At this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, U.S. agents will feature works by Susan Choi, Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, Deesha Philyaw, Emily St. John Mandel, and Jane Smiley, among others, at the show’s Literary Agents and Scouts Center. We will continue to update this list of rights on offer at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair through the fair's opening on October 15. Submissions can be sent in using our Google form. (Please note: the listings are open to only literary agencies with U.S. operations, with a limit of four titles per agency).
Andrea Brown Literary Agency
■ Exalted
Claudia Gray (Pantheon, Fall 2027). A novel set in a mythic Rome that follows three unlikely pairs touched by the gods—a general and a vestal virgin; an enslaved baker and blacksmith; and two military men under the rule of a tyrannical commander—whose pursuit of forbidden longings calls into question how much of our lives and loves are fated and how much we choose for ourselves.
■ That Which Feeds Us
Keala Kendall (Random House BFYR, May 2026). A teen girl’s search for her missing twin leads her to a remote island resort, where she uncovers the sinister side of paradise with horrors both real and supernatural.
■ The River She Became
Emily Varga (Wednesday Books/Macmillan, June 2026). A romantasy where a relic-hunter searches for an ancient fae object to restore the magic to her world, but must learn to trust her own powers―and her heart.
■ Roohi and Nate Are Not on the Same Page
Supriya Kelkar and Jarrett Lerner (Abrams, Spring 2026). An illustrated middle grade novel about two 11-year-olds with seemingly nothing in common who bond in a school book club, and when their beloved librarian’s job is in danger they must find a way to work together to try to save it.
The Bent Agency
■ Heaven’s Graveyard
Grace Curtis (DAW Books, June 2026). In this fantasy mystery, Cod’s quest to prove her mythical hero was real leads to the excavation of an enchanted city long lost beneath the earth.
■ The Iron Hex
Victoria Walsh (Mira, Summer 2026). A romantic fantasy adventure about Eira Eckhart, a witch with no past who is thrust onto a quest with a brash stranger.
■ Stranger Than Fiction
Clare Ogawa (Hanover Square, Summer 2027). A debut horror novel set in the post-MeToo era, following Frankie Meyers as she chases success in Hollywood—until she discovers her tyrannical boss is transforming into something truly inhuman.
■ When I Was Death
Alexis Henderson (Putnam, Mar. 2026). A dark YA horror-fantasy in which Roslyn joins a sisterhood of girls bound to Death himself by a deadly bargain.
BookEnds Literary
■ The Deathless One
Emma Hamm (Gallery, Fall 2025). A dark romantasy and the first book in the Gravesinger trilogy, in which a princess murdered at the altar makes a deal with the god of death for vengeance and to save her people.
■ The Gods Must Burn
T.R. Moore (Solaris, Winter 2026). A dark eco-fantasy in which a disgraced war hero is tasked with protecting the forest and its beautiful, sharp-tongued Forest God from the legion's deforestation.
■ House of Margins
Tlotlo Tsamaase (Erewhon, Spring 2026). The story of Anaya Sebeya, an up-and-coming young writer who is invited, along with other four authors, to a prestigious residency where she was supposed to craft the next great African masterpiece—until she disappears.
■ On Wings of Blood
Briar Boleyn (Mira, Fall 2025). The first in the Bloodwing Academy four-book series follows a half-fae dragon-rider who is thrown into a school of vampires where she will find deadly competitions, lies, bullies, intrigues, and love.
Browne & Miller Literary Agency
■ The Case Study
Nicole Lundrigan (Viking, Summer 2026). A psychological thriller in which the relationship between the wife of a prestigious psychiatrist and his infamous murderous female patient is much deeper than either will acknowledge.
■ Succubus: A Love Story
Kate Fox (Griffin, Fall 2026). A paranormal love story starring a 30-something romantic who’s given up on love because everyone she’s ever kissed, let alone slept with, has died—until she meets a handsome doctor with a “magic touch” who just might be the exception she’s always dreamed of.
■ Twenty Something Else
Stephanie Mack (Tyndale House, Summer 2026). A story inspired by It’s a Wonderful Life about an almost-40-year-old suburban wife and mother who is divinely granted the chance to relive parts of her 20s.
■ Where He Left Me
Nicole Baart (Atria, Fall 2025). A twisty suspense about a newlywed college professor whose astronomer husband disappears, leaving her isolated in a remote mountain house as a winter storm bears down and two strangers appear.
Calligraph
■ Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival
Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton, Sept. 2025). This book reconstructs the brief, action-packed life of writer and suspected spy Christopher Marlowe—Shakespeare’s bolder, raunchier, and more radical brother.
■ The Lost Art of Dialogue—And How to Revive It
Martin Puchner (W.W. Norton, 2027). A global cultural history of dialogue from Socrates to Esther Perel, exploring how it has changed with time and technology, and what we might hope from richer and more diverse forms of dialogue in the future.
