Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026: December 16, 2025

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

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This week, Liberty and Emily discuss some of the upcoming 2026 book releases they're most excited about, including Is This a Cry for Help?, Molka, Half His Age, and more! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat 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! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: Is This a Cry for Help? by Emily Austin (Atria, January 13) Heartstopper: Volume 6 by Alice Oseman (Graphix, July 7) Brawler: Stories by Lauren Groff (Riverhead Books, February 24) Molka by Monika Kim (Erewhon Books, April 28) All the World Can Hold by Jung Yun (37 Ink, March 10) The Body by Bethany C. Morrow (Tor Nightfire, Feb 10) Whidbey by T Kira Madden (Mariner Books, March 10) The Secret World of Briar Rose by Cindy Pham (Kokila, June 2) Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker (Hanover Square Press, April 21) Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy (Ballantine Book, January 20) The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean (Tor Books, May 5) The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer (1201 Books, April 21) Canon by Paige Lewis (Viking, May 19) Breakout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon (Quill Tree Books, June 2) Tata by Valérie Perrin, Hildegarde Serle (translator) (Europa, June 23) Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman (MIRA, August 11) What We're Reading: Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz The Lamb by Lucy Rose Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy) by Colson Whitehead More Books Out This Week: The Uninvited by Nancy Banks The Snowman Code by Simon Stephenson, Reggie Brown The Opportunist by Tarryn Fisher Dig Me a Grave: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Who Seduced the South by Richard A. Harpootlian, Shaun Assael Love in Plane Sight by Lauren Connolly The Once and Future Queen by Paula Lafferty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.6	If you're listening to All the Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
0:53.6	Today, December 16, 2025, we are talking about some of our most anticipated books of 2026.
0:55.6	I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Emily Martin, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Emily, hello. Hello. How are you
1:01.9	feeling Liberty? Well, I do feel better. You know, I don't feel great, but like, I feel better.
1:07.3	Everyone's been so nice and just reaching out and being like, you're not on the show.
1:12.2	Yeah, I know. Everyone's missed you and it's probably really happy to hear that you're back. So,
1:17.1	I really, really hate missing the show. And I've had pneumonia. And the first week, it was like,
1:24.2	I cannot do the show. And I lost my voice. And so last week, you know, I really
1:31.5	wanted to record, even though, you know, I was like still in bed and stuff. But I called and
1:35.9	Danica laughed at me and said, go back to bed. Like, you sound like the cryptkeeper is what Vanessa said.
1:42.7	So here I am. And again, thank you to everybody
1:47.4	who reached out and said, I hope you feel better. Special shout out to Nicole. I feel terrible.
1:54.4	Like the day before the first show that I wasn't on, they sent me this lovely message about how much
1:59.6	they like the show and how they look forward to it every week. And they had gotten up that day. It was Monday and thought it was Tuesday.
2:05.2	And then they were really sad that there was no show. And I was like, well, I have some bad news for you.
2:11.7	So I felt terrible. I think it's only like the sixth time I've missed a show. So in 10 and a half years, that's pretty good.
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