Breadcrumbs ![11 Books To Add To Your New-Season Reading List ](https://media.sheerluxe.com/uomexYyHipPcxlrwJ7bLq7D1wOM=/800x0/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fsheerluxe.com%2Fsites%2Fsheerluxe%2Ffiles%2Farticles%2F2026%2F08%2Fsl-site-assets-210826-thumb-hero-end-of-summer-reading-more-to-come.jpg) [Books & Podcasts](/culture/books-podcasts) / 21 August 2026 # 11 Books To Add To Your New-Season Reading List Looking for your next great read? From hotly anticipated novels by some of the greatest writers out there to compelling non-fiction you won’t be able to put down, we’ve rounded up the best books hitting the shelves in the coming weeks… ByHeather Steele / [ Save To My Favourites ](/user/login?destination=/markdownify/node/53783) All products on this page have been selected by our editorial team, however we may make commission on some products. [ ![](https://media.sheerluxe.com/-HhBbPOAnEMsu7a0kfn5rJnu4G4=/800x0/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fsheerluxe.com%2Fsites%2Fsheerluxe%2Ffiles%2Farticles%2F2026%2F08%2Fa-bigger-life.png) ](https://amzn.to/4x8cFnZ) ## A Bigger Life #### Louise O'Neill At 38, writer Louise O’Neill had the life she thought she wanted – until her long-term relationship ended, taking with it the home, future and sense of certainty she’d built. Heartbroken but defiant, she made a radical decision: to say yes to everything, to take risks and to reclaim her life on her own terms. What followed was a dating experiment that took her from Paris to London, New York, and beyond. Through the men she meets and the moments in between, Louise begins to challenge everything she’s been taught to settle for – in life, love and herself. Part memoir, part manifesto, *A Bigger Life* is a candid, courageous exploration of modern womanhood, sexual freedom and the myths we’re sold about what makes a life worthwhile. *Available at* [AMAZON.CO.UK](https://amzn.to/4x8cFnZ) [ ![](https://media.sheerluxe.com/bq1HYgQAuHWWc-z2g3mYx1TJi9Q=/800x0/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fsheerluxe.com%2Fsites%2Fsheerluxe%2Ffiles%2Farticles%2F2026%2F08%2Fkitten-stacey-yu.png) ](https://amzn.to/4wA5Wls) ## Kitten #### Stacey Yu Katie hasn’t spoken to her mother in a year when her boyfriend James introduces her to his cat Silver. A small, vulnerable, incorrigible ball of need, Silver’s acceptance of Katie cracks open something inside of her: an unravelling begins. Fresh out of college and far from home, Katie is desperate to skirt the demands of adult life – especially because, as she promised her mother, the plan was to never grow up in the first place. Luckily, she has James: self-assured, generous and seemingly happy to make decisions for them both. When they go on holiday to James’s family’s seaside home, Katie’s attachment to Silver grows. Silver doesn’t mind that Katie can’t seem to get a job, hold her own at dinner parties or make amends with her mother. Silver, who gets to misbehave spectacularly, be childish, be gross and still get fed, seems to have the life Katie increasingly longs for. But as their bond intensifies, Katie’s other relationships reach tipping points. Soon, Katie must come to terms with what she really wants, and what she might have to risk to get it. *Available at* [AMAZON.CO.UK](https://amzn.to/4wA5Wls) [ ![](https://media.sheerluxe.com/blYnlYhjbl5kLL9IWk2Fv2AvLVw=/800x0/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fsheerluxe.com%2Fsites%2Fsheerluxe%2Ffiles%2Farticles%2F2026%2F08%2Fa-real-animal-by-emeline-atwood.png) ](https://amzn.to/4hCj2Ln) ## A Real Animal #### Emeline Atwood Lucy is a senior in college struggling to quell the effects of a sexual assault, when she gets a glimpse into a different plane of existence – one that is more wild, physical and animal. Unable to shake the experience, she moves away from home, breaks up with her long-term boyfriend, stops speaking to her mother and starts dating a dynamic man with a terrifying violent streak. As she changes cities, friends and partners, an otherworldly existential force thrums in the back of her mind. It urges her to reject the ordinary but also reminds her that she is alone in the world. She feels it in the ocean while deep-sea diving, in the cold silences from her mother, in the unknowing gaze of the man she thought would be her soulmate. We follow Lucy over the course of a decade, witnessing moments of both horrific pain and quotidian happiness. The years pass by, bringing her to the edge of her 20s and back to an altered, barren version of her childhood home, where she must finally come to terms with the fear that being human might mean feeling alone, wild and unknowable. *Available at* [AMAZON.CO.UK](https://amzn.to/4hCj2Ln) --- [ ![](https://media.sheerluxe.com/ALGuCvaKEaYTV-euJazBmWmVor4=/800x0/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fsheerluxe.com%2Fsites%2Fsheerluxe%2Ffiles%2Farticles%2F2026%2F08%2Fsolace-house-signed-edition-hardback-will-maclean.png) ](https://amzn.to/4iha3iW) ## Solace House #### Will Maclean In the summer of 1993, broke student Alex Lane joins a team clearing out Solace House, a Victorian mansion bequeathed to the university by a reclusive hoarder called Flayne. The other students are a mixed bunch but Alex quickly falls into a close friendship with the lively, redheaded Ella. When the crew begins sorting through piles of junk, they stumble upon Flayne’s journals, in which he details his obsession with his missing mother, his discovery of a place called Bewise, and – most mysteriously – his belief in another realm lying parallel to ours, along with coded instructions as to how it might be reached. As the students delve deeper into the house’s secrets, one of them becomes obsessed with deciphering Flayne’s strange opus and its promise of another world. And they may be willing to sacrifice everything, and everyone, to get there. *Available at* [AMAZON.CO.UK](https://amzn.to/4iha3iW) [ ![](https://media.sheerluxe.com/reoJH9tNz9D6SZ5demMXosjSOvE=/800x0/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fsheerluxe.com%2Fsites%2Fsheerluxe%2Ffiles%2Farticles%2F2026%2F08%2Fbeginning-middle-end-valeria-luiselli.png) ](https://amzn.to/45AbxgU) ## Beginning Middle End #### Valeria Luiselli From the award-winning author of *Lost Children Archive,* Valeria Luiselli, comes a new novel about family, love and starting over. A mother and a daughter take off on a road trip after the collapse of a marriage. Their journey begins in Sicily during a summer of rapidly changing winds, volcanic rumbles and sudden tempests. The trip soon becomes a quest for origins – not just through their family history, but also further back to a mythical and even geological past. With her daughter leaving childhood behind and her mother beginning to show signs of dementia, the narrator finds herself at a crossroads. A road novel, a mother-daughter story, a radical portrait of starting over in all its forms, *Beginning Middle End* offers a testament to the power of the stories and the loves we hold most dear. *Available at* [AMAZON.CO.UK](https://amzn.to/45AbxgU) [ ![](https://media.sheerluxe.com/0O_rsP1aNJwnHpTEuAekhX943Bo=/800x0/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fsheerluxe.com%2Fsites%2Fsheerluxe%2Ffiles%2Farticles%2F2026%2F08%2Ftaipei-story-rebecca-f-kuang.png) ](https://amzn.to/3S2adQJ) ## Taipei Story #### Rebecca F. Kuang *Yellowface* was one of the biggest books of 2023, so we’re expecting great things from Rebecca F. Kuang’s latest novel. For Lily Chen, mastering Chinese means connection: to her family, her heritage, to herself. But what if waiting for perfection means it's too late to get the answers she wants most? Yale student Lily’s summer of discovery in Taipei quickly unravels. Her classes are gruelling, her roommate unbearable and a reckless, deeply awkward trip to the hot springs with a guy she barely knows soon ignites vicious gossip. Then her grandfather dies. Grieving and adrift, Lily must confront her own questions about the culture she inherited but never fully understood. She embarks on a wryly funny, often devastating search for understanding: of herself, her family, and the meaning of home. *Available at* [AMAZON.CO.UK](https://amzn.to/3S2adQJ) --- [ ![](https://media.sheerluxe.com/ysDCZeWQBzIgpkOiZgAtcDVx5Oc=/800x0/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fsheerluxe.com%2Fsites%2Fsheerluxe%2Ffiles%2Farticles%2F2026%2F08%2Fswitzy-emma-cline.png) ](https://amzn.to/4gmt6pF) ## Switzy #### Emma Cline From the bestselling author of *The Girls* and *The Guest* comes *Switzy.* A private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over Greenland. David, a retired executive, sits back in his leather seat, playing solitaire on his phone. The notebook in his jacket pocket is filled with familiar phrases, urgent reminders to himself, but he struggles to recognise his own handwriting. The world, once so knowable, has been rendered inscrutable. This is what David knows: Cody, his assistant, asleep in the seat next to him, will shepherd him along the voyage. A stopover in London. Dinner with his adult daughter. A meeting in France with an old friend, estranged for decades. His final destination is Zurich. David glides through hotel rooms and airports and foreign cities, running out the clock on his mortal life. His grasp on the present slips away, and the past rushes in: the Sunday roasts of childhood. The stiff clothes meant only for church. A summer at a school friend’s house. The losses and missteps that punctuate a life. As David’s arrival in Zurich looms, a portrait of an unravelling mind emerges, both darkly humorous and moving. *Switzy* probes