■ Moral Agency: Reclaiming Choice, Defying Moral Harm
Ludmila Praslova (Harper Business, 2028). Organizational psychologist Dr. Ludmila Praslova examines moral injury—the profound distress that arises when one’s moral code is violated—and how it occurs across all industries.
■ Revealing: The Underrated Power of Oversharing
Leslie John (Riverhead, Jan. 2026). An exploration into how we decide what to reveal to others and how those decisions impact our personal and professional relationships—for better and for worse.
The Charlotte Gusay Literary Agency
■ Kingdom of No Tomorrow
Fabienne Josaphat (Algonquin, 2024). An exploration of one young woman’s awakening who seeks truth and beauty in an unjust world.
■ Land of Tears: A Journey of Language, Loyalty & War from an Iranian-American Translator Serving with U.S. Marines in Afghanistan
Bu Sanjar Roham (Milspeak Books, 2024). The true story of an interpreter embedded with the U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.
■ A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Dawidziak (St. Martin’s Press, 2023). A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes.
■ Surfing in Pakistan: How Great Books, Art, Language and the Internet Unite Two People, Two Cultures, and All of Us
Sana Nasim and Caleb Powell (Paper Angel Press, 2026). When a disabled Pakistani artist reaches out—via the internet—to an American writer for help in learning English, their virtual dialogue fosters an unexpected bond across distance and cultures through literature and art.
Creative Artists Agency
■ Offshore
Kristina Kamen (Morrow, Winter 2027). A thriller set in Capri in which a newly-wed couple plans to honeymoon on a private mega yacht, only for it to become the site of a murder.
■ Raising Conscious Sons/Raising Conscious Daughters
Shefali Tsabary (HarperOne, Fall 2026). Raising Conscious Sons exposes the emotional, neurological, cultural, and spiritual harm being done to boys in today’s disconnected world, while Raising Conscious Daughters explores how we understand, relate to, and raise our daughters in the 21st century.
■ A Tender Age
Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead, Aug. 2026). No longer a child and not yet a teen at 11-years-old, Jeon-Gi is just beyond the reach of his parents’ eyes and is soon embroiled in a series of events that reverberate far outside himself and his family.
■ Whistler
Ann Patchett (HarperCollins, June 2026). When Daphne has a chance reunion with her former stepfather, they revisit the impact their brief father-daughter relationship had on both of their lives.
Curtis Brown U.S.
■ The End Times
Ben Percy, with special contribution by Stephen King (Bad Hand, Nov. 2026). Percy teams up with King for a short, post-apocalyptic novel delivered in monthly newspapers and published as a complete novel in Nov. 2026.
■ Exit Party
Emily St John Mandel (Knopf, Sept. 2026). A novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers.
DropCap Rights Agency
■ Blood and Betrayals
Jeanette Rose and Alexis Rune (Rose and Star, Mar. 2025). A reluctant student at a prestigious magic university finds herself entangled in deadly secrets and stalked by a sadistic killer, forcing her to confront her past and trust new allies before time runs out.
■ The Inner Compass
Lawrence Yeo (More to That, July 2025). A transformative guide that helps readers move beyond external validation by dismantling inner fears and teaching them to trust their intuition as the true path to lasting fulfillment.
■ The Wisdom of Ignorance
Alan Gregerman (Amplify, Oct. 2025). An exploration of how embracing “enlightened ignorance” over expertise can spark breakthrough innovation.
■ The Wrath of the Fallen
Amber V. Nicole (Rose and Star, Aug. 2025). As war brews and ancient powers awaken, Samkiel and Dianna must confront rising darkness, dangerous destinies, and impossible choices to save the realms—before love, vengeance, and unleashed magic consume everything.
Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
■ The Burning Side
Sarah Damoff (Simon & Schuster, Spring 2026). A family saga about a Texas couple that is already on the brink of collapse when their house goes up in flames, forcing them to decide what is worth salvaging.
■ The Briars
Sarah Crouch (Atria, Jan. 2026) The author of Middletide returns with a novel following a young woman whose job as a game warden puts her in the path of a murderer in a small town eager to protect its own.
■ The Mental Strength Playbook: 50 Tools to Cope with Stress, Thrive Under Pressure, and Gain a Competitive Edge in the Workplace
Amy Morin (Rodale, Apr. 2026). A guide to improve your workplace performance with 50 practical, science-backed tools that build emotional resilience and neutralize negative thoughts.
■ Woman Down
Colleen Hoover (Montlake, Jan. 2026). A twisty thriller about a frustrated author who looks for her muse in a remote hideaway, but what she finds defies all expectations…and reality.
Eve White Literary Agency
■ Every Last Liar
Kate Francis (Sourcebooks, Feb. 2026). Seven trapped teenagers are forced to turn against one another for survival in this debut YA thriller.
■ The Grafted
James O’Connor (on submission). A changeling in 1840s Ireland faces the Great Hunger in this postcolonial debut.
■ The Way to a Beautiful World
James Norbury (Morrow, Oct. 2025). Big Panda and Tiny Dragon are back for a new adventure.
