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We’re already more than half-way through the second month of the year. It’s both surprising how fast things have gone and how long 2026 has already felt. If there’s one thing we can celebrate, though, it’s this: the books we’re seeing hit shelves are keeping us entertained, informed, and up to our elbows in possibility. I don’t know about you, but as this winter drags on and on, I’m finding so much comfort and hope in reading.
New releases begin to ramp up this week, and we’ll see this pattern continue for the next several months. Of note for this week, though: there are no new series books publishing in either hardcover nor in paperback. Everything here stands alone, which for some readers–self included–is a real delight.
This week, be treated to mischief with the gods, a little love on ice, a Halloween party gone very wrong, and more. Whatever your genre of preference, there’s something calling your name.
New Hardcover YA Releases This Week
New Hardcover Series Releases:
Goodbye and Everything After by Mae Coyiuto
Nika’s father died five years ago and her family has never truly taken the time to grieve. They memorialize her father every year on the anniversary of his death, and they practice the Filipino belief of pagpag–that you can never go home after visiting a grave or the ghost of the dead will follow you.
This year, Nika’s mother’s new finance shows up at the cemetery during their visit, and her mother is furious enough to walk out and head home. This brings Nika’s father’s ghost back home, but only Nika can see him.
Nika uses this time to reconnect with her father, including learning about his history with her mother. As Nika herself begins to fall for Seph, her father’s memories of his own love with Nika’s mother are rekindled. Bit by bit, Nika’s father feels more and more alive and now, she’s worried about what happens when she loses him again.
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Love, Sivvy: A Novel Inspired by the Life, Letters, and Diaries of Young Sylvia Plath by R. L. Toalson
Inspired by the real diaries and letters from acclaimed and renowned poet Sylvia Plath, this novel explores the highs, lows, and challenges of her high school and college years. More specifically, it tackles the tension between what the expectations for women of her era were–marrying, children, homemaking–and Plath’s own ambitions for a literary career.
Postscript by Cory McCarthy
Few humans have survived a fast-moving apocalypse. But when West shows up to the place which was once Cape Cod, he changes the lives of the few survivors in unimaginable ways.