Your Release Report

Six New Releases sorted by reader type

February has kept the momentum going from January’s publishing avalanche. This week’s batch includes a Booker Prize winner’s farewell novel, an award-winning Mexican author’s epic arriving in English translation, and a survival thriller that just came out a few days ago.

As always, this list is new releases, re-releases, or new translations, sorted by color.

A note on new books, first.

Will you be able to find it at the library? Probably not. And if you do, it will be months of waiting.

Will you find them used? Nope.

Are new release hardcovers expensive? You betcha.

But, I’d encourage you to buy one of these books. Take the chance. These authors have put their heart out in the most vulnerable way, and supporting them is worth it in a world that has abandoned authors for cheap TV and customized social feeds.

Here we go!

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🟢 Green Reader
Neptune’s Fortune by Julian Sancton

The true story of the San José, a Spanish galleon that sank off the coast of Colombia in 1708 with over a billion dollars in gold and silver—and Roger Dooley, the self-described underwater archaeologist who spent four decades obsessed with finding it. Sancton (author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth) weaves together naval warfare, international politics, and the ethics of treasure hunting into narrative nonfiction that reads like an adventure novel.

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🔴 Red Reader
Warning Signs by Tracy Sierra

From the author of Nightwatching: twelve-year-old Zach joins his volatile father on a backcountry ski trip in the Colorado mountains designed to impress investors. When conditions turn deadly and something begins stalking the cabin from the treeline, Zach realizes the men around him might be more dangerous than the wilderness itself. A survival thriller told from a child’s perspective that never lets up.

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🟣 Purple Reader
Departure(s) by Julian Barnes

Barnes’s self-declared final novel—published the day after his eightieth birthday—is a slippery hybrid of autobiography, fiction, and essay. A narrator named Julian reflects on mortality, memory, and his role as matchmaker for two friends whose love story spans decades, all while reckoning with incurable illness and the writer’s urge to betray. Playful, profound, and formally inventive—vintage Barnes.

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🟡 Yellow Reader
This Is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman

When the youngest of three Rubinstein sisters dies, a misunderstanding over apple cake fractures the surviving two into a decade of stubborn silence. What follows is a kaleidoscopic family novel told through rotating perspectives across three generations—divorces, bat mitzvahs, ballet recitals, and the small moments where love and resentment live side by side. Warm and deeply felt.

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🟠 Orange Reader
Now I Surrender by Álvaro Enrigue (translated by Natasha Wimmer)

An epic, genre-bending novel that radically recasts the story of how the American West was “won.” Spanning multiple timelines—a woman fleeing an Apache raid, the military maneuvering of Geronimo’s surrender, and a present-day family retracing the borderlands—Enrigue blends history, myth, and fiction into something that reads like a literary Western written by Bolaño. Named a most anticipated book of 2026 by the New York Times, Washington Post, and LitHub.

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🔵 Blue Reader
Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi

Based on the life of Assadi’s late Palestinian father, this novel follows Sufien from his childhood exile during the 1948 Nakba through decades of restless searching—Kuwait, Italy, New York, Arizona—for a home that was stolen from him. The prose is lyrical and dreamlike, weaving Sufi myths and prophetic visions into a sweeping meditation on displacement. Starred reviews across the board.

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Happy reading. See you Sunday if you are a paid sub, and Tuesday if you are not!