■ The Woman in Suite 11
Ruth Ware (Scout, July 2025). The sequel to The Woman in Cabin 10.
Fineprint Literary Management
■ The Faerie Morgana
Louisa Morgan (Redbook/Orbit Books, Sept. 2025). In this novel, the author reimagines the story of Morgan Le Fay, one of the most enigmatic and powerful women in Arthurian legend.
■ A Four-Eyed World: How Glasses Changed the Way We See
David King Dunaway (Bloomsbury, Mar. 2026). A cultural history of glasses that explores their origins, stigmas, future in technology, and more.
■ Queen of the Dead
Sarah Broadway (Angry Robot, Nov. 2025). A paranormal urban fantasy with romance and supernatural hijinks.
■ Vile Lady Villains
Danai Christopoulou (Michael Joseph/PRH UK, Apr. 2026). A quest in which two of literature’s most notorious female villains, Lady Macbeth and Klytemnestra, reclaim their stories and fall in love.
Focused Artists
■ Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing
Tara Pringle Jefferson (Amistad, Dec. 2025). A self-empowering wellness guide that celebrates self-care and community care as a sustaining force for generations of Black women.
■ The Bonnet Brigade
Christy Matheson (Dragonblade, 2026). In Regency England, Celia, a spirited Irish woman, challenges the financial confines of women through a cunning plan to subvert the conventions of the day.
Folio Literary Management
■ Aligned: The Data-Driven Guide to Recovery, Performance, and Human Potential
Kristen Holmes (Avery, Aug. 2026). Pulling from one of the world’s largest physiological datasets, Holmes argues that your downtime is your competitive advantage.
■ Coyoteland
Vanessa Hua (Flatiron, May 2026). A novel set in an affluent Bay Area suburb where a Chinese American family moves in and sets off a series of scandals.
■ Student Union (The Undergrads #1)
Julie Murphy (Balzer + Bray, May 2026). A college freshman on scholarship proposes to her former childhood friend-turned-enemy to exploit a loophole that will cover housing.
■ Water Based Cooking: The Science and Art of Slow Aging Through Food
Michelle Davenport (Avery, 2027). A debut science cookbook, where water-based cooking offers a way to improve age-related diseases and restore long-term health.
The Friedrich Agency
■ Enormous Wings
Laurie Frankel (Holt, May 2026). When a 77-year-old is pressured by her children to enter a retirement home, she doesn’t expect to find new friendships or to even fall in love—but she does. And when she gets shockingly pregnant, she finds herself at the center of a media firestorm.
■ Good Boy
Neil McRobert (Wild Hunt, Oct. 2025). A cosmic horror, love story, and coming-of-age set in Northern England where children have disappeared for centuries, and the man and his faithful dog who will protect them.
■ In Every Bird: Before the Garden
Katy Sewall (in auction). A prequel to The Secret Garden, following the life of Mary Lennox’s mother and the boy who will help her realize how expansive life is.
■ Lidie
Jane Smiley (Knopf, Apr. 2026). A sequel to the 1998 The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, following the eponymous protagonist as she sets sail for Liverpool with her niece.
Fuse Literary
■ Blood of Silver
Allie Nguyen (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2026). This YA fantasy follows a reluctant hero in a magical world.
■ The Hidden Dominion of Geordie James
Mike Dawson (Union Square Kids, 2026). A graphic novel following kids coming to terms with a world that feels outside of their control.
■ Soft Targets: On Guns in America and the Kids Caught in the Crossfire
Camila Kerwin (Street Noise Books, 2026). This debut work of graphic journalism unpacks the history of American gun culture and legislation to analyze how guns became the leading cause of death for children in the U.S. and what can be done moving forward.
■ When the Forest Calls
Cassandra Newbould (Stars and Sabers, 2026). An adult horror fantasy novella that answers the question: What if the Giving Tree wanted revenge?
Ginger Clark Agency
■ The Beast Let You In
Dana Mele (Sourcebooks, Apr. 2026). A shy teen whose popular twin may be possessed by a dead girl with a vendetta and a hit list that includes the one she loves.
■ Book of Cats
Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America, Oct. 2025). This book about cats gathers poems, meditations, and drawings dedicated to the complicated creature that captured Le Guin's imagination.
■ Limerence
HC Dolores (self-published, Nov. 2024). A dark romance about a scholarship student at the world’s most elite boarding school who is certain that Lionswood’s golden boy is somehow behind the suicide of a fellow student.
■ They Fear Not Men in the Woods
Gretchen McNeil (DAW, Sept. 2025). Hikers in search of a legendary old growth forest deep in the wilderness of Washington State discover too late that whatever lurks in the lost groves has no intention of letting them go.
Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents
■ All We Have Left
Emily Paxman (Titan, June 2026). Thirty years after the end of the world, a young woman enters into a marriage of convenience with a man she hardly knows so she can secure vital medical care for her beloved younger sister.
