New Book Releases: March 30th to April 5th, 2026

While it feels like it must be a prank this season is playing on us (we did all the things – we sprang ahead, the calendar says it’s spring), it’s still miserable, winter-like weather here in Canada.

Fortunately, though, one thing that isn’t a prank this April Fool’s Day are all these new book releases! With nearly 600, it may feel unbelievable. But I promise it isn’t!

I’ll fill you in on 5, and Vince’ll highlight another 10 at our BN Podcast.

New York Times bestselling author duo Ilona Andrews is back with a brand new epic thriller series, “Maggie the Undying” beginning with This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me on shelves March 31st

Maggie is trapped in a world she isn’t from – but it doesn’t take long for her to recognize it. She’s in Kair Toren – the city from the fantasy series she’s been reading and re-reading. The only way to navigate is from what she’s committed to memory. And while there may be those who try to kill the new girl in town, she learns quickly she cannot die – but those she’s come to love around her can.

We Are All Monsters Here is a culmination of short stories from Kelley Armstrong out March 31st!

Published from nineteen of Armstrong’s works over the past two decades, prepare yourself for eerie short stories with nothing off-limits. Find yourself lost in post-apocalyptic cities, masked mummies and “sinister secrets” that lurk inside traveling with a circus.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Liane Moriarty is back with what’s being hailed as a “razor-sharp” short story in The Price of Honey part of the “Deadly Ambition Collection,” out April 1st!

It’s the tale of a tech billionaire’s funeral – one that his widow and his ex-wives will all attend. And now they’re together, each having broken up the other’s marriage to Barney. But it appears there’s still one betrayal to still happen.

The second book in “The Dugout” series will be here April 2nd when USA Today bestselling author, Piper Rayne drops The Wild Card!

In a book about unexpected feelings, unexpected partners, and an unexpected pregnancy, it’s a story about romance, baseball and ultimately a home run for fans of what love can do.

In what the New York Times, Oprah Daily and the Washington Post are calling one of the most anticipated books of 2006, the third book in the “Cal Hooper” series will be on shelves March 31st! Tana French is back with The Keeper.

Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper finds himself in the middle of a case of a missing girl from a remote Irish village. Once engaged to a big shot, she’s now turned up dead in the river. And while Hooper’s fiancee staunchly refuses to get involved in this small town’s big problem, he feels he owes these people his loyalty. But a once peaceful village will begin to crack under the weight of generations-old grudges and power struggles.