About This Contest
The Spring 2026 Grab a Galley is here—and so are the season’s most exciting upcoming books and audiobooks! As the days get longer and the new season unfolds, this is your chance to discover fresh voices, new adventures, and the standout reads that will define your spring.
Our publishing partners have curated a vibrant lineup across every genre—propulsive thrillers, sweeping novels, insightful nonfiction, transporting memoirs, and captivating children’s and YA titles. Whether you’re looking to reset your reading goals, explore something unexpected, or get a head start on the season’s biggest books, this is your inside track.
And with no limit to how many books you can add to your virtual Swag Bag, you can explore freely and build your perfect spring reading stack.
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Fiction
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1 of 34 titles
Alibi by Accident
Severn River Publishing
A new wickedly funny whodunit for fans of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series. PI Verona Montero takes a “cheating husband” job—until the billionaire turns up dead in Greece and her trophy-wife client is framed. In Mykonos, Verona hustles shady hotels, sexy bartenders, and underground clubs to find the real killer… and decide if a predator deserves justice.
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2 of 34 titles
The Anti-Marriage Pact
Harper Muse
Four friends. One pact. Zero compromises... Until now. A wickedly funny and brutally honest exploration of modern feminism, female friendship, and the courage it takes to rewrite the rules of your own life.
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3 of 34 titles
An Artful Dodge
Soho Crime
She’s stolen gems, purses, and hearts—but can she steal her life back from the thieving ring that’s claimed it? Victorian London comes to vivid life in this riveting heist novel about an all-female thieving gang and one young woman’s heroic plan to escape a life of crime.
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4 of 34 titles
Bad Boy Era
MIRA Books
In the highly anticipated finale to USA Today bestseller Amy Daws's Mountain Men Matchmaker series, infamous matchmaking niece Everly is forced to share Fletcher Mountain with her bestie's infuriating twin brother Decker, an Irish rugby playboy seeking image rehab. When he proposes a twelve-week summer fling, Everly may finally get her own love story.
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5 of 34 titles
Birds on a Wire
Kregel Publications
A deeply moving contemporary story about family and foster care from a two-time Christy Award-winning author
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6 of 34 titles
Both Can Be True
Harper Muse
When a local mother goes missing, two estranged sisters are pulled back into each other's lives and forced to confront old wounds, fractured trust, and the many ways a woman can disappear in plain sight.
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7 of 34 titles
The Calamity Club
Spiegel & Grau
"A must read."–Bonnie Garmus The author of the multimillion-copy bestseller The Help returns with a bold, big-hearted novel about a group of unbreakable women, fighting for what’s rightfully theirs—and the power of friendship to change everything. You'll laugh, cry, and cheer; it's an epic testament to underestimated women who know that calamity can be the spark of new beginnings.
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8 of 34 titles
Casually Yours
Third State Books
Dani and Parker were best friends—until they left for college and their friendship came to an unexpected end. Seven years later, an impulsive kiss leads to heated nights in a hotel suite. They make a tentative agreement: They’ll keep things casual, with no strings attached. But it isn’t long before the lines between lust and something deeper start to blur.
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9 of 34 titles
Crafting a Knockoff
C&T Publishing
A cozy town, a crafty killer, and a murder caught on tape. Valerie Rankin, manager of Gasper’s Cove Crafter’s Co-op, faces sabotage, secrets, and a pushy entrepreneur who dies at her feet—on camera. In this seventh cozy mystery, crafters and mystery lovers alike will enjoy Valerie unraveling schemes, local intrigue, and romance in a warm, quirky Nova Scotia community.
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10 of 34 titles
A Deal with a Debutante
Haven
American heiress Calliope Hart is determined to avoid a loveless match, even when the charming but desperate Earl of Hayward proposes a marriage of convenience. But Edward’s offer to show her London—and his heart—begins to stir unexpected feelings. Can Calliope trust a man who may only want her fortune, or will love rewrite their arrangement?
