Take a look ahead at all the upcoming book releases this year. Find out what the most-anticipated upcoming book releases are in the coming months.
What is it about a new book release that gets my heart pumping?
I may have a to-read list as tall as a mountain and a bookshelf already overflowing with books, but I still simply can’t resist upcoming book releases.
Instead of fighting my desire to read all the new books out, I’m embracing my penchant for finding the next great book.
If you love new book releases as much as I do, enjoy this list of all the upcoming book releases that have caught my eye. This upcoming book releases list is constantly updating, so be sure to come back and check again soon.
Every month, I update this list, removing books already published and adding upcoming book releases that catch my eye. Don’t worry, if you are looking for books published earlier this year, I’ve still got you covered.
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February 2021 Upcoming Book Releases
The Survivors by Jane Harper
Mystery & Thriller
February 2, 2021
A body discovered on the beach of his hometown brings old memories and past mistakes flooding back to Keiran Elliott upon his homecoming. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Four Hundred Souls Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Nonfiction
February 2, 2021
A one-volume “community” history of African-Americans from the year before the Mayflower to the present-day as told by 90 of today’s Black authors. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Removed by Brandon Hobson
Contemporary Fiction
February 2, 2021
A family gathers together to celebrate the Cherokee National Holiday and remember their teenage son who was killed in a police shooting. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Girl From the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat
Historical Fiction
February 2, 2021
A young Jewish girl hides in plain sight as a translator on the German-occupied Channel Islands during WWII. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Girl A by Abigail Dean
Mystery & Thriller
February 2, 2021
Years after escaping the House of Horrors run by their parents, a group of siblings inherit the house and must face how their childhood affected them. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
Contemporary Fiction
February 2, 2021
A recently divorced therapist stops a stranger from jumping off a bridge and brings him home for the weekend where they both find healing. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Project by Courtney Summers
Mystery & Thriller
February 2, 2021
After her sister joins The Unity Project, Lo Denham sets out to prove its a cult. Their charismatic leader proposes a deal: if she can prove any of it, she can expose them. Else she must leave them alone. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Think Again by Adam Grant
Nonfiction
February 2, 2021
Grant reminds us that just like we refresh our wardrobe from time to time, we need to routinely reexamine our beliefs and ways of thinking. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Unwilling by John Hart
Historical Fiction
February 2, 2021
At the height of the Vietnam War, a man must dive deep into his older brother’s war history to prove him innocent of the murder of a young woman. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Historical Fiction
February 9, 2021
During the Great Depression as the dust bowl settles in, Elsa Martinelli must decide whether to stay and fight or head west to California. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
Historical Fiction
February 9, 2021
During World War II, a young woman working at the American Library in Paris join the Resistance to fight the Nazis with what they have – books. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
Young Adult
February 9, 2021
Instead of being an outcast, sixteen-year-old Deka decides to leave her village to join an elite band of powerfully magical girls to fight for the emperor. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
Fantasy
February 16, 2021
The fourth book in Maas’s bestselling series, A Court of Thorns and Roses. Nesta and Cassian must work together when a group of human queens threatens the fragile peace. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Science Fiction
February 16, 2021
Evelyn Caldwell’s husband has been having an affair … with Evelyn’s clone, a product of Evelyn’s own groundbreaking research. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
Nonfiction
February 16, 2021
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates sets out a detailed practical guide to how the world can achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to prevent a climate disaster. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
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March 2021 Upcoming Book Releases
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
Nonfiction
March 2, 2021
Bestselling author Isabel Allende meditates on what it means to be a woman and how feminism has shaped her throughout her life. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Later by Stephen King
Horror
March 2, 2021
A young boy is recruited by an NYPD detective to use his unnatural abilities to help search for a killer who threatens to strike from beyond the grave. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Science Fiction
March 2, 2021
