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paintings as book covers!

it’s been SO long since we’ve done a round up of paintings used as cover art and i’ve had a few interactions recently that had me missing this rabbit hole! so here’s some of the 2026 releases that feature art on their covers!

a few of these made some interesting adjustments instead of just using the art as is which i enjoyed spotting!

which one grabs your eye?

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#bookcovers #artasbookcovers #bookcoverart Young Girl Reading by Jean Honoré Fragonard as the background. text reads painting as book covers, 2026 releases

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Sometimes, you need to read about weird girls doing weird things.

At least that’s what I tell myself as I continue to look for more weird girl lit to add to my tbr.

Weird girl lit is one of my favorite subgenres in lit fic. I love how absurd it can be, and all of the conversations and points authors introduce with the metaphors.

If you’re looking to expand your tbr, here are 9 books to add. This will definitely have a part 2 because I found so many!!

Are you a weird girl lit reader???

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I have been reading a storm this year. I am already past 100 books read, and am loving it. So, today I am here to share a stack of books that I have finished lately. And I did not love them all. Hope you find one or two for your TBR. Link in bio!

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"Lizzie Buehler is kickass. Not only does she hold an MFA in literary translation and has studied comparative literature at Harvard and Princeton, but she's currently in medical school. She is way outpacing me (and statistically, you.)" @lizabuehls
- Jen Glass, Tawk of New Yawk

🗞 Read more: www.tawkofnewyawk.com
✒️ Words: @jpegjen
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#TawkofNewYawk #bookstagram #theobsessed

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just a bunch of QUEENS

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My favorite books of 2026, part 3!! Featuring my most-anticipated book of the year, Min Jin Lee’s new novel, and several other Big Books, but also several incredible debuts (Patmeena Sabit!) and deeply original fictions that shook me out of my early summer reading slump!

This summer, my reading has slowed a bit, as I go deeper into my own new book, and also because, as happens sometimes, I started and put down a number of books that just weren’t for me, which led to a rare-for-me reading slump. So this third installment of 2026 favorites is a bit late but includes some of the most exciting and original novels I’ve read in years, which I know I’ll be thinking about, well, forever, and one—Julie Buntin’s Famous Men—that I’ve already dipped into a second time.

I may have delayed posting because one of the books on this list is somewhat divisive: Belle Burden’s Strangers. And, in fact, I avoided reading it for months because of the class-centered discourse about it, which led me to think it might not be for me. But I was wrong. I loved it. (More thoughts further in!)

I have a massive stack of 2026 galleys crowding out the cookbook shelf in my dining room—next to the even larger piles of campus novels and books on writing!—and also a list in Notes of already-out new titles I’m dying to read, but I’d really love to know your 2026 favorites so far. No matter how attuned I think I am to new releases, some always slip by me. (Many.)

And I’ve been receiving a lot of requests for specialized reading lists: books set in New England, thrillers, mysteries, romances, laugh out loud funny books, many for beach reads of all types. I’m putting these together, in my usual overthinking fashion, but please tell me if there’s anything you’d like to see. ❤️

If you know me, you know there are few novelists with whom I feel as deep a kinship as Min Jin Lee, whom I first discovered during the auction for A Fortunate Age, when several editors compared it to her first novel, Free Food for Millionaires, in that both bear the influence of Victorian and Edwardian social realism, and both look at the invisible societal forces—economic, political, ideological—that shape every aspect of o Bestselling writer Joanna Rakoff, author of the memoir My Salinger Year, basis for the Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley movie, in a turquoise dress embroidered with hydrangeas, in her Cambridge, MA bedroom. Text says, My favorite books of 2026. Part 2.

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my august tbr 📚

it’s august, y’all! here’s what i want to read this month:

- fruit fly by josh silver (just finished this! 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
- the obsessed by lizzie buehler
- mia by leslie bazzett (out on august 11!)
- fetal position by carolyn huynh (out on december 1!)
- the simp by roshan sethi
- cool machine by colson whitehead
- fixer chao by han ong
- heavy cream by sarah blakley-cartwright (out on september 29!)

have you read any of these books? also, what are you reading in august?

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🙋‍♀️ raise your hand if work has been a total BUZZKILL for your summer

Loaded month but i'm not complaining. I finished up "The Obsessed" and "Sublimation" already and am into the last stretch of "Awake Awake".

My hold for "June Baby" audiobook was released so I'm excited to jump into that one tomorrow!

💬What's on your TBR? xx Jess

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Second half of my bday book haul thanks to my love. Although I know it may blow his mind as to why I need all the books, he still let's me be. He actually encourage two to be added lol!

#bdaybookhaul🥳

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New releases in this week ✨✨ Excellent haul of literary releases, new works in translation, and as always, independent presses📚
All out now on the new arrivals tables! Browse at your leisure. Cafe tables are outside on Westminster Street for reading, getting a drink and hanging with friends + additional seating in Grants Block!

Feel free to also get a tea or coffee or tasty treat from our neighboring coffee shops and relax at our cafe tables - So many great ones to choose from around here ✨✨

#readingtime #nextread #booksbooksbooks #summerreading #independentbookstore

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as summer is wrapping up, let’s take a look at what’s going on at Camp Netgalley (aka my most anticipated arcs for the rest of summer!). which of these are you most excited to read?

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I had the honour of making cookies to celebrate the release of @lizabuehls debut novel, The Obsessed! We decided to go with a cookie that tied back to the design elements in the book cover, but did not replicate it exactly. I personally love how these came out 🥰

And I was gifted a copy of the book that I'm so so excited to read! Thank you 💙💙

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