■ The Collateral Heart
Jeffery Deaver (Putnam, Spring 2026). In the next Lincoln Rhyme novel, a terrible arson in Manhattan burns an old building to the ground. Amelia Sachs and Lincoln Rhyme investigate after discovering the arsonist has left a package of clues that might hint as to their motive and where they will strike next.
■ The Gatepost
Tim Weed (Podium, May 2026). One woman’s quest to find her father pushes her beyond the boundaries of space, time, and the human mind.
■ The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, Work, and Live
Alan Lightman and Martin Rees (Pantheon, Sept. 2025). Physicists Lightman and Rees illuminate the life and work of numerous scientists in order to demystify the scientific process and show that scientists are concerned citizens, just like the rest of us.
The Gernert Company
■ Discipline
Larissa Pham (Random House, Jan. 2026). A woman is forced to confront unsettling truths about herself, her past, and the life she rebuilt following a ruinous affair with her former mentor.
■ The First Step: A Thousand Li Series #1
Tao Wong (Ace, Mar. 2026). A relaunch of the self-published Progression Fantasy series set in a spectacular world of immortals, spirit beasts, and mystical martial arts.
■ Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
David Epstein (Riverhead, May 2026). How to do more with less and use limits to stimulate creativity, innovation, and collaboration.
■ Why I Am Not An Atheist: The Confessions of a Skeptical Believer
Christopher Beha (Penguin, Feb. 2026). Beha narrates his own struggle with life’s big questions and delivers an earnest appeal for readers to arrive at answers of their own.
Gordon Publishing Services
■ Cut Me While I’m Hot: Live Performance in the Time Before the Machine
Peter Cunningham. A collection of more than 300 photos of live performances in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Hill Nadell Literary Agency
■ In Trees: An Exploration
Robert Moor (Simon & Schuster, Apr. 2026). A new adventure through the wilds of the world around us, in search of how trees—from the mightiest sequoia to the daintiest bonsai—might teach us to branch, prune, gnarl, and in doing so grow wise.
■ Peanut Butter & Crackers: Christmas Surprise
Paige Braddock (Nosy Crow UK, Oct. 2025). In this fourth graphic-novel adventure by Braddock, Peanut, Butter, and Crackers are getting excited about Christmas—but then they discover someone living in their Christmas tree.
■ Returns and Exchanges
Kayla Rae Whitaker (Random House, Spring 2026). A sweeping story of one family’s rise and fall in 1980s Kentucky.
■ Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During World War II
Evelyn Iritani (FSG, Mar. 2026). The story of idealism, deception, and behind-the-scenes diplomacy of the two complicated exchanges of civilians between the United States and Japan during World War II.
Jabberwocky Literary Agency
■ Devour Me
Emily Rath (Avon/Bramble, Aug. 2026). A MMF paranormal romance trilogy, in which a young woman becomes caught between a handsome witch and a cursed wraith in a brewing war against dark forces.
■ On Sundays She Picked Flowers
Yah Yah Scholfield (Saga, Jan. 2026). A Gothic horror novel set in northern Georgia, about a queer Black woman who flees her family home after a desperate act of violence and must now contend with the ghosts and traumas of her past as well as a new, dangerous love.
■ One of the Boys
Victoria Zeller (Levine Querido, May 2025). A YA novel set in the world of high school football that follows trans athlete Grace Woodhouse as she breaks barriers, finds love, and navigates the joys and challenges of transitioning in her senior year.
■ Songs of the Dead
Brandon Sanderson and Peter Orullian (Saga, June 2026). The first in a new fantasy trilogy about a musician who discovers he is a necromancer and is the center of the large and growing conflict between the present and the past.
Jane Rotrosen Agency
■ The Book Witch
Meg Shaffer (Ballantine, Apr. 2026). When her grandfather disappears and a priceless book is stolen, a third generation book witch must jump into and out of Alice in Wonderland, The Great Gatsby, and other classics in order to reveal hidden enemies and long-buried family secrets.
■ Crown of War and Shadow
J. R. Ward (Bramble, Feb. 2026). An outcast burdened with a curse and a mercenary who’s out for himself collide in this star-crossed, slow-burn romantasy filled with monsters, demons, and high-stakes quests to save the kingdom.
■ Dear Debbie
Freida McFadden (Sourcebooks, Jan. 2026). A brilliant wife, mother, and advice columnist takes matters into her own hands when a series of injustices forces her down the path of revenge.
The Fair Weather Friend
■ Jessie Garcia (St. Martin’s, Jan. 2026). When a celebrity TV meteorologist disappears, four suspects are called into question: a producer, a fellow anchor, an old frenemy, and an obsessed viewer.
Janklow & Nesbit
■ Feel: The Untaught Skill — 40 Emotions That Shape Our Lives
Stephanie Harrison (on submission). An operating manual for the modern human, using the latest science to help the reader to understand, cope with, and learn from the most common emotions that we experience throughout our lives.
