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Spring 2026 Comics & Graphic Novels Preview
Our editors highlight the season’s hottest trends and most noteworthy titles for adult, middle grade, YA, and manga readers.
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Spring 2026 Preview: Adult comics
Marquee names like Riad Sattouf, Tillie Walden, Julia Wertz, and Saul Williams light the way for a fabulous season.
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Spring 2026 Preview: Manga
As the manga audience expands, publishers respond with historical fiction, gritty thrillers, and titles on issues like feminism and LGBTQ+ rights.
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Comics by Celebrities Are Having a Moment
The trend of famous folks launching comics series continues with new offerings from John Cusack, Chuck D., and Post Malone—plus fictional takes on fame.
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10 Comics About Devilish Romance
Dark romantasy, monster meet-cutes, twisted fairy tales, and other graphic novel genre mash-ups coming up this spring.
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Books for a Classic Road Trip
Route 66 turns 100 this year, and new books help readers celebrate.
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New Lonely Planet Guides for Kids
With the A Kid’s Guide To... series, LP is appealing to middle schoolers’ sense of adventure.
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Travel Bookselling Gets Creative
Retailers and reps discuss innovative partnerships, thoughtful merchandising, and favorite forthcoming travel books.
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Faith and Freedom in America
Society may be sliding toward secularity, but these deep dives into evangelical extremism and American Christian history prove the nation’s faith-based founding mythos is still very much alive.
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Spring 2026 Adult Preview: Religion & Spirituality
This season’s offerings investigate America’s religious origins, explore Jewish identity, and meditate on the power of myths to shape society.
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Adult Books for Spring 2026
Our editors have sifted through thousands of submissions to bring you the season’s most notable new releases, from game-changing histories to high-voltage romantasies.
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Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: SF, Fantasy & Horror
Fairy-tale elements dominate this season’s fantasies, gothic atmosphere pervades the horror novels, and tech-based anxiety animates the sci-fi outings.
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Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Romance & Erotica
This season’s offerings balance the light—from Regencies to rom-coms—with the dark, including angsty romantasies and high-heat horror.
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Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Politics & Current Events
Government malfeasance, the consequences of too much tech, and the emotional lives of medical caregivers are spotlighted in spring’s current affairs titles.
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Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Poetry
Alongside collections confronting political upheaval and technological acceleration are works that celebrate place, art, and the enduring power of literature.
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Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Mysteries & Thrillers
On tap this season: promising debuts, provocative prequels, and new novels from Jessica Knoll and Jo Nesbø.
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Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Memoirs & Biographies
This season features self-portraits from pop culture personalities including Liza Minnelli and Lena Dunham, plus biographies of literary luminaries.
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Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Literary Fiction
In spring’s most anticipated novels, the bonds of families and friends are stretched to the breaking point and the past rears its ugly head.
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Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Lifestyle
Spring brings explorations of the complexities of women’s healthcare, social connections in the digital age, and the search for purpose in a volatile world.
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Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: History
This season, culture wars and their origins are dissected, fascism and its opponents are profiled, and enclaves of the rich and famous are infiltrated.



