New Adult Fiction

Updated November 27, 2025
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As the Earth Dreams : Black Canadian Speculative Stories
Mason Pierre, Terese
Paper Book
A groundbreaking anthology of haunting stories by Black Canadian writers Edited by esteemed poet Terese Mason Pierre, this bold and innovative anthology of speculative short fiction reveals and uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reveries, reflections, experiments, and hopes of Black...
George Falls Through Time
Collett, Ryan
Paper Book
GEORGE FALLS THROUGH TIME IS. . . "Incredibly entertaining and intelligent." --GARRARD CONLEY "Big-hearted and inspired." --STEVEN ROWLEY "Funny, surprising, profound." --GRANT GINDER "Unputdownable." --LUNA MCNAMARA Less meets the year 1300 in this exhilarating...
Woman Down
Hoover, Colleen
Paper Book
In this twisty thriller from New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a frustrated author looks for her muse in a remote hideaway, but what she finds defies all expectations...and reality. Her words used to set the page on fire. But a viral backlash over her latest...
The Murder at World's End
Montgomery, Ross
Paper Book
Knives Out meets Downton Abbey! Secrets, murder, and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo--an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogenarian--hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world, in this locked-room mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ross...
Some Bright Nowhere
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...
Symphony of Monsters
Levy, Marc
Paper Book
Set against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, international bestselling author Marc Levy's new novel is a page-turning thriller full of courage, resilience, and love. A mother's love knows no borders, and her fight knows no limits. Veronika, a nurse, returns home to find that her...
Yours for the Season
Jalaluddin, Uzma
Paper Book
For an ambitious attorney and a rising-star chef, a cross-cultural fake romance takes an unexpected detour in a heartwarming and funny novel by the author of Much Ado About Nada and Ayesha at Last. When Sameera Malik and Tom Cooke meet at a ho-hum holiday party,...
Private Rome: A Private Novel
Patterson, James
Paper Book
This thrilling addition to the bestselling Private series transports readers inside the halls of the Vatican itself when a priest is murdered--and the new lead agent at Private is the number one suspect.    Jack Morgan, ex-Marine helicopter pilot and CIA...
Make It Out Alive
Brennan, Allison.
Paper Book
Allison Brennan returns to her bestselling series with an edge-of-your-seat thriller that thrusts Quinn and Costa into the crosshairs of a sadistic serial killer.   Three newlywed couples have disappeared from an exclusive resort in Florida, only to turn up dead soon...
Wreck Your Heart: A Mystery
Rader-Day, Lori
Paper Book
From award-winning author Lori Rader-Day, Wreck Your Heart is an engaging, "wisecracking and wonderful" crime novel with a big heart, about a country and midwestern singer out to catch her big break before family--or murder--wrecks everything. ...
My Husband's Wife
Feeney, Alice
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists is back with a psychological masterpiece that will leave you questioning everything you know about love, identity, and revenge. "Nonstop thrills! The best Feeney book yet!" --FREIDA MCFADDEN Eden Fox, an artist...
The Bookbinder's Secret
Bell, A D
Paper Book
Every book tells a story. This one tells a secret. A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder. Lilian ("Lily") Delaney,...
Best Canadian Stories 2026
Gartner, Zsuzsi.
Paper Book
"Combines both emerging and established voices for a fascinating glimpse at the most exciting short fiction coming out of this country."--Open Book Selected and introduced by Zsuzsi Gartner, Best Canadian Stories 2026 provides a distinctive sample of the best Canadian short fiction...
The Bond That Burns
Boleyn, Briar
Paper Book
At Bloodwing Academy, blood is currency, but a dragon's legacy is priceless--and as dangerous as fire. I thought surviving my first year in Bloodwing's deadly halls would be enough. I was wrong. I accidentally woke a dragon--a creature of myth,...
Fire Sword and Sea
Riley, Vanessa
Paper Book
"In her latest, Riley provides a fresh take on high seas adventure through the eyes of the courageous, swashbuckling, based-on-a-real-life female pirate Jacquotte Delahaye. The research Riley has done on this 1600s saga is truly remarkable, second only to her depictions of the lush Caribbean...
Cowboy, It's Cold Outside (Original)
Yates, Maisey
Paper Book
A favor owed. An Off-limits romance. Four Corners is in for the hottest Christmas it's ever seen. Sheena Patrick has done well, all things considered. After her father's death, she raised her sisters and did all she could to give them the best life possible. But they're...
Catch Her If You Can
Bailey, Tessa
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey is back with an all-new marriage of convenience, friends-to-lovers sports romance about a baseball catcher and the burlesque club owner he can't get out of his head. Madden Donahue, the newest catcher for the Yankees, has been in...