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11 of 34 titles
Deep Time
She Writes Press
An exciting Grand Canyon river rafting trip inspires Lauren Brown to study geology. She thrives on the adventures graduate geology affords her. While observing Mount St. Helens, she must flee for her life when the mountain erupts catastrophically. According to the Rocky Mountain Reader, “In Deep Time, Bogue has effortlessly woven together a compelling love story and an action-adventure story….”
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12 of 34 titles
Dirty 20
Hyperion Avenue
The Sopranos meets Dungeons & Dragons in Dirty 20, a novel about a crime boss’s son who accidentally becomes a crowdfunding superstar when his fake role-playing game takes off online and disrupts business on the streets. Bill Schweigert, author of The Fatal Folklore Trilogy, has written a darkly funny book about family, tabletop role-playing games, and escaping into the fantasy.
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13 of 34 titles
Enemy of My Enemy: A Daredevil Marvel Crime Novel
Hyperion Avenue
Alex Segura pens an all-new Marvel Crime thriller that brings readers to the grittier, street level side of the Marvel Universe. In Enemy of My Enemy, Matt Murdock defends the Punisher in the trial of the century—the murder of the Kingpin—while by night Daredevil staves off a war of succession for the throne of the criminal underworld.
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14 of 34 titles
Every Beat After
Shadow Mountain Publishing
A clean, deeply emotional romance about a heart-transplant survivor, a guarded neighbor, and the love that teaches them both how to truly live.
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15 of 34 titles
The Fire Agent
Spiegel & Grau
“A spy novel, a war story, a love story—brilliant historical fiction that is hardly fictional at all.”—Graham Yost, producer of The Americans and Slow Horses What would you sacrifice for love? For the beliefs you hold dear? For survival? Dive into this gripping espionage adventure of one man at the crossroads of history, spanning the World Wars and beyond.
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16 of 34 titles
The Halter
Diversion Books
The Halter by Darby McDevitt (lead writer for Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag) is a debut sci-fi novel that fuses cyber-noir, psychological suspense, and high-concept speculation in a breakneck search for truth inside a utopian metaverse on the verge of collapse.
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17 of 34 titles
The Home of the Drowned
University of Minnesota Press
Every summer, Iŋgá, her mother Rávdná, and her Aunt Ánne travel west to their lake village. The summer Iŋgá turns thirteen, they find their home submerged—land flooded by a hydropower dam serving a society that has stolen from them. The Home of the Drowned follows these women over years, drawing on Elin Anna Labba’s history of relocation and colonial dispossession.
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18 of 34 titles
Hot Chocolate on Thursday
Hanover Square Press
Across a bridge in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo, a seasonal cherry blossom sits on the river. Nearby is the Marble Cafe, where a woman writes in a notebook and a young waiter prepares her favorite hot drink. Both wonder about each other and about the other lives of the clientele who frequent this charming little cafe behind the trees...
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19 of 34 titles
Japanese Gothic
Hanover Square Press
In this lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, two people living centuries apart discover a door between their worlds.
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20 of 34 titles
Malachite
Mobius
At Valmora Academy, students prepare for war by honing their elemental magic in three elite units: Opal, Agate, and Malachite. Tragedy follows Arianell Nocthare through its halls. Her brother died at Valmora, allegedly taking the lives of four other students. Facing scorn from every angle, including her brother’s best friend (the lethally handsome Sebastian), Aria is determined to clear his name.
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21 of 34 titles
Mom Brain
Harper Muse
Can a luxury resort transform her life by giving her back control? Georgia Evans thinks it sounds too good to be true. Turns out her motherly intuition isn't wrong... In the vein of Liane Moriarty's Nine Perfect Strangers, Mom Brain turns a discerning eye toward society's view on modern motherhood and reframes "mom brain" as a superpower.
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22 of 34 titles
Murder Mindfully
Soho Crime
In this zen and zany crime debut, a shady lawyer transforms his life through mindfulness—and uses his newfound techniques to kill his way to the top. Original series now streaming on Netflix.
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23 of 34 titles
The Night Bus
MIRA Books
ONE LAST STOP meets ONE DAY IN DECEMBER in a heart-warming romance where two strangers, after a chance encounter on public transit involving a copy of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, set out on a journey to solve a literary mystery and win back a lost love that leads them somewhere entirely new together.
