February 2027 Book Releases
I am so excited about the February 2027 book releases. February may be the shortest month, but she is not short on fantastic book picks. I am sure that some of the books on this list will be on the bestseller list for weeks. These are my most anticipated books.
In January of last year, I was sure that is was the year of books. This year, I am not sure yet! I love the number of debut authors I am seeing this month. I also love the unique stories. The most anticipated fiction books I am seeing this month range in topics from food to otters! I love the number of historical fiction books on this list, including one about Tupperware.
The thrillers in the February 2027 book releases will be taking us on a twisty ride, and the romance books have some fun tropes that I cannot wait to dive into. And the nonfiction books look fantastic. Has anyone else noticed how long the titles are for nonfiction books this month? The YA books have some highly anticipated books that are a continuation of a series.
Why do I make these lists of most anticipated books? When Kirsten and I highlight books we want to read, we hope if gives you some books to add to your TBR. When you request them early at your local library or preorder them from your local bookstore, you help generate buzz. The result? You are helping authors and sending the message that you support the book community!
If you want some in-depth reviews before the books are published, you can check out our Beyond the Bookends Book Club. We host a monthly Zoom meeting where we share our favorite upcoming books with you. We give you the scoop on what to read and what to skip!
The Most Anticipated February 2027 Book Releases
Each colorful block below represents the best book in a subgenre. Click on the arrow to reveal my “best” pick in any category. You’ll also be able to use a page jump to see more books in that section.
The Best Fiction Book Release
Three Sisters by Jojo Moyes –Jump to Section
The Best Historical Fiction Book Release
Maria Maria by Jennifer Galvao – Jump to Section
The Best Fantasy Book Release
The Traveling House by Kristin Cashore –Jump to Section
The Best Thriller Book Release
Twist by Alice Feeney-Jump to Section
The Best Romance Book Release
The Two Body Problem by Ali Hazelwood –Jump to Section
The Best Nonfiction Book Release
The Secret Seekers by Vanessa Braganza –Jump to Section
The Best YA Book Release
Always One More Time by Nicola Yoon- Jump to Section
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February 2027 Fiction Book Releases
The Three Sisters
Author: Jojo Moyes
Release Date: February 9, 2027
Genre: Fiction
More info: #1 New York Times Bestselling author
Plot
Florian is a famous artist who summons his three daughters to his home in Capri. Cora has been estranged from him and her two sisters for a decade. This is a story about a fractured family and sisters that is a must read from the February 2027 book releases.
Tastes Like Seeing God
Author: Nina Michiko Tam
Release Date: February 2, 2027
Genre: Fiction
More info: A Coming of Age Novel
Plot
Jessie is angry and lost after the accidental death of her brother, an up and coming chef. When Jessie finds a list of five meals that “taste like seeing god”, in her brother’s handwriting, she makes a decision to taste the foods on the list. As she travels from New York to Paris, Germany, and Dakar, she learns more about her brother and the people who loved and inspired him. This book from the February 2027 book releases looks unforgettable.
Plot
This looks like a completely hilarious debit from Leah Abrams. Sophie is an idealist who has a career working for the mayor of NYC. But when the mayor takes a hard right-wing turn with escalating global conflict, Sophie starts to feel the strain- especially because she wants to avoid talking politics to her mother and grandmother, Irene. What Sophie does not know is that Irene wants to see Sophie with a husband so badly, she has created a fake J-Date account for her. She will save Sophie the trouble and just pick out a man herself.
Plot
Julia is a 45-year-old journalist who is dealing with the pressures of life, marriage, motherhood, and all the minutiae that go with it. When Julia is offered a large amount of money to take a new anti-aging drug and write about the experience, she jumps at the chance. She also reconnects with her best friend from high school. Soon, she looks younger, feels younger, and is reminded of her dreams from her younger years. But is there a cost to getting your youth back?
Backstitch
Author: Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili
Release Date: February 23, 2027
Genre: Dual Timeline Fiction
More info: Debut
Plot
This is a multigenerational novel that spans from 1920s Haiti to NYC in the 90s. This is a story of motherhood and sisterhood, secrets and ghosts. Serenity has spend the summer recovering from loss with her six year old daughter when Jouvay vanishes in a crowd on Labor Day weekend. To understand what lead to her disappearance, Serenity must uncover the ghosts of her past.
Otter Music
Author: Karen Joy Fowler
Release Date: February 23, 2027
Genre: Literary Fiction
More info: New York Times Bestselling author and Man Booker Prize Finalist
Plot
Lainey Miller studies Otters in Santa Cruz. As an introvert, she is happy with her post-divorce life until her niece mentions, “Mom thinks you don’t have any fun. Lainey has to decide if she is brave enough to want more.
