The Most Anticipated Literary Fiction of Fall 2026

The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman — a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State — searches for answers.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists returns with an intimate yet epic love story — and a sweeping odyssey of scientific discovery. Under Story invites us to consider the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would go for more time with the people we love, cementing Chloe Benjamin’s place among our best, and most lasting, storytellers.

A mesmerizing portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest. Hypnotic and startlingly original, Switzy probes the depths of human consciousness, revealing what a man is left with when the accomplishments and compromises that have defined him, and the illusions he’s relied on, vanish.

“A glorious sweep of a novel” (Ann Patchett) that weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century. Sweeping yet intimate, resplendent with moments of deep emotion and unforgettable characters, Buckeye is a transportive story of love, loyalty, sacrifice, and forgiveness. Now in paperback!

From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making — a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of personal grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy.

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a magnificent novel about the wondrous, mysterious nature of the human heart. A thrilling feat of world-building and a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, one that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore the fundamental question: What does it mean to love? Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Taika Waititi and starring Jenna Ortega!

A spellbinding tour de force from the bestselling author of The Invisible Bridge — a novel about varieties of infidelity, the provenance of a literary masterpiece, and the power of storytelling to shape identity and destiny.

From Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings: A propulsive novel about the murder of a gay man in 1980s Jamaica and its tragic consequences.

The new novel from Thomas Pynchon, author of Gravity’s Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice. “Late Pynchon at his finest. Dark as a vampire’s pocket, light-fingered as a jewel thief, Shadow Ticket capers across the page with breezy, baggy-pants assurance — and then pauses on its way down the fire escape just long enough to crack your heart open” (The Los Angeles Times). Now in paperback!

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust turns to the future with a novel that examines the place of technology in the American imagination. Combining Dickensian odyssey, family drama, and scientific thriller, Ply poignantly charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love.

A searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists — the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires. Now in paperback.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers and How Beautiful We Were, a captivating novel about love lost — and the weight of regret. What do we owe to those who have hurt us? Are we defined by our worst moments and our deepest regrets? And, more than anything, can forgiveness ease our suffering? Moving and full of life, Every Story Is a Love Story charts the uneven path from heartbreak to healing.

When two young men meet during a tech internship, it sparks an intense friendship — and even more intense competition — in this sweeping novel of privilege, identity, and ambition from the acclaimed author of What We Were Promised. Nostalgic, heart-wrenching, and propulsive, Tiger’s Mouth is a nuanced portrait of complex friendship, family dynamics, and love in its most unexpected forms.

A desperate writer’s pursuit of a powerful literary agent takes a dark turn in this new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Hitchcock Hotel and Darling Rose Gold.

No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice, one of the great classics in literature. Critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it, but the rest of us simply fall in love with it — and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine Lizzy Bennet, as she famously meets her match in Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. Here is the official Netflix series tie-in edition of Austen’s most beloved novel.

A collectible tenth-anniversary edition of a modern classic that has captivated millions. In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.

Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning, is set in a near-future Kolkata, India in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. A piercing and propulsive tour de force, now in paperback!

From the acclaimed author of She Would Be King, a dazzling and daring work of magical realism that weaves through the lives of a Liberian immigrant family and the water goddess who haunts them.

Down a Kyoto alleyway, the Kamogawa Diner attracts lost souls. The father-daughter “food detective” duo of Chef Nagare and Detective Koishi help their clientele who seek meaning in their lives by helping them access lost memories through the food of their past. Discover new delicious mysteries in this fourth installment in The Kamogawa Food Detectives series, the beloved Japanese bestseller and celebration of the healing power of food.

Three lives, one hundred years, one ghost town: An explosive novel about a mysterious place called Sunrise, where the secrets of the past refuse to stay buried, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife.

The Nobel Prize winner at her earthiest and most ethereal, in a fictional journey through three generations in the life of a mythical Polish village. Rich with the capaciousness and imagination that have brought Tokarczuk to sustained international fame, Primeval and Other Times is yet another treasure for fans and new converts alike.

In this boldly rendered novel, a meditation on creativity in the darkest of times, Elif Shafak imagines in vivid color the life of legendary writer Gustave Flaubert and all the women who possessed him — the fictional ones he conjured and the real ones who shaped him — particularly Madame Bovary.

A wickedly funny office comedy about one bookseller’s (occasionally) ludicrous attempts to understand her manager while against all odds clinging to her passion for books — the perfect read for anyone who has felt that they can’t even … with the idiots among us.

The story of a runaway mother’s ten days of freedom — and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment — from Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes. “The White Hot has the effect of pressing your hand to a barbed live wire. April’s is one of the most memorable voices I’ve encountered in recent fiction … [A] brilliant depiction of a woman learning to transform her rage into something resembling transcendence” (The New York Times Book Review). Now in paperback!