Emily Henry Teases PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION Film Changes and More Book News!

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Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor. She spends her free time reading, watching horror movies and musicals, cuddling cats, Instagramming pictures of cats, and blogging/podcasting about books with the ladies over at #BookSquadGoals (www.booksquadgoals.com). She can be reached at emily.ecm@gmail.com.

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We’re in the last month of 2025, which means it’s time to look ahead to 2026. Lots of exciting things are happening next year, including book releases from some of your favorite authors, and a highly anticipated Emily Henry adaptation in just a few short weeks! Want all the details? Read on, readers!

Hamnet author Maggie O’Farrell is back with a new book in 2026, and here is the cover, designed and illustrated by Holly Ovenden. O’Farrell says her new novel, Land, is “based on the life of my great-great-grandfather who was employed by the British to work on the Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland in the mid-19th century… Above all it’s about a man trying to retain his sense of history, both personal and universal, in the face of colonization and political upheaval.” Land will be out on June 2, 2026.

Gregory Maguire has a new book set in the Wicked universe coming out next year. Galinda: A Charmed Childhood is a prequel to Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked. It’s also billed as a “sister volume” to Maguire’s novel Elphie: A Wicked Childhood. While Elphie explores Elphaba’s childhood, Galinda will take a look at the “good” witch’s origins. The book is out from HarperCollins on September 29, 2026.

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People We Meet on Vacation, Netflix’s upcoming film adaptation of the Emily Henry novel of the same name, premieres on the streaming service on January 9. But even if you’ve read the book already, the movie will have some surprises for you! At least according to the author. “There are a couple of differences between the book and the movie that I’m really excited for the readers to see,” Henry told Netflix. “We’ve moved a lot of the book from Palm Springs to Barcelona, so there’s some fun new set dressing that they haven’t already experienced.” Henry says readers can also expect “new dialog between Poppy and Alex, new moments, new jokes, new beats of affection. And it’s kind of just like we get extra pieces of them and I really think that the readers are gonna just like eat that up.”

Louise Penny and journalist Mellissa Fung are teaming up for a new thriller novel. In The Last Mandarin, food blogger and first-generation Chinese American Alice Li is suddenly taken out of her cozy life to assist her global human rights activist mother, Vivien, in a worldwide terrorist attack that traces back to China. Why has Alice been assigned to this case? That’s just one of the many mysteries of the novel. And you can find out all of the answers when the book comes out on May 12, 2026.