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Upcoming August 2026 Book Releases to Look Forward to

The following books listed are upcoming releases for August! There are many new books being released each month, but these are the top ones that caught my eye. They are not ranked by number but displayed randomly. Can't wait for them to come out, happy reading! 1. There Are Ghosts Here by Adrienne Tooley is releasing August 11, 2026. Synopsis: Willa has no memory of anything before arriving at Dorsey House, and when she meets two sinister girls who seem to already know her, she slowly begins to lose her grip on what is real . . . and what is a lie. A haunting contemporary speculative thriller for fans of Kill Creatures and We Were Liars. Willa Childs doesn’t know why she’s at Dorsey House. The tragic accident that banished her to the mysterious reformatory perched at the edge of the sea is lost in the recesses of her murky memory. The Dorseys themselves offer no answers, and the only other wards, Caroline and Ivy, seem intent on keeping Willa in the dark—and on the outside of their...

I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang Book Review

Title: I Hope This Doesn't Find You Author: Ann Liang Publisher: Scholastic Press Release Date: March 2, 2021 Pages: 320 Sadie Wen is perfect on paper: school captain, valedictorian, and a "pleasure to have in class." It’s not easy, but she has a trick to keep her model-student smile plastered on her face at all times: she channels all her frustrations into her email drafts. She'd never send them of course -- she'd rather die than hurt anyone's feelings -- but it's a relief to let loose on her power-hungry English teacher or a freeloading classmate taking credit for Sadie's work. All her most vehemently worded emails are directed at her infuriating cocaptain, Julius Gong, whose arrogance and competitive streak have irked Sadie since they were kids. "You're attention starved and self-obsessed and unbearably vain . . . I really hope your comb breaks and you run out of whatever expensive hair products you've been using to make your hair a...

Upcoming July 2026 Book Releases to Look Forward to

The following books listed are upcoming releases for the month! These are the ones that caught my eye, and I am so excited to share them. They are not ranked by number but displayed randomly. Can't wait for them to come out, happy reading! 1. The Gilded Blade by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is releasing July 28, 2026. Synopsis: All games must come to an end. In this series-shattering conclusion, everyone is a player, long-held secrets are unveiled, precious threads are unraveled, and impossible mysteries are solved. In the grandest of games, there is so much to win--money, love, power, revenge--but there is also everything to lose. Publisher Website: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jennifer-lynn-barnes/the-gilded-blade/9780316593083/?lens=little-brown-books-for-young-readers

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Book Review

Title: Our Missing Hearts Author: Celeste Ng Publisher: Simon & Schuster Release Date: October 4, 2022 Pages: 335 Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But wh...