The Briars
Crouch, Sarah
Paper Book
The USA TODAY bestselling author of Middletide returns with a lush and atmospheric novel of suspense following a young woman whose job as a game warden puts her in the path of a murderer in a small town eager to protect its own. Desperate to escape a relationship...
The castaways
Clarke, Lucy
Paper Book
*The thrilling new novel from Lucy Clarke, THE SURF HOUSE, is available to buy now* A SECRET BEACH. A HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME. WISH YOU WERE HERE? THINK AGAIN... _______________________________________________ 'Totally addictive, clever and atmospheric'...
The Cormorant Hunt
Idov, Michael
Paper Book
Slow Horses meets Red Sparrow in this electrifying spy thriller and follow-up to The Collaborators, where a disillusioned CIA officer infiltrates an extremist group in the heart of Europe. Disheartened CIA officer Ari Falk, now hiding in the Republic...
Darkrooms
Hannigan, Rebecca
Paper Book
"A lush, moody mystery. Darkrooms is gripping and atmospheric, as two women wrestle with guilt and injustice." -- Flynn Berry, New York Times bestselling author of Northern Spy Two unforgettable women investigate the disappearance of...
Dead in the Water
Marrs, John
Paper Book
From the multi-million copy bestselling author comes a chilling tale about life flashing before your eyes--including terrifying scenes you don't remember. When Damon survives a near-drowning, his life flashes before his eyes. Every memory is crystal clear--except one. A dead boy. A...
Dear Debbie
McFadden, Freida
Paper Book
A brand new twisted thriller that will have you cheering "good for her!" from the #1 New York Times bestselling and global sensation Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid! Sometimes, enough is enough... Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best...
Departure(s) : A Novel
Barnes, Julian.
Paper Book
On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, one of our great novelists delivers a playful and profound work about memory, love and the writer's endgame. Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he...
Detour
Rake, Jeff
Paper Book
A space shuttle flight crew discovers that the Earth they've returned to is not the home they left behind in the first book of this emotional, mind-bending thriller series from the creator of the hit Netflix show Manifest and the bestselling author of The Warehouse. ...
The Fair Weather Friend
Garcia, Jessie
Paper Book
The next gripping domestic suspense novel from Jessie Garcia. It's always sunny in Detroit for Faith Richards. The popular TV meteorologist, endearingly referred to as "The Fair Weather Friend" by her viewers, has the world by the tail. But one night, Faith leaves work on a...
The Friend of the Family
Koontz, Dean
Paper Book
A girl liberated from a carnival sideshow discovers her mysterious purpose in a moving novel about family, sacrifice, and transcendent love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. The human "oddities" in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the...
Fundamentals of Being a Good Girl
Murphy, Julie
Paper Book
This deluxe hardcover edition will feature stenciled edges and illustrated endpapers. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone comes a brand-new college town raunch-com about a sexy single dad professor and a feisty law school...
The Future Saints
Winstead, Ashley
Paper Book
Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and In Five Years--a beautiful, powerful, and transportive new novel about a music executive desperately trying to bring a rock band back from the brink, from bestselling author Ashley Winstead. The best love...
Graceless Heart
Ibanez, Isabel
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestseller Isabel Ibañez in her adult debut: a gorgeous, historical, and romantic fantasy that will leave readers breathless for more! This stunning luxe edition includes a gorgeous cover printed over foil with a custom two color map endpapers, pink gilded...
Half His Age : A Novel
McCurdy, Jennette.
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we'll go to in order to get what we want.
The Heir Apparent
Armitage, Rebecca
Paper Book
An irresistible modern fairy tale about a British princess who must decide between her duty to her family--or to her own heart. It's New Year's Day in Australia and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is working out nicely: she's in the second year of her...
Herculine
Byron, Grace
Paper Book
One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 Debutiful * LitHub * AV Club * Our Culture * Maximum Fun * CrimeReads * LGBTQ Reads A "witty, often-chilling, compulsively readable" (Vogue) horror debut...
Hollow (Deluxe Limited Edition) (Original)
Myers, Celina
Paper Book
"Brilliant new vampire lore.... Spine-tingling!" --L.J. Smith, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vampire Diaries Preorder now to get a deluxe limited edition of Hollow! This special-edition hardcover will include beautifully designed endpapers and...
If I Ruled the World
Barnett, Amy DuBois
Paper Book
A fast-paced, juicy debut novel that peeks behind the curtain at the cutthroat world of hip-hop music and the glamorous magazine scene in the late 1990s, written by the ultimate insider It's 1999, and Nikki Rose is the only Black editor on the staff of a prestigious fashion...
