Books to Watch in 2026

Submitted: 15th December 2025

Books to Watch in 2026

Oh my. Brace yourself readers. There are some FINE books coming out next year and readers who love a bit of location reading should be in extasy.

Why?

These books are really going to take you places….in more ways than one…..

Feb – A Bad Bad Place

This will take you into deepest darkest Glasgow. The Scottish vernacular will challenge your eardrums in the best possible way. The plot will have you cheering and crying in equal measure. This is a BLAST of a read.

Feb – Nowhere Burning

Oh my!!! Read this behind a pillow. It’s the scariest setting in a book I have read for quite some time. A remote cabin. dark woods. A man living in the woods trying to hide from his past crimes….

This is not just any literary setting, it’s a Catriona Ward literary setting

April – Elizabeth and Marilyn

A novel about the friendship that might have blossomed between the world’s two most famous women – Elizabeth and Marilyn Monroe. Oh this is good! Fascinating line between fiction and imagination. Love it when authors imagine what might have happened with real figures in history.

April – Last One Out

Well, its Jane Harper what more do you need to know? Brilliantly evocative setting every time. This one…

Sam never comes home. His footprints in the dust of three abandoned houses offer the only clue to his final movements. One set in. One set out.

I mean, who doesn’t want to read this!!??

May – Hotel Orient

Oh wow. A mysterious hotel in the middle of Vienna and a very niche nightlife……you will want to read this!! You might want to fashion a mini whip as a bookmark…..

Get your TBR cleared now in preparation!!!

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