Either way, we’ve got you covered with these fiction books that are slated for screen adaptations in the second half of 2026.

We are also featuring some picks in Non-Fiction and Young Adult books.

By Peter Heller
Set in large part in our own Boulder County, Peter Heller’s New York Times bestselling postapocalyptic novel follows Hig, a former pilot who survives a devastating flu pandemic that wipes out most of humanity. Living at an abandoned airport with his loyal dog, Jasper, and a hardened, unpredictable man named Bangley, Hig discovers a mysterious radio transmission that sparks hope of a life beyond their isolated world. Director Ridley Scott is bringing The Dog Stars to the big screen with stars Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin. 
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By Marissa Stapley
In this fast-paced crime thriller, Lucky Armstrong is a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. She's ready to start a brand-new life, with a new identity, when things go sideways. Alone for the first time, navigating the world without the help of either her father or her boyfriend, Lucky discovers that a lottery ticket she bought on a whim is worth millions. There's one big problem: cashing in the winning ticket means she'll be arrested for her crimes, go to prison, and have no chance to redeem her fortune. Will she be able to make a future for herself, without her dark past catching up with her? Apple TV’s limited series adaptation stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Lucky, with Annette Bening and Timothy Olyphant rounding out the cast. 
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By Alice Hoffman
The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three hundred years, but three generations of women are determined to finally break it. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger - the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. This sequel to Practical Magic, starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock, will hit the theaters just in time for the spooky season.
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By Ali Hazelwood
When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. Olive Smith is a third-year PhD candidate who doesn’t have time for romance, but her best friend has been hounding her to go on a date and all Olive wants is for her badgering to stop. So, she makes up a fake boyfriend — and then kisses the first guy she sees to prove she’s telling the truth. Of course that person had to be Dr. Adam Carlsen, a grumpy, hotshot professor. Olive is sure he’s going to reveal her secret, but instead, he proposes a deal… a love experiment of sorts. The upcoming film adaptation stars Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman.  
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By Kazuo Ishiguro
From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. The novel delves into what it means to care and be cared for in a rapidly evolving world. The film adaptation is directed by Taika Waititi and stars Jenna Ortega as Klara. 
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By Alex North
Widowed father Tom Kennedy and his young son move to the quiet village of Featherbank, hoping for a fresh start. But when another child disappears and Tom’s son begins hearing eerie whispers outside his window, the town’s terrifying past — and the legacy of the infamous serial killer known as The Whisper Man — come roaring back. Now, detectives Amanda Beck and Pete Willis must find the boy before it is too late, even if that means Pete has to revisit his great foe in prison: The Whisper Man. And then Jake begins acting strangely. He hears a whispering at his window. This spine-tingling thriller is coming to Netflix and stars Hamish Linklater, Robert DeNiro, and Michelle Monaghan.
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By John Steinbeck
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. This is the story of two brothers, Aron a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father, and Cal, a rebellious loner, sternly rejected by his father. The iconic novel, previously adapted into the acclaimed 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan, is coming to Netflix as a new limited series adapted by Zoe Kazan, Elia Kazan’s granddaughter, and starring Florence Pugh as Cathy Ames and Mike Faist as Charles Trask.
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By Jhumpa Lahiri
This collection's five powerful stories and haunting triptych of tales about the fates of two Bengali families in America map the perplexing hidden forces that pull families asunder and undermine marriages. "Unaccustomed Earth," the title story, dramatizes the divide between immigrant parents and their American-raised children, and is the first of several scathing inquiries into the lack of deep-down understanding and trust in a marriage between a Bengali and non-Bengali. The Pulitzer Prize-winning story collection is being adapted into a Netflix drama series, with an ensemble cast led by Freida Pinto and Siddharth.
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By Robert Macfarlane
This profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. Macfarlane takes readers on three unforgettable journeys teeming with extraordinary people, stories, and places: to the miraculous cloud-forests and mountain streams of Ecuador, to the wounded creeks and lagoons of India, and to the spectacular wild rivers of Canada -- imperiled respectively by mining, pollution, and dams. Braiding these journeys is the life story of the fragile chalk stream a mile from Macfarlane's house, a stream who flows through his own years and days.
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By Sarah Wynn-Williams
An insider account charting one woman's career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives us a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.
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By Haley Cohen Gilliland
This is an extraordinary investigation into how Argentine grandmothers banded together to find their disappeared children and grandchildren during the Dirty War in Argentina, when a military junta systematically disappeared about 30,000 supposed "subversives," including more than 300 pregnant women whose newborns were then fraudulently adopted. eBook, Kindle  Place Hold 

By David McCullough
As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters who let no obstacle deter or defeat them. 
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By Mina Fears
Ninety-nine suitors have died trying to win Princess Mariama's hand in marriage, and she has had enough. Her new servant, Amie, has been framed for a crime and lost everything, including her childhood sweetheart. Forced together by circumstance, the two girls try to end the secretive, murderous trial that takes place behind palace walls as part of the competition for Mariama. But will Amie choose to stay with the Princess to help her fight, or run away with the boy she loves? 
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By Hafsah Faizal
Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya-- but neither wants to be. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz, Nasir is sent by the king on a similar mission: retrieve the artifact and kill the Hunter.
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By Adam Silvera
In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
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By Hafsah Faizal
In this follow-up to A Tempest of Tea, White Roaring is sharpening its fangs after the deadly night that left the city in shambles. The press are dead, the public calls for justice, vampires are in danger, and amid the turmoil, the Ram announces a celebration. Still reeling from the bloodshed, Arthie Casimir has no time to mourn the death of anyone, let alone her own. She has no time for love, either, but it had saved her life. As Arthie navigates new emotions and new allies, she must reassemble her scrambled crew and scrape what little they have left to fight one last time – and she will need to face the ghosts of her past to do it.
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