40+ Most Anticipated Releases of 2026! (July-December)📚

Hello everyone, it's time to talk anticipated books for the second half of the year! I am so excited to chat about this. I do this video twice a year where I talk about my most anticipated release of the year and you know what? I have been so locked in, hyper focused on my TBR that I haven't been as locked in, as clued in on new releases as I would usually be. But like, going through this list, reading all the synopses, researching what I want to be on this list. I'm so excited, I'm so excited. I actually have no idea how many are on this list, I haven't counted. There's got to be at least 30. Um, let me do math. Carry the tomb. There's about 40. There's about 40 on this list, which I haven't even read 40 books yet this year. Have I? I may be telling a lie. How many books have I read? I've read 45. Oh, I tell a lie. I tell a lie. Everybody tell a bit of a lie there. But yeah, in this video I'm gonna go through all my most anticipated releases of the year. So these are like really mostly authors I've read from and loved before. Oh, Scully's here. Do you wanna say hello quickly before you go to bed? Say hi quickly. I love you. Yeah, this is mostly authors I've read from and loved before, um, their new releases. There's a few that aren't authors I've read from before, but as someone who is like, I have to be picky with my releases, you know, this is usually what I stick to. And then throughout the year, if there's some buzzy releases that I, everyone's talking about that sound really good, then maybe they'll come onto my radar. But like my starting point is usually authors I've loved and read from before and a few other releases that sound fun. So shall we just dive straight into it? These are gonna be roughly in publication order, UK publication order. Some might be wrong. Okay, first we have got Habits of the Sea by Shea Earnshaw. This sounds very interesting. It sounds like a magical realism book. There is a house that is swept out to sea one night. And then I think like 10 years later, 20 years later, something like that, our protagonist discovers the house and it's inhabitant and he has not aged. And I think then like she wakes up the next day, it's missing, the house is missing and then it reappears. And I think it's to do with her meeting the guy who lives there. And I don't know, it sounds very intriguing. I really enjoyed what I read from Shea Earnshaw before. So I'm intrigued by this one. Obviously we are starting here with books that have already come out. So we have got Heartstopper volume six by Alice Oden. I am so excited to read this. I need to read it soon. I love Heartstopper. I've loved Heartstopper. I vividly have a memory of reading the first one in like my car somewhere. I think I was like picking Tom up from a doctor's appointment on Sunday. You know when I just love when I vividly remember reading a book, like that book left an imprint on my life, you know. So this is the finale, which is sad, very sad. But this is the finale to Nick and Charlie's relationship and well not their relationship, but like us seeing their relationship. Whoa. Us seeing their relationship and I just can't wait. Then an interesting one, Helpless by Jessica Null. Jessica Null wrote Bright Young Women, which I read a couple of years ago and I thought was one of the most intelligent thrillers I've ever read. I was like this is just, it's kind of inspired by Ted Bundy that book and his Victims and you would think that that could be handled in a crass way, but it felt like it had such intelligence and it was really just a wonderful book. This has got very low rating already and it's just come out. I think it's like a 3.3 and it's only just come out. But I think this is a woman who's kidnapped by her like high school or college boyfriend, like they're at a reunion and he drugs and kidnaps her and she needs to escape him. I think it's interesting, but the ratings aren't good. So we'll see. But after reading Bright Young Women, I was like, I will read anything Jessica Null puts out. So I don't know how that's going to go. Hot Girl Murder Club by Ashley Winstead. I think this is the one where it's a famous actress who gets framed for murder. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Singer, actress. She's like living her best life for her. Oh yeah. Her sister was murdered. Yes. Her sister was murdered. And then there's all these new murders in LA that point to this girly as a killer. I really enjoyed Ashley Winstead and this one sounds fun. Hot Girl Murder Club. Like I'm going to pick it up, aren't I? The Intrigue by Silvia Romero-Garcia. This one is set in Mexico. We've got this scammer guy who I think like goes around like scamming women and he identifies this new victim, but then he meets her niece and like the niece wants to be in on it, in on scamming her aunt. But then he also maybe starts falling for the niece and the aunt kind of knows what's going on. It's just got so messy and toxic. It sounds interesting. Silvia Romero-Garcia always ends up on this list. Her synopses always sound wonderful to me. Then, oh my God, we're into August. Oh my God. I have this. In parallel to the Jessica Null. I said, I'm going to read anything Jessica Null puts out and it's got a lot of adrenaline. Ellery Lloyd. Time to Ban is the release that's coming out. This is a husband and wife writing duo. And I read the final act of Juliet Willoughby, which some of you have read on my recommendation. We all agree. Outstanding. It's so good. So good. And I said, I'm going to read everything Ellery Lloyd puts out after this fact. And this is a sci-fi thriller, which sounds super interesting. Like time travel is starting to become a thing. And I think there's this journalist who gets invited to this like time travel presentation. This company is going to be bringing back this family they've sent on a time travel mission and they bring them back and they are supposed, they're supposed to have been living their best life, but they come back bloodied, beaten up, and one of the missing. But the journalist recognizes the missing woman and knows she's not who she's pretending to be. So there's a lot of layers to this. This has all got really, really good early ratings. So I think this could be a great release for me this year. The Unknown by Mr. Riley. You gotta love him. You gotta love him. I'm now up to date with my Riley's. This one, there's like this mysterious island where I think like these mediums or this like cult of spiritual women used to live, but they went missing and only their dresses were left. And some people think there was like a supernatural event that caused them all to be taken or were they murdered? There's questions of that. Then I think a film I love, you know, I love a film crew going to film where this all happened like years and years later and weird ---- starts happening, which is us having very excited. I think Riley now is at his best when there is a supernatural question hovering over the books. There's a lot of his books where there is a supernatural question like, is this place haunted? Is there a ghost? And he sometimes does it. And that's what keeps me like, if he was doing this again and again and again, and he'd never actually committed to the bit and never done the supernatural twist, I'd be like, whatever. But he has. And so I believe it can go there. And that's all I need. You know, so excited for that one. Meet Me in the Garden by Nina LaCour. Another one that's had outstanding early reviews. This one's set in New Orleans, I believe in the 1940s. It's a family saga. I think it's inspired by Nina LaCour's own Creole family ancestry. And we're following sisters. Well, I think one of them is sapphic and kind of tells the other one. The other one's got, I think like a secret lover. And then we go five years in the future. One of them is a single mom, I'm not sure, either through divorce or her partner dying. The other one is now passing as white. And I think it's just this really, yeah, emotional family saga. I love Nina LaCour's writing. Yerba Buena was the most recent one, which I love. But then there's some of her like YA, like Watch Over Me. I consistently give her high ratings. So this is another one that I feel like if I get around to it, could be amongst my favourite books of the year. Reliquary. Oh, I can't say this. Reliquary. Reliquary by Hannah Witton. It's very interesting, like, I think horror. All I know is this woman, her fiancé, I think, passes away and all she wanted was to be part of the family, right? And his family kind of takes her in and invites her to their family home. But like, it's a little bit sus, I think. It's a little bit sus. I think it's like the house is like on a cliff edge and like, oh, you know, very atmospheric. So looking forward to seeing what people think of that one. I think that one's been a bit fuzzy. Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle. What is this one again? I think like a woman is like called to, a famous actor has died and she's like called to the crime scene and then he comes alive. Oh yeah, she's at the medical examiner's office and she's like delivering off his body or something. But then he wakes up and I think it's gonna be crazy. Chuck Tingle's ******* crazy. I really enjoyed Burial Gates by Chuck Tingle and I'd love to read more. So this is definitely on my radar. Oh, major one then. Big Little Truths by Leanne Moriarty. This is the sequel to Big Little Lies. Can you believe it? And I love Big Little Lies. I gave it five stars. Again, very vivid memory of reading it because I read it when I had COVID and it was the perfect thing to read when I had COVID. I had very little like awareness, very little like brainpower. It was perfect and I think this one is set 10 years later. I think the president, what's the word? Not the president. The head teacher of the