Ruth Ware’s THE LYING GAME is Becoming a Series on Prime and More Book News!

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The Lying Game cover

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Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor. She spends her free time reading, watching horror movies and musicals, cuddling cats, Instagramming pictures of cats, and blogging/podcasting about books with the ladies over at #BookSquadGoals (www.booksquadgoals.com). She can be reached at emily.ecm@gmail.com.

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So what’s going on in the world of books? I’m so glad you asked. It’s another week, and I’ve got another round of exciting book news to share with you, book lovers. Mark your calendars for these exciting upcoming adaptations and book releases. 2026 is already shaping up to be a good year in the world of books.

Here’s the cover of Opting Out, the new graphic novel from Maia Kobabe, the award-winning author/illustrator behind Gender Queer, and Lucky Srikumar. The story follows a seventh-grader named Saachi, a young storyteller who loves fantasy novels and who feels left out when all of her friends start talking about liking boys. And when her body starts changing, she wonders why things can’t just stay the way they’ve always been. The cover design for Opting Out is by Maddy Price. The graphic novel is out on May 5, 2026.

Amazon Prime Video is creating a TV series adaptation of Ruth Ware’s thriller The Lying Game. The project will be written by Suzanne Heathcote (The Thursday Murder Club, Killing Eve) and executive produced by Ted Gold and Susan Rovner. The Lying Game was Ware’s third novel. It’s about a group of friends who were all expelled from boarding school after a game of lying gets out of hand. Now, years later, they come back together and are forced to confront a secret they thought they’d buried long ago.

All Access members, read on for more cover reveals, excerpts, and adaptation news.

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Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell by Taj McCoy cover

Amber Riley is set to star in the upcoming CW adaptation Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell, based on the romance novel of the same name by Taj McCoy. The film is directed by Samantha MacAdam and written by Miriam van Emst and Shelley Scarrow. It follows Savvy Sheldon (Riley), a woman who is dissatisfied with her thankless career and decides it’s time to renovate her life—from her job to her self-esteem to the crumbling kitchen she inherited from her grandmother. That’s how she meets contractor Isaiah (Dorian Grey), and sparks begin to fly. The cast also includes Nadine Whiteman and Malaika Hennie-Hamadi.

Check out the cover of Sisterhood Above All, a new novel from Amayah Shaienne and Kathleen Barber. This is a thriller about three young women from two competing sororities who get caught up in a cutthroat competition for the top spot on campus. But then someone ends up dead. “I hope readers will see that, even though the book is a fun thriller full of bloodshed, backstabbing and toxicity, at its heart, it’s about what it means to be a young woman searching for her place in the world,” Barber told People. Sisterhood Above All is out on July 14, 2026.

Mizuki Tsujimura’s Lost Souls Meet Under A Full Moon is getting a sequel! The new novel, How to Hold Someone in Your Heart, follows a now-adult Ayumi, who is working as a toy designer. And just like in the first book, Ayumi arranges meetings between souls that have passed on and the ones they’ve left behind. The book is out on March 17, 2026, but you can read an excerpt now!