Welcome back to another Check Your Shelf roundup, where I have pulled together an extensive list of resources to help you build your library collections, refresh your displays, or just help your patrons find their next favorite read. Let’s dive in.
New Releases
- Bob Woodward, Gloria Steinem, and Christy Carlson Romano are all publishing memoirs.
- Andy Weir is working on his next sci-fi novel!
- Don DeLillo’s 1980 “ribald hockey romp” is being republished.
- Roxane Gay and Channing Tatum are co-writing a “very sexy” romance novel.
- Chris Colfer is writing a “smutty,” “creepy,” and “very gay” novel for adults.
- Here’s the cover reveal for Stephen Graham Jones’ upcoming horror novel, Off the Reservation.
- 5 recent and upcoming horror novels featuring crows, ravens, and magpies.
- 5 essential new nonfiction reads about Iran.
- 10 buzzy debut novels by women to read in 2026.
- The best true crime books of 2026 (so far).
- Debut nonfiction books that offer fresh takes on our world.
- 7 new aromantic books coming out in 2026.
- New trans books to read for the Trans Rights Readathon (and beyond)!
- 10 more new trans books to preorder in 2026.
All Things Comics
- How comic retailers are turning booksellers into influencers.
- IDW Publishing is launching a crime comics imprint.
- Legends & Lattes is getting a graphic novel adaptation.
- 8 twisted noir superhero stories.
- 7 graphic novels about spiritual and religious journeys.
Audiophilia
- The 2026 Audie Award winners have been announced.
- Spotify has launched Audiobook Charts to track the platform’s most popular audiobook titles.
- Patrick Stewart will be performing Shakespeare’s complete sonnets in a new audiobook.
- 4 immersive new audiobooks with multiple narrators.
- Wil Wheaton talks about narrating a new audio version of Stephen King’s The Body.
Adaptations in the News
- Why movie studios are clamoring to adapt Colleen Hoover’s material.
- Tina Fey is adapting Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan is Killing It for Peacock.
- The new Lord of the Flies adaptation is coming to Netflix.
- Warner Bros. picked up film rights to Richard Powers’s Playground, with Timothy Chalamet producing and potentially starring in the movie.
- Carley Fortune’s This Summer Will Be Different is getting a TV adaptation.
- Queer characters will take center stage in Bridgerton Season 5.
Numbers & Trends
- No, reading is not dead. But is BookTok dying?
- The best-selling children’s books of 2025.
- Not surprisingly, Wuthering Heights and Heated Rivalry are among the most popular books on Libby.
- Why are so many women writing about bears?
- Jack Kerouac’s typescript scroll draft of On the Road sold for $12 million. That’s not a typo.
- 4 million books were published in 2025. Four. Million.
- On 2026’s gothic romance boom.
Book Lists, Book Lists, Book Lists
Children
- 5 overrated picture books, and what to read instead.
- Picture book biographies about women.
- Picture books about female athletes.
- Ballerina books for all those tiny dancers out there.
- Dinosaur books for kids.
- 16 picture books about spring.
- Picture books about being a good neighbor.
- 4 book series for kids who love The Baby-Sitters Club.
Adults
- The best mystery & thriller books of the century (so far).
- 22 of the best mysteries and thrillers by BIPOC authors.
- What to read if you loved Sinners.
- 8 baseball romances for the start of the season.
- Podcast hosts in murder mysteries.
- 8 thrillers about domestic vengeance and feminine power.
- What to read while you’re waiting for the next ACoTaR books.
- What to read if you loved Project Hail Mary.
- Stephen Graham Jones picks his 13 favorite slasher novels.
- Librarians recommend 21 books for fans of Fourth Wing.
- 20 nonfiction books that are page turners.
- 5 speculative stories to either cure or inspire an existential crisis.
- For you are crunchy and good with ketchup: 5 fun books about dragons.
- Horror novels centered around female friendships.
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