■ Mrs. Benedict Arnold
Emma Parry (Zando, May 2026). A debut historical novel reimagining the young woman who almost ended the American Revolution.
■ Takes The Sun
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain (on submission). Follows interconnected characters across the Blackfeet Reservation and beyond, exploring kinship, grief, masculinity, survival, and love.
■ Villa Coco
Andrew Sean Greer (Doubleday, June 2026). A tale of a young man who takes an unspecified job with a charismatic elderly Baronessa at her crumbling villa in the Tuscan hills.
Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency
■ Furious Violet
Sarai Walker (Harper, July 2026). A feminist thriller about a Gen-X Miss Marple, a crime writer and daughter of a famous dead poet who, on the verge of turning 50, retreats to her Colorado hometown to finish writing a book about a serial killer, only to become the target of her own true crime story.
■ My Dead Mom’s Recipes
Gus Constantellis (Quarto, Apr. 2026). A cookbook featuring traditional Peloponnesian recipes and some of the author’s mother’s specialties, with each recipe accompanied by a story related to the dish.
■ Ravenous
Mark Freeman (Grand Central, Feb. 2027). A debut eco-horror and climate thriller about a rogue, man-eating polar bear, set during a once-in-a-century blizzard in the fictional small town of Aurora, Manitoba, the polar bear and eco-tourism capital of the world.
Jill Grinberg Literary Management
■ An Edge Sharp Enough
Jesse Q. Sutanto (Voyager, Summer 2026). A dark fantasy about four people—a disciple, a scholar, a con-man, an a guard—whose stories intertwine across continents as some seek to discover a powerful lost magic, and others must race against the clock to stop their post-revolutionary world from toppling once again.
■ The Massif
Garth Nix (HarperVoyager, Fall 2026). The crew of a small ship hitching a ride on a star-faring mountain range must deal with the aftermath of a battle and the unwinding of a mystery that has transported humanity across the universe.
■ The Mortons
Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier (Pamela Dorman, July 2026). A psychological epic following a modern-day, old-money crime family for whom homicide is heritage, and the consequences of their twisted intergenerational dramas.
■ Time Travel for Beginners
Jaclyn Moriarty (Berkley, Aug. 2026). Three strangers’ lives are forever changed when they’re all drawn to a mysterious agency claiming to have unlocked the secret to time travel.
KT Literary
■ A Killer For Christmas
Kim Harrington (Crooked Lane Books, Sept. 2026). A rom-com in which a newly single social media manager moves to her beloved childhood vacation destination of Christmasville, Maine, for a fresh start, but the picture-perfect charm is threatened by a series of murders.
■ There’s Something Fishy About My Boyfriend
Gloria Duke (Sourcebooks Casablanca, May 2026). A beachy rom-com in which a woman reluctantly running the family bed & breakfast invites a handsome stranger to help out in the off season in exchange for room and board, only to find out he’s a merman stranded in her world.
■ The Revenge Playbook
Rimma Onoseta (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, July 2026). A YA novel about two boarding school roommates—and enemies—team up to take down the boy who hurt them.
■ Stops Along the Way
Anna Sortino (Putnam Books for Young Readers, May 2026). A YA romance in which a high school senior offers to help her sister road trip home from college, only for her board game club rival and his brother to join them.
Laura Dail Literary Agency
■ Daughter of Egypt
Marie Benedict (St. Martin’s, Mar. 2026). A historical novel about Lady Evelyn Herbert—the overlooked woman whose passion for uncovering Egypt’s first female Pharaoh leads her into danger, betrayal, and a discovery that changed history forever.
■ Godblooded
Emma Theriault (Hodderscape, Winter 2026). In this Celtic-inspired romantasy, a reluctant priestess bound to a dangerous goddess must flee into the cursed Waste with a charming heretic.
■ Maneater
Morgan Elizabeth (self-published, Aug. 2025). An enemies-to-lovers mystery romance where a seductive PI goes undercover at a luxury resort and clashes with its infuriating VP as sabotage—and sparks—ignite.
■ She’s Mine
Susan Walter (Blackstone, Feb. 2027). A four-year-old is kidnapped, a party guest is murdered, and FBI Agent Willow Thorne must untangle a web of secrets where every suspect has something to hide.
Laura Gross Literary Agency
■ Detective Aunty
Uzma Jalaluddin (Harper Perennial, May 2025). A contemporary take on Miss Marple, in which a sharply observant middle-age Muslim widow returns to the tight-knit community she once called home to clear her daughter's name of a murder charge.
■ Dormir el Trópico
Martha Riva Palacio Obón, illus. by Elizabeth Builes (Ediciones El Naranjo, June 2025). Inspired by her grandmother’s stories of a childhood in Costa Rica, this illustrated book weaves a world of botanical echoes and ancestral voices.
■ Held Together: A Shared Memoir of Motherhood, Medicine, and Imperfect Love
Rebecca Thompson (HarperOne, April 2025). A physician’s tumultuous journey toward parenthood, interwoven with the stories of 21 friends, colleagues, and patients.