February 2027 Historical Fiction Book Releases
Maria, Maria
Author: Jennifer Galvão
Release Date: February 2, 2027
Genre: Historical Fiction
More info: Debut
Plot
When a drunken man follows Benedito de Silva home and attacks his bride, Bene kills the man and is forced to flee Portugal and take refuge on fishing ships. Maria Luculia, nicknamed Cilia, now feels like an outsider with the da Silva family. Maria Alvares lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. The sailors come here in the off season.
Soon Bene and Maria start an affair. Bene is unable to red or write so he asks Maria to send word to his wife. Cilia suspects that the woman writing the letters is more than a friend to her husband, but must rely on her anyway. Soon the two Marias form a relationship as they speak to each other directly.
The Society of Forgotten Wives
Author: Pam Jenoff
Release Date: February 2, 2027
Genre: Historical Fiction
More info: NY Times bestselling Author
Plot
Inspired by true events and Jenoff’s family. Hazel Brister is forced to leave her privileged upbringing and start a new life on the lower east side of New York City. She is working at a small newspaper. When a woman named Freyda arrives and asks for help to find her missing husband, Hazel is pulled into a mystery. There are a number of women who share this strange predicament of missing husbands. Together, they will seek the answers that might be closer to home than Hazel could have imagined.
Elizabeth Loring Slept Here
Author: Sara St. Antione
Release Date: February 9, 2027
Genre: Historical Fiction
More info: Biographical Fiction
Plot
Elizabeth Loring is known as the mistress of Willian Howe and a joke throughout history books. In this historical biographical fiction, St. Antoine reclaims the history of a woman with torn loyalties and loved ones on both sides of a great war.
The Making of a Mad Woman
Author: Kristy Cambron
Release Date: February 9, 2027
Genre: Historical Fiction
More info:
Plot
Josephine Carmichael was a runway model turned ad executive in the 1960s. Going up against mostly men, she had to prove herself as more than a pretty face. In the present day, Alex Carmichael lives in her grandmother’s shadow, but has always had questions about what made her grandmother walk away from the advertising world for a quiet life in Michigan. Grandmother and granddaughter must come to terms with Jo’s departure from Manhattan.
Plot
Mitzy Barlow is a housewife and mother of two in 1969 in London. She is bored with her everyday routine, and her husband doesn’t show her any affection. She finds comfort in scribbling fantasies into her journal every night.To make ends meet, she hosts Tupperware parties.
Soon, Mitzy begins to rewrite steamer endings to classic novels and sharing these with the women in her neighborhood. Before long, she is sealing the stories into the Tupperware containers. But when whispers of improper conduct start to spread, she realizes she could be putting her family at risk. Will she be able to rewrite her story?
February 2027 Fantasy/ Sci-fi Books
Plot
Matilda Frost’s grandfather invented time travel, but since he died, the time-box stopped working, and nobody can figure out why. Matilda had been content to build the miniature house rather than return to her family home. When her beloved uncle disappears, Matilda has to dig into old family secrets.
Coffee and Conjuring
Author: Isla Jewell
Release Date: February 16, 2027
Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance
More info: Arcadia falls book 2 of 2
Plot
Cait Wolfe is a graphic designer who needs a change of pace. When her sister invites her to come to Arcadia Falls, she jumps at the chance. There is free lodging and a magical legacy waiting for her. The new place definitely needs a makeover, but Brenda, the local picker, is more than happy to help her fix the place up, and more.
Plot
Lucy and Francis were rivals turned best friends when they found themselves thrown back in time 200 years. Now the time machine is broken, and they are stuck with the ancestors of their present-day peers. As they work together to find a way home, will it become something more?
The Daughters
Author: Leslie Jamison
Release Date: February 9, 2027
Genre: Mythology
More info: Multiple Timeline Historical fantasy
Plot
This is the story of three women connected by an ancient myth. The witch queen, Pasiphaë, gives birth to her son, a Minotaur, in Knossos, 1550 BC. In NYC, 1944, Beth sees an image from the ancient past that forces her to make an impossible choice. Jac uncovers secrets in a community in Crete in 1997. One myth connects all these women, centuries apart.
Thrillers and Mysteries for February 2027
Twist
Author: Alice Feeney
Release Date: February 23, 2027
Genre: Thriller
More info: Bestselling Author
Plot
I cannot wait to read this book from the February 2027 book releases. I love Alice Feeney Books. I have read all of them and cannot wait to see what twists and turns she has for this book. Ariella is a flight attendant living a double life with two husbands. Darcy lives in London with one husband, her perfect partner. When one of the husbands is killed, his wife wants to know who did it. How far will someone go to protect their secrets?
