40+ Most Anticipated Releases of 2026! (July-December)📚

Hello everyone. It's time to talk anticipated books for the second half of the year. I am so excited to chat about this. I do this video twice a year where I talk about my most anticipated release of the year. And you know what? I have been so locked in [laughter] hyperfocused on my TBR that I haven't been as locked in as clued in on new releases as I would usually be. But like going through this list, reading all the synopsis, researching what I want to be on this list, I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I actually have no idea how many are on this list. I have not counted. There's got to be at least 30. Um, let me do math. Carry the two minus the seven. There's about 40. There's about 40 on this list, which I haven't even read 40 books yet this year. Have I? I may be telling a lie. How many books have I read? I've read 45. Oh, I tell a lie. I tell a lie. [laughter] >> But I did tell a bit of a lie there. >> But yeah, in this video I'm going to go through all my most anticipated release of the year. So these are like really mostly authors I've read from and loved before. Oh, Skully's here. Do you want to say hello quickly before you go to bed? Say hi quickly. I love you. Yeah, this is mostly authors I've read from and loved before um their new releases. There's a few that aren't authors I've read from before. But as someone who is like I have to be picky with my releases, you know, this is usually what I stick to. And then throughout the year, if there's some buzzy releases that I everyone's talking about that sound really good, then maybe they'll come onto my radar. But like my starting point is usually authors I've loved and read from before and a few other releases that sound fun. So, shall we just dive straight into it? These are going to be roughly in publication order. UK publication order. Some might be wrong. >> [laughter] >> Okay, first we have got Habits of the Sea by Shea Ernshaw. This sounds very interesting. It sounds like a magical realism book. There is a house that is swept out to sea one night and then I think like 10 years later, 20 years later, something like that. Our protagonist discovers the house and its inhabitant and he has not aged. And I think then like she wakes up the next day, it's missing. The house is missing and then it reappears. And I think it's to do with her meeting the guy who lives there. And I don't know it sounds very intriguing. I really enjoyed what I read from Sha Shaw before. So I'm intrigued by this one. Obviously we are starting here with books that have already come out. So we have got Heartstoppper volume 6 by Alice. I am so excited to read this. I need to read it soon. I love Heartstoppper. I've loved Heartstoppper. I vividly have a memory of reading the first one in like my car somewhere. I think I was like picking Tom up from a doctor's appointment or [laughter] something. you know when I just love when I vividly remember reading a book like that book left a an imprint on my life you know so this is the finale which is sad it's very sad but this is the finale to um Nick and Charlie's relationship and well no hope not their relationship but like us seeing their relationship who us seeing their relationship and I just can't wait then an interesting one helpless by Jessica Null Jessica Null wrote uh Bright Young Women which I read a couple years ago and I thought was one of the most intelligent thrillers I've ever read. I was like, this is just it's it's kind of inspired by Ted Bundy, that book and its victims. And you would think that that could be handled in a crass way, but it felt like it had such intelligence and was really just a wonderful book. This has got very low rating [laughter] already and it's just come out. I think it's like a 3.3 and it's only just come out. But I think this is a woman who is kidnapped by her like high school or college boyfriend. like they're at a reunion and he drugs and kidnaps her and she needs to escape him. I think it sounds as interesting but the ratings aren't good. So, we'll see. But after reading young women, I was like I will read anything Jessica Null puts puts out. So, [laughter] I don't know how that's going to go. Hotgirl Murder Club by Ashley Winstead. I think this is the one where it's a famous actress who gets framed for murder. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Singer actress. She's like living her best life, but her Oh, yeah. Her sister was murdered. Yes. her sister was murdered and then there's all these new murders in LA that point to this girl as a killer. I really enjoyed Ashley Winstead and this one sounds fun. Hot girl Murder Club. Like I'm going to pick it up, aren't I? The Intrigue by Sil Garcia. This one is set in Mexico. We've got this scammer guy who I think like goes around like scamming women and he identifies this new victim, but then he meets her niece and like the niece wants to be in on it on scamming her aunt. But then he also maybe starts falling for the niece and the aunt kind of knows what's going on. It's just got so messy [laughter] and toxic. It sounds interesting. Sra Garcia always ends up on this list. Her synopsis always sound wonderful to me. Then oh my god we're into August. Oh my god. This in in parallel to the Jess Canal. I said I'm going to read anything Jess Canal puts out and it's got a low average rating. Ellery Lloyd Time to Burn is the release that's coming out. This is a husband and wife writing duo and I read the final act of Juliet Willoughby which some of you have read on my recommendation. We all agree outstanding. It's so good. [laughter] It's so good. And I said I'm going to read everything Ellery Lloyd puts out after this fact. And this is a sci-fi thriller which sounds super interesting. Like time travel is starting to become a thing. And I think there's this journalist who gets invited to this like time travel presentation. this company is going to be bringing back this family they've sent on a time travel mission and they bring them back and they are it's supposed they're supposed to have been living their best life but they come back bloodied beaten up and one of them missing but the journalist recognizes a missing woman and no she's not who she's pretending to be so there's a lot of layers to this got really really good early ratings so I think this could be a great release for me this year the Unknown by Mr. Riley. You got to love him. You got to love him. I'm now up to date with my Riley. This one there's like this mysterious island where I think like these mediums or or this like cult of spiritual women used to live, but they went missing and only their dresses were left. And some people think there was like a supernatural event that caused them all to be taken or were they murdered or did you know there's questions of that. Then I think a film I love, you know, I love a film crew going to film where this all happened like years and years later and weird [ __ ] starts happening. Weird [ __ ] starts happening. Very excited. I think Riley now is at his best when there is a supernatural question hovering over the book. There's a lot of his books where there is a supernatural question like is this place haunted? Is there a ghost? And he sometimes does it and that's what keeps me like if he was doing this again and again and again and he'd never actually committed to the bit and never done the supernatural twist I'd be like whatever but he has and so I believe it can go there and that's all I need you know so excited for that one. Meet me in the Garden by Nina Laor. Another one that's had outstanding early reviews. This one's set in New Orleans I believe in the 1940s. It's a family saga. I think it's inspired by Nina's own uh Creole family ancestry and we're following sisters while I think one of them is sappic and kind of tells the other one. The other one's got I think like a secret lover and then we go 5 years in the future. One of them is a a single mom. I'm not sure either through divorce or her partner dying. The other one is now passing as white and I think it's just this really yeah emotional family saga. I love Nina Leor's writing. Yeah, Brena was her most recent one which I love, but then there's some of her like YA like watch over me. I consistently give her high ratings. So, this is another one that I feel like if I get round to it could be amongst my favorite books of the year. Reloqu Oh, I can't say this. [laughter] >> Are you relicquaryy? Reloquery by Hannah Whiten is this very interesting like I think horror. All I know is this woman, her fiance, I think, passes away and all she wanted was to be part of a family, right? And his family kind of takes her in and invites her to their family home, but like it's a little bit sus. I think it's a little bit sus. I think like the house is like on a cliff edge and like, you know, very atmospheric. So, looking forward to seeing what people think of that one. I think that one's been a bit buzzy. Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle. What is this one again? I think like a woman is like called to a famous actor has died and she's like called to the crime scene and then he comes alive. Oh yeah, she's at the medical examiner's office and she's like delivering off his body or something, but then he wakes up and I think it's going to be crazy. Chuck Tingle's [ __ ] crazy. I really enjoyed uh Bury Your Gaze by Chuck Tingle and I'd love to read more. So this is definitely on my radar. Oh, major one then. Big Little Truths by Lean Morati. This is the sequel to Big Little Lies. Can you believe it? And I love Big Little Lies. I gave it five stars. Again, very vivid memory of reading it because I read it when I had COVID and it was the perfect thing to read when I had CO and very little like awareness, [laughter] very little like brain power. It was perfect. And I think this one is set 10 years later. I think the the president, what's the word? Not the president. The head teacher of the school gets delivered like a thumb or something