Shows Based on Books for Your Streaming (and Reading!) Pleasure
From SlashFilm: 8 Upcoming Movies And TV Shows Based On 2025 Books. Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/2201092/upcoming-movies-tv-shows-based-2025-books/
Coming Soon:
From The New York Times: Read These Books Before They Hit Your Screens in 2026
From The New York Public Library: 20 Books To Read Before You See Their Upcoming Screen Adaptations
From Purewow: 4 Book-to-Screen Adaptations I’m Excited for in 2026—and 1 I’m Really Worried About
From Barnes and Noble: Page-to-Screen Adaptations Coming in 2026
New in August:
The Shards (premieres on FX (Hulu) on August 5th), Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis have collaborated to develop a series from Ellis’s autobiographical novel, set during his senior year at the exclusive Buckley School in Los Angeles. Set against the vivid backdrop of 1980s Los Angeles, the series follows Bret, an aspiring writer and observant teenager at an elite prep school, and his glamorous social circle as they navigate identity, sex, jealousy, obsession and the dangers beneath American adolescence.
“Reacher” Season 4 (premieres on Amazon Prime on August 12th)Book series by Lee Child
The Last Sunrise (drama on Prime Video August 26th), follows Ry (Maia Reficco), a college student with a chronic illness, on a summer escape to Mallorca with her mother (Eva Longoria). As she unexpectedly falls for Julián (Fernando Lindez) and begins to embrace living in the moment, her worsening condition and long-hidden family secrets threaten to unravel everything before the summer ends. Based on the novel by Anna Todd
The Whisper Man (2026 ‧ Crime Thriller on Netflix on August 28th), A grieving father and his young son relocate to the quiet town of Featherbank, which was terrorized by a serial killer known as The Whisper Man 15 years earlier. The rumors circulated that the Whisper Man worked with an accomplice. Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Alex North
All the Truth in My Lies (spanish comedy/drama on Netflix August 28th), Two roommates join a bachelorette road trip, where unspoken feelings ignite and shake up their entire friend group. Based on Elísabet Benavent’s novel.
Events for Writers and Readers
Bookstore Events
Meet your favorite authors in person and get your book signed. Sign up to receive a newsletter from your local bookstore to learn about events, recommendations, and new releases.
Boston area bookstores: (Find author events on these websites.)
- Beacon Hill: https://www.bhbooks.com/
- Brookline Booksmith: https://brooklinebooksmith.com/ Events: https://brooklinebooksmith.com/upcoming-author-events
- Trident Booksellers: https://tridentbookscafe.com/
- Harvard Book Store: https://www.harvard.com/ Events: https://www.harvard.com/events
- I Am Books: https://www.iambooksboston.com/ Events: https://iambooksboston.com/events
- Frugal Book Store: https://frugalbookstore.net/
- Porter Square Books: https://portersquarebooks.com/. Events calendar: https://portersquarebooks.com/events/calendar
- Lovestruck books and cafe: https://lovestruckbooks.com/
- Brattle Book Shop: https://www.brattlebookshop.com/
Online
From The Back Room
Summer’s Best Books on August 16, 2026 at 5pm ET
Hank Phillippi Ryan Robert Thorogood
Susan Marchese 
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