The REH Foundation has announced the winners of the 2026 Robert E. Howard Awards, voted on by members of the REH Foundation and honoring work that is “substantively devoted to the life and/or work of Robert E. Howard” or that “carries on the spirit and tradition of Robert E. Howard, to better recognize and celebrate his influence on future generations of writers.”

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Barrow, Rebecca: Doe (Penguin Random House/Nancy Paulsen 979-8217006335, $20.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 06/23/2026)

Horror novel in verse. Being captain of the cheer team helps Maris forget about her absent father, and girlfriend that doesn’t love her. While sleepwalking, Maris meets an enormous decaying beast named Doe, who takes the form of a deer, but she doesn’t realize Doe is actually real.

 

Blackwell, Amelia: The Haunting of a Bronte (Macmillan UK 978-1035054145, $25.46, 424pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 06/25/2026)

Speculative novel. Georgiana uses her time travel device to visit her lover in 1995, but she ends up inside the Thorp Green Hall in the year 1845, where she meets Branwell and Anne Brontë. Georgiana must save the Brontë siblings from a killer.

 

Carey, M.R.: The Tinder Box (Orbit US 978-0316595490, $19.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

Dark fantasy novel. Former Solider Mag Tresti works for a widow, Jannae Mirchella, who’s a witch. One day, Mag Tresti discovers a tinderbox on the body of a demon that fell out of the sky, and this Tinderbox grants Mag any wish he desires. Simultaneous with the Orbit UK edition.

 

Dedroog, Lauren: A Dance of Serpents (Orion UK/Gollancz 978-1399616157, $18.99, 528pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 06/25/2026)

Fantasy novel. Diana is the princess of hell, but she won’t forget the way that the gods wronged her, her family, and her friends. Diana, along with her allies, search for justice, but the line between justice and revenge is unclear, and she has to keep herself from becoming the very thing she hates.

 

Doctorow, Cory: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence — Before It’s Too Late (Macmillan/Farrar, Straus, Giroux/MCD 978-0374621568, $18.00, 240pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 06/23/2026)

Associational non-fiction about artificial intelligence. This book discusses why AI is valued at above $16 trillion dollars, a number so large that the only way for it to reach that value is by replacing huge amounts of the human workforce, despite it’s underwhelming performance.

 

Elison, Meg: Foundling Fathers (Tachyon Publications 978-1616964580, $16.95, 192pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 06/23/2026)

Satirical SF novella. A group of right wing billionaires doesn’t like how the country is being run so they clone the founding fathers, and raise them in secrecy, in order to bring back America’s “Former Glory.”

 

Evans, Malayna: The Isis of Egypt: Goddess of Thrones (The Quick Brown Fox/Alcove 979-8892424189, $29.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, 06/23/2026)

Historical fantasy novel of ancient Egypt. The goddess of thrones and magic, Isis, along with her husband, Osiris, are living a great life until the god of chaos comes in and traps Osiris in a box. Osiris does everything in her power to find him.

 

Everett, Sarah: The Romance Rewind (Penguin Random House/Putnam 979-8217002986, $12.99, 304pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

Young-adult fantasy time-loop romance novel. After Zadie’s breakup with Jason, she doesn’t know what to do, and is left wondering about the breakup. All of a sudden, she’s launched back to the day of their first date, and no one else remembers besides Jason’s cousin Marcus.

 

Haynes, Clarence A.: The Broken Hearts Agency (Grand Central/Legacy Lit 978-1538783603, $20.99, 398pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

Urban fantasy novel in the Our Mystical World series. Evelyn Kendricks just got dumped by her toxic boyfriend, all the while, she’s trying to cope with the ghosts that invaded the world.

 

Katouh, Zoulfa: The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue (Little, Brown 978-0316351942, $25.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

Young-adult fantasy/magical realism novel. Every woman in Jihad Dabbagh’s family receives a magical gift, and Jihad’s is a heightened sense for colors that changes based on her mood, so when her mother dies the world becomes permanently gray.

 

Kim, Suji: Under the Oak Tree, Volume 3 (Penguin Random House/Inklore 978-0593871256, $32.00, 528pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

Tie-in fantasy novel, third in the series based on the webnovel. Maxi fears that as she continues her studies of magic, her husband, Riftan Calypse, will discover that she’s not the proper noblewoman she claims to be.

 

Kiser, S.E.: Hunt the Ever Wild (Angry Robot UK 978-1836730071, $19.99, 336pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

Fantasy novel. The wizard Sy jumps at the chance to go on a hunt for a phoenix in Lichtenwald forest because the prize is enough for him to pay off the debt he owes to the king, but he needs help navigating the forest, so he teams up with Anya, a huntress, and claims that he’ll split the prize. A first novel.

