Literary tastemaker Zibby Owens has unveiled her Most Anticipated Spring 2026 Book List, spotlighting the titles she believes will shape the season ahead. The bestselling author, podcaster, publisher, and founder of Zibby Media spent months reviewing thousands of forthcoming releases from January through April, ultimately curating a thoughtful selection of 16 books per month.
For Owens, the list is about more than what’s next on your nightstand. It’s an invitation—to discover new voices, support authors, and engage in the kind of conversations that turn reading into a shared experience. Spanning fiction, memoir, and cultural commentary, Spring 2026 promises stories that resonate long after the final page.
January
Josie Balka, Loves of Our Lives
Jenna Blum, Murder Your Darlings.
Belle Burden, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage.
Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him
Gillian Deacon, A Love Affair with the Unknown: Leaning into the Uncertainty of Modern Life.
Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life.
Alice Feeney, My Husband’s Wife
Alli Frank and Asha Youmans, Run for Your Life, Callie Kingman.
Jennifer Niven, Meet the Newmans.
Meghan Rabbitt (foreword by Maria Shriver), The New Rules of Women’s Health.
Jennifer Reid, Guilt Free: Reclaiming Your Life from Unreasonable Expectations.
Lauren Schott, Very Slowly All at Once.
Alyssa Sheinmel, Such Sheltered Lives
Lior Torenberg, Just Watch Me
Emma Tourtelot, No One You Know.
Jennifer Breheny Wallace, Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Connection and Purpose.
February
Zeeva Bukai, The World Between
Elizabeth Day, One of Us
Matt Fogelson, Restrung: Fatherhood in a Different Key
Francesca Fontana, The Family Snitch: A Daughter’s Memoir of Truth and Lies.
Blair Glaser, This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience
Lindsay Goldstein, Gap Year
Allegra Goodman, This is Not About Us.
Charleen Hurtubise, Saoirse
Sadeqa Johnson, Keeper of Lost Children
Susan Lucci, La Lucci
Norah O’Donnell and Kate Andersen Brower, We The Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
Libby Page, This Book Made Me Think of You
Brian Platzer, The Optimists.
Alexandra Potter, So, I Met This Guy.
Anna Quindlen, More Than Enough.
Deborah Goodrich Royce, Best Boy
March
Marie Benedict, Daughter of Egypt.
Kerry Clare, Definitely Thriving.
Nancy Foley, I Am Agatha
Matti Friedman, Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe
Annabelle Gurwitch, The End of My Life is Killing Me.
Leslie Harter-Berg, You’re So Strong: On Grief + Letting Go of My Favorite Compliment
Alice Hoffman, The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Ani Katz, Haven.
Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay
Mark Oppenheimer, Judy Blume: A Life
Allison Pataki, It Girl.
Kat Rosenfield, How to Survive in the Woods
Wade Rouse, That’s What Friends Are For.
Saba Sams, Gunk
J.R. Thornton, Lucien
Jessica Urlichs, They Bloom Because of You
April
Jenny Bartoy, No Contact: Writers on Estrangement
Judy Batalion, The Last Woman of Warsaw.
Kerry Docherty, Selfish: Unlearning, Reclaiming, and Telling the Truth, A Memoir.
Lena Dunham, Famesick
Christina Geist, Before You Fly Away: Life Lessons from Home
Jessica George, Love by the Book
Emma Grey, Start at the End
Jess H. Gutierrez, Adulting for Amateurs: Misadventures of a Geriatric Millennial.
Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel
Marisa Renee Lee, Waiting for Dawn: Living with Uncertainty.
Camille Pagán, Dog Person
Alyssa Rosenheck, White. Blonde. Jew. A Call to End Extremism, Speak Up, and Reclaim Center
Maggie Smith, A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems
Adeena Sussman, Zariz: 100 Easy, Breezy, Tel Aviv-y Recipes
Sonya Walger, Wifehouse.
Kelly Yang, The Take.
