New & Notable Adult Fiction - November Highlights

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated December 2, 2025
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The Writing in the Water: A Thriller
Ajvide Lindqvist, John
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
An instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller! 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...
Outlaw Planet
Carey, M R
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
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
"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 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A jaded twentysomething is stuck living at home, her...
Helm
Hall, Sarah
"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
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
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. "The White Hot has the effect of pressing your hand to a barbed live wire. April's is one...
The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu
Hung, Mindy
A seemingly inexplicable magic takes over the lives of three generations of women in this gripping and romantically steamy novel sure to captivate readers of At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities and The Change. Leeann Wu's hands have started glowing at the most...
The Strength of the Few
Islington, James
INSTANT #1 New York Times bestseller! This USA TODAY and international bestseller features a reversible book cover that matches the original hardcover art design, and beautifully designed endpapers. This highly anticipated sequel to The...
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...
Some bright nowhere a novel.
Packer, Ann.
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK "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...
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Qntm
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * 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. ...
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
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 "A heart-wrenchingly honest, often luminescent exploration of how to find and cultivate true connections, sometimes in the unlikeliest of places . . . [Palaver is] an unshakable triumph."--The Washington Post<...
The pelican child : stories
Williams, Joy
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST * A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of "perfectly indescribable fiction . . . To...

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