Klara, an artificial friend, watches from the store hoping that someone will buy her soon in this endearing tale of love and friendship. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Band of Sisters by Lauren Willig
Historical Fiction
March 2, 2021
A group of girls from Smiths College go to Franch to help with relief efforts while World War I rages around them. Based on a true story. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Sparks Like Stars by Nadia hashimi
Contemporary Fiction
March 2, 2021
An Afghan woman returns to Kabul looking for answers about the deaths of her family and her escape during the communist coup in 1978. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Historical Fiction
March 2, 2021
In 1791, Nella uses her London apothecary shop to sell poisons for women to use against abusive men. When she befriends a 12-year-old girl, the consequences will last generations. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
Contemporary Fiction
March 9, 2021
In Kosawa, a small African village, an American oil company has ruined the farmland and polluted the drinking water. Now, the people of Kosawa are determined to fight back. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Historical Fiction
March 9, 2021
After World War II, three female code breakers from Bletchley Park must uncover a spy who was working in their midst during the war. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Spellmaker by Charlie N. Holmberg
Historical Fantasy
March 9, 2021
Spellbreaker Book 2. After unmasking a magical assassin, Elsie Camden is must marry to avoid prison, all while trying to stop England’s most dangerous criminal. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Win by Harlan Coben
Mystery & Thriller
March 16, 2021
A man becomes entangled in an investigation into two cold cases where the suspect may have been involved in domestic terrorism. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Memory Collectors by Kim Neville
Fantasy
March 16, 2021
Ev has the ability to feel emotions left behind on objects and turns to Harriet to help her set up a museum memory and escape a darkness that threatens to plague them both. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Dating Plan by Sara Desai
Romance
March 16, 2021
A software engineer decides that the easiest way to get her family off her back is to arrange a fake engagement to her childhood crush. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Are We There Yet? by Kathleen West
Contemporary Fiction
March 16, 2021
Alice has always strived for the perfect life, but as everything starts falling apart she realizes no one’s life is perfect and it’s okay to not have it all. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
A Million Reasons Why by Jessica Strawser
Contemporary Fiction
March 23, 2021
Sela is in desperate need of a kidney transplant. She’s possibly found the perfect match; but how do you turn someone else’s life upside down by revealing that you are her previously unknown half-sister? Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson
Mystery & Thriller
March 23, 2021
Abigail Baskin’s dream honeymoon to her new husband, millionaire Bruce Lamb, is ruined when her one-night stand from her wedding night unexpectedly shows up. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Red Widow by Alma Katsu
Mystery & Thriller
March 23, 2021
CIA Agent Lyndsey Duncan heads an internal investigation into the Russian Division to search for a mole in the department. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
Mystery & Thriller
March 23, 2021
Filmmaker Alice Lindstedt sets out to make a documentary about an old mining town that vanished in 1959 when mysterious things begin to happen. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Remember by Lisa Genova
Nonfiction
March 23, 2021
Neuroscientist Lisa Genova explores how memories are made and how we retrieve them, explaining why we remember, why we forget and how to help protect our memory. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly
Historical Fiction
March 30, 2021
During the Civil War, Georgeann Woolsey becomes a Union nurse where she meets an enslaved girl who joined the Union Army fleeing her cruel mistress. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
Contemporary Fiction
March 30, 2021
While battling addiction, Jeannette, daughter of a Cuban immigrant, decides to learn more about her family history and visits her grandmother in Cuba. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Everybody Fights by Kim and Penn Holderness
Nonfiction
March 30, 2021
Youtube stars Kim and Penn Holderness, known for their parody songs, try their hand at writing relationship advice to help couples fight better. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
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April 2021 Upcoming Book Releases
Lies We Bury by Elle Marr
Mystery & Thriller
April 1, 2021
A young photographer must revisit her own childhood abduction to solve a string of murders after a note is left for her at the crime scene. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Mother May I by Joshilyn Jackson
Mystery & Thriller
April 6, 2021
Bree has a perfect life until a mysterious woman abducts her baby boy and forces Bree to complete one innocent task to get him back. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Light of Days by Judy Batalion
Nonfiction
April 6, 2021
The untold story of a group of Jewish women in Poland who became Resistance Fighters in the ghettos fighting Hitler’s regime. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
