2026 has many anticipated new releases spanning many genres coming out throughout the year.
Are there any books scheduled for publication in 2026 that you are looking forward to? Discuss what it is in particular about the book(s) that makes you excited for its release? Discuss how you felt when you first discovered the upcoming release of an anticipated book.
One book being released soon, in March, that I’m looking forward to is Son of Nobody by Yann Martel.
25 years ago, Yann Martel wrote one of my all time favourites in Life of Pi.
Life of Pi made me fall in love with reading and made me realize that, more than just a good plot, it was the deeper philosophical aspect of a book that I wanted and enjoyed the most.
However, Martel has yet to release anything remotely close to the quality of Life of Pi since, totally missing the mark in plot and themes, in my opinion.
So, when I saw Martel was releasing a new book, Son of Nobody, in 2026, I was skeptical. But, reading a synopsis and the publisher’s description of Son of Nobody is leaving me cautiously optimistic and excited for some Life-of-Pi-ish magic.
I’ll share the publisher’s description of Son of Nobody by Yann Martel (along with a few other 2026 releases I’m looking forward to) in the comments, in case anyone is interested.
by Michael_Shakespeare
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**Son of Nobody by Yann Martel**
**(MAR 31)**
publisher’s description:
“Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were not the only ancient tales of the Trojan War. In Son of Nobody, Yann Martel composes a new the Psoad, an epic in free verse that follows a goatherd’s son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight at Troy. Psoas meets his doom and the poem of his life is lost—until a Canadian academic studying at Oxford, Harlow Donne, discovers its relics thirty centuries later. As Harlow assembles and comments on the fragments in footnotes, he retrieves memories of his wife and daughter and grapples with questions of ambition, family, and responsibility in both the ancient and modern worlds. Son of Nobody upends the regal perspective of traditional epics and shows that ‘the past is never done with, that always there are parallels and returns and repetitions, always the song continues.’ Readers of Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles and Emily Wilson’s The Iliad will revel in this breathtaking feat of the imagination.”
For me the book I’m most excited for in 2026 is the latest Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobook.
The Tapestry of Fate – Shannon Chakraborty
Currently reading the first and having a blast. Cannot wait for this one.