The Last Match
Author: Jessa Maxwell
Release Date: February 16, 2027
Genre: Thriller
More info: Bestselling Author ofThe Golden Spoon
Plot
When 50 influencers and celebrities gather for a matchmaking retreat, they all have the intention of finding love. But when the hotel owner is found dead at the bottom of the cliff and a storm isolates them together, there may be more than one body because everyone has something to hide.
Murder Most Cryptic
Author: Alys Cummings
Release Date: February 16, 2027
Genre: Mystery
More info: Debut
Plot
Nina is a recovering alcoholic who attends meetings weekly. But she is not really sober most of the time. When a stranger walks into one of the meetings and drops dead, they find a crossword clue in his pocket whose answer is “murder”. Now, they are determined to find out who killed him. But with Nina’s unreliable memory, can they find the murderer? This looks like a mystery I cannot wait to read!
Repeat After Me
Author: Fiona Barton
Release Date: February 23, 2027
Genre: Thriller
More info: New York Times Bestselling Author
Plot
This is a courtroom thriller from the February 2027 book releases. Josie is a courtroom usher who is still dealing with the emotional impact of an accident that destroyed her family. Natalie is an actress who is canceled after the man she accused of sexual assault is found not guilty. They both have been denied justice. Now with Josie on trial in her own courtroom, they have forged a relationship that is escalating and may lead to death.
It takes Village
Author: Alyssa Cole
Release Date: February 9, 2027
Genre: Thriller
More info: New York Times Bestselling Author, Set in the world of When No One is Watching
Plot
Eboni has a Master’s in SocialWork, but delivers groceries as a job. When she is offered a position for an experimental village created to reduce homelessness, she is excited. When she arrives, there is a lot of hostility outside of the community, and strange things are happening inside. The only person she can talk to is Michael, the security guard. When the town’s history and secrets are exposed, there may be more danger than the job is worth.
Romance: February 2027 Book Releases
The Two-Body Problem
Author: Ali Hazelwood
Release Date: February 2, 2027
Genre: Romance
More info: Sequel to The Love Hypothesis
Plot
This is the sequel to The Love Hypothesis that we all needed, and I cannot wait to read this book. Olive has graduated. She has her PhD and is living with Adam. Everything is going just as she always hoped, except for the fact that the job market is competitive, she cannot find time to spend with Adam with their conflicting schedules, and she wants to be seen as something more than Dr. Carlsen’d girlfriend.
This is sure to be the perfect romance for the season.
Plot
Nora and Robin have been together for a decade and agreed they didn’t need a wedding. But when Robin proposes, Nora knows the answer is yes. On the night of their engagement party, Bren shows up on her doorstep. They had grown up best friends who always thought they would end up together, but when her heartbreak turned their lives, Bren left, and the distance between them became insurmountable.
now that he is back, Nora has to ask herself what she truly wants. This is a love triangle that asks about the what-ifs and choices that have shaped our lives.
We Go Way Back
Author: Niamh Connolly
Release Date: February 2, 2027
Genre: Romance
More info: Books set in Ireland
Plot
Frances is back in Ireland for a wedding. But she never thought she would be a guest, rather than the bride in Callum Sutton’s wedding. She has four days at a hotel to get Callum go and leave him behind. Frances and Callum were friends from the time of mixtapes, through life’s ups and downs. What finally tore them apart? When callum knocks on Frances’s hotel room door, will she get closure or more questions?
Champagne Problems
Author: Hannah Grace
Release Date: February 16, 2027
Genre: Romance
More info: #1 New York Times Bestselling authof of Icebreaker
Plot
Move over ice-skating, here comes Formula One. Ivy will not date athletes, too much drama and too many bad experiences. But when she is sent to work with a Formula One team and their new driver is Saint Thompson, she might have to change her rules. She fell for him a year ago before a scandal ended things. He wants to pick up where they left off and more. He wants commitment. She would be open to a no strings, no commitment situation only.
Plot
I cannot wait to read this epistolary novel from debut author, Cassie Powney. Ava and Will met in university and become friends, eventually buying the house they shared from their elderly landlady. There is one condition: they need to send postcards to the house from wherever they are in the world. The years move on and Ava and Will come in and out of each other’s lives, realizing that they are drawn to one another.
February 2027 : Best Nonfiction Book Releases
The secret Seekers: A Book Detective’s Quest to Crack the Coded Messages of History’s Most Brilliant Women
Author: Vanessa Braganza
Release Date: February 23, 2027
Genre: Nonfiction
More info: Debut
Plot
I cannot wait to read this book from the February 2027 book releases. With its impeccable research, Braganza brings to life the secret lives of royal British Women! She reveals the ciphers in Lady Mary Wroth’s novels and the cryptic messages in the jewelry of Katherine of Aragon.