■ Lucky Girl
Allie Tagle-Dokus (Tin House, November 2025). A debut novel about a young dance prodigy, the fleeting nature of childhood fame, and the desire for family and forgiveness.
O’Connor Literary Agency
■ The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games
Elliot Lichtman (MIT, Apr. 2025). A resource for beginning-to-intermediate coders eager to learn advanced ideas in computer programming through word games, board games, and strategy games you already know.
■ The Fountain
Casey Scieszka (Harper, Mar. 2026). A debut novel about a woman who has stayed 26 for over a century and finally returns to the home she abandoned in the 1800s in order to solve the mystery of her existence.
■ A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park
Randall K. Wilson (Counterpoint, Oct. 2024). Explores how the first US national park’s remote Western landscape became a symbol of the country—and an integral part of our understanding of the natural world.
■ Users
Colin Winnette (Soft Skull, Feb. 2023). Follows a lead creative at a virtual reality company who spirals into a paranoid panic when fiction and reality become indistinguishable.
Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
■ The Common Uncommon
Bernd Heinrich (Norton, Apr. 2026). Reflections of a lifetime spent observing the natural world through the eye of a naturalist.
■ Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Lisa See (Scribner, Spring 2026). The story of three Chinese women who managed to survive and, eventually, thrive in post-Civil War Los Angeles.
■ Honor and Heresy
Max Francis (HarperVoyager, Apr. 2026). A dark academic fantasy of two scholars racing each other to find answers to an invasion in a haunted library.
■ Soul Searching
Lyla Sage (Dial, Sept. 2025). A story featuring a small-town upholsterer in need of a fresh start, a photographer whose life has come to a screeching halt, and the supernatural forces that bring them together.
Sanford J. Greenburger Associates
■ Bad Words
Rioghnach Robinson (St. Martin’s, Sept. 2026). A novelist faced with his worst nightmare, a devastating pan of his second book by the same literary critic who torpedoed his debut novel years ago, confronts her at an industry party and sets off an escalating high-profile feud that raises questions about writing, criticism, and who gets to lead an artist’s life.
■ A Brief History of Thyme
Eric Idle (HarperSelect, Sept. 2026). The story of how the author, as a young British comedian, bought a ruin in Provence in 1971 and how he has spent the last 52 years turning a Shack into a Shackeau.
■ Cold Zero
Brad Thor and Ward Larsen (Emily Bestler, Feb. 2026). A thriller of survival, espionage, and global brinkmanship, where the frozen Arctic becomes the deadliest battlefield on Earth.
■ Reign
Bethan Croome (Cosmo Reads, Summer 2026). In a kingdom where magic is forbidden, Niamh Smith must fight in a looming war disguised as a man, navigating rivalries, forbidden love, and the return of the Silver Witch.
Sara Crowe Literary
■ Beth is Dead
Katie Bernet (Sarah Barley, Jan. 2026). A contemporary reimagining of Little Women in which Beth dies in the first chapter, and her sisters will stop at nothing to track down her killer—until they begin to suspect each other.
■ Fatal Glitch: Camp Zero
Erin Entrada Kelly and Eliot Schrefer (Sourcebooks, Summer 2026). In this first installment in the Fatal Glitch horror series, eleven-year-old gamer Sofia Mendoza is sent to a mysterious summer camp deep in the forest populated by creepy mechanical vultures, cloaked NPC figures, and a grim camp supervisor—and then a game of elimination begins.
■ Girls Like Us
Jennifer Dugan (Putnam Children’s, Summer 2026). This sequel to Some Girls Do follows Morgan and Ruby as they fight to stay together and stay true to themselves during their freshman year of college, when long distance complicates their relationship.
■ Meet Me in the Garden
Nina LaCour (Flatiron, Summer 2026). This family saga follows Creole cousins Odette and Delphine from 1945 New Orleans, where the nineteen-year-olds trade secrets about forbidden love, to Los Angeles twenty years later, when they finally reunite after the tragedy that ripped them apart.
Sterling Lord Literistic
■ Dismissal
Michael Mezzo (Little, Brown / Cardinal, Summer 2027). A debut set at a storied private school in rural Connecticut on the day a beloved retired teacher’s death instigates a string of revelations about the decades-old disappearance of a student.
■ Fallen Beauty
Astrid Scholte (Wednesday Books, Fall 2026).
Fallen Beauty is a darkly bewitching, distinctive, romantic fairytale that is perfect for readers of One Dark Window, Uprooted, and For the Wolf by the award-winning author of Four Dead Queens, The Vanishing Deep, and League of Liars.
■ How to be Okay When Nothing is Okay: The Tools and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Jenny Lawson (Penguin Life, Mar. 2026). An advice book on how to stay focused on creative endeavors, for anyone who struggles with self-doubt, guilt, motivation, and mental health issues.
■ Lady Like
Mackenzi Lee (Dial Press, Sept. 2025). Two women, one refined and one ribald, set their sights on marrying the same duke, but instead of becoming natural enemies, they find themselves falling in love—though not with him.
