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 J.
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return with a thrilling tale of "hair-raising fun" (Kirkus) in which archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, while investigating bizarre deaths in the desert, awaken an ancient evil more terrifying than...
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 secret mission to win the Cold War with forbidden literature
English, Charlie
Paper Book
"A story as fascinating as it is undersung . . . a riveting account" (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) of the CIA's secret program to smuggle millions of books through the Iron Curtain during the Cold War "English's true tale of the federal government...
Daikon : a novel
Hawley, Samuel Jay
Paper Book
"Thrilling...Builds to a pulse-pounding climax. The result is the most imaginative take on Hiroshima since Edwin Corley's The Jesus Factor." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A riveting tale about war, intrigue, love, and perseverance." --John Grisham * "I...
Great Black Hope
Franklin, Rob
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "You're going to get papercuts, you're going to turn the pages so fast." --Brad Thor, Today "If Tom Wolfe, Jay McInerney, and Margo Jefferson somehow collaborated, this might have been the delightful result." --Boris Kachka...
Hotel Ukraine
Smith, Martin Cruz
Paper Book
Detective Arkady Renko--"one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction" (USA TODAY)--returns in this tense thriller set amid the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In the latest installment of Martin Cruz Smith's celebrated Arkady Renko series, the...
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
"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 : a neurologist on the strangeness and wonder of our brains
Anand, Pria
Paper Book
Named A Best Book of Summer 2025 by The Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Book Riot The Observer's (London) Summer Reads Select In this collection of medical tales "reminiscent of Oliver Sacks...the best of medical writing"...
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.  ...
These summer storms : a novel
MacLean, Sarah
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From author Sarah MacLean, a razor-sharp, wildly sexy novel about a wealthy New England family's long-overdue reckoning . . . and the one week that threatens to tear them apart. "Deliciously impossible to put down."--Jodi Picoult "Addictive."...

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