Fright Girl Winter: New Releases We Can’t Wait to Start 2026 With

Happy New Year! 2026 has a ton of new and exciting books coming out. Sonora and V can’t possibly read them all, but we’re going to try! Below are releases coming out in January, February, and March that we’re looking forward to reading. What’s on your TBR?

Kin by Tayari Jones

Maria the Wanted by V. Castro

Wretch: or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw by Eric LaRocca

First Date by Gemma Amor

With the Heart of a Ghost: Stories by Lim Sunwoo

Cruelty Free by Caroline Glenn

The Body Builders by Albertine Clarke

Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher

The Bloody Brick Road: A Wizard of Oz Retelling by Maude Royer

The Age of Calamities: Stories by Senaa Ahmad

Bound By the Blood by Cecilia Tan

Sauúti Terrors: Short Stories from the Unique Universe Created by Contemporary African Writers by Eugen Bacon, Cheryl Ntumy, and Stephen Embleton (eds.)

Humboldt Cut by Allison Mick

Persona by Aoife Josie Clements

The Glowing Hours by Leila Siddiqui

Greedy by Callie Kazumi

Bed Rot Baby by Wendy Dalrymple

The Body by Bethany C. Morrow

Dead First by Johnny Compton

Of Beasts by M. Jane Worma

Kayak by Kristal Stittle

Carnalis by Tiffany Morris

Shiva by Emily Ruth Verona

Strange Buildings by Uketsu

Cabaret in Flames by Hache Pueyo

The Midnight Muse by Jo Kaplan

The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson

Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibañez

Good People by Patmeena Sabit

Now I Surrender by Álvaro Enrigue

Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning With Our Past by Dorothy A. Brown

The Starter Ex by Mia Sosa

Good Guys by Sharon Bala

Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi

Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward

Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker

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