Stealing George Washington: The Heist That Shook the Library of Congress
Author: Daniel Stone
Release Date: February 2, 2027
Genre: Nonfiction
More info: Novels About Thieves
Plot
George Washington’s diary and other artifacts were stolen from the Library of Congress in 1887. The Secret Service started an investigation, which led to a trial that threatened to unravel the national library. This nonfiction pick from the February 2027 book releases is the story of the lengths people will go to in order to possess a piece of the nations history.
Dina in the Red Dress: The Artist’s Muse Who Defied the Nazis
Author: Lynne Bermont
Release Date: February 23, 2027
Genre: Nonfiction
Plot
Dina Vierny is the inspiration for many works by Artstide Maillol. The two became close friends and collaborators. In 1940, Dina led Resistance missions through the Pyrenees Mountains. She brought artists, activists, and intellectuals into Spain from Nazi Germany. She guided them all wearing a red dress. This is the biography of Dina’s amazing life.
The Illuminati: The history of the Conspiracy Theory
Author: Michael Taylor
Release Date: February 23, 2027
Genre: Nonfiction
Plot
This book is the untold story and history of a secret society and the conspiracy theories that have shaped the Western world for the last 250 years.
Best YA February 2027 Book Releases
Always One More Time
Author: Nicola Yoon
Release Date: February 2, 2027
Genre: YA
More info: Bestselling Author
Plot
I read and loved Everything, Everything, and The Sun Is Also a Star, so I am very excited for this YA romance from Nicola Yoon. Tallie’s mom died from a heart condition on the day Tallie was born. She has the same condition and will have surgery in 49 days that will either save her or end her story.
She decides to track down Thomas, a boy who felt like her soulmate during the five hours they spent together, and whom she got separated from. But her text is answered by Owen. He is sarcastic and complicated, but offers to help her search for Thomas. But what if the connection she was looking for was Owen the whole time?
The Last Testimony
Author: Veronica Roth
Release Date: February 2, 2027
Genre: YA Dystopian
More info: The Sixth Faction (Divergent Universe)
Plot
We are back with Tris and Four, who are trying to save Four’s home and unravel a secret that has devastating consequences. Tris has ben a faction defector, a covert Fox and now she is on the run.
Plot
Celestine is released from prison on the condition that she joins the Nightguard. She takes the opportunity to try to reunite with her ex-love, Aire, to destroy the world! Kivessin blames Celestine for his mother’s death, but agrees to work with her to finally take her down. But, Celestine and Kivessin discover they have an attraction and questions whether she is truly the monster everyone believes her to be.
More February 2027 Book Releases
Expert Tip
Looking through books can be daunting if you are trying to add some books to your TBR. Remember that this list of the most anticipated February 2027 book releases is for fun. You may add books to your TBR stack and never read them. That is OK! I have two tips to help narrow down the choices for you.
- If you do not want to look through all the descriptions, I selected a top pick from each genre. I narrowed it down for you!
- If you have a favorite genre that you like to read, head over to that section and pick from those books.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the most anticipated books from the February 2027 book releases?
There are so many books that we cannot wait to read. Kirsten and my most anticipated books are:
Three Sisters by Jojo Moyes
Maria, Maria by Jennifer Galvao
The Traveling House by Kristin Cashore
Twist by Alice Feeney
The Secret Keepers by Vanessa Braganza
Always One More Time by Nicola Yoon
When do February 2027 books come out?
Books are released on Tuesdays, so books will be released on February 2, February 9, February 16, and February 23, 2027.
What are the best debut novels coming out in February 2027?
There are some amazing debut novels coming out in February.
Dated by Leah Abrams
The Fix by Marianne Levy
Backstitch by Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili
Maria Maria by Jennifer Galvao
Murder Most Cryptic by Alys Cummings
23 Ivy Lane by Cassie Powney
The Secret Seekers by Vanessa Braganza
Which February 2027 books would make good book club picks?
Tastes Like Seeing God by Nina Michiko Tam and Maria, Maria by Jennifer Galvao both look like they would make great books for a book club. If you want to see more great book club books, you can look at the Beyond the Bookends Starter Guides and Book Club Questions for our favorite book club books.
Should I preorder February 2027 books, and why does it matter?
When you request them early at your local library or preorder them from your local bookstore, you help generate buzz. The result? You are helping authors and sending the message that you support the book community! Most importantly, all the book preorders count toward the first week’s sales. This can help get authors on bestseller lists.
The more interest, the better placement in the bookstore, which can lead to more sales. It’s a snowball effect in the best way!
Epilogue
Which February 2027 book releases are you most looking forward to reading?