Horror
April 6, 2021
When her sister drowns at their grandmother’s estate, a woman returns home and discovers the house and her family has a supernatural history. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Widow Queen by Elzbieta Cherenzinksa
Historical Fiction
April 6, 2021
The great duke of Poland sees his three daughters as three chances for alliances, but Swietoslawa refuses to be a pawn, seeking a kingdom of her own. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Hype by Gabrielle Bluestone
Nonfiction
April 6, 2021
A journalist investigates the irresistible hype that fuels social media and the scammers and con artists who take advantage of the digital age. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
Contemporary Fiction
April 13, 2021
Librarian Fern Castle as a strictly regimented life. When she discovers her sister cannot get pregnant, she decides she can have the baby for her. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
All the Children Are Home by Patry Francis
Historical Fiction
April 13, 2021
In a small town in Massachusetts in the 1950s, foster parents take on one more foster child – a six-year-old indigenous girl who completely changes the family dynamics. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Margreete’s Harbor by Eleanor Morse
Historical Fiction
April 20, 2021
A woman moves her family from Michigan to the coast of Maine in the 1960s to take care of her aging mother who is no longer able to live alone. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
Historical Fiction
April 20, 2021
In Boston in 1662, A young Puritan woman plots her escape from an abusive marriage while being careful to avoid any accusations of witchcraft. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Effortless by Greg McKeown
Nonfiction
April 27, 2021
What if you could achieve more without overexerting and overthinking? McKeown stresses the importance of simplifying processes to get effortless results. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
Contemporary Fiction
April 27, 2021
Three lonely strangers in a rural Oregon town are brought together by a local honeybee farm where their surprise friendship leads to healing. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
Nonfiction
April 27, 2021
Gladwell ponders how technology and the best intentions collide in the heat of war while examining the bombing of Tokyo during World War II. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
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May 2021 Upcoming Book Releases
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Science Fiction
May 4, 2021
A lone astronaut wakes up with memory loss, not realizing that he is humanity’s lone hope for survival to prevent an extinction-level event. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Premonition by Michael Lewis
Nonfiction
May 4, 2021
Michael Lewis details the roots of the current coronavirus pandemic as a race against visionaries and medical authorities. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
That Summer by Jennifer Weiner
Contemporary Fiction
May 4, 2021
A suburban mom struggling to understand her dissatisfaction happens to befriend a successful single businesswoman – a friendship that turns out to not be as accidental as she thought. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
Historical Fiction
May 4, 2021
A fictionalized account of the life of Evangelina Cisneros, an imprisoned revolutionary who became the rallying cry for Americans after William Hearst as “the most beautiful girl in Cuba.” Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard
Fantasy
May 4, 2021
In the small town at the edge of the sea, Corayne an-Amarat discovers she is the last of an ancient line and unites with unlikely companions to save the realm. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Historical Fiction
May 4, 2021
The story of a female aviator who attempts to circumnavigate the world and the actress cast, a century later, to portray her disappearance in Antarctica. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
China by Edward Rutherfurd
Historical Fiction
May 11, 2021
Rutherfurd’s new historical saga takes on China, starting at the start of the opium war in 1839 and going all the way through Mao’s Cultural Revolution and modern-day China. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Mystery & Thriller
May 11, 2021
A down-on-his-luck professor steals the plot of a novel from a deceased former student and enjoys success until threatening messages begin to appear. Amazon | Goodreads
The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
Romance
May 18, 2021
Number-crunching single mom Jess tries a new DNA-based matchmaking service and is paired with the service’s founder, a man she detests. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
Nonfiction
May 18, 2021
An exploration of why people make bad judgments and how to control both noise and cognitive bias. Amazon | Goodreads
June 2021 Upcoming Book Releases
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Historical Fiction
June 1, 2021
In 1983, four famous siblings throw an epic summer party at their Malibu mansion that will change their life forever as their secrets come out. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Romance
June 1, 2021
Cynical August doesn’t believe life will ever change until she develops a crush on a girl from her subway commute … who happens to live in the 1970s. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