school gets delivered like a thumb or something in an envelope and there's all these secrets. I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with this. I think it's gonna be super duper fun. Then a quick shout out, this has already come out in the US. It's got like a hundreds of thousands of ratings on Goodreads and like the, what's what I'm looking for. The ebook is out, but the physical edition is not out in the UK until August and it's It's Not Her by Mary Kubica. I'm very excited to read this. I want to read it. I want to read a Mary Kubica. Also can we just say there's something about Kubica, Mary Kubica, that's a very fun name to say. I like Mary Kubica. The woman is on holiday I think with her, her siblings, one of, I can't remember if she's related to the hospital wife, but her siblings family, the husband and wife are found dead, the niece is missing and the nephew's safe asleep in his bed and it's a question of what happened. I think never gonna read it again. I think it's gonna be in the Goodreads Choice Awards so I will probably read it then, but I'm looking forward to it. I'm, listen, I, I persist with the evils of the Goodreads Choice Awards despite Frida and Alice Feeney. They're gonna be like the top two this year, like Dear Debbie and whatever the Alice Feeney, I'm gonna have to read Alice Feeney again. So do you think I deserve better than that? Yes. I'm not sure why I'm more upset about reading Dear Debbie or Alice Feeney, but this would be a nice thing to break it up. Then I have never read a Lucy Worsley still. She is a historian who I enjoy watching, I've watched her shows, but I own two of her books. I own her book on Jane Austen and her book on Agnes Christie. The Agnes Christie one I can't read because she spoils so many books, like so many books, but the Jane Austen one I really want to read and then her release this year is Queens and Kings, which I love saying, we're saying queens before kings, I mean, power to you Lucy. An unusually personal history. She has worked, it seems, for many decades in a lot of England's palaces and in a lot of the spaces where these really famous historical events took place, like where, I think it's like in the chapel, maybe it says in the description or something like that, where Henry VIII decided to part ways from the Catholic Church and all of this stuff, and she's kind of taking you through the history of kings and queens, queens and kings in England, but also through her lens of her work that she's done. It sounds super interesting. Also we're in September, we have 10,000 releases in September. If your book is getting released in September, it's a big deal because September is the month. Everything gets released in September and then nothing in October, November, December. September's the month you want to release if you want your book to be on the Christmas bestseller charts, basically. That's the rule of thumb. A Scent Appealed by Janice Hallett. I'm just gonna tell you, I don't want to spoil anything, so I'm just gonna tell you, this is a sequel to The Appeal. The Gurleys are putting on a play again. I think they're actually putting on an act of Chrissy play, which is kind of fun. I say the Gurleys, it's guys and Gurleys. It's this town who run this like, you know, acting troupe play. They do plays together and again it's all told through mixed media. I don't know if this one would just be emails like The Appeal is or if there'll be a mix. I prefer when Janice does a mix, but I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with it. I really enjoyed The Christmas Appeal, which was her Christmas novella sequel to The Appeal, so I'm looking forward to this one. She's a Doll by Barbara Truelove. I think this is the, I believe this is the author of Monsters and Mainframes, which I haven't read, but I've heard a lot of people enjoy it, and oh my god, this sounds incredible. It sounds like high camp. High camp. I love camp. A woman is murdered and she is like, I'm gonna seek revenge for my murder, but she gets like reborn. Her soul is in this little porcelain doll. So she's like this little doll running around It's camp. It's camp. I don't know what to tell you. Running around trying to solve a murder. I think she teams up with this woman who like hates her killer, like she knows who her killer is, and she's like I'm gonna get that man. It sounds ridiculous. I'm very excited. I think I've gotta read that. Taipei Story by RF Kuang. There's a mixed reviews of this. I love RF Kuang. RF Kuang is by far one of my favorite authors. Like I give her five stars, five stars, five stars. I think this woman is a genius. I've been lucky enough to go to one of her talks, and she's just a freaking genius. However, this is like her first foray into real kind of like contemporary literary fiction. Obviously a yellow face, which wasn't fantasy, but that was like kind of a thriller adjacent contemporary. Whereas this seems like coming of age