The Infamous Gilberts
Tomaski, Angela
Paper Book
The Remains of the Day meets The Royal Tenenbaums in this darkly funny debut novel about a wealthy, eccentric family in decline and the secrets held within the walls of their crumbling country manor. Thornwalk, a once-stately English manor, is on the brink of...
Inside Man: A Head Cases Novel
McMahon, John
Paper Book
In this sequel to McMahon's electrifying series debut, Head Cases, Gardner Camden and the PAR team return to investigate potentially connected cases. FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He and his squad of brilliant yet quirky...
The Invisible Woman: A Thriller
Patterson, James
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author​ James Patterson, an undercover FBI agent investigates a family with suspected ties to organized crime--by posing as their live-in nanny. No one sees her, but she sees everything. Elinor Gilbert was once a...
Is This a Cry for Help? : A Novel
Austin, Emily.
Paper Book
Emily Austin, the bestselling "queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines" (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book-banning crusaders in an empowering story...
Just Watch Me
Torenberg, Lior
Paper Book
Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this bold debut about a charismatic misfit who livestreams her life for seven days and nights to raise money to save her comatose sister--a poignant and darkly funny exploration of grief, forgiveness, and redemption. Dell Danvers is...
A Ladder of Bones
Oyinsan, Bunmi
Paper Book
In intertwined stories, A Ladder of Bones tells a series of narratives that take place in West Africa, Canada, the United States and the Caribbean. Siaka becomes a child soldier in Sierra Leone after being compelled to shoot his six-year-old brother. Melvin witnesses the murder of his parents by...
Lost Lambs
Cash, Madeline
Paper Book
"I can't remember the last time a novel made me laugh so hard or feel so much tenderness for its characters." --Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters "Madeline Cash is a voice like no other." --Lena Dunham "I've read entire books that contain less...
Meet the Newmans
Niven, Jennifer
Paper Book
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Niven, a novel about America's favorite TV family, whose perfect façade cracks, for fans of Lessons in Chemistry and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. "I loved Meet the Newmans!" --Judy Blume, #1...
The Method: A Thriller
Quirk, Matthew
Paper Book
From the author of The Night Agent--the #1 global Netflix sensation--comes an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a young actress who must go undercover in a deadly world of espionage to save her best friend...and herself. A silent war. An unlikely spy. She's done playing by...
Anatomy of an Alibi
Elston, Ashley
Paper Book
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIRST LIE WINS A tense, feverish thriller about two women's lives that are forever intertwined when a murder threatens to expose them both. "Elston expertly unravels a web of secrets and lies. You won't be...
Missing Sam
Umrigar, Thrity.
Paper Book
A tense and twisty story of a woman who goes missing on a morning run and her wife's determination to both find her and clear her own name--from the bestselling author of Honor. One night after a party, old grievances surface between married couple...
Newlyweds Can Be Knocked Off
Flower, Amanda
Paper Book
After two decades as a widow, Millie Fisher, Amish matchmaker, quilter, goat tender, and sleuth is now a 60-something newlywed! But when she adds snowbird to her list amid the chill of an Ohio winter, murder finds a way to follow . . . After years on her own, Millie has...
No one would do what the Lamberts have done : a novel
Hannah, Sophie
Paper Book
The twistiest murder mystery you are ever likely to read? A story about a family that does the unthinkable? Both? Or something else altogether? You think it will never happen to you. The doorbell. The policeman. The words that turn your world inside out: I'm afraid there's...
No safe place : detective liz field #1
Brennan, Hannah
Paper Book
''I was hooked!'' Meet your new favourite detective DCI Liz Field in this dark and twisty crime thriller You can''t hide from the past... Fifteen years ago, five vulnerable teenagers took part in a life-changing study of OCD. Now, their psychologist has been brutally...
Order of Royals
Deveraux, Jude.
Paper Book
"Jude Deveraux's writing is enchanting and exquisite." --BookPage The second book in Jude Deveraux's spellbinding and unforgettable Blue Swan series weaves an intricate tapestry of fantasy and intrigue on the enigmatic planet of Bellis. 
Paper Cut
Taff, Rachel
Paper Book
"Darkly addictive with a blistering pace and puzzle-box structure" --Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters A page-turning suspense debut about a woman infamous for escaping a cult as a teenager, who finds her future threatened when dangerous secrets come back to...
Pendergast: The Beginning
Preston, Douglas
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes the Agent Pendergast origin story--a golden opportunity for longtime fans and new readers to learn about Agent Pendergast's strange and shocking first case. It only took six months for...
