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
Three different genres, something for everyone, perhaps?? Take a look at the new books I found this week:
An epic haunted house tale that combines the classic supernatural terrors of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House with the fantastical adventure and eclectic ensemble of Night at the Museum.
Reclusive billionaire William Buren spent his life collecting the world’s most cursed artifacts and housing them in his expansive upstate New York mansion. After Buren’s death, his dismayed heirs discover the estate is bankrupt. They have only one path to profit: transform the mansion into the world’s greatest haunted attraction, a Disneyland of horrors, the Louvre of haunted houses.
To give their project credibility, they assemble a team of renowned experts in their respective fields: a cancelled celebrity ghost hunter, a traumatized psychic, a defrocked exorcist, a terminally ill archaeologist, and a controversial physicist. All of them have one thing in common: they want the pot of gold promised to them at the end of this dark and twisted rainbow.
The assignment is simple. Spend a weekend in the mansion, confirm the authenticity of the artifacts, verify any phenomena, and endorse the museum. In return, a hefty sum for each of them. But the entities contained in these artifacts possess a will, an intelligence, and an agenda of their own. Our protagonists discover they have been chosen by this place, at this time, for a diabolical purpose.
The Museum of Cursed Artifacts by Evan Spiliotopoulos. Releases in March 2027 from Atria/Emily Bestler Books. I just saw it on NetGalley as a “read now” so I grabbed it. It sounds freaking amazing, right?
Four unforgettable characters try not only to survive, but to preserve the very thing that makes life worth saving in the first place in this deeply moving story of resilience and hope from the acclaimed author of A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World.
What if one person was your whole world?
In the overgrown ruins of a world almost empty of people, the only person Mouse has ever known is Cat, the brave girl who carried him inland, away from the sickness that came from the sea. When strangers arrive with a choice to be made, nothing will ever be the same.
Almost two hundred years earlier, a couple are falling in love as the world is dying out. When they discover they are two of the few people still able to have a child, so do the authorities. They may be separated from Mouse and Cat by an insurmountable gulf of time, but some truths remain: family comes in all shapes and sizes, so does love.
And even at the end of the world, hope dies last.
The Two of Us at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher. Releases in August 2026 from Redhook. This might be the UK cover, I’m not exactly sure. But I couldn’t resist sharing it anyway. I believe this is set in the same world as A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, a book I absolutely adored. In any case, I’m very anxious to read this!
A magical legacy, both a curse and a gift, haunts three women across centuries in this spellbinding story.
1650: Mary Hatley, a secret healer, longs for a life far from her childhood farm. One star-strewn night, she and her forbidden love escape to London, finding solace working in an apothecary shop. Though this unconventional path harbors peril Mary hadn’t predicted, she’s determined to create a legacy that will protect women like her for generations to come.
1692: When Clara Brooks is accused of witchcraft at the height of the Salem witch trials, she escapes deep into the wilderness with her young daughter in tow. Their only hope of survival is the gift Clara has long kept at bay—a deep and intrinsic connection to the natural world—and a mysterious presence who guides them on their harrowing journey.
1959: July Hathaway, once an aspiring medical student with a hidden power of healing, is now a single parent struggling in a world that disavows unwed mothers. To protect her daughter from imminent danger, July flees to a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, where her fate hinges on uncovering the truth about the outcast women who preceded her.
With lyrical prose and captivating characters, this riveting tale is a story of love, courage, and motherhood, as three women across history test the bonds of magic running through them all.
Witches Three by Kristin Judd. Releases in January 2027 from Berkley. I literally swooned when I saw this cover! I love multi-timeline stories like this, and I’m curious to see how they all connect.
The Museum of Cursed Artifacts sounds like a really fun one! And I also love the sound of Witches Three!
Ooh adding all three of these to my TBR this week, what an interesting and compelling mix of titles. Very intrigued by the Shirley Jackson comparision in the first ones blurb
“The Museum of Cursed Artefacts” and “Witches Three” caught my attention. The first one, especially, sounds intriguing with its blend of the classic supernatural atmosphere of “The Haunting of Hill House” and the eclectic energy of “Night at the Museum”. It sounds like a fascinating combination
The Museum of Cursed Artifacts sounds so cool!