Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: New Books I’m Looking Forward to This Year

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Click here to read everyone else’s replies to this week’s question and here to see the full list of topics for the year.

Top Ten Tuesday has a similar topic coming up next week, so today I’m going to be narrowing my list down to my most highly anticipated reads of 2026 so far.

This is going to jump around genres a bit because, as usual, that’s how I prefer to read!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.Onward: 16 Climate Fiction Short Stories to Inspire Hope  by Erin Entrada Kelly

Publication Date: February 24

Solarpunk is my new favourite subgenre of speculative fiction. I love reading about possible ways the future could be much better than life is at the present, so my fingers are crossed this will be an uplifting read.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publication Date: March 31

As a preacher’s kid,  I wasn’t always allowed to listen to secular music, but Brandy was one of those wholesome artists who passed my parents’ standards once the rules loosened up a little.  I’m so curious to read her story from her perspective and hope she has a lot of interesting stuff to say about the parts of her life she hasn’t always been forthcoming about in the past. This is by far my most anticipated read of the year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel

Publication Date:May 5

In a recent Top Ten Tuesday post, I talked about my desire to read more books about protagonists who are senior citizens. This definitely belongs in that category, and I look forward to see how Pepper adjusts to being forced to move into a retirement community only to discover that she’s pregnant shortly after that. What an unusual combination of conflicts!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden

Publication Date: June 2

I enjoyed her Small Spaces quartet and hope the storytelling in this fantasy novel will be just as playful.

 

I suppose the second half of the year will remain a mystery for now as there weren’t a lot of books scheduled for release then yet, and none of the ones I did find gave me that, “I must read this!” sort of feeling.