New Adult Literature

Our new Curated Collection - New Adult Literature - is for readers aged 18+. This collection is an emerging sub-genre of literature marketed for readers in their late teens and early twenties who are all often missing from the pages of both Young Adult and Adult books. New Adult books (NA) explore many themes, including the transition from late adolescence to adulthood. They're considered the next step after young adult fiction and they're typically aimed towards readers aged 18-25.

Updated June 17, 2024
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Kendall, Beverley
Paper Book
PRE-ORDER ONE IN A MILLION, THE SPICY NEW ROMCOM FROM BEVERLEY KENDALL, OUT SPRING 2025. A sexy, whip-smart, enemies to lovers romcom that's fresh and topical, tackling racism and tokenism as experienced by a young Black woman in the cutthroat world of Publicity.
The God of Good Looks
Ivor, Breanne Mc
Boy parts
Clark, Eliza (Novelist)
Paper Book
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world...
Player Piano
Vonnegut, Kurt
Paper Book
"A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future."--San Francisco Chronicle Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run...
Summer At The Santorini Bookshop
Raisin, Rebecca.
Paper Book
Don't miss the new novel from the Kindle bestselling author of The Little Venice Bookshop! *** A Greek island holiday. A fake-dating pact. A chance at true love? After losing her job as a book scout, hopeless romantic Evie needs a fresh start. So...
Heart Bones
Hoover, Colleen.
Ebook
Slaughterhouse-five, or The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death
Vonnegut, Kurt
Paper Book
Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is "a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century" (Time).   Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time * One of The Atlantic<...
Better Left Unsent
Louis, Lia
Paper Book
So many ways to torpedo your career and your love life... So little time. A woman accidentally reveals all her secrets in this witty and charming novel from the author of Eight Perfect Hours. Two years ago, thirty-year-old receptionist Millie Chandler...
The work
Lee, Bri.
Paper Book
A stunning debut novel about art, power, love and money from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Eggshell Skull.
The Meaning of Life
Life, The School of.
Paper Book
A thought-provoking guide to one of the greatest questions we will ever face - what is the meaning of life?  It may seem useless, silly, or overwhelming to ponder the meaning of life. In truth, it is essential to ask ourselves this question in order to define and...
The (Anti) Wedding Party
Knott, Lucy.
Gold
Kennedy, Raven
Paper Book
Every end is also a beginning. I was going to die. If it weren't for Slade, I would have. But he ripped the world open for me and I went through it. To Annwyn. To home. Annwyn is the realm of the fae, a magical place full of beauty and danger.
The Sorrows of Love
Life, The School of.
Paper Book
A thoughtful meditation on the true and sometimes dark nature of love. We often associate love with being happy. This tendency is misleading, however, as love can also cause the deepest heartbreak imaginable. We tend to treat our sadness individually, as if it were unique and shameful....
My dark Vanessa
Russell, Kate Elizabeth
Paper Book
An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher ALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTER Vanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher. ...
Vinegar girl : the taming of the Shrew retold
Tyler, Anne.
Paper Book
Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies   Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity,...
Sex, Lies and Sensibility
Payne, Nikki
Paper Book
Nora needs a reinvention fast. But where can you go when the entire internet knows your face? (And ass... but Nora tries not to talk about that.) After discovering at her father's funeral that she and her sister, Yanne, have lived their entire lives as his secret second family, everything they had...
Sweetbitter
Danler, Stephanie
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER  *  A thrilling novel of the senses and a coming-of-age tale, following a small-town girl into the electrifying world of New York City and the education of a lifetime at one of the most exclusive restaurants in Manhattan.  Perfect for readers of...
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream
Thompson, Hunter S.
Paper Book
50th Anniversary Edition * With an introduction by Caity Weaver, acclaimed New York Times journalist This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page.  It is...
The stranger
Camus, Albert
Paper Book
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
The virgin suicides
Eugenides, Jeffrey.
Paper Book
This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter's spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates 'the year of the suicides....
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition
Pirsig, Robert
Ebook
A philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions during an unforgettable summer motorcycle trip, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance transformed a generation and continues to inspire millions One of the most influential books written in the past half...
Timequake
Vonnegut, Kurt
Paper Book
After the universe decides to back up ten years and all humans must live through the 1990s again, author Kurt Vonnegut finds himself trying to write a book called Timequake, which he knows he will never finish since he already did not finish it.
A river of golden bones
Mulford, A. K.
Paper Book
From bestselling author and TikTok sensation A.K. Mulford comes the first riveting, enchanting book in the all-new Golden Court trilogy. A young heir begins a journey of self-discovery, romance, and adventure as she comes out of hiding to save her sister from a...
On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Paper Book
The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his...
The Pumpkin Spice Cafe
Gilmore, Laurie.
Paper Book
A spicy small-town romance and TikTok phenomenon, perfect for fans of Hannah Grace and Stephanie Archer. 'This is everything I love! Cozy small town romance, fall vibes, coffee house vibes, and grumpy x sunshine trope that was done perfectly!' NetGalley...
The Pumpkin Spice Cafe
Gilmore, Laurie.
Paper Book
A spicy small-town romance and TikTok phenomenon, perfect for fans of Hannah Grace and Stephanie Archer. 'This is everything I love! Cozy small town romance, fall vibes, coffee house vibes, and grumpy x sunshine trope that was done perfectly!' NetGalley...
Codename charming
Parker, Lucy (Novelist)
Paper Book
A New York Times Books Review Best Romances of 2023 pick Following Battle Royal, beloved author Lucy Parker pens another delicious romantic comedy about a fake relationship between a grumpy royal bodyguard and the charming, sunny assistant who melts his cold, hard exterior. ...
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Mellors, Coco
Paper Book
BLUE SISTERS, THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM COCO MELLORS, IS OUT NOW. For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. 'A...
There's no such thing as an easy job
Tsumura, Kikuko
Paper Book
'Surreal and unsettling' OBSERVER CULTURAL HIGHLIGHT'Wise, comical and exceptionally relatable' ZEBA TALKHANI 'Quietly hilarious and deeply attuned to the uncanny rhythms and deadpan absurdity of the daily grind' SHARLENE TEOA woman walks into an employment agency and...
Breakfast of Champions
Vonnegut, Kurt
Paper Book
"Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable."--The New York Times In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout,...
Ishmael A Novel
Quinn, Daniel.
Paper Book
One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmaelhas earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author. "A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel...

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