Transom’s Most Anticipated Fiction of 2026
Some of the biggest names in literary fiction, sci-fi, and fantasy are dropping new books on us this year. Co-Pulitzer winners Hernan Diaz and Barabara Kingsolver arrive back-to-back this fall, like a literary Tango & Cash. New summer offerings from sci-fi stalwarts Ray Nayler and Ann Leckie, and series continuations from Matt Dinniman (Carl #8) and Martha Wells (Murderbot!) in May.
And, if you didn’t already know, on October 26 we’ll get the long-awaited sixth book in A Court of Thorns and Roses, followed in January by book #7. What a time to be alive and reading!
Reach out here if you want to pre-order any of these so you can pick them up at Transom on pub day.
Ply, by Hernan Diaz
Pub Date: September 29, 2026
Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Trust, and nominated for the Pulitzer in 2018 for In the Distance, Hernan Diaz quickly became one of my favorite contemporary writers (among George Saunders, Cormac McCarthy, Lydia Davis, Colson Whitehead, and Olga Tokarczuk). I had the pleasure of selling Trust at Hernan’s (pre-Pulitzer) event at SUNY Purchase in 2022, and I was delighted to find he is also incredibly gracious, kind, and thoughtful. Honestly I’d love his books regardless, but that warmth comes through his books and makes his fiction resonate with humanity.
The publisher log line says the author “turns to the future with a novel that examines the place of technology in the American imagination.” He had me at hello, but then future, technology, imagination…? September, don’t be late!
2026 Most-Anticipated Fiction
