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The Best New Books Publishing in August 2026

August

2026

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Appraisals: A Novel
by Claire Boyles
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/04/2026
 
Maggie Brandt, a third-generation farmer, is cultivating a few acres of organic vegetables in rural Colorado—a place where industrial farming ...more
Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
The Amateur: A Novel
by Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday, 08/04/2026
 
1978: It is the first Thursday in August and temperatures are flirting with ninety when Mira Winston, eighteen years old, drives a golf ball from her ...more
The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience
by Chris Young
Little Brown & Company, 08/04/2026
 
If our world were more just, Chris Young would have been crossing a stage at college graduation at the age of 22. Instead, he was marched into a ...more
Biography/Memoir
Time Travel for Beginners
by Jaclyn Moriarty
Berkley Books, 08/04/2026
 
On a bustling road in Sydney, Australia, lies a nondescript storefront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. Inside, you'll be welcomed by the smell...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dreamland
by Olivie Blake
Tor Books, 08/11/2026
 
The headlines are calling it the "summer of exsanguination" in LA―girls are being murdered, the Santa Ana winds are blowing a strange energy ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sunrise: A Novel
by Téa Obreht
Random House, 08/11/2026
 
In 2024, Nina's small-engine plane crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. Her boyfriend Ben, who was flying it, is nowhere to be found. Lost ...more
Literary Fiction
The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time?and How to Fix It
by Annie Lowrey
Ecco, 08/25/2026
 
Everyone knows that dealing with government bureaucracy can be a nightmare. Doing your taxes is bad enough, but for those applying for financial aid, ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
They Say a Girl Died Here: A Novel
by Sarah Pinborough
Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, 08/25/2026
 
Anna Maybourne never imagined herself living in a place like Harper's Creek, a nowhere town full of dusty farmland plagued by drought. It's supposed ...more
Thrillers
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