Caro Claire Burke’s Yesterday puts social media in the spotlight and has already been made into a movie starring Anne Hathaway. She will play Natalie, a successful trade housewife influencer who one day awakens to her past and is forced to live the reality of the “old-fashioned” lifestyle she has built her career on.
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Some of this year’s most anticipated memoirs also focus on marriage.
Belle Burden’s “Strangers” Popular New York Times modern love essays It also depicts the disintegration of a 20-year marriage during the pandemic. Siri Hustvedt’s Ghost Stories is a moving account of the 43 years she spent with her husband, the late author Paul Auster.
One of the biggest novels published this year will be Gisele Perico’s Hymn to Life, which will be released in February. In December 2024, Perricot’s husband and 50 other men were found guilty of her rape and sexual assault. Her decision to speak out and say, “Shame must turn” has made her a symbol of strength around the world, and her story promises to be a difficult but powerful read.
Other memoirs to be released in 2026 include Lena Dunham’s Famesick, a “candid and very personal look at illness, fame, sex, and everything in between,” and Liza Minnelli’s Wait Until You Hear This, Kids!
Finally, one of the nonfiction highlights of 2026 will definitely be the new work of Patrick Laden Keefe, author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain. Like these books, London Falling expands on: new yorker articlethis time about the tragic death of 19-year-old Zach Butler, who fell from his luxury London apartment into the River Thames. As always with Raden Keefe, there’s much more to the story than what first appears.
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