The most anticipated books of 2027

We might still have a few months of 2026 left, but publishers are already giving us plenty of reasons to…

5 October 2026

We might still have a few months of 2026 left, but publishers are already giving us plenty of reasons to start looking ahead. Some seriously big books have now been announced for 2027, and there are already more than a few we’re very excited about.

Of course, we’re only just getting started. Many of 2027’s biggest releases are still under wraps, so consider this a running list rather than the final word. We’ll be updating it regularly as new books are announced, We’ll be updating it regularly as new books are announced, so be sure to bookmark this page and check back to see what’s been added.

A Court of Forgotten Melody: The Valkyrie Cycle, Movements II & III

Prythian’s alliances are crumbling as the threat of Koschei the Deathless grows ever closer. With the Night Court’s Inner Circle scattered in search of an advantage, bonds are tested, power shifts and old enemies return. As peace hangs by a thread, hope may emerge from the darkest of shadows.
Release date: 12 January 2027

The Two-Body Problem

Olive Smith finally has her PhD, her research and Adam Carlsen, but happily ever after proves complicated when you’re both scientists. With clashing schedules, a brutal academic job market and Olive determined to establish herself in her own right, mounting pressure forces her to decide what she wants from her career and relationship.
Release date: 2 February 2027

Burn and Rave

Actor, writer, director and showrunner Lynette wakes hungover in a dreary English seaside town on her birthday. She hasn’t worked in a while, and she hasn’t been well. Now, as she imagines starring in the final movie of her life, the question is whether it’s a farce, comedy, tragedy, or something else entirely.
Release date: 16 February 2027

The Moth Reborn

The world has been plunged into chaos, and Paige Mahoney is ready to reunite with Arcturus and finish the fight they began. But after a gathering in Iceland ends in violence, Paige is forced on the run, uncovering ancient truths about her own existence and the origins of clairvoyance that could determine the revolution’s future.
Release date: 2 March 2027

We Go Way Back

Frances arrives in Ireland for the wedding she always imagined would be her own, watching longtime almost-love Callum marry someone else. As the weekend unfolds, the story travels back through decades of friendship, missed chances, heartbreak and almost-kisses, until an unexpected knock on Frances’s hotel door changes everything.
Release date: 2 March 2027

The Last Days of Vic & Coco

It’s 1974, and longtime hustlers Vic and Coco are running out of marks, money and places to hide. The pair have spent years conning overconfident men at pool tables across America, but when they devise their biggest score yet, the friendship they’ve built their lives around is put to the ultimate test.
Release date: 2 March 2027

Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger

London, 1938. After a chance encounter with the mysterious Miss Lambert at a music hall, Richard Hadley becomes determined to protect her from the hostile forces closing in. His pursuit takes him from a grand English country hotel to a train bound for Scotland, drawing him deeper into an unfolding mystery.
Release date: 9 March 2027

Blaze

In a semi-flooded New York City in 2040, young pigeon Blaze lives among a tight-knit flock in an abandoned tower. When she saves a stranger carrying stories of the world before, everything she knows is challenged, forcing Blaze to choose between the beliefs of her kind and the possibility of another way.
Release date: March 2027

Serious Music

Gifted young music scholar Arthur Champion is sent to the Somme, where he survives the horrors of war before forging a new life through music. From the jazz clubs of Paris to the White House, his journey becomes one of survival, self-discovery and resistance against the brutal racism of his time.
Release date: 2 March 2027

The Enigmas

London, 1940. After her sister Clemmie is killed while undertaking secret war work, Beatrice discovers the antique pocket watch Clemmie left behind can transport her through time. Given the chance to save her sister, Beatrice soon discovers that changing the past could have devastating consequences for her own life and the future.
Release date: 30 March 2027

Daughters of the Pink City

In colonial Jaipur, sixteen-year-old Deepa is sent to live with her strict grandparents after her mother suddenly disappears. When she secretly begins learning kathak from a courtesan, dance offers a freedom she has never known while revealing long-buried family secrets about forbidden love, betrayal and generations of resilient women.
Release date: 31 March 2027

Thank You for Your Suffering

Michelle Zauner spends a year in South Korea determined to learn her mother’s native language and eventually read the diary she left behind. Between an unforgiving language school, new pressures on her marriage and life in Seoul, Zauner reconnects with her Korean family, builds new relationships and continues the mother-daughter story begun in Crying in H Mart.
Release date: March 2027

Brothers and Sisters

After publishing Educated, Tara Westover faced a new battle over the past as her family challenged the story she had told. When the brothers who had once confirmed her memories began denying them too, Westover was forced to confront questions of truth, memory, family loyalty and what it means to believe your own experience.
Release date: 13 April 2027

Grenade

Filmmaker Zuzu arrives in Paris for the premiere of her first feature, with just three days before returning home to continue trying for a baby after multiple miscarriages. But between her fearless best friend, a famous ex-girlfriend and her growing career, Zuzu begins questioning the carefully constructed life waiting for her in Los Angeles.
Release date: 14 April 2027

Modern Classic

Emily Henry, the bestselling author of Funny Story, Great Big Beautiful Life and People We Meet on Vacation, returns with a brand-new novel. Further details, including the synopsis, are yet to be announced.
Release date: 13 April 2027

Up to the Light

In 1994, best friends and celebrated climbers Liam and Petal join an expedition to Mount Varda, untouched for decades after a previous climb ended in tragedy. As they begin their ascent, worsening conditions and increasingly strange events blur the line between reality and something more unsettling, with consequences that will follow them for years.
Release date: 13 April 2027

The Fire

Merritt Locke has always been a faithful wife, devoted mother and generous daughter, until a devastating betrayal thrusts her into the public spotlight. Breaking the rule everyone expects her to follow, she sets off across America to reconnect with her estranged daughter, joining forces with women who, like her, are ready to be heard.
Release date: 4 May 2027

Only in Summer

Carley Fortune returns to Barry’s Bay with Eleanor Florek, a local reporter who finally buys her dream cottage on the lake. But when handsome neighbour Owen Kolstad returns to the enormous lake house next door, Eleanor’s plans for a quiet summer are disrupted by an unexpected connection neither of them is looking for.
Release date: 18 May 2027

About Mandy Myles

Mandy Myles is the founder and editor of Bookety Book Books. A former bookseller, she writes about books, reading culture and the wider literary world.

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