09/28/2026
Tuesday is NEW BOOK day! Here are new titles selected by “Shelf Awareness” that arrive in the book world* tomorow, Tuesday September 29: -- *please note, new releases (if purchased) take time for processing before arriving to your library shelf.
* ‘Threshing Day’ by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books, $24.99, 9781682818084) continues the Empyrean romantasy series.
* “The French Illusion: A Novel’ by John Grisham (Doubleday, $35, 9780385550543) follows a couple kidnapped while on honeymoon in France.
* ‘American Hagwon’ by Min Jin Lee (Cardinal, $36, 9781538752036) is an intergenerational tale about Korean immigrants in California.
* ‘Ruthless: A Novel’ by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press, $29, 9780593973301) follows a journalist who gets personally involved with a powerful man she interviews.
* ‘Ply: A Novel’ by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead, $32, 9780593719541) takes place centuries in the future where an orphan steals electricity to survive.
* ‘Come Closer: Childhood Wounds, Adult Love, and the Secrets of Emotional Intimacy’ by Dr. Galit Atlas (Avid Reader Press/S&S, $30, 9781668067147) reveals how our childhood wounds hold the key to understanding our adult relationships.
* ‘Trust Fall’ by Lynn Painter (S&S, $21.99, 9798347100217) is a rags-to-riches YA romcom featuring a young woman from Nebraska and a young man from New York City.
* ‘Mia's Cheetah’ by Amelia Bothe (Clarion, $19.99, 9780063472662) is a picture book in which Mia's long, boring trip to Grandma's house is utterly changed when she starts playing a game her dad suggests.
* ‘A Librarian's War: The Man Who Fought World War II with Books and Brought the Joy of Reading to Millions’ by Molly Guptill Manning (Oxford University Press, $34.99, 9780197861240) is a biography of Ray Troutman, who as Chief Librarian of the Army was the driving force behind Armed Services Editions--paperbound, compact books, comic books, and magazines, many millions of which were distributed to American soldiers and sailors around the world.
* ‘The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic’ by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $34, 9780316603782) targets gun violence in the U.S.
* ‘The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia’ by Robert Kolker (Doubleday, $35, 9780385551038) recalls a family of nine siblings with high risks for early-onset dementia.
* ‘PlantYou Quickies: 140+ Nourishing Plant-Based Recipes for Busy People’ by Carleigh Bodrug (Balance, $35, 9780306837517) includes recipes that take 30 minutes or less.
* ‘No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention’ by Mahmoud Khalil (Metropolitan Books, $27.99, 9781250462008) is the memoir of a student in the U.S. imprisoned for speaking out against genocide in Gaza.
* ‘The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Knopf, $40, 9780593805053) is a history of the Middle East since 1900.
Paperbacks:
* ‘The Twelve Loves of Christmas: An Advent Romance Collection’ by Alexandria Bellefleur et al. (Atria, $23.99, 9781668250419).
* ‘Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair’ by Ashley Herring Blake (Berkley, $20, 9780593816035).
* ‘The Only Way Out Is Up’ by Django Wexler (Orbit, $19.99, 9780316392600).
