New Adult Fiction

The latest adult fiction books in print. (Please note that New NL/Local Books are covered in a separate list.)

Updated January 13, 2026
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Antidote (Large Print)
Russell, Karen
Paper Book
From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town
Audition
Kitamura, Katie
Paper Book
NAMED A 2025 "ESSENTIAL READ" BY THE NEW YORKER AND A TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME MAGAZINE AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOGUE, TIME...
The book of I
Greig, David
Paper Book
2025 Indies Introduce & Indie Next Pick The Globe and Mail Best Books of 2025 New York Times Editors' Choice ★ "A small treasure... A bloody and beautiful sojourn in the distant past."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A brilliant Scottish debut, shortlisted...
The correspondent : a novel
Evans, Virginia
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Discover the word-of-mouth hit hailed by Ann Patchett as "A cause for celebration"--an intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of slowing down to reconnect with the people we love. "The...
A guardian and a thief
Majumdar, Megha
Paper Book
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE * Megha Majumdar's electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning, is set in a near-future...
The homemade God : a novel
Joyce, Rachel
Paper Book
With sparkling wit and insight, this "gorgeous . . . page-turner" (People) from the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry reminds us that family is everything, even when it falls apart. "The beautiful writing, unforgettable characters, and...
The hounding : a novel
Purvis, Xenobe
Paper Book
National Bestseller * A New York Times Book Review Book Club Pick * A New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, TIME and Kirkus Reviews * The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides in this haunting...
How you get the girl
Kelly, Anita (Romance author)
Paper Book
Chemistry sizzles in this workplace rom-com set in the world of high school basketball as the author of Love & Other Disasters delivers a sapphic romance full of humor and heart. When a smart-mouthed junior joins East Nashville High's basketball team, Coach...
Ladies in Hating
Vasti, Alexandra
Paper Book
A pair of Gothic novelists trade rivalry for love in this swoony, steamy, sapphic Regency by USA Today bestselling author Alexandra Vasti. Celebrated authoress Lady Georgiana Cleeve has achieved fame and fortune. Unfortunately, she's also acquired an enemy: the...
The lost passenger : a novel
Quinn, Frances (Journalist)
Paper Book
" An immersive historical drama about a young mother who starts a new life with her son in New York after faking their deaths on the Titanic--the U.S. debut of acclaimed British novelist Frances Quinn. Sometimes it takes a disaster to change...
Moan: Junji Ito Story Collection
Ito, Junji
Paper Book
Obsession and persistence warp reality in this collection of macabre stories set in Junji Ito's bloodcurdling world. A dark evil lurks in the unreachable depths of a pipe, groaning out moans that echo through the house of a germophobe mother and her daughters. In another tale,...
North sun, or, The voyage of the whaleship Esther : a novel
Rutherford, Ethan
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION From "one of our great artists of catastrophe" (Laura van den Berg) comes North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther--an allegory of extraction and a tale of adventure and endurance during the waning days of the...
Theft
Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Paper Book
Named a Washington Post Top 10 Fiction Book of 2025 In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change. At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania....

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