contemporary literary in Taipei. Really the story of like being diaspora and like, you know, what if, what do you do if your family don't want to answer questions on your history, or history, or you've never learned the language, or like what, when can you identify with certain parts of the culture, when does society make you feel like you can't, etc, etc. There's the mixed opinions, but I love RF Kuang, so I want to read it. Now we have Serenity Falls by CJ Tudor. CJ Tudor for me, I think I've given her four stars every time. Like she will give you a great time. I'm yet to give her five stars, but I know, I think there's nothing better almost. Like well, obviously there's something better if we go into like knowing and all, there's going to be five stars for you, like our next one. I go over into every CJ Tudor knowing I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to be in a safe pair of hands. This one sounds so interesting, I actually want to pull up the synopsis, because like the exact wording of some of it is very interesting. So we're in Serenity Falls, which is like idyllic suburbia US, and our characters have moved there, but then a dead body is found in a swimming pool. Gag. Okay, that's the first gag, but then this is what sounds so interesting. It turns out it's just the start of a series of odd discoveries. Abandoned houses where people have seemingly just upped and left. The strange woman Sadie keeps seeing around town, putting up missing posters for a child who drowned 25 years ago. An ice cream van that drives around at night, making sure residents are asleep. There's just something about that, that just sets the perfect tone to intrigue me. There's these little clues. So yeah, I enjoy very much a CJ Tudor, so I'm looking forward to this one, that just sounds so, it's got me. Then We Chase Shadows by Rachel. Oh ******* yeah. Here's the thing guys, I'm going to an event, I'm going to an event, I'm going to an event for We Chase Shadows. I think I'm going to get to meet the man, the myth and legend himself, unless he doesn't do at every Waterstones book event I've done, the author has done book signings at the end. I think I might get to meet him. He wants to marry me. Also Lucy Foley is there, we'll get on to her release in a second, she's going to be there. I've already met Lucy Foley, she was lovely, she was so kind, she gave me a lovely hug. But um, the man, the myth, the legend, the rich head. Can you imagine? Can you imagine? Anyways, this is the sequel to We Solve Murders, the second in this series. The synopsis doesn't really say anything, like okay, we're following like a father-in-law and daughter-in-law duo as they solve crime. This series is much more like jet setty than Bethesda Manor Club, so I think we're going to be in LA, we're going to be somewhere in Europe at some point I think, we're going to be jetting all over the place, having fun. I'm going to get to meet him, can you imagine? Guys, I don't think you understand, I listened to Richard Osborne's podcast twice a week, I love his books, like that's my man, that's my man, I'm so excited. Big Man by Dean Atta, I loved The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta and I've kept meaning to get around to more of his books, I think I might own another one of his books. Is this his adult debut? There's a question there, I don't know, I don't know if it's his adult debut, but I certainly haven't read an adult book from him before. We're following Big Man, who is this queer guy living in London and he really came onto the scene and was welcomed into club culture when he was younger by Mother, who is a trans woman, and it comes out that Mother is going to be releasing a memoir and I think it stirs up a lot of things that have happened to Big Man back in club culture or back in his youth that he had suppressed. It sounds very interesting, it sounds like a real, a really queer book, you know what I mean? But also there's going to be queer joy but also like, you know, not shying away from some negative things as well, it sounds really really good. Elizabeth Acevedo is back, Elizabeth Acevedo is back with another YA, I still haven't read Family Law by her, I really want to. Anger is Only a Shadow, we're following this young girl who I think has lived like, she doesn't want to live by life's boundaries right, so she's kind of a bit acting out and she ends up in like, a youth detention centre and she's trying to get in touch with her brother for him to help her get out. It sounds very emotional, Elizabeth Acevedo's books are always incredibly emotional, incredibly poignant for the time, I always feel like she's really got her finger on the pulse. Oh, then we have a major one, Deadbeat by Leigh Bardugo. I hear you shiver with anticipation, my god. This is number three in the Ninth House series, let's all just take a moment. Another major major Waterstones book event I went to was for Ninth House with Leigh Bardugo, I met the woman herself, she is one of the most enigmatic people I've ever met in my life and she said that she wanted the Ninth House series to be like, I can't remember what she said, like seven books, nine books, twelve books, something like that, let's just all mourn that because here the Ninth House series comes to an end. I'm getting chest pains just thinking about it. So I can't really tell you much about what this book is about because it's the third in the series, I'm like a lot has happened, but we're following Alexandre who's at Yale and she's like in charge of managing these magical societies that exist at Yale, there's demons, there's devils, there's magic, there's occult things and there's a hot guy, that's what we need. Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel, the bitch, I almost said the bitch is back, Emily, I'm so sorry, I don't know where that came from but also the bitch is back, you know what I mean, like we love an Emily St John Mandel in this house, the bitch is back, sorry. This synopsis is one that didn't really, didn't really stick in my brain because I feel like an Emily St John Mandel synopsis is never meant to stick in your brain, like you've just got to dive in, you've just got to dive in headfirst and just accept that you're gonna have a wonderful, well maybe you're not gonna have a wonderful time but it's gonna be an incredibly wonderful book. It's set I think in the near future, like 2031 or something, the US has collapsed, it's been done to the like military rule and like it ends or something, like the military control ends and like everyone's going to a party and someone goes missing at the party, I don't know, I don't know, her books are ******* crazy, I'm excited for it. Our Cut of Salt by Dina Helm is a very exciting um debut horror I think it leads, it's a Palestinian author and it's about these generations of Palestinian women who live in this house and the house is, I don't know if it's like a haunted house or if there's things in the house that are going wrong in like a supernatural way, but I think this is really a book about what it is to have a home and lose your home or your home to be ruined by outside forces, you know, really a discussion of Palestinian identity so I think this is going to be a really important release this year that I'm very much looking forward to. Oh then we have Hollywood Ending, then we have Hollywood Ending by John Green, the bitch is back, the bitch is back. John Green with his adult debut, I'm a bit scared but I'm also excited, I love John Green, I think I've read every John Green, I loved his YA books when I was younger, they were like the basic, I had a John Green era and then I had like a Fault in Our Stars era and then I started reading, did anyone have this era like when they were 13 or something of reading, there was a lot of like Fault in Our Stars rip-offs of like unwell teenagers, like I read Me, Earl and the Dying Girl, I read It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini, like I had I had a John Green, I had a Twilight era and then I read all the Twilight rip-offs and then I had a Fault in Our Stars era and I read all the Fault in Our Stars rip-offs, it happens to everyone. Now I read all the Axel Christie rip-offs basically. Anyway this one is following these actors and the debut of their like really famous film but it's also their personal lives, it sounds interesting, it feels like he's examining a lot to do with fame and public life and the way we all exist in public life now that sounds super, I mean he's like one of the most intelligent men in the world so you know, it's gonna be good. Then we have Maisie Wood by the incredible Tananarive Jew, I loved the reformatory, it was really one of my stand-up books the year that I read it and this one, it's a very brief synopsis, we're following this guy going to I think it was his aunt's maybe, she was a very famous black actress in the 1940s and 50s and he goes to her cabin home in the woods and discovers her rage, it seems there's a spirit at her cabin in the woods that is lonely and angry and that sounds fascinating doesn't it, it sounds fascinating so very much looking forward to that. We spoke about her before, The Bitch is Back, I need to stop, Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley, this is Lucy Foley's release of the year, obviously I love you Lucy Foley but this is also her writing for the Agatha Christie estate and it's her writing a Miss Marple mystery. Yes, my team, the dream team. Here's the thing, I've never read Miss Marple, I do really want to read Miss Marple, I've got Murder at the Vicarage, I need to read that ASAP, it's on my TBR but I'm, I mean I love Lucy Foley and I love Agatha Christie, this is so exciting. I want to read you out, obviously Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel, whatever it's called, you can, you can imagine what this book is about, that's the type of thing you need