the depths of human consciousness, revealing what a man is left with when the accomplishments and compromises that have defined him vanish. *Available at* [AMAZON.CO.UK](https://amzn.to/4gmt6pF) [ ![](https://media.sheerluxe.com/CathdkDmm20XB3ZP-W_ul_xS2o4=/800x0/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fsheerluxe.com%2Fsites%2Fsheerluxe%2Ffiles%2Farticles%2F2026%2F08%2Fthe-good-time-nell-stevens.png) ](https://amzn.to/4qqwzIl) ## The Good Time #### Nell Stevens A woman suffering an extreme allergic reaction to a yoga mat returns to the UK to give a reading at her estranged best friend’s wedding; a corporate new starter desperately tries to persuade her colleague to accept that his online girlfriend doesn’t exist; a group of student activists stage an artful protest against the demolition of a tower block; a once inseparable friendship group confront the reason they drifted; and a self-taught pianist whose wife is six months pregnant decides she must travel to Warsaw to listen to Chopin’s heart. In *The Good Time*, Nell Stevens introduces us to characters teetering on the edge of self-knowledge, unveiling the complexities of their inner worlds with empathy and humour. Wry, precise and full of wisdom, these stories ask what it means to have a good time – and what happens when the good times end. *Available at* [AMAZON.CO.UK](https://amzn.to/4qqwzIl) [ ![](https://media.sheerluxe.com/MKl7t8cEStpZXtgtU_nTYHlkN0Y=/800x0/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fsheerluxe.com%2Fsites%2Fsheerluxe%2Ffiles%2Farticles%2F2026%2F08%2Famerican-hagwon-signed-exclusive-edition-hardback-min-jin-lee.png) ](https://amzn.to/4cy8TvN) ## American Hagwon #### Min Jin Lee Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of *Pachinko*, returns with a contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and familial duty. John and Helen Koh and their three children – Bo, DH and Mido – are building new lives in Korea when they find their worlds upended, first by a terrible betrayal and then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Striving to regain their footing, the Kohs set out to do whatever it takes to provide for their children’s futures. They leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in California, where new opportunities open for the Koh children, as the parents, foreigners in a strange land, adjust to a difficult existence in which their qualifications mean little. Their way forward is lit by the faith that education will lead the next generation to the success and security that have eluded their parents. The Kohs, their friends, relatives and even their foes move in and out of each other’s lives as they navigate love, work, fortune and fulfilment across the years. But with each new sacrifice and fresh horizon, larger questions begin to open up before them: what are we willing to give up to secure the happiness of the ones we love? What is the purpose of education? And what is truly important for a good life? *Available at* [AMAZON.CO.UK](https://amzn.to/4cy8TvN) --- [ ![](https://media.sheerluxe.com/IHMmx22NVRo6N5_l8FGXgzhSvfc=/800x0/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fsheerluxe.com%2Fsites%2Fsheerluxe%2Ffiles%2Farticles%2F2026%2F08%2Fexit-party-signed-edition-hardback-emily-st-john-mandel.png) ](https://amzn.to/3RZ52RD) ## Exit Party #### Emily St. John Mandel From the bestselling author of *Station Eleven*, *Exit Party* is Emily St. John Mandel’s epic new story of crimes committed and loves lost across worlds and decades. 2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone in the city is going to a party. Ari, newly released from prison, arrives with her friend Gloria just as a fragile new era begins. But there are people at the party who shouldn’t be there. Something is very wrong. Years later, living a different life in Paris, Ari remains haunted by that night. Whatever happened at the party fractured her sense of reality – and may hold the key to a very different world. Freedom and surveillance, art and survival, love and loss in a broken world: *Exit Party* is sure to be an electrifying read. *Available at* [AMAZON.CO.UK](https://amzn.to/3RZ52RD) [ ![](https://media.sheerluxe.com/qgS2aZAy1GOCvsTkcbenTtIAaVg=/800x0/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fsheerluxe.com%2Fsites%2Fsheerluxe%2Ffiles%2Farticles%2F2026%2F08%2Fcool-machine-colson-whitehead.png) ](https://amzn.to/4hIpPmU) ## Cool Machine #### Colson Whitehead From the *New York Times* bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead comes an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy. It begins in 1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energised by rampant real-estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture's Dealer of the Month. 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