 

Riesen, Lila: Rainsong (Penguin Random House/Knopf 978-0593810286, $19.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

Horror novel. Zayn just moved to Mendocino, and the town seems to have a dark past; when she arrives there are missing posters of a girl everywhere, and off the coast is an island called Rainsong, which rumors say is haunted.

 

Tchaikovsky, Adrian: Green City Wars (Tor 978-1250290335, $28.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

SF noir novel. A raccoon private investigator named Skotch is willing to take whatever job you pay him for, as long as it isn’t too illegal. When he’s offered a job to search for a missing mouse that seems to have something everyone wants, he has trouble turning it down. Simultaneous with the Tor UK edition.

 

Tremblay, Rachel: Lavender Spike (ECW Press 978-1770418417, $19.95, 384pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 06/23/2026)

Dystopian SF novel. Izzy, the last working artist in the Old Holy Order, lives a live of poverty covertly selling her illegal paintings to the last followers of the Order, but a run-in with the government forces her to turn to rebels, and a new kind of art.

 

Voleur, Cat: Queer Tastes: Unconventional Representation in Horror Film (From Beyond 979-8-9925941-4-0, $15.99, 170pp, formats: paperback, 06/23/2026)

Associational non-fiction. This book takes a critical look at queer representation in horror films, and guides readers through 20 different horror films that span over 80 years of cinema. The author includes her personal experiences with the LGBTQ+ community as she takes you through these films.

 

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Rachel Schneider’s Light Wielder (Saturday Books), second in the author’s Fire & Metal series, debuts in the top 10 on three lists.

Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 06.28	LAT 06.21	USAT 06.14	PW 06.22	Amz (06.22)	UK: Amz UK (06.22)	Canada: Amz.ca (06.22)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		10×3	10×2	150	15×3	100	100	100
Hardcovers
Arden, The Unicorn Hunters	06.15.26 / 2			60 -25	x
Aster, Skyshade	05.20.24 / 22			17 +	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Aster, Starside	04.13.26 / 11	xxx		xx	19 -3			xxx..
Brown, Red Rising (Deluxe Slipcase Edition)	10.27.25 / 34	xxx..		54 +12	xxx..
Burke, Yesteryear	04.20.26 / 10	3 -1	2 =	2 +2	3 -1	4 =	2 +1	7 +1
Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping	06.10.24 / 83			xxx..	19 +4	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Dinniman, A Parade of Horribles	04.27.26 / 9	15 =	xxx	x	12 =	35 +45		91 +
Dinniman, Carl’s Doomsday Scenario	01.12.26 / 24	10 +2		29 +8		22 +16		18 +8
Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl	05.26.25 / 45	xxx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	17 +19		38 +
Dinniman, The Butcher’s Masquerade	04.21.25 / 20	xxx..		73 +23	xxx..	27 +39
Dinniman, The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook	02.02.26 / 20	13 +1		42 +6		19 +36		30 +39
Dinniman, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	05.26.25 / 18	xxx..		138 +	xxx..	26 +71
Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods	03.24.25 / 22	xx		51 +26	xxx..	21 +39
Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin	10.06.25 / 15	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	21 -4	30 +48
Griffin, The Sun and the Starmaker	03.02.26 / 15	8 +2		xxx..	xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Train	05.18.26 / 6	11 -3	5 -1	35 -2	9 -2	xxx	51 -5	xxx
Leede, Headlights	06.22.26 / 1			32 ++
Noni, Shadow Reaper	06.15.26 / 2	9 -4
Parker, The Ballad of Falling Dragons	05.25.26 / 5	x		45 -5	11 -2		xxx	x
Pham, The Secret World of Briar Rose	06.15.26 / 2	1 =		x	x
Roberts, Powerless	11.20.23 / 98	xxx..		xxx..	12 +2	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Rogan, Kissed by the Gods	06.15.26 / 2	x		93 -82	22 -12
Schneider, Light Wielder	06.22.26 / 1	4 ++		9 ++	4 ++
SenLinYu, Alchemised	10.06.25 / 38	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	24 +1	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Sorensen, Fury Bound	05.04.26 / 7	xxx..		120 +	xx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Tolkien, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set	01.05.15 / 5				xxx..	96 -38
Yarros, Onyx Storm	04.01.24 / 113	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	19 -4	xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 06.28	LAT 06.21	USAT 06.14	PW 06.22	Amz (06.22)	UK: Amz UK (06.22)	Canada: Amz.ca (06.22)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bennett, Tentacles & Triathlons [tpb]	06.22.26 / 1			99 ++
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451	07.20.03 / 493		xxx..	115 +	xxx..	99 +1	xxx..	xxx..
Brown, Red Rising [tpb]	05.02.16 / 35	xxx..	10 +	xxx..		xxx..		xxx..
Buehlman, Between Two Fires [tpb]	09.09.24 / 17			79 -18
Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl [tpb]	01.12.26 / 24	7 +1	3 -1	10 -1	3 =	50 +39		3 +3
Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel) [tpb]	06.01.26 / 4			48 -5	15 -7
Durst, The Faraway Inn [tpb]	04.13.26 / 10			xxx..	25 -1			xxx..
Gillig, The Knight and the Moth [tpb]	06.01.26 / 4	xx	xxx	133 -43	22 -2		xx
Haig, The Midnight Library [tpb]	05.22.23 / 83	xxx..	4 +4	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xx	xxx..
Kraus, Angel Down [tpb]	05.18.26 / 6		x	66 -15	xxx	xxx..		xxx..
Kuang, Katabasis [tpb]	06.22.26 / 1			113 ++
Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight [tpb]	04.10.23 / 127	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..	94 +	xxx..
Maas, A Court of Silver Flames [tpb]	09.12.22 / 160	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	87 +13	xxx..
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb]	05.16.16 / 271	xxx..	xxx..	95 +24	xxx..	xxx..	38 -16	28 +
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb]	05.14.18 / 191	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	54 +2	xxx..
Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set	03.31.14 / 155			xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	58 +
Weir, Artemis [tpb]	07.16.18 / 13		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		27 +3
Weir, Project Hail Mary [tpb]	10.03.22 / 83	3 +1	2 -1	5 -2	x	9 +2	15 +3	2 +1
Yarros, Fourth Wing [tpb]	09.16.24 / 91	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	18 -2	xxx
Yarros, Iron Flame [tpb]	06.02.25 / 52	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..		20 -3	xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 06.28	LAT 06.21	USAT 06.14	PW 06.22	Amz (06.22)	UK: Amz UK (06.22)	Canada: Amz.ca (06.22)
This cell color indicates rankings on children’s bestsellers lists		This cell color indicates rankings of books based on pre-publication sales				[Italics and brackets, and/or this cell color, indicate stale data — rankings from one or more weeks before — and do not contribute to the cumulative weeks on any list totals]

