Fall 2026 – Most Anticipated Books for Christian Readers!

As we move into the second half of the year, we’re looking ahead with great anticipation to a slate of wonderful new books. In this list, we’re highlighting our Most Anticipated titles publishing between August and December 2026 (with a few bonus selections for early 2027). This list includes a wide selection of titles from diverse authors in genres like theology, history, fiction, and poetry. The titles here engage some of the deepest challenges of our time, while helping to orient thoughtful Christian readers toward faithful living and the common good.

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[ TOP 10 – Part 1 ]   [ Top 10 – Part 2 ]
[ Theology ] [ Church / Formation ] [ Literature ]
[ NonFiction ] [ History / Biography ]
[ Young Readers ] [ Coming in 2027! ]

Page 1: TOP 10 – Part 1

(In Alphabetical Order by Author’s Last Name)

Interwoven Discipleship: How the Trinity Redefines Power, Belonging, and Christian Community 

by Liz Daye

(NavPress, November 10)

What if our discipleship mirrored what God is actually like?

In a culture shaped by individualism, performance, and power moves, Interwoven Discipleship invites us back to the relational heart of God. Chaplain and theologian Liz Daye reimagines discipleship through the shared life of the Trinity, calling believers to move beyond hierarchy that harms and rediscover the beauty of belonging to God’s family.

Drawing on Christian theology, pastoral care, and lived experience, Daye offers a new framework that begins with the love of Father, Son, and Spirit―an eternal communion shaped by shalom. Ultimately, Daye suggests that the truth of the Triune God can bring healing and wholeness to the church.

In Interwoven Discipleship, readers will:

Reimagine spiritual growth through the Holy Trinity, exchanging hierarchy and the things we do for God for shared belonging in God’s family and participation in the life of God
Cultivate communities of inclusion, reciprocity, and mutual care― where every person, no matter their age or ability level, is recognized as essential to the body of Christ
Recover a vision of spiritual formation shaped by love and interdependence

Rooted in the dynamic life of the Triune God, Interwoven Discipleship calls the church to abandon isolation and competition and to become what it was always meant to be: a family of shared life, restored relationships, and flourishing faith.
 

Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made

by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

(Liveright, September 15)

From the New York Times best-selling author of Jesus and John Wayne, a revelatory history of white Christian womanhood in the United States.

In her “paradigm-influencing” (Christianity Today) bestseller Jesus and John Wayne, which has changed how countless Americans understand their faith, historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez showed how evangelicals made Jesus into an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism. Now she uncovers the roots of today’s glittering, Instagram-ready culture of white Christian femininity.

Live Laugh Love explores a world intimately familiar to millions of American women: Christian bookstores and radio, Hallmark movies, multilevel marketing companies, and contemporary lifestyle brands. This consumer culture may seem trivial, but Du Mez demonstrates that it has an unlikely and revealing history that stretches all the way back to the late nineteenth century and the emergence of New Thought, a movement that championed the power of the mind to shape reality. Du Mez shows how this idea drew together disparate traditions, including Mormonism, holiness evangelicalism, and holiness theology’s charismatic offshoots. Usually seen as distinct, these creeds in fact overlapped, and in the process gave rise to prosperity theologies and to the gospel of positive thinking.

But positivity had a dark side. Du Mez introduces us to religious innovators who taught that positive thinking was the secret to spiritual and material success, and reveals how these notions gave rise to a new feminine ideal. As women read prairie fiction; bought and sold Tupperware containers and Mary Kay makeup; shopped at Hobby Lobby, Target, and Altar’d State; and decorated homes with shiplap, they moved freely between the religious and the secular. Marketed as empowering, these products were part of a consumer culture that elevated domesticity and vulnerability while exposing women to systems susceptible to manipulation.

Combining sweeping cultural history with intimate storytelling, Du Mez explains how theological exclusion led women to build their own brand of Christianity, rich in cultural influence if thin in formal doctrine. Ultimately, Live Laugh Love explains how a powerful yet elusive vision of womanhood has shaped lives, families, and politics for more than a century now―and how it has brought us to our reactionary moment.
 

Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026

by Carolyn Forché

(Scribner,  September 8)
 
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and central figure in American poetry, a landmark collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and unflinching witness.

Over half a century, Carolyn Forché has exemplified how a poet’s voice can cut through the cacophony of an age and speak to our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. Otherwhere spans her groundbreaking career, including the poems crafted in her early twenties from Gathering the Tribes (1976), a world of “horse-breath weather” and the whispering aspens of her grandmother’s language; the “poetry of courage and compassion” (Margaret Atwood) in The Country Between Us (1981) and the elegiac realm of In the Lateness of the World (2020), with its bygone friends, besieged cities, and dreams of the displaced.

Otherwhere gathers the finest poems of Forché’s body of work, selected by the poet herself, and includes a short new collection, If there is ink, which lights a signal fire in a state of emergency. In these new poems, Forché sifts through the new ruins of the present, conjuring the early days of an emergency where people “pretend to live as we have always lived,” and cautioning “There are no secrets to staying completely invisible, so they are not included here.”

Throughout these poems of unparalleled moral conviction, there resounds a “sense of responsibility: to the fullness of lives unnecessarily [bound]; to poetry and its insistence on meaning; to attention and action, no matter the cost” (World Literature Today) that has defined Forché’s work—an inimitable, monumental contribution to American letters.
 

The Wound of Unknowing: A Dogmatic Christology

by Chris E. W. Green

(Baylor UP, October 30)

The Wound of Unknowing is a dogmatic Christology focused on Christ and the question of truth. The book follows the timeline of Jesus’s life, considering the meaning of his birth, ministry, and death in the light of his Passion. Deeply indebted to the neo-Chalcedonian tradition, and engaging with a wide range of ancient and modern theologians, including Pseudo-Dionysius, Maximus the Confessor, Nicholas of Cusa, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Karl Rahner, and Robert Jenson, it attempts to face the questions and implications forced by the scandalously simple confession that Jesus of Nazareth–Mary’s son and Pilate’s victim–is truly the Son of God and so the truth of all things, created and uncreated. The work provides a dogmatic grounding for preaching, catechesis, and pastoral care, as well as philosophical reasoning and speculation, by showing how truth is not something Jesus simply announces or models but something he establishes and reveals by how he lives and dies.
 

Fierce and Faithful: 25 Women of the Bible Who Dared to Trust God

by Nijay Gutpa and Carmen Imes

(IVP Kids, October 27)

The Bible is filled with stories of brave, wise, and faithful women who dared to follow God’s call. Now you can introduce these remarkable role models to the next generation with Fierce and Faithful: 25 Women of the Bible Who Dared to Trust God.

Written by trusted biblical scholars Carmen Joy Imes and Nijay K. Gupta, this beautifully illustrated book brings the stories of twenty-five biblical women to life. From well-known figures like Mary and Sarah to lesser-known leaders like Huldah and Phoebe, each story is told in a relatable way that connects with young hearts and minds. These women are loyal friends or family members, strong leaders, savvy problem solvers, and faithful members of God’s people.

Fierce and Faithful is an engaging tool for discipleship, thoughtfully designed to help kids ages 8-12 see that God has worked in and through women throughout both the Old and New Testaments―and that he can work through them too!

With Fierce and Faithful, help the tweens you love discover how they, too, can become fierce and faithful followers of God through these twenty-five women in God’s story.

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