This Is Where the Serpent Lives
Daniyal Mueenuddin
Published 2026
368 pages
The most popular biographical fiction books of 2026
Biographical fiction turns a real life into a novel. The people and the main events are true, and the author imagines the conversations, doubts and private moments that no record kept. It is a vivid way to meet artists, rulers, scientists and forgotten figures from the inside. This list shows the ones first published in 2026.
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Paradiso 17
Hannah Lillith Assadi
Published 2026
299 pages
A Crown of Stars
Shana Abé
Published 2026
352 pages
When We Were Brilliant
Lynn Cullen
Published 2026
400 pages
Fire Sword and Sea
Vanessa Riley
Published 2026
384 pages
Butterfly Games
Kelly Scarborough
Published 2026
352 pages
Slow Guillotine
Teo Rivera-Dundas
Published 2026
220 pages
We've Been Here Before
Myrtle Henry Sodhi
Published 2026
328 pages
Books Up the Mountain
Caroline Starr Rose
Published 2026
40 pages
With Love from Harlem A Novel of Hazel Scott
ReShonda Tate
Published 2026
416 pages
The Sisters of Book Row A Novel
Shelley Noble
Published 2026
384 pages
A Founding Mother A Novel
Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie
Published 2026
384 pages
Elizabeth and Marilyn A Novel
Julie Owen Moylan
Published 2026
352 pages
This Never Happened A Novel
Mempo Giardenelli
Published 2026
240 pages
Justice with a Smile A Novel
Osamu Dazai
Published 2026
160 pages
Luminous Bodies A Novel of Marie Curie
Devon Jersild
Published 2026
325 pages
A Beautiful Loan A Novel
Mary Costello
Published 2026
224 pages
Maisie Jones and the Dinosaur Bones
Lily Murray
Published 2026
32 pages
If Pets Wrote Poems A Parody Collection
Susan Johnston Taylor
Published 2026
32 pages
Skinny Dipping at Low Tide A Saga of Squeezed Shorts, Shattered Dreams, and Embarrassing Riches
M. F. Hamlin
Published 2026
240 pages
The Boleyn Secret A Novel
Alison Weir
Published 2026
560 pages
Fame Benson Boone
Darren Davis, Lucy Fidelis
Published 2026
26 pages
Primo Levi No to Forgetting
Daniele Aristarco, Stéphanie Vailati, Edward Gauvin
Published 2026
96 pages
Wife to Mr. Milton
Robert Graves
Published 2026
336 pages