New Adult Books August 2025

Updated July 29, 2025
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Atmosphere : a love story
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go...
Badlands
Preston, Douglas.
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestselling authors return with a scintillating supernatural-themed thriller. Nora Kelly and Corrie Swanson investigate bizarre deaths in the New Mexico desert, but awaken an ancient evil. In the New Mexico desert badlands, a woman's skeleton is found...
The bewitching
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. "In Silvia Moreno-Garcia's sure hands, every uncovered secret is fraught with intrigue...
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War
English, Charlie.
Paper Book
'Entertaining and vivid... This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment' OBSERVER 'Reads like a thriller' THE SUN The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. For...
Daikon : a novel
Hawley, Samuel Jay
Paper Book
"A riveting tale about war, intrigue, love, and perseverance." --John Grisham "Absorbing...Unfolds like a detective novel...The story barrels ahead urgently...Duty, anger, sorrow, conscience and even hope mix together to form the novel's bracingly intimate ending." --The...
Great Black Hope
Franklin, Rob.
Paper Book
'A beautifully expansive novel about race and class... Franklin's emotional and intellectual range is vast... An exceptional debut' - Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies 'So smart, so moving, so earned; as soon as I finished, I started reading it again' - Kaveh...
Hotel Ukraine
Smith, Martin Cruz.
Paper Book
Arkady Renko returns in this tense political thriller about what it means to fight for truth and justice in today's Russia, from one of the undisputed masters of the genre.   When Arkady Renko is charged with investigating the murder of Alexei Volkov...
Mailman : my wild ride delivering the mail in Appalachia and finally finding home
Grant, Stephen Starring
Paper Book
An exuberant, hilarious, and profound memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who he was, gave him purpose, and educated him deeply about a country he loves but had lost touch with. ...
A marriage at sea : a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck
Elmhirst, Sophie
Paper Book
"This is nonfiction that reads like fiction - the best kind. Elmhirst's retelling is a triumph, second only to the seemingly impossible feat of Maurice and Maralyn themselves. You won't be able to put it down." - USA Today "Remarkable... I found myself, alternately, holding my...
The Mind Electric: ; Stories of the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains
Anand, Pria.
Paper Book
Six Wild Crowns
Race, Holly
Paper Book
NO KING CAN RULE THEM ALL. From a major new voice in epic fantasy, Six Wild Crowns is a breathtaking epic fantasy of dragons, courtly intrigue, sapphic yearning, and the wives of Henry VIII as you've never seen them before.  ...

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