August 2026 LibraryReads List

You voted, they counted, and DREAMLAND by Olivie Blake is a LibraryReads pick for August 2026!

PLUS, Jennifer Hillier (HEART OF GLASS), Sarah Pekkanen (THE WOMEN IN WHITE), Tarah DeWitt (LOST AND FOUND), and T. Kingfisher (DAGGERBOUND) are in the Hall of Fame!

DREAMLAND BY OLIVIE BLAKE | 9781250368935 | 8/11/26

“Blake (GIRL DINNER, 2025) is known for her interesting premises and complex characters, and this book delivers both. She touches on multiple genres, including horror and thriller as well as some script writing. Readers interested in dipping their toes into fantasy without committing to a full series, such as Blake’s Atlas series, as well as seasoned fantasy readers looking for something different will get their fill in this novel that asks the question, If the devil were to dangle your dreams above your head, how long would it take until you break and reach for it?”—Booklist

HEART OF GLASS BY JENNIFER HILLIER | 9781250763181 | 8/25/26

“Though not a direct sequel, Hillier’s successor to WONDERLAND (2015) is a welcome return to the cursed town of Seaside, Washington… Hillier delivers another knockout thriller with compulsively readable prose and sly, subtle twists. A must-read.”—Booklist, starred review

THE WOMEN IN WHITE BY SARAH PEKKANEN | 9781250349552 | 8/4/26

“Pekkanen’s latest is a tour de force: a thriller, an investigation into universities’ past abuse of young women in psych labs, and a nicely creepy evocation of Wilkie Collins’ famous, similarly named Gothic novel… Riley uncovers increasingly disturbing information about the missing women and the lab’s cover-up in this thriller that’s both entertaining and wrenching.”—Booklist, starred review

LOST AND FOUND BY TARAH DEWITT | 9781250329462 | 8/4/26

“DeWitt (LEFT OF FOREVER) handles fraught topics with remarkable grace in this stirring contemporary… DeWitt does a masterful job capturing Bea’s grief twinned with tentative hope for the future, as well as sensitively illustrating Silas’s trauma. This heartbreaker is sure to linger long in readers’ minds.”—Publishers Weekly

DAGGERBOUND BY T. KINGFISHER | 9781250400086 | 8/25/26

Learned Edmund, a disillusioned scholar, is transporting yet another precious relic from one stuffy temple to a different stuffy temple. Another great adventure for the ages… But when Edmund is set upon by bandits, in desperation, he breaks the cardinal rule and grabs for the relic, an ancient sword. To his surprise, instead of unsheathing a rusty, ancient weapon, an alarmingly handsome man appears, wielding daggers of blue steel and cutting the thieves down. This man is the Dervish, an immortal warrior who’s been trapped for centuries in a sword of enchanted steel, and is angry as hell about it. He hates the curse that put him there, and he wants to hate Edmund, just as he has hated every wielder before him. But the damned scholar is just so sweet and clever and kind. And while the Dervish may be able to protect Edmund from bandits, cultists, dragons, and strange inhuman diplomats, he may find it much harder to protect his own heart.