February 2026

New month, new books for our TBRs!

It's freezing cold where I am, which is the perfect weather for staying inside, lighting the fire, and hunkering down with a good book! There are a lot of amazing titles coming out this month, definitely worth venturing into the cold to grab from the nearest bookstore or library. Here are some of the titles I'm excited to see hit shelves in February 2026!

	Beyond Seven Forests Amanda McCrina From the Publisher: By the winter of 1916, World War I has ravaged the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Eighteen-year-old Renata Zamoyska, Polish countess and doctor-in-training, has lost everything to the Russian occupation: her family, her home, her fiancé. But with the Russians in retreat and the Germans now in charge, life isn’t much easier. Wounded soldiers keep arriving from the front, Renia’s house remains in ruins, and the scars of the occupation linger. When two Polish deserters from the Russian army turn up on her doorstep just before a fierce blizzard, Renia finds herself trapped in her own home alongside people she’s long considered enemies. Cut off from the outside world while the storm rages, Renia must fight to survive, grapple with her wartime scars, and decide what justice, freedom, and healing look like for her.
This Ain't Our First Rodeo Liara Tamani From the Publisher: This ain’t Josie’s first rodeo. Her parents own several fancy restaurants in Houston, and they just opened a new one right outside the stadium. Josie is expected to stay inside the restaurant and help, and maybe take over their growing empire one day, but that isn’t what Josie wants. She’d rather be at the rodeo itself than in a high-end restaurant next to it. Or eating funnel cakes and Texas-sized corn dogs at the carnival on the grounds. Or better yet, riding her horse at her grandparents’ ranch, the very place her mom wants to sell. It ain’t Shawn’s first rodeo either. He’s been riding bulls since his mom died, doing everything he can to live up to his rodeo-champion stepfather’s sky-high expectations. But as Shawn’s stardom rises, so do tensions in their relationship. His stepfather’s drinking and gambling problems sure don’t help. After one unforgettable night leaves Josie and Shawn wanting nothing but each other, their lives become entwined in increasingly complex ways. Can they save Josie’s family land? Or will Shawn’s stepfather and his shady plan be the ranch’s ruin? Will one wrong move cost them everything? Rodeo after rodeo, year after year, can Josie and Shawn keep their hearts open through the secrets, twists, and turns?
	Postscript Cory McCarthy From the Publisher: On the far side of a swift and unknowable apocalypse, a few sapiens are surviving off the last scraps of humanity. No longer recognizable as Cape Cod, the dunes of their archipelago are empty apart from regrets and ruins—until West blows in like a storm. West is a prophet of instinct, the last amateur anthropologist, ever aware of being present in life. He can’t help but move through Ani’s rage, Karen’s anxiety, and Emil’s immense longing with curiosity and care. West’s unbridled love and grief challenge the survivors to defy extinction with the most beautifully human thing imaginable: a family. He may even impress Death.
Limelight Andrew Keenan-Bolger From the Publisher: The only thing standing between Danny and his dreams is…everything. For fifteen years, Danny Victorio has kept his head down, kept his mouth shut, and kept everyone out. But an audition for Manhattan’s most prestigious arts school offers him a chance to escape Staten Island—and his crumbling family—for good. If he doesn’t screw everything up. At LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, Danny is thrust into a world of fierce talent and even fiercer ambition. As he navigates overwhelming expectations, the ghosts of his past, and, for the first time, real friendship, Danny can’t shake the question: Where do I belong…if I belong at all?

February might be cold, but I trust Amanda McCrina to deliver an even colder winter in her new World War I historical fiction (and after reading The Silent Unseen, I trust McCrina can do no wrong in bringing chilly history to life). Escaping to a warmer climate (and a lighthearted romance) makes Liara Tamani's rodeo love story a must-read in the coldest month of winter. Escaping to the seaside could be fun... or maybe not so much in Cory McCarthy's timely archipelago sci-fi, a must-read in the age of uncertain weather pattens. And with art, ambition, and messy family dynamics combined, Andrew Keenan-Bolger's coming-of-age novel is the perfect addition to my spring TBR. What books are you looking forward to reading on these long, dark winter nights?