9 Best New Books Releasing in July 2026 You Need to Read

• Release date: July 7

Book 4 successful Wil McCarthy’s Rich Man’s Sky bid hits shelves this month, and we could not beryllium much excited. So, if you’ve yet to get caught up connected these action-packed sci-fi stories, present is the cleanable time.

This latest installment follows the tenacious unit of the CV Defender arsenic they effort to way down a set of pirates who conscionable hap to person recovered themselves successful possession of a unsafe alien technology, known arsenic the Fracture, that could destruct the star strategy successful its entirety. And that’s not the lone happening that they’re up against, arsenic the Cislunar abstraction falls into an undeclared war. So, it’s harmless to accidental that things are much perilous and analyzable than ever. The aforesaid tin beryllium said for who to trust.

The Last to Drown by Noelle W. Ihli

• Release date: July 16

If, similar me, you flew done immoderate of Noelle W. Ihli’s erstwhile books, astir notably Ask For Andrea and the standalone prequel, Forget You Saw Her, you’ll beryllium precise gladsome to cognize that she’s backmost with a marque caller communicative this month, successful the signifier of The Last to Drown. And whether you’re outdoorsy oregon not, the thought of a rafting travel taking a perilous and murderous turn, particularly erstwhile the ruggedly isolated Camas Creek was the tract of a gruesome execution conscionable 7 years prior, isn’t precisely making maine privation to drawback a paddle, that’s for sure.

As Kaia attempts to determination connected pursuing the nonaccomplishment of her husband, this rafting travel is meant to beryllium a reset and a mode to instrumentality her caput disconnected the mundane world of her life. But erstwhile a fig of incidents seemingly commencement to reflector the horrors of the past, it soon becomes wide that things are not going to plan. With nary means of escape, and uncovering themselves miles from information and civilisation, this is simply a endurance thriller that volition person you connected the borderline of your seat.

Dominion by Jean Kwok

• Release date: July 14

The opening of a marque caller trilogy, Dominion instantly caught our oculus aft it was compared to Fourth Wing – by mode of Chinese mythology – meets The Hunger Games. And fixed that Jean Kwok has turned her manus to rather a fewer genres implicit the years, we’re decidedly intrigued to spot however her ever impactful penning benignant volition fare successful this.

Back to the communicative itself, this satellite is divided into 4 rival Dominions, and aft the Annihilation destroyed her homeland, Rubi present lives arsenic an Azure exile successful the Dominion of the Silver Tyger. Even though the person of the royal Tyger warriors is the past antheral an Azure should trust, Rubi is bonded to Blake successful bid to survive, and erstwhile she does, it means that she is present stuck connected his elite team, who are racing to reseal the Anchors to the demon realm. What ensues is simply a pistillate attempting to unlock her magic, portion astatine the aforesaid clip resisting the warrior who could origin her redemption, oregon downfall.

Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle

• Release date: July 7

Having thoroughly enjoyed Chuck Tingle’s Bury Your Gays and Lucky Day, his latest merchandise was ever going to beryllium astatine the apical of our TBR list, and it sounds conscionable arsenic chaotic and exhilarating arsenic we’ve travel to expect from the bestselling author.

Set successful the balmy and laid-back determination of Palm Springs, Fabulous Bodies follows Poppy, who conscionable truthful happens to beryllium a manner influencer by time and a sedate robber by night. So, erstwhile she gets the telephone to retrieve the assemblage of the precocious deceased rockstar and queer icon, Eddie Michaels, it’s beauteous overmuch par for the course. That is until Eddie abruptly wakes up. What ensues is simply a nighttime that Poppy surely won’t hide successful a hurry, arsenic she fights for her life. It besides has a fantastically transportative quality to it, which volition surely travel successful useful if you don’t person immoderate vacations planned for the summer.

Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay

• Release date: June 30 (US) and July 2 (UK)

Another writer that has rapidly go 1 of our go-tos is Paul Tremblay. From his fantastic The Cabin At The End Of The World – that ended up being adapted into M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock astatine the Cabin – to 2024’s Horror Movie, Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep sounds similar it could rapidly go a caller favourite. It follows Julia, a twenty-something erstwhile nonrecreational gamer who is floundering successful life, that is, until her estranged parent and CFO of 1 of the world's largest tech companies offers her a temp job.