in an envelope. And there's all these secrets. I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with this. I think it's going to be super duper fun. Then a quick shout out, this has already come out in the US. It's got like hundreds of thousands of ratings on Goodreads and like the the the what's the word I'm looking for? The ebook is out, but the physical edition is not out in the UK until August and it's it's not her by Mary Kuba. I'm very excited to read this. I want to read it. I want to read a Mary Kuba. Also, can we just say there's something about Kuba? Mary Kubika. That's a very fun name to say. I like Mary Kubika. A woman is on holiday, I think, with her her siblings, one of like I can't remember if she's related to the husband or wife, but her siblings family. The husband and wife are found dead. The niece is missing, and the nephew's safe asleep in his bed, and it's a question of what happened. I think this is going to be good. I think it's going to be the good choice awards, so I will probably read it then, but I'm looking forward to it. I'm Listen, I I persist with the evils of the Goodreads Choice Awards, despite Freda and Alice Feny, they're going to be like the top two this year. like Dear Debbie and whatever the Alicey I'm going to have to read Alice Feny again. >> So, do you think I deserve better than that? >> Yes. >> I'm not sure what I'm more upset about reading Dear Debbie or Alice, [laughter] but this would be a nice thing to break it up then. I have never read a Lucy Wley still. She is a historian who I enjoy watching. I've watched her shows, but I own two of her books. I own her book on Jane Austin and her book on X Christie. The X Christy one I can't read because she spoils so many books. like so many folks. But the journal one I really want to read and the her release this year is queens and kings which I love saying we're saying queens before kings. I mean power to you Lucy. An unusually personal history. She has worked, it seems, for many decades in a lot of England's palaces and in a lot of the spaces where these really famous historical events took place like where I think it's like in a chapel maybe it says in the description or something like that where Henry VII decided to part ways from the Catholic Church and all of this stuff and she's kind of taking you through the history of kings and queens, queens and kings in England but also through her lens of her work that she's done. It sounds super interesting. Also, we're in September. We have 10,000 releases in September. If your book is getting released in September, it's a big deal because September is the month. Everything gets released in September and then nothing in October, November, December. September's the month you want to release if you want your book to be on the Christmas bestseller charts. Basically, that's the rule of thumb. A Silent Appeal by Dennis Hallet. I'm just going to tell I don't want to spoil anything, so I'm just going to tell you this is a sequel to The Appeal. The girlies are putting on a play again. I think they're actually putting on an Agatha Christie play, which is kind of fun. I say the girlies, it's guys and girls. It's this town [laughter] um who run this like you know acting troop play. They do plays together and again it's all told through mixed media. I don't know if this one will just be emails like the appeal is or if there'll be a mix. I prefer when Jennice does a mix but uh I'm I'm looking forward to see what she does with it. I really enjoyed the Christmas appeal which was her Christmas nolla sequel to the appeal. So I'm looking forward to this one. She is a doll by Braa True Love. I think this is the I believe this is the author of Monsters and Main Frames, which I haven't read, but I've heard a lot of people enjoyed. And oh my god, this sounds incredible. It sounds like High Camp. High camp. I love camp. [laughter] A woman is murdered and she is like, I'm going to seek revenge for my murder, but she gets like reborn. Her soul is in this little porcelain doll. So, she's like this little doll running around trying [laughter] to She's like a little doll. IT'S CAMP. IT'S CAMP. I DON'T KNOW WHAT to tell you. running around trying to solve a murder. I think she teams up with this woman who like hates her killer. Like she knows who her killer is and she's like, I'm going to get that, man. It's It sounds ridiculous. I'm very excited. I think I've got to read that. Taipei Story by RF Kuang. There's been mixed reviews of this. I love RF Kuang. RF Kong is by far one of my favorite authors. Like I give her five stars, five stars, five stars. I think this woman is a genius. I've been lucky enough to go to one of her talks and she's just a freaking genius. However, this is like her first foray into real kind of like contemporary literary fiction obviously of Yellowface, which wasn't fantasy, but that was like kind of a thriller adjacent contemporary, whereas this seems like coming of age contemporary literary in Taipei. Really the story of like being