Welcome back to another Check Your Shelf roundup, where I have pulled together an extensive list of resources to help you build your library collections, refresh your displays, or just help your patrons find their next favorite read. Let’s dive in.
New Releases
- Bob Woodward, Gloria Steinem, and Christy Carlson Romano are all publishing memoirs.
- Andy Weir is working on his next sci-fi novel!
- Don DeLillo’s 1980 “ribald hockey romp” is being republished.
- Roxane Gay and Channing Tatum are co-writing a “very sexy” romance novel.
- Chris Colfer is writing a “smutty,” “creepy,” and “very gay” novel for adults.
- Here’s the cover reveal for Stephen Graham Jones’ upcoming horror novel, Off the Reservation.
- 5 recent and upcoming horror novels featuring crows, ravens, and magpies.
- 5 essential new nonfiction reads about Iran.
- 10 buzzy debut novels by women to read in 2026.
- The best true crime books of 2026 (so far).
- Debut nonfiction books that offer fresh takes on our world.
- 7 new aromantic books coming out in 2026.
- New trans books to read for the Trans Rights Readathon (and beyond)!
- 10 more new trans books to preorder in 2026.
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