Most Anticipated Books of 2027

The sixth book in A Song of Ice and Fire — which fans have been waiting for longer than some of them have been reading. Martin has said consistently that it will come, and hope persists. If it arrives in 2027, it will be the publishing event of the decade. No confirmed date as of 2025.

The third and final volume in the Kingkiller Chronicle — following The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear. Rothfuss has been working on it for over a decade. The prose of the first two books is so exceptional that the fandom's patience remains, barely. No confirmed date.

Richard Osman's beloved crime series — Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron investigating cases from Coopers Chase — is a publishing machine. Book 5 will almost certainly arrive in 2026 or 2027. Every instalment becomes an instant bestseller, and the formula hasn't worn thin yet.

Rooney has published four novels in roughly six years — Conversations with Friends, Normal People, Beautiful World Where Are You, and Intermezzo. Her pattern suggests another novel around 2027. Whatever it is, it arrives with enormous expectation and will dominate literary conversation immediately.

Tartt publishes roughly one novel per decade — The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), The Goldfinch (2013). By any calculation, her fourth novel is overdue. She writes slowly, carefully, and when she publishes it will be one of the most anticipated literary events in years.

Yanagihara followed A Little Life with To Paradise — a formally ambitious novel that divided critics but showed she had no interest in repeating herself. Her next novel, whenever it arrives, will be ambitious, polarising, and essential. The timeline is uncertain but the anticipation is real.

Yarros's Empyrean series has been the defining romantasy success story of the 2020s. The fourth book — following Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm — will arrive into one of the most passionate fandoms in commercial fiction. Expected to break sales records the moment it goes on pre-order.

Maas publishes at an extraordinary pace for a writer of her scale — managing multiple beloved series simultaneously. Whatever comes next in the ACOTAR, Crescent City, or Throne of Glass universes will sell in the millions and dominate the fantasy bestseller lists for months.

Wind and Truth (2024) concluded the first arc of the Stormlight Archive. The second arc — Books 6–10 — begins with a new set of characters and an altered world. Sanderson is the most productive major fantasy author working. Book 6 is anticipated for 2026–2028.

French's Dublin Murder Squad and standalone novels are among the most consistently excellent crime writing of the past two decades. Her most recent novel, The Hunter (2024), showed she has no intention of coasting. A 2027 novel is plausible — and would arrive as one of crime fiction's most anticipated events.

Penny publishes a new Chief Inspector Gamache novel almost every year and the series is still improving in its twentieth book. The Three Pines community and the Gamache mysteries have become one of the most beloved long-running series in crime fiction.

The best debut novels of 2027 aren't identifiable yet — the most anticipated debuts are usually discovered through publisher advance catalogue listings, early Goodreads adds, and bookseller recommendations in the first half of 2027. Check Publishers Marketplace and literary Twitter in early 2027 for what's being pre-hyped.