The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week, where:

= same as last week

+/- change since last week

+ back on list

++ new on list

x no longer on list (number of x’s: weeks off list)

All lists rank hardcovers and paperbacks separately, except for the USA Today list, which is a single list combining fiction and nonfiction in all formats. Dates shown are posted dates, except those in parentheses, which are dates compiled. New York Times posts its list one week in advance of print publication.

Note that some sources do not compile paperback bestsellers, and some exclude YA books (like the Harry Potter series) from their hardcover and paperback fiction lists.

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Rebellion Publishing imprint Solaris has announced that it is being acquired by Profile Books. As of July 1, 2026 Profile will take over turnover and ebook distribution. As of September 1, it will take over physical books. Solaris staff Amy Borsuk, Natalie Sorrell Charlesworth, Jess Gofton, David Thomas Moore, and Amanda Raybould will transfer across.

Profile CEO Rebecca Gray said,

We are thrilled to be taking this big step into a new genre. Solaris is already home to a wealth of acclaimed authors writing original, captivating books. We can’t wait to work with them, and everyone involved from Profile and Solaris is terrifically excited to get going. It’s been a pleasure making the deal happen with Rebellion, and I can’t wait to see what happens next.

Rebellion head of Film, TV & Publishing Ben Smith said,

Since we acquired Solaris in 2009, we have grown the imprint into a market leader in SFF and Horror. We are immensely proud of the books we have published, the authors we worked with and the countless major award wins and nominations achieved by our dedicated authors, editors, designers and artists. We are excited to see the list, the team and Profile build off this success and thrive in the future.

Solaris was founded in 2007 by BL Publishing and acquired by Rebellion in 2009. Among its noted authors are Edward Ashton, Vajra Chandrasekera, Rebecca Roanhorse, and Adrian Tchaikovsky. For more information, contact Alison Alexanian alison.alexanian@profilebooks.com or Hannah Ross hannah.ross@profilebooks.com.

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Keith Giles, co-owner of independent publisher Quoir, has announced the launch of new SF imprint Pink Beam Press, which will publish “visionary, provocative, and genre-defying speculative fiction.”

The imprint will launch at the Philip K. Dick Festival 2026 with seven SF novellas: Sim Cop and the Haunted City by David Agranoff, Shadowboxing by Gordon Bonnet, Glitch by Brian Evenson, Hard Video by Keith Giles, Bloody 13 by Sarah Langan, Services Rendered by Anthony Trevino, and Bubblegum Circuit Tower Dash by Andrew Turck. It will also publish short story collection Still Life with Apocalypse by Richard Kadrey and a new SF novella by John Shirley.

Giles said,

We created Pink Beam Press to champion the kind of science fiction that Philip K. Dick himself would have appreciated. Stories that question reality, challenge authority, explore consciousness, and force us to reconsider what it means to be human in an age of accelerating technological change. We believe science fiction remains one of the most important literary genres for understanding the world we are creating together.

For more, see the official website.

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