diaspora and like you know what if what do you do if your family don't want to answer questions on your history or history or you've never learned the language or like what when can you identify with certain parts of the culture? When does society make you feel like you can't, etc., etc. There's my mixed opinions, but I love RF Kuang, so I want to read it. Then we have Serenity Falls by CJ Tuda. CJ Tuda for me, I think I've given her four stars every time. Like, she will give you a great time. I'm yet to give her five stars, but I know I think there's nothing better almost like well obviously there's something better if you go into [laughter] knowing an author's going to be five stars for you like our next one. I go over into every sing knowing I'm going to enjoy it and I'm going to be in a safe pair of hands. This one sounds so interesting. I actually want to pull up the synopsis because like the exact wording of some of it is very interesting. So, we're in Serenity Falls, which is like idilic suburbia, US, and our characters have moved there, but then a dead body is found in a swimming pool gag. Okay, that's the first gag. But then this is what sounds so interesting. It turns out it's just the start of a series of odd discoveries. Abandoned houses where people have seemingly just upped and left. The strange woman Sadi keeps seeing around town putting up missing posters for a child who drowned 25 years ago. An ice cream van that drives around at night making sure residents are asleep. Huh. [laughter] There's just something about that that just sets the perfect tone to intrigue me. There's these little questions. There's these little clu I can't speak clues. So yeah, I enjoy very much a CJ TUDA. So I'm looking forward to this one. That just sounds so it's got me. Then we chase Shadows by Ra. Oh [ __ ] yeah. Here's the thing, guys. I'm going to an event. I'm going into an event. I'm going to event for We Chase Shadows. I think I'm going to get to meet the man, the myth, legend himself. Unless he doesn't do every Water St. book event I've done, the author has done book signings at the end. I think I might get to meet him. >> [laughter] >> He wants to marry me. [music] >> Also, Lucy Foley is there. We'll get on to her at least in a second. She's going to be there. I've already met Lucy Foley. She was lovely. She was so kind. She gave me a lovely hug. But um the man, the myth, the legend, Rich Head. [laughter] Can you imagine? Can you imagine? Made. [laughter] Anyways, this is the sequel to We Solve Murders, the second in this series. The synopsis doesn't really say anything like, "Okay, well, we're following like a father-in-law and daughter-in-law duo as they solve crime." This series is much more like jet seti the club. So, I think we're going to be in LA. We're going to be somewhere in Europe at some point. I think we're going to be jetting all over the place having fun and I'm going to go to meet it. Can you imagine, guys? I don't think you understand. I listen to Richman's podcast twice a week. I love his books. Like, that's my man. That's my man. I'm so excited. Big Man by Dean Ata. I loved The Black Flamingo by Dean Ata, and I've kept meaning to get round to more of his books. I think I might own another one of his books. Is this his adult debut? There's a question there. I don't know. I don't know if it's his adult debut, but I certainly haven't read an adult book from him before. We're following Big Man, who is like this queer a this queer guy living in London, and he really came onto the scene and was welcomed into club culture when he was younger by Mother, who is a trans woman. And it comes out that Mother is going to be releasing a memoir. And I think it stirs up a lot of things that have happened to Big Man back in club culture or back in his youth that he had suppressed. It sounds very interesting. It sounds like a real a really queer book. You know what I mean? Like but also there's going to be queer joy but also like you know not shying away from some negative things as well. It sounds really really good. Elizabeth Asavdo is back. Elizabeth Aso is back within the YA. I still haven't read read family law by her. I really want to. Anger is only a shadow. We're following this young girl who I think has lived like she she doesn't want to live by life's boundaries, right? So, she's kind of a bit acting out and she ends up in like a youth detention center and she's trying to get in touch with her brother for him to help her get out. It sounds very emotional. This books are always incredibly emotional, incredibly poignant for the time. I always feel like she's really got her finger on the pulse. Oh, then we have a major one. Okay. Deadbeat [snorts] by Lee Bardugo. [laughter] I hear you shiver with anticipation. My god. This is number three in the ninth house series. Let's all just take a moment. Another major major water st book event I went to was for 9inth house with Lee Bardugo. I met the woman herself. She is one of the most enigmatic people I've ever met in my life. And she said that she wanted a 9inth house series to be like I can't remember what she said like seven books, nine books, 12 books, something like that. Let's just all mourn that because here the 9inth House series comes to an end. >> [sighs] [gasps] >> I'm getting chest pains just thinking about it. So, I can't really tell you much about what this book is about because it's the third in the series and like a lot has happened. But, we're following Alex Stern who's at Yale and she's like in charge of managing these magical societies that exist at Yale. There's demons, there's devils, there's magic, there's occult things, and there's a hot guy. That's all we need. Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel. The [ __ ] I almost said the [ __ ] is back. [laughter] Oh my god. Emily. Emily, I am so sorry. I don't know where that came from, but also the [ __ ] is back. You know what I mean? Like, we love an Emily St. John Mandal in this house. The [ __ ] is back. So sorry. This synopsis is one that didn't really It didn't really stick in my brain because I feel like an Emily St. John Mandal synopsis is never meant to stick in your brain. Like, you've just got to dive in. You just got to dive in head first and just accept that you're going to have a wonderful Well, maybe maybe not have a wonderful time, but it's going to be incredibly wonderful book. It's set, I think, in the near future, like 2031 or something. The US has collapsed, has been under like military rule and like it ends or something like the military control ends and like everyone's going to a party and someone goes missing at the party. I don't know. I don't know. Her books are [ __ ] crazy. [laughter] I'm excited for it. Our Cut of Salt by Dena Helm is a very exciting um debut horror. I think it leans. It's a Palestinian author and it's about these generations of Palestinian women who live in this house and the house is I don't know if it's like a haunted house or if there's things in the house that are going wrong in like a supernatural way. But I think this is really a book about what it is to have a home and lose your home or your home to be ruined by outside forces. You know, really a discussion of Palestinian identity. So, I think this is going to be a really important release this year that I'm very much looking forward to. Oh, then we have Hollywood Ending. Then we have Hollywood Ending by John Green. The [ __ ] is back. [laughter] The [ __ ] is back. John Green was his adult debut. I'm a bit scared, but I'm also excited. I love John Green. I think I've read every John Green. I read every John Green. I loved his YA books when I was younger. They were like the basic. I had a John Green era and then I had like a four and a half stars era and then I started reading does any did anyone have this era like when they were 13 or something of reading there was a lot of like for stars ripoff of like unwell teenagers [laughter] like I read me and the dying dying girl I read it's kind of a funny story by Ned Vzini like I had [laughter] I had a John I had a Twilight era and then I read all the Twilight ripoffs and then I had a Fall in our Stars era and I read all the stars ripoffs. It happens to everyone. Now I read all the Actor Christy ripoffs basically. Anyway, this one is following these actors and the debut of their like really famous film, but it's also their personal lives. It sounds interesting. It feels like he's examining a lot to do with fame and public life and the way we all exist in public life now. That sounds super I mean he's like one of the most intelligent men on the world in the world. So, you know, it's going to be good. Then we have Maisywood by the incredible Tanana Reef Jew. I loved the reformatory. It was really one of my standout books the year that I read it. And this one, it's a very brief synopsis. We're following this guy going to, I think it was his aunt's maybe. Um, she was a very famous black actress in the 1940s and 50s and he goes to her cabin home in the woods and discovers her rage. It seems it seems there's a spirit at her cabin in the woods that is lonely and angry. It just that sounds that sounds fascinating, doesn't it? It sounds fascinating. So very much looking forward to that. We spoke about her before. The [ __ ] back. I need to stop. Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley. This is Lucy Foley's release of the year. Obviously, I love you, Lucy Foley, but this is also her writing for the Agatha Christie estate, and it's her writing a Miss Marple mystery. >> Yes, my team. The dream team. [laughter] >> Here's the thing. I've never read Miss Marple. I do really want to read Miss Marple. I've got Murder at the Vicorage. I need to read that ASAP. [laughter] It's on my TBR. But I'm I mean I love Lucifoli and I love the Christy. This is so exciting. I want to read you out obviously murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel, whatever it's called. You can you can imagine what this book is about. That's the thing you need to know. But I just want to read out the synopsis because it does the thing that every Lucy Foy books. This is why it feels like a Lucy Foley Miss Marle, not like Lucy Freddy trying to write as Agatha Christie because all Lucy Freddy synopsies have the characters distilled down into their archetypes, which is a very Agatha thing. Like that is very much inspired by Agatha in her books because I love that in a murder mystery, the archetypal characters, you know. But in this one, we have got I just want to read it out to you. The notorious actress, the high-flying politician, the society wife, the reckless friend, the shrewd doctor. [laughter] I love that in a murder mystery. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. So, Lucy, I'm going to meet you. I'm watching you, Taylor. The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Disha Phil. This is about a pastor's wife of like a mega church. And we don't really have anything like this in the UK, but like you Americans are crazy with those mega churches. I'm not going to lie. Like that's wild. And I think her life starts to unravel. I think this is more contemporary leaning, like a serious contemporary book. Kind of like yesterday year, right? That's like it's contemporary with a little bit of something. Not just contemporary, it's a contemporary with a little bit of something. But this has got really good early reviews. I think Roxang Gay gave it five stars on good readads, which she does not do lightly. I love seeing what Roxan Gay rates and doesn't rate. you know, when she doesn't rate it on good readads, you know, if she's going to be a four or five, she'll rate it if it's not rated. But yeah, she gave it five stars. So, I'm looking forward to it. American Hagwan, major major book by Minjin Lee. This is the author of Pachinko. The author of Pachinko's got a new book, guys. This is again just uh the synopsis is very dense. There's a lot of details. There's a lot going on. There's a lot of intergenerational things, but it's a family saga just like Pachinko. And that's all I really need to know going into it. is this family saga to do with like Korean identity and I think there's like a it's I can't remember what year it's set but there's like an Asian financial crash at one point that really impacts this family's life and I mean I will read anything that Mini writes cuz Pachinko is a book for the ages that's a modern classic that is like holy [ __ ] you are one of the greatest authors alive when you read that book >> a classic classic not debatable not up for debate >> I have no doubt that this is going to be amazing tales from The territory by Travis Baldry is short stories from the world of legends and lattes. That's all I've got for you. That's all you need to know. The Scarlet Ball by Nevo. Okay. Nevo's books that she writes her her fulllength books. Obviously, I read a lot of The Singing Hill Cycle, but I have two of No, I've read Siren Queen. I've read Siren Queen now. That was really interesting. But I've got The Tro and the Beautiful Night on my TBR as well. But her fulllength books always have this like historical fantastical horror. They're kind of beyond categorization. They're this mix of things. And this one is about this ball and our protagonist is going to the ball with this I think this white girl's face sewn onto her face like impersonating her and like everyone wants to find a match at this ball but like they have to keep their husband's desires fed otherwise they like turn in murderous or something. It sounds crazy. It sounds absolutely bonkers ball but again Nevo I just love love love her writing. Victorious by V. E. Schwab. Major major major major major major time, guys. Again, I don't want to spoil anything, but this is the sequel. No, this the season finale. The season finale. This the the sequel to Vicious and Vengeful. Here's the thing. Vicious. Five stars. Vengeful. I think I gave two. So, we've only got a hope and pray. This is We're following Eli and [ __ ] it's going to annoy me. I have to look it up now. Eli and Victor. Eli ever. Victor. Veil. Two men. First bit friends, then mortar enemies, each destined to be other shadow one left standing, but the game isn't over yet. >> Gagandra, [laughter] >> I'm very looking forward to it, but I am nervous because again, I didn't love Vengeful. The Slant Mistories by Alexi Harrow is a short story collection from Alexi Harrow. I love Alexi Harrow's writing. I still I have many to read. I more than anything want to read The Everlasting because I know everyone who's read that is like deep in obsession with that. But um The Ones on Future Witches is that's up there. That's in my top 25 books. I feel like I need to reread it. But I read that and I was like, "Wow, wow. [laughter] Wow. This is really something. This is really something." It stuck with me. So, I've put that on my list as well. The Shadows of Kensington Gore by Ross Montgomery is the sequel to Murder at World's End, which I read this year and was one of my it's probably other than like