My Anticipated Reads for 2026
If there’s one thing I can’t help doing, it’s hyping up an upcoming book in my mind so much that I often end up disappointed. I can’t help it! I can’t resist! The sweet sweet anticipation of a book by a fave author coming out or a debut with a killer premise, it’s the thrill of the hunt. Here are 19 books coming out before the end of the year…
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Lauren Soloy’s The Newest Gnome: A Quiet Adventure
An utterly charming foray into the mysterious world of forest gnomes and their nature-loving culture.
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Good Dirt: A Solid Family Saga of Trauma and Legacy
This was a solid read, the history of enslaved Black potters and free sailors was fascinating, and I’d have like to stay with them even longer than the time we had.
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January Library Visits
I’ll be dropping by some of my local libraries this month to read Snow Day and do snow-themed crafts with the kids! If you’re local, I’d love to see you!
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Snow Day cover reveal
The cover for my debut children’s book Snow Day illustrated by Ashley Thimot is here.
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I’m getting published!
My debut children’s book Snow Day is forthcoming with Nimbus Publishing.
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
I love Sally Rooney because even when her characters are so pretentious and annoying that I want to claw my own eyes out, I am still invested.
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There’s a smell
There’s a smell I can’t stop sensing, creeps up on me. So, I clean everything. Scrub until my hands are raw, we’re out of rubber gloves again. I put garlic to bed for the first time, separating cloves, the skin tissue paper thin and remind myself of futures where they might multiply, if I do it right. My grandmother dies—complications related to Covid-19—we’re in a pandemic, still. They lay her…
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Tampa and My Dark Vanessa
My Dark Vanessa is just a much more palatable level of disgusting, which I guess is the whole point of writing something like Tampa—to point that inconsistency out.
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Good Company
Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney was exactly my cup of tea, delivered lukewarm.
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