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24 of 34 titles
Our Lady of Blades
Mobius
Blood Week is banned in Rijou, but the streets still run red—and now murder is being sanctioned by the courts. Into this depraved world comes a duelist who dares to oppose the city's elite. Lady Consequence wants vengeance for her family’s slaughter, but a far more dangerous game is unfolding in the shadows...
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25 of 34 titles
The Price of Safety
World Castle Publishing
"The Price of Safety is far from a Star Wars or Star Trek futuristic out-of-this-world novel, it serves as a very real and relevant example of how technology continues to influence every part of our lives.... the reader finishes the book ready for a sequel, and the intense practicality of the novel make it a wonderful and interesting read." —Lit Pick Reviews
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26 of 34 titles
The Quiet Girls
Mobius
At a prestigious school, a teacher is dead, a student is missing, and the school can’t cover it up. When profiler Dr. Kez Lanyon goes undercover as a school therapist, she realizes there are powerful, well-connected forces at play. And by investigating—perhaps even stepping outside the law to do so—Kez is putting her family in serious danger.
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27 of 34 titles
Ranger’s Oath (Fall of Radiance, Book 1)
Aethon & Vault
Ranger’s Apprentice meets An Ember in the Ashes in RANGER’S OATH (Fall of Radiance, Book 1), an epic fantasy where friendship fights failure – and the monsters thought to be only legends – where understanding is greater than intolerance, and where unity is more important than division. The eBook smash is now a hardcover from author Blake Arthur Peel and AETHON: Vault!
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28 of 34 titles
The River Muse
Harper Muse
A French chateau. A forest with secrets. A magical spring. Welcome to La Chanson, where lost souls are found again...
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29 of 34 titles
Rune Seeker, Book 1
Aethon & Vault
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves meets My Hero Academia in RUNE SEEKER (Book 1), a LitPRG/Progression fantasy adventure, where the weakest person among his people will rise to unimaginable power. Explore a mysterious world of fallen civilizations, strange monsters, and deadly secrets. The Everfail will rise. His enemies will fall. Now in hardcover from AETHON: Vault!
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30 of 34 titles
Split Second (Book 1)
Aethon & Vault
Michael Crichton’s Timeline meets Peter Cline’s The Fold in SPLIT SECOND, a science fiction thriller from New York Times bestselling author Douglas E. Richards, with a stunningly unique take on time travel, where traveling fractions of a second back in time can change the fate of humanity. Now in hardcover for the first time from AETHON: Vault!
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31 of 34 titles
Thrall
Hyperion Avenue
In Rebecca Mahoney’s adult fiction debut, Thrall, a young woman looking for a transformative college experience is bitten by a vampire and must team up with his other living victims to hunt him down. This campus horror novel is perfect for fans of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix and So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison.
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32 of 34 titles
Too Close To Home
Park Row Books
Nothing in this idyllic community is quite what it seems… When Regan Hoffman’s car explodes at the annual Labor Day party, Cloverhill Lakes’ perfect image shatters. A missing resident, a dead husband who’s alive, and buried secrets threaten to destroy the community—and Regan must uncover the truth before it’s too late.
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33 of 34 titles
Warship (Black Fleet Saga, Book 1)
Aethon & Vault
In the 25th century humans have conquered space. What would happen if humans were suddenly threatened by a new enemy? Would humanity fold and surrender or meet force with force? From USA TODAY bestselling author Joshua Dalzelle, comes WARSHIP (Black Fleet Saga, Book 1), science fiction with an all-new vision of humanity’s future. Now in hardcover from AETHON: Vault!
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34 of 34 titles
Weapons Free
Severn River Publishing
A revolutionary Chinese super-torpedo puts Pacific naval power on a knife-edge, sending newly appointed CIA SAC Director Harrison Kohl on a steal-it-or-lose-it mission. Under the South China Sea, submarine commander Janet Everett shadows the Chinese fleet as Kohl’s covert op demands a high-profile naval diversion. Fast, authentic, and perfect for Tom Clancy and Brad Thor fans.
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