See Our 10 Most Requested Titles from Frankfurt 2026
We’re delighted to present a selection of titles from our catalog that attracted exceptional interest from international publishers during this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
Our Top 10 selection brings together five fiction and five nonfiction titles, reflecting the diversity and international appeal of the books that captured publishers’ attention during the Fair. Look out for our next newsletter, where we’ll share the top children’s books from Frankfurt.
As always, we hope you enjoy exploring this selection.
FICTION
You Do to My Heart
By Woody Allen
Three unlucky New Yorkers. Three shots at love and sanity. Not very smooth—and you wouldn’t want it any other way.
In the title story, Murray Resnick loses his job, his wife, and very nearly his mind in the same unlucky year, and after some desperate attempts and fantasies is given to seek succor with his brother in Palm Beach where more problems emerge.
In “Park Avenue Story,” a hasty, failed marriage and a single glimpse of a girl on Park Avenue send a young Brooklyn-born playwright on a romantic fixation that detonates after they finally meet.
In “Breakfast Special,” a shy, lovestruck novelist becomes consumed by a woman who passes his coffee-shop window each morning while his imagination gets dangerously ahead of the facts.
You Do to My Heart is Woody Allen at his most classic: three New York stories about brilliant, anxious men undone by love, memory, and their own overactive minds.
A Short Stay in Hell
By Steven L. Peck
An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life.
In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.
"Steven L. Peck, an evolutionary biologist, applies a scientist's rigor to the rules of this unusual afterlife and pulls off a remarkable trick: a slim novella that can be read in an hour or two, but contains a vastness that will linger in the imagination." — Jeopardy host and author Ken Jennings for the Wall Street Journal
Hollow Folk
By Andrew K. Clark
The night shift at the Holloway was supposed to be quiet. When grad student Ethan Ray clocks in as night auditor at the aging Holloway mountain resort, he expects paperwork, silence, and a paycheck. Instead, reddish-brown lights bleed across the Appalachian sky. Hard winds whip through the trees without making a sound, and mysterious owl gargoyles come to life.
At 3 a.m., every clock stops. Trapped inside with his co-workers, Kal and Teresa, Ethan realizes the hotel isn’t just old. It’s a boundary. Something ancient has been waiting and is now awake. To escape, they must uncover the Holloway’s secrets, even as unexpected love blossoms between Ethan and Teresa. The problem is, the visions haunting each of them carry the same warning: someone in the hotel cannot be trusted.
Gothic romance meets Appalachian folk horror, where the mountains are watching and the dark leaves marks.
The Fall of the House of Usher
By Qomix Classics
All great short story writers master compression, but few have an architect's grasp of line and space. Poe almost single-handedly invented two genres — the whodunit and the psychological thriller — influencing writers from Dostoevsky to Baudelaire and Conan Doyle. This Qomix Classics volume gathers four of his most enduring works — The Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Cask of Amontillado — and reimagines them for the graphic form. Each story finds a distinct visual language. Together, they make this volume an extraordinary visual encounter with Poe's dark genius.
QOMIX Classics is building the Library of the Future — reimagining the world’s greatest literature as visually stunning, collectible graphic narratives. These are not abridgements or retellings. Each adaptation retains the original language, syntax, tone and atmosphere of the text, overseen by highly skilled writer-editors and literary scholars to ensure interpretive integrity.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
By Qomix Books
Beauty as a mask. Desire as corruption. A portrait that tells the truth no mirror can bear. Wilde's Dorian Gray is less a novel than a spell — a glittering fable of youth, vanity, and the soul's decay that made Victorian London gasp and still unsettles readers today. To read it is to enter a world of velvet shadows and poisonous epigrams, where art and life blur, and pleasure becomes its own undoing. Qomix Classics captures this dark brilliance in a highly contemporary graphic edition that revels in Wilde's paradoxes: the elegance and the horror, the allure and the rot. The decadence of fin-de-siècle London is rendered in sumptuous detail, alive with the tension between beauty and ruin.
NONFICTION
Enjoy Your Self Now!
By Pat Croce
Through relatable tales and illuminating exercises—like “Insert the 6-Second Sacred Pause,” “Exercise the Let Me Go Muscle,” and “Smile at Serendipity”—Croce bridges East and West, psychology and spirituality, ego and Self. His voice is grounded, humorous, and deeply human, making this book both an inspiring read and an experiential guide.
Whether read front to back or opened at random for a daily dose of transformative perspective, Enjoy Your Self Now! invites readers to step out of striving and into stillness—to rediscover the inherent joyful peace that is their true nature.
From NY Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, and adventurer Pat Croce comes a transformational companion for seekers and skeptics alike.
Happiness vs. Fulfillment
By Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King, Marc Kielburger, Craig Kielburger
In Happiness vs Fulfillment, Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King, Marc Kielburger, and Craig Kielburger reveal the truth hiding in plain sight, rooted in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final teachings and supported by cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology. We were never meant to chase happiness. We were meant to live fulfilled lives. Drawing on decades of work in diverse communities around the world—from the boardrooms of Davos to remote villages where families live on less than a dollar a day—the authors reveal a striking pattern: The key to a longer, richer, and more meaningful life is not happiness at all. It’s something more.
From the award-winning authors of What Is My Legacy? comes a book that will change how you live the rest of your life.
The Business of Storytelling
By Don Yaeger
Every leader, entrepreneur, and sales professional needs to persuade, inspire, and connect. The ones who do it best all share one skill: they know how to tell a great story. In The Business of Storytelling, thirteen-time New York Times bestselling author Don Yaeger delivers the definitive guide to storytelling as a business tool—practical, research-backed, and built from decades in the field.
“A clear-eyed, well-executed approach to connect[ing] through the power of storytelling.” — BookLife by PW Editor's Pick
Direction
By Kenny Leon
What does it take to live a life that truly matters? For Kenny Leon—one of Broadway's most celebrated directors—the answer has never come from a single breakthrough moment or a perfectly laid plan. It has come from a lifetime of listening. Observing the world around him taught him what it really means to show up fully for your life.
In Direction , Leon distills decades of hard-won wisdom into twenty essential lessons for anyone who wants to live with courage and determination.
Legendary Broadway director Kenny Leon draws on a lifetime of lessons to offer a timeless guide to living boldly, authentically, and with purpose.
Maximize
By Leonard Armato
If you are serious about building your personal culture for success, it’s time to go big. You need to maximize. In this accessible guide, entrepreneur and high-growth brand-builder Leonard Armato gives you the “7 Keys” to unlock your true potential. Armato brings these differentiators to life through actionable insights from working with entertainment industry titans such as Shaquille O’Neal, Oscar De La Hoya, Quincy Jones, and David Stern, as well as pivotal roles such as founding the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour and elevating the Skechers brand.
“Drawing on his decades of leadership in the sports industry, Leonard Armato shares key principles that helped shape his success. This book offers practical insights for anyone looking to advance their career.” — Adam Silver, NBA Commissioner