With a paycheque that she can’t crook down, she’s been tasked with chaperoning a antheral successful a vegetative authorities from California to the East Coast. Sounds casual enough; however, he’s not wholly brain-dead acknowledgment to the AI that the tech institution has implanted successful his mind. Told successful alternating POVs by Julia and “You” (the antheral implanted with AI), it brilliantly blends sci-fi, horror, and a thriller into 1 gripping story.

The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• Release date: July 14 (US) and July 16 (UK)

With hits specified arsenic Mexican Gothic, Silver Nitrate, and The Bewitching nether her belt, Silvia Moreno-Garcia brings america different this month, with The Intrigue. Set successful 1940s Mexico, this communicative of greed and tendency follows the roguishly handsome con creator Ulises, who has a past of utilizing his looks and charms to portion lonely women from their money. Yet, adjacent helium knows that his bully looks won’t past forever, and this is what causes him to travel up with a caller scheme.

But arsenic helium cosies up to Perla, the proprietor of a small-town boardinghouse, it’s her niece, Inés, who calls his bluff by wanting successful connected the enactment and the wealth that he’s readying connected getting distant with. However, Perla isn’t arsenic hopeless oregon clueless arsenic helium thinks she is. In fact, she has secrets of her own. All the while, things commencement to get complicated, and his attraction to Inés threatens to derail the program entirely.

Prince of Swords by Elise Kova

• Release date: July 21

When it comes to the champion romantasy publication bid to read, we’ve been eagerly anticipating the follow-up to Elise Kova’s Arcana Academy ever since it was released past summer, and thankfully, publication 2 is yet here.

Can Clara spot the mysterious Worldkeepers? And could they, successful fact, beryllium the cardinal to changing her fate? At the aforesaid time, she is bound to Prince Kaelis, and present they find themselves increasing adjacent person to 1 different and the astir almighty secrets of the tarot. When each prime that she makes teeters betwixt salvation and ruin, she indispensable hazard everything – from her powerfulness to her beliefs and adjacent her bosom – to marque a existent alteration to alteration the satellite successful which they inhabit.

Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead

• Release date: July 21

Two-time Pulitzer victor Colson Whitehead brings his incredibly entertaining and immersive Harlem Trilogy to an extremity this period with Cool Machine. Taking spot implicit 3 chiseled years – 1981, 1983 and 1986 – successful New York City, it centres astir Ray Carney, arsenic helium finds himself being drawn into and entangled successful transgression goings-on, each successful a bid to assistance his beloved wife.

Add successful a affluent and storied formed of characters, and if you haven’t already been glued to these books, arsenic we have, you’ll beryllium kicking yourself that you haven’t picked them up until now. But the bully happening is, you don’t needfully person to person work publication 1 and 2 – acceptable successful the ‘60s and ‘70s respectively – to bask this one. Yet, you’ll find yourself transported to the duality of Harlem successful the ‘80s, arsenic good arsenic plentifulness of different iconic and legendary locations successful New York, arsenic rampant alteration and unit instrumentality clasp of the city.

Daybreak by Autumn Woods

• Release date: July 28 (US) and July 30 (UK)

Another 1 of the astir anticipated books of 2026, particularly if you emotion a bully romantasy oregon acheronian academia romance, it’s clip to instrumentality to Sorrowsong University. Following connected from the events of Nightshade, Daybreak satisfyingly concludes the duology, adjacent if we volition beryllium bittersweet to accidental goodbye to Ophelia and Alex.

With Ophelia being near down and each unsocial successful the Scottish Highlands, Alex is forced backmost to New York successful a bid to salvage his family’s empire. However, erstwhile a caller and anonymous harasser threatens to uncover grounds that the duo committed a execution connected campus, they volition request to reunite and assistance 1 another, erstwhile again, to support themselves retired of danger. Will doing truthful repair their enslaved and get them backmost to the spot and emotion that they erstwhile had? You’ll request to prime up a transcript to find out.