Lady Hard Castle and maybe some Agavville or something, probably my top murder mystery that I've read so far this year. I really really enjoyed it. This one I think a policeman is murdered and these three women who were nearby are like accused of doing the murder, but our guy who is he's like he's I don't want to fall. No, you know that him and Desmeina, the old lady are going to be like a detective duo. He was nearby. The guy the guy the guy and him and Desamina are going to I can't remember his name are going to solve the murder together basically. Okay. Becky Chambers. Becky Chambers. As you wake, break the shell. I have only read is it the robot and the monk? I've only read that from her and I didn't love it. However, I know the girlies love Becky Chambers. This is another sources that didn't stick in my brain. We're following two characters on this on this planet that I think is in trouble. One of them is a botonist. I don't really know much about it, but it's getting great early reviews from people who have arcs. And I want to love a Becky Chambers. I want to love a Becky Chambers. So, I'm very much intrigued. I'm very much intrigued. This next one, we've got only two left. Oh my god. This next one was I was watching Mara from books like wo's most anticipated releases and she put this on here and it really intrigues me. It's a non-fiction. It's called Live, Laugh, Love, the Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made by Kristen Cobz Dumez. This is obviously very American centric, but it's kind of focusing on the pervasiveness of the Christian woman uh impact kind of on American culture and like the idea of mommy blogs or like so many like mummy influencers on like social media are like Mormons or very Christian like turn out to be like a pastor's wife. I'm like, "Oh my god, this is I didn't know that about you." or like the idea of like MLMs, I think maybe or like all how it pervades in culture and the idea of like what being a Christian woman is. I think it sounds very interesting and Mara had a really high high praise to say of Christine Coz Dez's uh previous book that she'd read from her. So, I'm very intrigued. I'm very intrigued by that. And finally, publishing in December. It's crazy. We have Rabbit Rabbit by Jennifer E. Smith. I read uh The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E Smith, which is like a very hard-hitting, emotional contemporary book. a couple of years ago and loved it. And this one is about a woman who she's turning 40 and she's like, "Okay, this is the year I said to myself if I was 40 and I wasn't with a partner. I was going to have a baby by myself via IVF." So, she starts on that process, but then she meets this guy that is like, "This guy is everything I've ever wanted. I'm, you know, it's vibing. We're getting along. Like, there's something here, but he doesn't want kids." And so I think she spends a year kind of like live going down both of these paths, right? Like pursuing IVF but also dating this guy. And it comes to a crossroads where she kind of has to choose one life, right? It sounds very interesting and it's going to be emotional. I really want to read another Jennifer E. Smith because the Uns James, I remember not expecting much from it and it was a five star. I was like blown away by how good it was. So that brings us to a close. My god, I've rambled there, but can you tell I'm excited? I'm excit I love reading. I [ __ ] love reading. I love reading. Isn't it just amazing how many great books there are out there? I'm so excited. Let me know which of these you're most excited for. If I had to pick my ones I'm most excited for, they are as follows. I mean, Heart of Volume six I will read and love. But that's Let's just put that to the side because I that feels like cheating. Time to Burn by Ellery Lloyd. Meet me in the Garden by Nina Laor. The Lucy Worley non-fiction I'm very excited [laughter] about. Rich Lotsman. I want to say the Oh, Deadbeat. Deadbeat. John Green. I want to say the Lucy Foley, but I might not read that straight away because I feel like I need to understand Miss Marle before I read that. Those are the ones that jump out at me as like top top top five star prediction. I'm going to love them. But I'm excited for a lot of these. So yeah, let me know um which ones of these you're most excited for. If you've read any of them, some of you might have read some of the ones that came out in July already, or you may have had arcs for some of the later ones. I'd love to know any thoughts you guys have. But yeah, thank you so much for watching. I hope you're all doing well. I've got a very exciting vlog coming next week. Um I I don't know how it's going to go yet cuz I'm filming this like 2 weeks before that vlog comes out. So, I've got a lot of time to read. Yeah, I'm excited for the next video I'm going to show you. But thank you for joining me for this because I love chatting about new releases that I'm excited about. So, yeah, I am bad at ending things. Love you and I'll see you later. Bye.