*New & Notable Adult Fiction - August Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated August 12, 2025
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L.A. women
Berman, Ella
Paper Book
"A breezy retro novel with bite." --L.A. Times An electrifying novel about the complicated friendship between two ambitious writers and the ultimate artistic betrayal: one writes a book based upon the other's life, revealing everything...from the author of Reese's Book...
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
Bowen, Rhys
Blindsided by betrayal in pre-WWII England, a woman charts a daring new course in this captivating tale of resilience, friendship, and new love by the bestselling author of The Rose Arbor and The Venice Sketchbook. Surrey, England, 1938. After thirty devoted years of...
What Hunger
Dang, Catherine
Paper Book
A haunting coming-of-age tale following the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ronny Nguyen, as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood, for fans of Jennifer's Body and Little Fires Everywhere.
Once upon a time in Dollywood
Jordan, Ashley
Eve Ambroise may be a rising star playwright, but her personal life is falling part. Desperate for a fresh start, she breaks up with her fiance, cuts off her parents, and heads to the Tennessee mountains. But keeping up the lie that she's just on a writing retreat becomes near impossible when faced...
Automatic noodle
Newitz, Annalee
Paper Book
A cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle shop, from acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz. You don't have to eat food to know the way to a city's heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back...
The locked ward : a novel
Pekkanen, Sarah
Paper Book
New from Sarah Pekkanen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of House of Glass and co-author of The Wife Between Us. A shocking psychological thriller about the complex bonds of sisterhood―and what happens when they are stretched to the breaking point, The Locked...
When the Cranes Fly South
Ridzen, Lisa
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE SWEDISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD * A profoundly moving debut novel that follows an elderly man's attempts to mend his relationship with his son before it's too late: an emotional story of love, friendship, fatherhood, dogs, and atonement that is already an...
The Magician of Tiger Castle
Sachar, Louis
Paper Book
*AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER *AN INDIE NEXT LIST PICK * A LIBRARY READS PICK * "Funny, surprising, smart and weird . . . fully lives up to the high bar you'd expect from a great like Sachar."--Associated Press "After decades of children's stories with adult...
Lucky day
Tingle, Chuck
Paper Book
"An existential masterwork that, like life, is equal parts atrocity and delights."--Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of Death Lucky Day is the latest from Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus<...

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