*New & Notable Adult Fiction - November Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated November 7, 2025
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The Writing in the Water: A Thriller
Ajvide Lindqvist, John
Paper Book
In this sweeping and suspenseful start to the Bloodstorm series, an ex-cop turned crime writer teams up with a mysterious hacker to solve a murder--and uncovers corruption along the way. Julia Malmros is thriving. A former police officer making her way in the world of crime fiction,...
Brigands & Breadknives
Baldree, Travis
Paper Book
Return to the fantasy world of the #1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with a new adventure featuring fan-favorite, foul-mouthed bookseller Fern Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller's life for decades, but now, in the face of...
Outlaw Planet
Carey, M R
Paper Book
From one of genre fiction's most original and revolutionary voices comes a space opera adventure like no other. Sometimes the fate of entire worlds can be decided by a woman with nothing to lose, and the smartest gun in the multiverse in her hand . . . ...
My Ex-Husband's Ex-Husband
Cohn, Rachel
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Cohn and Melissa de la Cruz comes a freewheeling journey through Vienna where two estranged friends search for their mutual ex--and a long-lost bond. Audrey and Ian were best friends--until they fell in love with the same man. To...
Daddy Issues
Goldbeck, Kate
Paper Book
"Clever, honest, sexy, funny, emotional, unique, and deeply romantic . . . Kate Goldbeck is in a class by herself!"--Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis A jaded twentysomething is stuck living at home, her life on pause, when a...
Helm
Hall, Sarah
Paper Book
"Sarah Hall's writing has conquered the body and the soul and now it conquers the wind itself. She gets better with every word she writes."-Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters and The Hotel From the twice-Booker-nominated writer of Burntcoat, a bold and astonishing literary masterpiece...
Brimstone
Hart, Callie
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestselling romantasy series continues with more drama, higher stakes, and deadly consequences. Duty. Blood. Honor. Power.  Saeris Fane doesn't want power. The very last thing she needs is her...
The White Hot
Hudes, Quiara Alegria
Paper Book
The story of a runaway mother's ten days of freedom--and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment--from Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes. April is a young mother raising her daughter in an intergenerational house of unspoken...
The Strength of the Few
Islington, James
Paper Book
Featuring a reversible book cover that matches the original hardcover art design, sprayed edges, and beautifully designed endpapers! This highly anticipated follow-up to The Will of the Many--one of 2023's most lauded and bestselling fantasy novels--follows Vis as he...
Save Us
Kasten, Mona
Paper Book
The third and final book in the international bestselling Maxton Hall series--now a Prime Video streaming series--in English for the first time. Can they save themselves? Or will they destroy each other? Ruby is in shock: Her worst nightmare has come true, and now...
The Burning Library
MacMillan, Gilly
Paper Book
From the internationally bestselling author of The Nanny and What She Knew comes a thrilling dark academic tale of murder, obsession and ruthless ambition, set in remote St Andrews, Scotland. A deadly rivalry. A chilling secret. One woman who...
Murder at Cottonwood Creek
McKenna, Clara
Paper Book
Far from England and their beloved Morrington Hall, Viscount "Lyndy" Lyndhurst and his American wife, heiress and equestrian Stella Kendrick-now Lady Lyndhurst-find fossils and murder in Montana . . . Led by his passion for paleontology, Lyndy's father, Lord Atherly, has...
Puck You
Novak, Flynn
Paper Book
For fans of spicy hockey romances like Icebreaker and The Au Pair Affair comes the story of a heated rivalry between two hockey players that develops into a romance hot enough to melt the ice from debut novelist Flynn Novak. An on ice rivalry sparks an off ice...
Some bright nowhere a novel.
Packer, Ann.
Paper Book
"Profound and moving and real."--Andrew Sean Greer "Some Bright Nowhere is a novel that draws you in deeply and holds you there. Wonderful."--Meg Wolitzer The bestselling, beloved author returns with her first novel in over a decade, an intimate and profoundly moving look at a long...
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Qntm
Paper Book
Humanity is under assault by malevolent "antimemes"--ideas that attack memory, identity, and the fabric of reality itself--in this whip-smart tale of science-fiction horror, an entirely reimagined and expanded version of the beloved online novel. "The coolest, smartest, mind...
Aphrodite (Original)
Rogerson, Phoenicia
Paper Book
From the award-winning author of Herc, an enrapturing feminist tale that brilliantly reimagines the story of Aphrodite and how she transformed herself from a lowly outsider to the darling goddess of love, for readers of Madeline Miller and Jennifer Saint. Aphrodite saw the gods on...
Heart of Night and Fire
Tuli, Nisha J
Paper Book
Packed with enemies-to-lovers tension, heart-pounding action and devastating twists, the first book in The Nightfire Quartet is an epic vampire romantasy that begins with a slow burn and builds to a steamy love story. Zarya has always known she was...
Palaver : a novel
Washington, Bryan
Paper Book
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction Named a Most Anticipated Book by New York, Time, the Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, Harper's Bazaar, Bustle, and Town & Country A life-affirming novel of...
The pelican child : stories
Williams, Joy
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of "perfectly indescribable fiction . . . To read Williams is to look into the abyss" (The Atlantic). ...

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