Contemporary Fiction
June 1, 2021
A dying 17-year-old girl befriends a dying 83-year-old woman at the terminal ward at a Glasgow hospital and they both decide to make the most of the time they have left. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams
Historical Fiction
June 1, 2021
Four years after her sister and her diplomat husband vanished from London, a woman must pose as the wife of a counterintelligence agent to retrieve them from behind the Iron Curtain. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi
Historical Fiction
June 1, 2021
At the beginning of the war in Iraq, an American Muslim teenage girl and her family must navigate identity, friendship, love, and heartache. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
Mystery & Thriller
June 15, 2021
A troubled group therapist risks everything to prove that a Greek Tragedy professor and his secret society of female students are guilty of murder. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur by Alka Joshi
Historical Fiction
June 22, 2021
Sequel to The Henna Artist. A decade later, Lakshmi sends her protege Malik to intern at the Jaipur palace where he becomes embroiled in a scandal after a cinema’s balcony collapses. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Mystery & Thriller
June 29, 2021
While sharing a ride home to Ohio with a stranger from her college rideshare board, a woman begins to suspect that the driver might be a serial killer. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Husbands by Chandler Baker
Mystery & Thriller
June 29, 2021
When a successful lawyer moves into an exclusive suburban neighborhood, she finds a group of high-powered women with extremely supportive husbands all with a secret they are willing to kill over. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
More Books Publishing in 2021
Such A Quiet Place by Megan Miranda
Mystery & Thriller
July 6, 2021
A year and a half after the murder of the Truett family, the idyllic town of Hallow’s Edge is shocked when the woman they all testified against is back after her conviction is overturned. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine
Mystery & Thriller
July 6, 2021
A woman with no memory of her past worries about her approaching wedding while a man searches for his wife who mysteriously vanished. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel
Historical Fiction
July 6, 2021
A woman teaches wilderness survival skills to a group of Jews trying to hide in the German woods during World War II when her past comes back to haunt her. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Therapist by B. A. Paris
Mystery & Thriller
July 13, 2021
When a couple moves into a gated community, the wife becomes obsessed with figuring out what happened to the therapist who used to live in her house. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Horror
July 20, 2021
Although haunted by their traumatic childhoods, Nathan and Maddie still move back to their hometown when strange things begin happening to their son. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Not a Happy Family by Shari lapena
Mystery & Thriller
July 27, 2021
When a wealthy couple is murdered the night after having dinner with their grown children, their children are devastated. Or are they? Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
Romance
August 3, 2021
In an effort to keep her engaged sister Camilla away from the attentions of a wealthy CEO, Anna Sun decides to seduce him instead. But Quan Diep isn’t quite what Anna was expecting, and her false intentions (and her OCD) might ruin her chances of true love. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner
Young Adult
August 3, 2021
Offered a full-ride scholarship to an elite prep school in Connecticut with his best friend, a teenage boy from a small Appalachian town struggles to decide whether he can leave his grandparents. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Historical Fiction
August 17, 2021
In 1970s Mexico City, a woman craving adventure and romance investigates her neighbor’s disappearance where she meets an eccentric thug who longs for a better life. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
A Slow Burning Fire by Paula Hawkins
Mystery & Thriller
August 31, 2021
When a young man is murdered on a London houseboat, police investigate three women: his one-night stand, his grieving aunt, and his nosy neighbor. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
Mystery & Thriller
September 7, 2021
On their tenth anniversary, a couple wins a trip to Scotland for a weekend that will make or break their marriage. But someone is lying and someone doesn’t want them to have happily ever after. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Historical Fiction
September 14, 2021
In 1960s Harlem, Ray Carney has a reputation as an upstanding used furniture salesman and a side gig fencing items for the underworld of Harlem. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Contemporary Fiction
September 14, 2021
When a retired couple allows a stranger into their lives, the wife goes missing and their grown children wonder if their father might have done it. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Literary Fiction
September 28, 2021
From the siege of Constantinople in 1435 to present-day Idaho and the interstellar future, Doerr tells of four youth tied to an ancient text. Amazon | Goodreads | More Info
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