The Poet Empress
Tao, Shen
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION―featuring gorgeous gilded edges, detailed endpapers, and beautiful case art under the book jacket! Debut author Shen Tao introduces readers to the lush, deadly world of The Poet Empress, a sweeping, epic and intimate fantasy perfect for fans of...
Property
Cayley, Kate
Paper Book
A spring day in a gentrifying neighbourhood begins unremarkably enough; by evening someone has died. Nat, a middle-aged queer mother of two, feigns normalcy as she worries about her taciturn, loner son locked in his room. Her friend Maddy, a failed actress and fellow parent, frets over her...
The Rest of Our Lives
Markovits, Ben
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE "Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend as he navigates the road up ahead. A profoundly moving experience." --Ann Patchett "Deeply human...a beautifully quiet and devastating...
Rifle Season: A Thriller
Kelly, Pat
Paper Book
A game hunter is in a race against time to save his family from the most dangerous predator on earth--other people--in this high-stakes thriller in the vein of Jack Carr and Peter Heller. Mason "Mace" Winters, with his acclaimed reputation as one of the best big game hunters in...
The Right to Remain: A Jack Swyteck Novel
Grippando, James
Paper Book
In this thrilling novel from bestselling author James Grippando--the twentieth in his revered series--legendary criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck takes on a twisty, difficult case that becomes one of the most complex in his illustrious career. Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack...
See You at the Summit
Taylor, Jordyn.
Paper Book
"The bi romance of your dreams is finally here!" --Cosmopolitan For fans of Alison Cochrun and Abby Jimenez, a heartfelt and sexy romance following one bi woman's messy journey through coming out--and reluctantly falling for a straight man. From the USA TODAY...
The Seven Daughters of Dupree
Williams, Nikesha Elise
Paper Book
From the two-time Emmy Award-winning producer and host of the Black and Published podcast comes a sweeping multi-generational epic following seven generations of Dupree women as they navigate love, loss, and the unyielding ties of family in the tradition of Homegoing and The Love...
Skylark
McLain, Paula
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife weaves a mesmerizing tale of Paris above and below--where a woman's quest for artistic freedom in 1664 intertwines with a doctor's dangerous mission during the German occupation in the 1940s, revealing a story of courage and...
Sociopath's Guide to a Successful Marriage : A Novel
Oliver, M. K.
Paper Book
For fans of Killing Eve and My Sister, the Serial Killer, a sharp and brilliant romp of a novel about a reformed sociopath trying to build a successful family life and find her perfect home in North London--whatever the cost Lalla Rook is happily in possession of an...
The Storm
Hawkins, Rachel
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins is back with a thrilling new gothic suspense set in a Gulf Coast beach motel where hurricane season can be murder. St. Medard's Bay, Alabama is famous for three things: the deadly hurricanes that regularly sweep into town...
That's Where You Were, Then
Pond, Judith.
Paper Book
Jen begins life as a solitary and somewhat diabolical child growing up in a rural Nova Scotia, who comes up with - at best - unusual ways of dealing with an annoying baby brother, a depressed mother, a disappearing father, and frogs that should be toads. Through the linked stories of this...
This Is the Only Kingdom
Diaz, Jaquira
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL AWARD * From the Whiting Award-winning author Jaquira Díaz, an epic novel of a mother and daughter wrestling with the aftermath of a murder, set against the backdrop of a tightknit, working-class barrio in Puerto Rico.  ...
Twelve Months
Butcher, Jim
Paper Book
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, has always managed to save the day--but, in this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, can he save himself? One year. 365 days. Twelve months. Harry Dresden has been through...
Vigil
Saunders, George
Paper Book
An electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next Not for the first time,...
The Viper: A Zig & Nola Novel
Meltzer, Brad
Paper Book
"A thrilling adventure, full of twists and turns, gripping from the first page to the last. Hugely enjoyable. The perfect book to meet Zig & Nola." -- Alex Michaelides, New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient New York Times bestselling author...
Virginia Lane is not a hero
Stopps, Rosalind
Paper Book
'Rosalind Stopps is a born storyteller with a gift of balancing the gritty and dark with humour ... a blooming marvellous page turner' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Warm, wise and compelling' Daily Mail 'This story is fantastic' Reader...
Watching Over Her
Andrea, Jean-Baptiste
Paper Book
From French literary talent and Prix Goncourt winner Jean-Baptiste Andrea, a "sprawling fresco and star-crossed love story" (The New York Times) following a dwarf and skilled sculptor as he recounts the moments in his life that inspired his mysteriously powerful masterpiece--perfect for...

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