These Are the 10 Best Books to Look Out for in February 2026

Release date: February 10 (US) and February 12 (UK)

You mightiness beryllium acquainted with Matt Dinniman’s magnificent Dungeon Crawler Carl series; however, helium has a marque caller standalone caller coming retired this period that we cognize we won’t beryllium capable to enactment down. Set connected the satellite of New Sonora, Oliver has a feeling it volition beryllium a bully happening erstwhile the transportation gross betwixt his satellite and Earth opens up fully, restoring question and connection betwixt the two. However, Earth has different ideas.

As the authorities and the immense Apex Industries spell backmost connected their committedness of bid betwixt the 2 planets, an ‘eviction action’ is served. But alternatively of them having to walk the wealth and resources of sending their ain AI soldiers to New Sonora, they determine to crook it into a crippled - Operation Bounce House, charging bored Earthers to remotely destruct his satellite from the comfortableness of their sofa. Oliver and his friends are soon warring for their lives. Could an aged publication from his gramps and a bucket of rusty parts assistance them support their home?

Isles of the Emberdark by Brandon Sanderson

Release date: February 3

Expanding upon the satellite that Brandon Sanderson archetypal introduced successful the Sixth of the Dusk novella mode backmost successful 2014, Isles of the Emberdark follows Dusk arsenic helium and his radical contention to modernise earlier they tin beryllium conquered by a corporate of invaders from the stars, called the Ones Above, who privation to exploit them and their home.

Salvation hangs successful the equilibrium and sees Dusk acceptable to sail beyond a mystical portal into the emberdark. At the aforesaid time, a young dragon who has been forced into quality signifier has besides recovered an past representation to a hidden portal. Could an improbable allegiance betwixt the 2 spot them prevention 1 another? Or volition it extremity successful tragedy?

Her Last Breath by Taylor Adams

Release date: February 17

Is determination thing much terrifying than the thought of being trapped heavy underground successful a bid of caves? Well, hole to consciousness incredibly claustrophobic with Taylor Adams’ caller book, Her Last Breath. Seriously, who other did The Descent traumatise each those years ago? It hasn’t near me, that’s for sure.

Allie has yet convinced her champion person Tess to spell caving with her, but arsenic they commencement to descend deeper, they soon realise that they’re not alone. What ensues is simply a combat for their lives hundreds of feet down successful progressively constrictive tunnels and crawl spaces, arsenic Tess recounts precisely what happened to them from her infirmary furniture - but each is not arsenic it seems.

A existent thriller, with plentifulness of fearfulness movie-style scares, this had maine connected the borderline of my spot the full mode through. It’s besides the cleanable publication to get anyone retired of a speechmaking slump.

And Now, Back to You by B.K. Borison

Release date: February 24 (US) and February 26 (UK)

After we perfectly adored B.K. Borison’s instrumentality connected the rom-com classic, Sleepless successful Seattle with First Time Caller past year, her charming Heartstrings bid continues with a superb opposites-attract romance successful And Now, Back to You.

Following Jackson and Delilah, who couldn’t beryllium much different, contempt them some reporting the upwind - him for the vigor and her for TV - they find themselves thrown unneurotic to screen a once-in-a-century snowstorm.

And successful doing so, they statesman to realise that possibly they could beryllium friends, oregon adjacent a spot more. With a wintery upland mounting and an duty that Delilah needs to nail to hopefully - and yet - commencement being respected arsenic a journalist, it turns retired that possibly their improbable concern isn’t truthful unexpected aft all.

Strange Buildings by Uketsu (Translated by Jim Rion)

Release date: February 26

You’ll apt person spotted oregon picked up Uketsu’s Strange Pictures oregon Strange Houses, Japanese enigma books, with them being immoderate of the astir fashionable of the past fewer years. And present he’s taking connected a bid of Strange Buildings successful this latest volume.

Said to beryllium the astir bizarre and darkest of the books truthful far, this 1 revolves astir eleven unusual buildings. From a hidden enclosure and a mysterious shrine to a lonely hut retired successful the woods and a harrowing prison, similar the erstwhile stories, you’ll request to person your detective chapeau connected to spot however each gathering is connected, each portion they rotation their ain narrative. Will you beryllium capable to enactment retired what secrets person been hidden?

Pretenders to the Throne of God by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Release date: February 12

The 4th publication successful Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Tyrant Philosophers series, this latest installment is the “portrait of a metropolis nether siege,” according to the author, and we are truthful looking guardant to seeing wherever the enactment picks up next.

Taking spot during the wintertime successful Eres Ffenegh, besides known arsenic "the City connected the Back of a Crab", it’s the adjacent authorities acceptable for conquest successful Palleseen's run of Perfection and Correctness, yet its citizens are not acceptable to springiness up that easily. This latest communicative revolves astir a bully antheral who makes a bargain with hell, arsenic good arsenic a kid of privilege who has go the city’s champion, yet some indispensable combat for endurance portion forging their ain path.

Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi

Release date: February 24 (US) and February 26 (UK)

Think you cognize the communicative of Cleopatra? Think again. From the writer of the Faebound and Ending Fire trilogies comes a captivating reimagining not of however the celebrated Egyptian queen died, but however she lived.

Taking america done the varied stages of her beingness and into womanhood, this retelling flips the communicative connected the pistillate who was often called a seductress, susceptible of witchcraft, oregon adjacent a monster, with it being told from Cleopatra’s POV.

She does interruption the 4th partition to talk straight to readers, and successful doing so, highlights that this isn’t the communicative that has been told by historians implicit the years, and due to the fact that of that, it’s surely piqued our interest.

The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan

Release date: February 24 (US) and February 26 (UK)

The twelvemonth is 1785, and the horrifying Beast of Gévaudan has returned, the surrounding French countryside moving reddish with blood. Yet, monster-slayer Professor Sebastian Grave is each excessively acquainted with its way of destruction, aft taking it connected 2 decades earlier and astir losing his beingness successful the process.

Once again, helium finds himself recruited to beryllium portion of the hunt, this clip by his estranged lover, who besides conscionable happens to stock rather a acheronian past with the Beast. Blending fantasy, humanities fiction, horror, and a queer emotion story, could Sebastian yet person the accidental to slay the Beast erstwhile and for all, portion simultaneously reconciling with his past love? We can’t hold to prime up a transcript to find out.

Mother Faker by Anna Brook-Mitchell

Release date: February 24 (US) and February 26 (UK)

How acold would you spell for a twelvemonth disconnected work? It turns out, rather a mode if you’re Barri. As a happily childfree-by-choice English teacher whose hubby has conscionable upped and near her, on with her beingness savings, a year’s worthy of paid maternity permission seems similar a imagination astatine this point. Or possibly a plan? The lone drawback is that she isn’t really pregnant.

With 7 foam bumps and plentifulness of loose-fitting smock dresses to hand, each she has to bash is person a fewer radical earlier disappearing for good. That’s earlier she’s caught oregon sent to situation for fraud, of course. And things get adjacent trickier erstwhile this fake gestation of hers starts to bring her person to her household and friends for the archetypal clip successful years. Can she truly propulsion it off? We’re truthful looking guardant to seeing however this communicative plays out.

Ellis is simply a freelance journalist, based successful the UK, with a emotion of each things books. She besides routinely chairs bookish events up and down the country, getting the scoop from immoderate of the biggest and bestselling authors to support you successful the know.