Since 2009, the Texas Library Association has created a list that highlights outstanding fiction published during the year that merits special attention from adult readers. This list is the Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List. Here are the items from the 2026 list that are in the TBP collection.
For more information, check out the TLA website.
| ATMOSPHERE: A LOVE STORY by Taylor Jenkins Reid (DB 129909, BR 26357, en español DB 132477) |
| BACK AFTER THIS by Linda Holmes (DB 127645) |
| BOOK OF LOST HOURS by Hayley Gelfuso (DB 132894 IN PROCESS) |
| BROKEN COUNTRY by Clare Leslie Hall (DB 128019, BR 26351 IN PROCESS) |
| BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL by Victoria Schwab (DB 130243, BR 26386 IN PROCESS, LB 0005773) |
| CORRESPONDENT by Virginia Evans (DB 129105, en español DB 132482 IN PROCESS) |
| CULPABILITY by Bruce W. Holsinger (DB 131607) |
| DREAM HOTEL by Laila Lalami (DB 127950) |
| FAVORITES by Layne Fargo (DB 126912, en español DB 130314) |
| HARLEM RHAPSODY by Victoria Christopher Murray (DB 127225, LB 0001243) |
| HUMAN SCALE by Lawrence Wright (DB 127848) |
| I SEE YOU’VE CALLED IN DEAD by John Kenney (DB 128720) |
| JULIE CHAN IS DEAD by Liann Zhang (DB 129576) |
| MAKE YOUR WAY HOME: STORIES by Carrie R. Moore (DB 132890 IN PROCESS) |
| NAMES by Florence Knapp (DB 129417, BR 26342 IN PROCESS) |
| OLD SCHOOL INDIAN by Aaron John Curtis (DB 129714) |
| PROMISE ME SUNSHINE by Cara Bastone (DB 127918, BR 26595 IN PROCESS) |
| ROAD TO TENDER HEARTS by Annie Hartnett (DB 129206) |
| STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU by Kristin Harmel (DB 130567) |
| THIS BOOK WILL BURY ME by Ashley Winstead (IN PROCESS) |
| WHAT KIND OF PARADISE by Janelle Brown (DB 130289) |
| WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE by John Scalzi (DB 129070, LB 0003605) |
| WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy (DB 127669, BR 26326 IN PROCESS) |
| WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS by Grady Hendrix (DB 126950, BR 25753, LB 0002960) |