to know but I just want to read out the synopsis because it does the thing that every Lucy Foley book does, this is why it feels like a Lucy Foley Miss Marple, not like Lucy Foley trying to write as Agatha Christie because all Lucy Foley synopses have the characters distilled down into their archetypes which is a very Agatha thing, like that is very much inspired by Agatha in her books because I love that in A Murder Mystery, the archetypal characters, you know, but in this one we have got, I just want to read it out to you, the notorious actress, the high-flying politician, the society wife, the reckless friend, the shrewd doctor. I love that in A Murder Mystery, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it. So Lucy, I'm gonna meet you, I'm watching you, Taylor. The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Disha Bilyaw, this is about a pastor's wife of like a mega church, we don't really have anything like this in the UK but like you Americans are crazy with those mega churches, I'm not gonna lie, wild, and I think her life starts to unravel. I think this is more contemporary leaning, like a serious contemporary but kind of like yesteryear, right, that's like, it's contemporary with a little bit of something, not just contemporary, like a little bit of something but this has got really good early reviews, I think Roxane Gay gave it five stars on Goodreads but she does not do lightly, I love seeing what Roxane Gay rates and doesn't rate, you know when she doesn't rate it on Goodreads, you know, if it's gonna be a four or five, she'll rate it, if it's not rated but yeah, she gave it five stars, so I'm looking forward to it. American Hagwon, major, major book by Min Jin Lee, this is the author of Pachinko, the author of Pachinko's this is again just, the synopsis is very dense, there's a lot of details, there's a lot going on, there's a lot of intergenerational things but it's a family saga just like Pachinko and that's all I really need to know going into it, it's this family saga to do with like Korean identity and I think there's like a, I can't remember what year it's set but there's like an Asian financial crash at one point that really impacts this family's life and I mean, I will read anything that Min Jin Lee writes because Pachinko is a book for the ages, that's a modern classic, that is like, holy ----, you are one of the greatest authors alive when you read that book. A classic? Classic, not debatable, not up for debate. I have no doubt that this is gonna be amazing. Tales from the Territory by Travis Bowdrey is short stories from the world of legends and lattes, that's all I've got for you, that's all you need to know. The Scarlet Bull by Nevo, okay, Nevo's books that she writes are her full-length books, so obviously I read a lot of Hill Cycle but I have two of, no, I've read Siren Queen, I've read Siren Queen now, that was really interesting but I've got The Trojans of the Beautiful on my TBR as well but her full-length books always have this like historical fantastical horror, they're kind of beyond categorization, they're this mix of things and this one is about this boar and our protagonist is going to the boar with this, I think this white girl's face sewn onto her face like impersonating her and everyone wants to find a match at this ball but they have to keep their husband's desires fed otherwise they turn in murderous or something, it sounds crazy, it sounds absolutely bonkers but again, Nevo, I just love, love, love, love her writing. Victorious by V.E. Schwab, major, major, major, major, major, major time, guys. Again, I don't want to spoil anything but this is the sequel, no, the season finale, the season finale, the sequel to Vicious and Vengeful, here's the thing, Vicious, five stars, Vengeful, I think I gave two. So we've only got A Hope and Pray, this is, we're following Eli and, it's gonna annoy me, I have to look it up now, Eli and Victor, Eli Ever, Victor Vale, two men, first but friends, then more to enemies, each destined to be other's shadow, one left standing but the game isn't over yet. I'm very looking forward to it but I am nervous because, again, I didn't love Vengeful. The Slant Knives Histories by Alexei Harrow is a short story collection from Alexei Harrow, I love Alexei Harrow's writing, I still, I have many to read. I, more than anything, want to read The Everlasting because I know everyone who's read that is, like, deep in obsession with that but, um, The Ones and Future Witches is, that's up there, that's in my top 25 books. I feel like I need to reread it but I read that and I was like, wow, wow, wow, this is really something, this is really something, it stuck with me so I put that on my list as well. The Shadows of Kensington Gore by Ross Montgomery is the sequel to Murder at World's End which I read this year and was one of my, it's probably, other than, like, Lady Hardcastle and maybe some Agatha or something, probably my top