This email is a list of all the new science fiction, fantasy, and other genre books coming out in January 2026. We hope you find your next favorite read!
Start your year ð fresh ð with this list of all! the new! science fiction books! coming out this month! We've got time-traveling Romans and sentient computers, plus new Alastair Reynolds!
Wrestling with sobriety, Sam moves back to her family's decrepit cabin in the woods of Wisconsin. But something isn't quite right with the wilderness...and strange signs, including a vanishing neighbor and talking deer, have begun to haunt her family history.
Marca has traded away her life to join the crew of the Greatship Athens, where she'll finally get the chance to live amongst the stars. Though even with a new identity, her past isn't far behind...and something sinister is targeting the Greatships. It's a classic space opera with Miles Cameron's characteristic detail.
The author of Sixteen Ways to Defend A Walled City arrives with a story of The Church of the Invincible Sun, a powerful organization which occasionally requires its clergy to perform assassinations (and put down the undead).
Acclaimed author Roshani Chokshi (The Gilded Wolves) returns to young adult fantasy with a tale of truth-speaking swans and a murderous group of bachelorettes competing for the prince's hand ðĶĒ
Don't let the gorgeous cover fool you! Shen Tao's debut novel following a concubine competing to become empress is a bleak political fantasy about the role of empire and the costs of love.
The sequel to Lodestar Award-winning To Shape A Dragon's Breath is nearly here! Anequs enters an Anglish academy for dragon riders as the first Indigenous woman to bond with a hatchling in generations in this searing, anti-colonial fantasy series.
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