Stimola Literary Studio
■ Big Baby: On Endings, Beginnings, and an Interdimensional Cat
Kevin James Thornton (Grand Central, Summer 2026). From comedian and TikTok star Thornton comes a memoir of growing up gay in a Christian fundamentalist church, turning trauma into comedy, and finding your own way.
■ Fairylore: A Compendium of Fae Folk
Dr. Sara Cleto and Dr. Brittany Warman (Sterling Ethos, Winter 2026). Explore the myths and history behind faeries from all over the world in this illustrated compendium.
■ Night Chef
Mika Song (Random House Graphic, Fall 2025). A young middle grade graphic novel about found family, magic, and nature.
■ Xolo
Donna Barba Higuera, illus. by Mariana Ruiz Johnson (Levine Querido, Fall 2025). A twist on the Aztec myth of the origin of man—and man’s best friend—illustrated with full-color art for middle grade readers.
Susanna Lea Associates
■ The Bookshop of Forbidden Books
Marc Levy (Firefinch, Winter 2027). A tribute to reading and the transformative power of literature (and love).
■ Everyone’s Talking All At Once
Rory Squire (Cardinal, Winter 2027). A dark comedy that is equal parts modern love story and anthropological case study.
■ Freyja
Margrét Ann Thors (Spiegel & Grau, Summer 2026). An Icelandic thriller following the unsolved case of a young girl’s disappearance that reopens after 20 years, set in Reykjavík and Iceland’s ‘Dark Valley.’
■ On Ice: How Glaciers Shaped Our World and Will Determine Our Future
Elizabeth Kolbert (Crown). The author of The Sixth Extinction tells the story of the ice ages, weaving natural history and the history of science with contemporary research.
Trellis Literary
■ It’s Not Her
Mary Kubica (Park Row, Feb. 2026). Two families vacationing at a secluded lake resort are at the center of a chilling crime and mysterious disappearance.
■ See Jane Run
Charlotte Alter (St. Martin’s, Spring/Summer 2027). The first in a series starring Juniper Gray, a jaded journalist-turned-listicle writer, divorcée, and mother whose world is upended when her former mentor, renowned art historian and curator Annie Kohan, is found murdered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
■ Speaking Frankly
Emily Morrow (Harper, Fall 2027). An Italian-American family—and their youngest son’s new girlfriend, who’s meeting them for the first time—gathers on Long Island to celebrate the Christmas holiday, each hiding their own secrets.
■ Untitled
Kieran Setiya (Riverhead, Fall 2027). An exploration of humor as a way of life.
Triada US Literary Agency
■ Deathly Fates
Tesia Tsai (Wednesday, Apr. 2026). A priestess who reanimates corpses to shepherd them home ends up awakening a prince who is more alive than dead.
■ The Demonic Inventions of Aurelie Blake
Mara Rutherford (HarperTeen, Apr. 2026). A young woman’s innovative skills put her entire world at risk, and herself in the path of a dangerous, alluring demon hunter.
■ Mothsblood
Lynn D. Jung (Bloomsbury US, Fall 2026). Set in modern-day Paris, an ambitious alchemist must uncover the dark secrets of her university when the murder of an immortal professor forces her to confront the mysterious past she’s trying to escape.
■ Smash or Pass
Birdie Schae (Knopf Young Readers, Summer 2026). A sapphic romance following a 16-year-old autistic people-pleaser whose plan to reinvent herself at beach volleyball summer camp takes an unexpected turn when she finds herself falling for her grumpy teammate.
Trident Media Group
■ The Butcher
Penelope Sky (Ballantine, Jan. 2025). Trapped in a toxic marriage, Fleur finds herself drawn to a mysterious and dangerous stranger, Bastien, who offers an escape, but at a deadly price.
■ The Disillusioned
Jeremi Suri (St. Martin's, Summer 2028). A character-driven narrative of how open, market-based societies planted the seeds for authoritarianism and war.
■ The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy (Mariner, Sept. 2025). A novel following five friends trying to navigate the wilderness that is young adulthood as the realities of life sweep over them.
■ Worth Playing For
Katie Gergel (Bantam Dell, Spring 2027). When Willa is forced to take her twin’s place and compete on the new survival competition show Rival Isle in the hopes of saving her family’s board game shop, she comes face to face with her high school sweetheart, Noel Hudson.
United Talent
■ Better Every Day: The 12 Laws of Positive Change
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Penguin Press, Fall/Winter 2026). A journey of transformation capturing the author’s method of helping people improve their lives one action at a time.
■ Multitudes: The Art & Science of Understanding & Embracing Our Many Selves
Reb Rebele (Viking, Fall 2027). Drawing on 15 years of original research in psychology and behavioral science, the author offers lessons for how to support our many selves, encouraging readers to stop fearing contradiction and start managing multiplicity as an essential life skill.
