We’re back with another Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week’s topic is: Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2026
The anticipated 2026 releases topic was actually one of the final Let’s Talk Bookish topics of 2025, so I’ve already done this post and you can see it here. Those listed in that post are my top-top anticipated releases but I’ve discovered a few others recently that I’m also looking forward to this year. Not sure if I’ll hit 10 although who am I kidding? I love adding books to my TBR radar, lol. 😂 These books are listed in order of publication month, spanning from January to June.
The Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Elise Williams
The Re-Do List by Denise Williams
Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson
The Secret Lives of Murderers Wives by Elizabeth Arnott
The Starter Ex by Mia Sosa
The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
How to Fake it in Society by KJ Charles
Honey by Imani Thompson
The Open Era by Edward Schmit
Do you have any of these books on your radar? What books are you looking forward to in 2026? It’s inevitable friends—it’s time to grow the TBR again! 🤭
dinipandareads 
The Seven Daughters of Dupree is on my TBR as well, although I didn’t blog about it today. 🙂
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I hope we both love it 🙂
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I’d definitely like to read London Falling and the Redo List sounds good.
Thanks for sharing your #TTT
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London Falling does sound really interesting. I read the article about it and it really piqued my interest!
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London Falling! I bet it is good since Patrick Radden Keefe is such a good writer. I’ll keep my eye out for it.
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He is! After reading Say Nothing in 2025, I’m really looking forward to exploring more of his work 🙂
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I feel like Murderers’ Wives is going to be one of those books everyone is reading and so I get FOMO even thought it isn’t really my thing!
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It does sound like a book that everyone would end up reading… I’m curious to see if that will be true! 🤭
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I’m excited to read more KJ Charles this year, so How to Fake it in Society is on my TBR too.
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More KJ Charles is always a good time 😍 Hope we both enjoy it!
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I’m excited for The Starter Ex too! And The Paris Match looks so lovely. Hope you’ll love all of these!
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Thanks! I hope you enjoy Starter Ex as well 😀
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I still need to read the KJ Charles book that I own! This new one looks really fun, too!
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There are many KJ Charles books that I still need to read but it’s always exciting to know there are even more to add to my TBR 🤭 Haha
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LOL, very true!
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I somehow got an ARC for The Paris Match and I’m so excited! I hope you enjoy all of these. There are titles that I haven’t heard of on here!
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omg that’s so exciting! lucky you 😍 i hope you love it! can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it hehe
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I’m looking forward to reading Keeper of Lost Children. I’ve had a copy since September, but I’ve been too busy reading other things to get to it yet.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/my-most-anticipated-canadian-2026-releases-january-june/
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ooh, how exciting! i hope you enjoy it whenever you get around to it 😍
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Keeper of Lost Children is on my radar as well as The Paris Match. I hope you enjoy all these, Dini.
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i hope you enjoy those books as well, carla 🙂
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Immediately adding Honey to my TBR. What a synopsis! I hope you enjoy all these.
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i think it’s a bit outside of my comfort zone but after reading that synopsis i couldn’t resist adding it to my tbr! it sounds so good 👀
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I am excited for The Paris Match too. Clayborn never disappoints.
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i love clayborn. there are still so many of her books that i need to read but i will never not add a new one to my tbr 🤭 hope you love it!
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I love Kate Clayborn. I don’t know much about the others but I hear Patrick Radden Keefe’s books are great. I hope you enjoy your reading in 2026!
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i love clayborn’s books as well! i read my first radden keefe book in 2025 and loved it. he writes so well and his words are so compelling. i can’t wait to check out more of his work 🙂 i hope you enjoy your 2026 reading as well!
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I just started the arc for Keeper of Lost Children and The Re-Do List is on my TBR. I hope you get to read all of these Dini!
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oooh i hope you enjoy keeper of lost children! i feel like it’s been a minute since i read a historical fiction but this one sounds like it’ll be amazing. happy reading 😍
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Same for me! It’s been awhile I’ve read a historical fiction novel and I started this and it’s good so far!
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The Paris Match looks so good! The cover is stunning 😊.
If you’d like to visit, here’s my TTT: https://thebooklorefairyreads.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/top-ten-tuesday-the-most-anticipated-books-releasing-in-the-first-half-of-2026/
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i love the cover as well! it looks so good 😍
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Looks like a great lineup! I hope you enjoy all these.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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The Paris Match and How to Fake It in Society both sound like books I’d enjoy!
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they do look good, right?! i hope you enjoy them if you do wind up adding them to your tbr or giving them a try 😃
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Ooh I’m surprised to say that all of these are new to me 😲 although a few are definitely going onto my list now. Looking up the Sadeqa Johnson one reminded me that I really wanted to read Yellow Wife by the author then somehow forgot all about it 🙈 I’m also particularly intrigued by The Secret Lives of Murderers Wives and will definitely have to read it sometime. Im off to check your other list off and Im guessing we’ll have some titles in common there 😅
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yeah, the other anticipated releases list will have more of the ‘popular’ titles that are coming out this year. but these are ones that i’m also very excited about 🙂 i’ve wanted to read yellow wife by johnson however it wasn’t available on kindle! i totally forgot about it until this new book, lol. i’ll have to see if it’s available now!
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Funny how we both forgot it 😂🙈 but then both of our TBRs are pretty crazy I believe. I just checked and they do that one as an ebook now so hopefully you can get hold of it sometime.
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Somehow I haven’t heard of any of these books!?! So I’m off to check them all out. Great post, Dini 🙂
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haha, not surprising actually. i feel this is a little outside of the usual genres that i would read in but branching out once more has worked for me in 2025 so i’m hoping to continue that this year, lol
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Nothing wrong with that! I’ve really enjoyed branching out over the last few years, and some of those reads have become all time favourites.
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The cover on The Paris Match makes it IMMEDIATELY add to TBR lol. Stunning.
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haha, that’s exactly what happened when i saw it. even before reading the synopsis 😂
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These are all new to me! I hope you love them. 🙂
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thank you 😀
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I haven’t heard of these before.
And looking at that cover of How to Fake it In Society, I don’t think they’ll be very good at it haha.
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