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All the Books!

New Releases and More for May 26, 2026

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Danika discuss The Midnight Train, The Black Cat Detectives, Lake Life, and more great books! Take the Book Riot survey and be entered for a chance to win a $50 USD ThriftBooks Gift Card. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Keep track of new releases with Book Riot's New Release Index, now included with an All Access membership. Click here to get started today! For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website https://bookriot.com/listen/finalized-new-releases-and-more-for-may-26-2026/. Head to cozyearth.com and use my code ALLTHEBOOKS for an exclusive 20% off! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Attention all passengers.

0:03.0

The Uber ride for Jeff's rugby team will depart in five minutes from Platform 15.

0:09.0

Your ride comes with six toilets and a refreshments carriage that you'll empty within five minutes.

0:16.0

Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber.

0:19.0

Trains on Uber. Trains on Uber.

0:32.5

You're listening to All the Books,

0:34.4

a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases and more.

0:39.5

Today is May 26, 2026. I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Janica Ellis, and we're coming to you from

0:45.8

Book Riot.com. Danica, hello. Hello. Liberty, I have a bookish question for you. Okay. Have you... You can't have any, no.

0:58.2

Okay. Well, never mind. They're mine.

1:01.4

Have you ever finished a book and then immediately reread it? Oh, yeah. What are...

1:08.8

It happens more often than it used to.

1:11.2

I'll tell you, now what I do is I finish a book and then I listen to it on audio.

1:14.6

Oh, interesting.

1:17.6

Because I have, I already did a, you know, all the more books episode about this, but I've been obsessed with Heartstopper for the last few weeks.

1:27.4

And I've read the graphic novels three times in the last two weeks.

1:32.5

And I always wonder what makes, like,

1:37.7

there are lots of books that I've loved that I haven't wanted to reread right away.

1:42.0

Usually if I love a book, I will think, like, I want to reread

1:46.1

this eventually. But what makes you want to reread it immediately? I don't know because, like,

1:53.7

as I get older, I'm like, I have less time to reread things. And I'm rereading more now than I

1:58.2

ever did. And I think it's a comfort thing. But I mean, I used to reread a book on occasion when it was like, here's the serious twist that you didn't see coming. Yeah, yeah. And then I'll go back and go, oh, yeah, look at that and that, you know. And then, of course, I read the secret history once a year. But now it's like, I read a book and I was like, that was so fun.

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