Twelve New Books You Need To Know About for February 2026
Gavin Newsom, Toni Morrison and Allegra Goodman are among this month’s offerings
Clutch — Emily Nemens (Feb 3)
A literary novel about inheritance, ambition, and buried family histories, marking Nemens’s return after her 2020 The Cactus League. This time with added baseball!
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Love Me Tomorrow — Emiko Jean (Feb 3)
A time-bending YA romance but with an SF twist because it’s built around letters from the future, blending longing, fate, and emotional risk.
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Brawler: Stories — Lauren Groff (Feb 24)
This could be really great. This should be a fierce new short-story collection from one of America’s most acclaimed literary voices.
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Kin — Tayari Jones (Feb 24)
A powerful novel about friendship, obligation, and reconnection from the author of An American Marriage.
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A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides — Gisèle Pelicot (Translated by Natasha Lehrer and Ruth Diver)(Feb 17)
Drugged and raped by her husband on countless occasions over a decade, Pelicot wrote this courageous memoir confronting sexual violence and public testimony.
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The Copywriter — Daniel Poppick (Feb 3)
A sharp, funny literary novel about branding, ambition, and the hollowness of cultural production.
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When I Kill You — B. A. Paris (Feb 17)
Another tightly wound psychological thriller built on obsession, secrecy, and escalating menace.
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Language as Liberation — Toni Morrison (Feb 3)
She may have passed away a number of years ago, but this is a vital collection of essays and speeches on language, power, freedom, and moral responsibility from the Nobel laureate.
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This Is Not About Us — Allegra Goodman (Feb 10)
Allegra Goodman is one of America’s under-appreciated writers. This is touted as a quietly devastating novel about marriage, ambition, and moral compromise from a master of realism.
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Leaving Home — Mark Haddon (Feb 17)
The author of the sui generis classic The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has written a “A Memoir in Full Colour” tracing the author’s life with parents ill-suited to the task.
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I Give You My Silence — Mario Vargas Llosa (Translated by Adrian Nathan West) (Feb 24)
A formally spare, unsettling work about withdrawal, refusal, and interior freedom from the Peruvian master who passed away last year.
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Young Man in a Hurry — Gavin Newsom (Feb 24)
A political memoir tracing ambition, power, and self-mythology from the governor of California who hopes to be president.
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