Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Goals for 2026 (Bookish or not! Share your reading goals, personal goals, etc.).
Since I already shared my bookish goals at the start of January, I’m going rogue! Today’s TTT post is essentially part two of last week’s list (my most anticipated books for the first half of 2026). This week, here are even more upcoming new releases to look forward to! After all, I felt bad leaving some of my top choices off the list last week…
Here we go — EVEN MORE new releases for the first half of 2026:
Listed in order of release date:
- Anne of a Different Island by Virginia Kantra (1/20/2026)
- Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett (2/17/2026)
- A Ghastly Catastrophe (Veronica Speedwell, #10) by Deanna Raybourn (3/3/2026)
- Where the Girls Were by Kate Schatz (3/3/2026)
- Butterfly Effects (Incryptids, #15) by Seanan McGuire (3/10/2026)
- Once and Again by Rebecca Serle (3/10/2026)
- Love by the Book by Jessica George (4/7/2026)
- Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell (4/14/2026)
- Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth (4/21/2026)
- Take Me with You by Steven Rowley (5/19/2026)
Are any of these book on your TBR? Which sound good to you?
And since I went off-topic this week… if you wrote about bookish goals, please share your link! I’d love to see thoughts and intentions about the year to come.
Bookshelf Fantasies 
Are you not reading Dresden anymore? The new book came out today!
Well… I’m not NOT reading Dresden! It’s been so long since the last book that it’s just not particularly high on my priority list, but I guess I should put in my library hold request (and then see if I can remember where the story left off!)
Oh it was pretty memorable book but you got time. I just started reading and it’s definitely a different vibe
I’m really looking forward to reading Cherry Baby, I loved Slow Dance.
Thanks for sharing your #TTT
Same here! I loved Slow Dance (and want to reread it eventually), and I’m really excited for Cherry Baby!
Thanks for sharing these with us. I’m looking forward to several of them.
I’m not sure how I’m going to keep up! But I guess having too many books to look forward to is not a bad problem to have 🙂
I’m glad you posted a part 2! I’m very curious about Cherry Baby, and of course I’m also excited for Agnes Aubert😁
I’m going to need more reading hours per day to keep up with all of these! 🙂
Anne of a Different Island sounds adorable. I’m currently rereading the original series and may have to read that title afterwards.
I’d love to reread the originals! What a lovely series.