The Someday Garden
Ashley Poston
Published 2026
400 pages
The most popular identity & belonging books of 2026
Books about identity and belonging ask who you are and where you fit. Characters caught between cultures, classes, families or versions of themselves try to find a place to stand. These stories speak to anyone who has ever felt out of place, which is nearly everyone. This list shows the ones first published in 2026.
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Love, Loss and What I Wore
Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron, Ilene Beckerman
Published 2026
51 pages
Tangerinn
Emanuela Anechoum
Published 2026
254 pages
Be Do Give Love
Published 2026
118 pages
Even if the Light Forgets
Published 2026
298 pages
Cultures, Knowledge, and Identities
Published 2026
130 pages
Pearl Upon the Ocean's Lip
Published 2026
219 pages
Nobody Told You It Would Feel Like This
Published 2026
136 pages
Snagged A Lady Lovely Locks Novel
Carrie Harris
Published 2026
288 pages
They All Had a Secret
Michele Leathers
Published 2026
272 pages
A Stage Set for Villains
Shannon J. Spann
Published 2026
448 pages
Strangers A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden
Published 2026
256 pages
The Roach King of Raleigh
Shannon Stocker
Published 2026
320 pages
The Golden Huntress
Katherine Quinn
Published 2026
448 pages
Gingerbread Bones
Lindsay Lovise
Published 2026
368 pages
The Waxways Paperback Collection (Boxed Set) A Door in the Dark; A Whisper in the Walls; A Burning in the Bones
Scott Reintgen
Published 2026
1392 pages
Gone Before You Knew Me
Renate Wildermuth
Published 2026
188 pages
I'll take the fire
Leïla Slimani
Published 2026
378 pages
Zen Buddhism, Personalism and the Ethics of Globalisation
Gerald Cipriani
Published 2026
288 pages
To the Stars and Back (A Graphic Novel)
Peglo
Published 2026
448 pages
Wet Ink and Willing Lips
Published 2026
20 pages
Queer Indigenous cinemas
Gabriel Xalapa Estrada
Published 2026
208 pages
Poster Boys
Scott Woodard
Published 2026
256 pages
More Than Time
Published 2026
504 pages