murder mystery that I've read so far this year. I really, really enjoyed it. This one, I think a policeman is murdered and these three women who were nearby are, like, accused of doing the murder but our guy who is, he's, like, he's, I almost, oh, no, you know that him and Desimina, the old lady, are going to be, like, a detective G.I., he was nearby, the guy, the guy, the guy, and him and Desimina are gonna, I can't remember his name, are gonna solve the murder together, basically. Okay, Becky Chambers, Becky Chambers, As You Wake, Break the Shell. I have only read, is it The Robot and the Monk? I've only read that from her and I didn't love it, however, I know the girlies love Becky Chambers. This is another substance that didn't stick in my brain, we're following two characters on this, on this planet that I think is in trouble, one of them's a botanist, I don't really know much about it but it's getting great early reviews from people who have ARCs and I want to love a Becky Chambers, I want to love a Becky Chambers, so I'm very much intrigued, very much intrigued. This next one, we've got only two left, oh my god, this next one was, I was watching Mara from Books Like Woes, most anticipated releases, and she put this on here and it really intrigues me, it's a non-fiction, it's called Live, Laugh, Love, The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made by Kristin Kobes Dumez. This is obviously very American-centric but it's kind of focusing on the pervasiveness of the Christian woman, uh, impact kind of on American culture and, like, idea of mummy blogs or, like, so many, like, mummy influences on, like, social media are, like, Mormons or very Christian, like, turn out to be, like, a pastor's wife, like, oh my god, I didn't know that about you, or, like, the idea of, like, MLMs, I think, maybe, or, like, how it pervades in culture and the idea of, like, what being a Christian woman is, I think. It sounds very interesting and Mara has a really high, high praise to say of Kristin Kobes Dumez's, uh, previous book that she's read from her, so I'm very intrigued, I'm very by that. And finally, published in December, it's crazy, we have Rabbit Rabbit by Jennifer E. Smith. I read, uh, The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith, which is, like, a very hard-hitting, emotional, contemporary book a couple of years ago and loved it. And this one is about a woman who, she's turning 40 and she's like, okay, this is the year, I said to myself, if I was 40 and I wasn't with a partner, I was gonna have a baby by myself, by I. Yeah, so she starts on that process but then she meets this guy that is, like, this guy is everything I've ever wanted. I'm, you know, it's vibing, we're getting along, like, there's something here but he doesn't want kids. And so I think she spends a year kind of, like, live, going down both of these paths, right? Like, pursuing IVF but also dating this guy and it comes to a crossroads where she kind of has to choose one life, right? It sounds very interesting and it's gonna be emotional. I really want to read another Jennifer E. Smith because The Unsung Hero James, I remember not expecting much from it and it was a five star. I was, like, blown away by how good it was. So that brings us to a close. My god, I've rambled there but can you tell I'm excited? I'm excited. I love reading. I love reading. I love reading. Isn't it just amazing how many great books there are out there? I'm so excited. Let me know which of these you're most excited for. If I had to pick my ones I'm most excited for, they are as follows. I mean, Hearts Over Volume 6 I will read and love but that's, let's just put that to the side because I feel that feels like cheating. Time to Burn by Hilary Lloyd. Meet Me in the Garden by Nina LaCour. The Lucy Worsley non-fiction I'm very excited about. Richard Osman. I want to say the, oh, Deadbeat. Deadbeat. John Green. I want to say The Lucy Foley but I might not read that straight away because I feel like I need to understand Miss Marple before I read that. Those are the ones that jump out at me. Has, like, top top top five star prediction. I'm gonna love them but I'm excited for a lot of these. So yeah, let me know which ones of these you're most excited for. If you've read any of them. Some of you might have read some of the ones that came out in July already or you may have had ARCs or some of the later ones. I'd love to know any thoughts you guys have but yeah. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you're doing well. I've got a very exciting vlog coming next week. I don't know how it's gonna go yet because I'm filming this, like, two weeks before that vlog comes out so I've got a lot of time to read. Yeah, I'm excited for the next video I'm gonna show you but thank you for joining me for this because I love chatting about new releases that I'm excited about. So yeah, I am bad at editing things. Love ya and I'll see you later. Bye!