New Adult Books December 2023

Updated November 27, 2023
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Cunningham, Michael
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTELLER * An "exquisite" (The Boston Globe) exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family life--and how we all must learn to live together and apart--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours "The only problem with...
The frozen river
Lawhon, Ariel
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Helene comes a gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who found herself at the center of a murder trial. Maine, 1789:...
Gator country : deception, danger, and alligators in the Everglades
Renner, Rebecca
Paper Book
A New York Times Editors' Choice "Delivers everything its title promises and much more." - NPR "Remarkable... Every species, and every person who fights for its continued existence, deserves a book like this." -- The New York Times
Grandmother begins the story, a
Porter, Michelle
Paper Book
From award-winning Métis author Michelle Porter, a powerfully funny and moving story told not just by five generations of Métis women, but also by the land, the bison that surround them, and two utterly captivating dogs. Carter is a young mother on a quest to...
A holly jolly ever after
Murphy, Julie
Paper Book
Opposites attract in this spicy holiday rom-com... When actress Winnie Baker agrees to star in a steamier-than-a-steaming-mug-of-mulled-wine Christmas movie, she has just one concern: how can she be sultry on-scnree, when she's never been sultry in real life? Kallum...
Material world : a substantial story of our past and future
Conway, Ed
Paper Book
**Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award** *Longlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Writing Prize* Picked as a Book of the Year by THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST and NEW STATESMAN A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week ...
The night parade : a speculative memoir
Lin, Jami Nakamura
Paper Book
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream Houseand The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated lyrical memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyō -- the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons -- to shift the cultural narrative around mental illness, grief, and...
The other mothers
Faulkner, Katherine
Paper Book
The outstanding new thriller from the author of international bestseller and Waterstones Thriller of the Month pick, Greenwich Park Ex journalist Tash has been searching for a story to launch her freelance career. But she has also been searching for something else. New...
A Power Unbound
Marske, Freya.
Paper Book
Jack Alston - Lord Hawthorn - would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. He renounced magic after the death of his twin sister. But with the threat of a dangerous ritual risking every magician in Britain, he's drawn reluctantly back into that world. Now Jack is living in a bizarre puzzle-box of a...
A history of the Roman Empire in 21 women
Southon, Emma
Paper Book
Rome as you've never seen it before - brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine. 'Hugely entertaining and illuminating' --Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 Here's how the history of the Roman Empire usually goes......
The Warsaw sisters a novel of World WarII Poland
Barratt, Amanda
Paper Book
On a golden August morning in 1939, sisters Antonina and Helena Dąbrowska send their father off to defend Poland against the looming threat of German invasion. The next day, the first bombs fall on Warsaw, decimating their beloved city and shattering the world of their youth.

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