■ Should the Waters Take Us
Stephanie Soileau (Doubleday, July 2026). A debut set in the backwater bayous of Louisiana, as an estranged family and their community are on a collision course with the forces of nature, Big Oil greed, and a devastating catastrophe.
■ What Hungers in the Dark
Monika Kim (On submission). A sapphic vampire story set in contemporary Korea and LA.
Upstart Crow Literary
■ Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science #2: Secrets of the Purple Pearl
Kate McKinnon (Little Brown Young Readers, Fall 2025). Follows the continuing escapades of the Porch sisters and their mentor, Millicent Quibb, as they attempt to thwart a nefarious group of mad scientists.
■ Reasons to Hate Me
Susan Metallo (Candlewick, Fall 2025). Told through a series of blog posts and short scripts, this debut YA novel tells the story of a witty, neurodivergent high school senior and the painful end of her former best friendship.
■ Romancing the Throne
Caitlin Cooper (Feiwel & Friends, Winter 2027). When the Number One Fan of a popular romantasy series wakes up inside the novel, she must use her knowledge of the characters to save the kingdom, fall in love, and make her way back home.
■ The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
Deesha Philyaw (HarperCollins, Fall 2026). The wife of a popular and powerful megachurch pastor in suburban Atlanta upends her charmed “rags-to-Rolex” life when her secretive past comes roaring into the spotlight.
Westwood Creative Artists
■ The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
Glenn Dixon (Atria, Apr. 2026). A household of sentient appliances learn self-awareness before ultimately confronting the ethical questions facing their humans.
■ Son of Nobody
Yann Martel (Norton, Mar. 2026). A take on the Trojan War that upends the perspective of the Epic Cycle to offer a glimpse into the foibles that lead to the folly of war, told from the perspective of an academic who unearths an Epic poem written about a commoner during the war.
■ Where The Earth Meets the Sky: A Story of Penguins, People and Place in Antarctica
Louise K. Blight (Pegasus, 2026). The author’s story about her time working in the most isolated place in the world with just one other human being and 2,000 penguins for company.
■ Wolf, Moon, Dog
Thomas Wharton (Random House Canada, Sept. 2025). A genre-bending fairy tale starring a canine character who reincarnates through the ages.
WLA Books
■ Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
Christine Kuehn (Celadon, Dec. 2025). A never-before-told story of one family’s shocking involvement as Nazi and Japanese spies during WWII and the pivotal role they played in the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
■ Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes In a Warming Arctic
Neil Shea (Ecco, Dec. 2025). A foray into the changing face of the Arctic today as the author circumnavigates the region, from Canada and Alaska through Russia, Norway, and Greenland.
■ A Horse’s World: A Neuroscientist’s Journey Into The Equine Mind
Janet L. Jones (Little, Brown, Summer 2026). An exploration of the emerging science of horse minds and behavior, from communication patterns to the prey/predator relationship, including what our centuries-long bond with these animals reveals about ourselves.
■ This is About Running. This is Not About Running.
Chris Bennett (Dey Street, Winter 2026). The “Ted Lasso of running” and Nike Head Global Running Coach shares his philosophy and coaching advice for runners and runners who just don’t realize they’re runners…yet.
Writers House Literary Agency
■ A Fortune of Sand
Ruta Sepetys (Ballantine, June 2026). A multi-generational family saga blending historical fiction with mystery and romance, shining a light on Detroit’s Golden Age through the eyes of a young woman desperate to escape the secrets and schemes of her family’s business empire.
■ Every Story is a Love Story
Imbolo Mbue (Random House, Nov. 2026). A novel about sorrow, forgiveness, and the astonishing ways that love can bloom among the ruins.
■ The Seventeenth Quest
Elisabeth Kamakawiwoole (Knopf Young Readers, Fall 2026). An exploration of what it means to be human, told through the innocent yet perceptive eyes of a robot who embarks on a quest to help a young girl find her way home.
■ You Can Just Do Things: A Blueprint For Radical Agency
Cate Hall, co-authored with Sasha Chapin (Harper Business, Spring 2026). Hall offers guidance for developing a high-agency mindset and increasing your ability to see and act on life’s hidden degrees of freedom.
The Wylie Agency
■ Flashlight
Susan Choi (FSG, June 2025). The story of one family swept up in the tides of the 20th century, ranging from post-war Japan to suburban America and the North Korean regime.
■ The Future of War
Fareed Zakaria and Eric Schmidt (Penguin, Spring 2027). Zakaria and Schmidt went to Ukraine, only to realize that they were witnessing a historical transformation of war itself.
■ On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War
Jens Stoltenberg (Norton, Nov. 2025). This book takes readers behind closed doors and offers insight into how the world’s most powerful military alliance handles crises.
■ Upward Bound
Woody Brown (Hogarth, Mar. 2026). Told in a series of interlocking narratives that follow the many clients and staff of Upward Bound, an adult daycare service in Los Angeles County, Brown’s debut novel provides a group portrait of autism and other disabilities.
