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August 2026 Prepub Alert: forthcoming titles to know, share, and buy; plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all the titles and an Edelweiss catalog with plot summaries, author profiles, and more.

You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir by Christina Applegate leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Susan Mallery, Danielle Steel, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, and Cara Bastone. People’s book of the week is Kin by Tayari Jones. Amazon editors select the best books of March. LJ’s Prepub Alert previews titles publishing in July. Award-winning science fiction and horror writer Dan Simmons has died at the age of 77.

July 2026 Prepub Alert: forthcoming titles to know, share, and buy; plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all the titles and an Edelweiss catalog with plot summaries, author profiles, and more.

The 2026 edition of LJ’s Prepub Alert Preview highlights a year’s worth of forthcoming titles to know, share, and buy. There is much to note, including 16 different ways of thinking about fiction and 10 for nonfiction, plus spotlights on genre fiction and poetry. All told, nearly 400 suggestions await readers.

From the expansive catalog of books due out this year, the LJ review editors select works publishing in the next several months, titles already read or marked for our infinite TBR lists. The choices include a luminous novel that features an example of an early text adventure game, the newest Anthony Horowitz meta mystery, Xochitl Gonzalez’s consideration of a gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood, Suzanne Palmer’s postapocalyptic tale set in the New York Botanical Garden, reporter Jazmine Ulloa’s focus on El Paso, TX, and an 850-page Marcel Duchamp exhibition catalog.

June 2026 Prepub Alert: forthcoming titles to know, share, and buy; plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all the titles and an Edelweiss catalog with plot summaries, author profiles, and more.

May 2026 Prepub Alert: forthcoming titles to know, share, and buy; plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all the titles and an Edelweiss catalog with plot summaries, author profiles, and more.

April 2026 Prepub Alert: forthcoming titles to know, share, and buy; plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all the titles and an Edelweiss catalog with plot summaries, author profiles, and more.

March 2026 Prepub Alert: forthcoming titles to know, share, and buy; plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all the titles and an Edelweiss catalog with plot summaries, author profiles, and more.