Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently added to my TBR pile. I’m still going to be linking up with Wishful Endings/Can’t Wait Wednesday, and I also want to give a shout out to Jill at Breaking the Spine for starting the original Waiting on Wednesday meme. I hope you’ll find some new books to add to your TBR piles, and as always, I look forward to hearing what YOU’RE looking forward to:-D
This is a colorful bunch of books! Check out three exciting upcoming books I can’t wait to read:
The new head gardener at the enchanting Lilymoor House stumbles upon a secret garden . . . with a mysterious man trapped inside, in the next magical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Sounds Like Love and The Seven Year Slip.
When Sophie Drear plans her escape to coastal Maine for the summer—for a temporary job revitalizing the storied grounds at Lilymoor House—she doesn’t expect to fall in love.
But she does: With the beguiling land, the fragrant flowers, and the towering hedge maze. With the quirky staff and the enigmatic woman who owns the place.
And then, the door appears. Never in the same place twice, it leads her to a secret, and unfinished, garden with a frustrated thundercloud of a man trapped inside.
This mysterious garden is not the only sign that the future of Lilymoor is unstable: the foliage resists Sophie’s careful nurturing, vines threaten to strangle the hedges, and the manor’s owner has wild ideas about who will take over when she retires—including her inconveniently attractive nephew who is also there just for the summer.
Despite herself, Sophie has come to care for the residents of Lilymoor just as much as she cares for its grounds. With the help of one man on the outside of the secret garden, and one man on the inside, she might be the only person who can figure out exactly what Lilymoor needs to bloom once more.
The Someday Garden by Ashley Poston. Releases in June 2026 from Berkley. Who’s ready for another of Ashley Poston’s magical romances? I am! I enjoy these books so much, check out my reviews of The Seven Year Slip, A Novel Love Story and Sounds Like Love.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes, a thrilling, genre-bending mystery about two murdered girls, a town with dark secrets, and a race to break a deadly cycle
Anna Maybourne never imagined herself living in a place like Harper’s Creek, a nowhere town full of dusty farmland plagued by drought. It’s supposed to be a new start for her and her family, but after dropping out of college, Anna feels stuck in place―working a part-time job, watching her little sister grow up, and taking care of her grandmother with dementia, whose paranoid episodes have started to unnerve her. The only interesting thing about her new town, it seems, is the string of grisly murders attributed to a killer called the Farmhandman―and the clue she discovers that reveals the case is yet unsolved.
Along with outspoken loner Melissa Laverne and handsome deputy Todd Greenbough, Anna fills her hours with the town’s darkest curiosity―but even though the prime suspect is long dead, the Farmhandman murders begin to feel too close for comfort as the anniversary nears. Tension is building in Harper’s Creek, and everyone can feel it. The house is becoming more claustrophobic by the day, and her grandmother is growing stranger. Anna begins to wonder if her delusional moments are somehow the key to discovering the truth about the murders, and if the old house, and her new start, is haunted by its own bloody baggage.
With a devastating mystery at its core, They Say a Girl Died Here is a novel of thrilling and terrifying secrets, with a mind-bending twist that could only come from Sarah Pinborough.
They Say a Girl Died Here by Sarah Pinborough. Releases in August 2026 from Flatiron/Pine & Cedar. I love Sarah Pinborough, and I’m excited to see she has a new book this year. This is bound to have some good twists:-)
In Ray Nayler’s speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect.
Neriya, a young Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a biologist, has befriended a local flock of crows in her shtetl. Czeslaw is an underage Polish soldier who deserts the Red Army and runs into the freezing Lithuanian woods. Kezia is a Roma horse trader whose family is on the run from Soviet collectivization. As the German blitzkrieg crashes across the border in June 1941, all three are caught up in the onslaught. Along with Innokentiy, an abandoned boy who cannot speak, they are driven into the primeval forest, where they survive by forming an unbreakable bond with one another—and with Neriya’s intelligent crows, who for years have been bringing her intricate gifts suggesting they are no ordinary corvids.
As the war goes on, the crows warn the children of danger and help them hide from the human threats of the forest—not only the Germans but also Russian deserters, Polish partisans, fascist Lithuanian police, and the other bandits and outcasts wandering the benighted landscape.
Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler. Releases in May 2026 from MCD. I have yet to read anything by Ray Naylor, maybe this will finally be the year? This sounds absolutely amazing! I can’t wait.
I love Sarah Pinborough. I’ve been lucky enough to meet her a couple of times; she is very cool.
Very cool. I need to catch up with some of her backlist.
All three of them sound intriguing!
I have almost every book by Ashley Poston on my TBR but I haven’t read anything by her… sigh!
But maybe 2026 will be the right year!!
You should try Ashley Poaston, I’d be curious to see what you think!
Palaces Of Crows sounds like a very unique concept and I’m definitely intrigue. I love the cover for the Ashley Poston title and cant believe I haven’t tried anything by her yet. I also still need to read Sarah Pinborough’s 2025 release, despite thinking it sounded fascinating. This year’s summer of horror I may have to try and fit both titles in lol
I really enjoy Sarah Pinborough’s books. And this new one sounds too good to pass up.
Hmm, I usually avoid WW2 type settings, but Ray Nayler’s work has been so good so far… I guess I’ll see what reviews say about it.
I’m curious how he handles a WWII story too.
Oooo that Ray Nayler book looks very good!! Omg I still need to read his backlist. Ahhh. I need to clone myself lol.
I need to read Naylor’s backlist too…
I am very excited for The Someday Garden!
Me too, I hope we both get to read it!
Palace of the Crows sounds amazing!! (And while waiting, it’s definitely worth checking out his previous books!). I’m on the fence about the Ashley Poston — her magical romances have been a little hit or miss for me (I loved The Seven Year Slip and The Dead Romantics, but the most recent two didn’t especially work for me)
The Seven Year Slip is definitely my favorite Ashley Poston so far, but I haven’t read The Dead Romantics yet, and I think I’d love it.
Okay. All of these sound amazing!
They do, I can’t wait to get my hands on them!
All of these sound great and I’ve really enjoyed the previous two books I’ve read by Ashley Poston. Some great choices this week!
I love Ashley Poston because her books are so different from what I usually read. I need a change once in a while:-)
Oh another Nayler book!Though I’ll stay away because of the historical context I have read way too much about and now try to avoid
It does seem very different for Naylor.
The Someday Garden sounds so wonderful and magical. I’m really curious about it now!
I’m stalking NetGalley because I want to read it so bad!
A new Pinborough. I am literally dancing around the room. Give it to me. Pretty please to the Book Gods.
Lynn 😀
Exciting, right?
Oh yes, I really like Pinborough so its always good to see a new book on the horizon.
Lynn 😀
I like the sound of The Someday Garden. Is it a standalone?
Yes, all her romances are standalone.
Well I could read all of these Tammy! No horror and all genres I love.
Love the colors on the first one. The last one has such a weird cover it makes you have to look at it for a few minutes to figure it out. Thanks for sharing these, I hope you get to read them when they come out and you enjoy them.
https://lisalovesliterature.bookblog.io/2026/01/28/l-l-l-little-reviews-january-2026/
Yay! A new Sarah Pinborough book to look forward to!
I love Sarah Pinborough’s books, too. Though I do tend to avoid her darker stuff. Hope you enjoy all of these, Tammy.