Emily Henry Tells Jenna Bush Hager She Has Two New Books Coming—Here’s What We Know
The bestselling author teases a ‘Holiday’ inspired rom-com and a genre-bending novel coming soon
Key Takeaways
- Emily Henry's next book is a ‘Holiday’-inspired rom-com due out next summer.
- She’s also working on another novel that’s not going to be a romantic comedy.
- Henry admitted feeling scared to return to writing after taking a year off.
Emily Henry is opening up about her upcoming books, and fans are thrilled! In a recent appearance on Jenna Bush Hager’s podcast Open Book With Jenna, the bestselling author teased not just one book, but two! To learn what Henry said about these exciting new releases, keep scrolling!
Emily Henry teases what’s next for her
It’s been over a year since Henry released her last book, Great Big Beautiful Life, which followed two rival journalists, Alice and Hayden, competing to write the biography of the mysterious heiress Margaret Ives. The book—quite the departure from the traditional romantic comedy novels fans have come to love Henry for—was a massive hit.
Since then, fans have gotten a movie adaptation of Henry’s book People We Meet on Vacation, which follows best friends Poppy and Alex as they travel the world together, and are also getting an adaptation of Beach Read, which follows two rival authors, January Andrews and Augustus “Gus” Everett, after they find themselves living next door to each other. What fans haven’t gotten is a new novel. But, according to Henry, that’s going to change within the next year.
“Taking a year off was really interesting, because getting back into writing my next book, which should be out next summer, it was really—I was shocked how nervous I felt. I felt so scared to get back into it,” Henry told the Today show co-host. “There is romance. With Great Big Beautiful Life, I kind of wanted to sidestep a little bit and expand a little bit. And so, for this one, this is another one that’s a pretty straightforward romantic comedy.”
As for the plot of the romantic comedy, Henry described it as her take on the hit 2006 film The Holiday, which follows two young women after they agree to swap houses during Christmas.
“It’s not a holiday book, but it kind of feels a little bit like my take on The Holiday in a very small way, “ Henry said. “No one else will see it, but like, for me, Book Lovers [which was published in 2022] was kind of my take on You’ve Got Mail. It very much is the book that you would write after taking a year off, and it’s very much that it might make everybody take a year off. The person needed a break.”
After that, Henry said she would love to experiment with another genre like she did with Great Big Beautiful Life.
“My hope is that for my next book after that, I’ll kind of explore something else a little bit, still keep a romance, but I’m kind of trying to alternate between exploring new territory and just serving the readers what I think they’ve come to expect,” Henry told Hager.
Emily Henry opens up about switching genres
“I do ultimately think it was really good for me to just go live my life and have new things to say, new things to write about, but it also is kind of scary,” Henry told Hager after the release of Great Big Beautiful Life in 2025. “It feels like you’re in this little tunnel and you can’t really see anything beyond your little fire pit and what it catches. It sounds probably terrible to a lot of people, but for a lot of writers this is like the happiest time of your year, when you are kind of alone with your little world.”
You can listen to Emily Henry on Jenna Bush Hager’s podcast Open Book With Jenna now on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Amazon Music.
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