New Adult Fiction

The latest adult fiction books ordered in print. (Please note that new local books and Indigenous books are covered in separate lists.)

Updated May 25, 2026
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Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
Fawcett, Heather
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A woman who runs a cat rescue in 1920s Montréal turns to a grouchy but charming magician to help save her shelter in this heartwarming cozy fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of the Emily Wilde series. "Absolutely magnificent!...
Antihero
Hurwitz, Gregg
Paper Book
An Instant National Bestseller! Once a black ops assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak broke with the program and went deep underground, using his operational rules and skills to help the truly desperate with nowhere else to turn. A young woman is kidnapped off...
A Better Life
Shriver, Lionel
Paper Book
In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant--who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be. Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son...
Book of Forbidden Words
Fein, Louise
Paper Book
"Devotees of rich historical fiction and contemporary social discourse alike will be enthralled." --Booklist, starred review From bestselling author Louise Fein comes a new historical novel set in a world of banned books and censorship, in which an encrypted...
Brawler: Stories
Groff, Lauren
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, PEOPLE, TIME, HARPER'S BAZAAR, OPRAH DAILY, AND VULTURE "Groff is one of this country's most successful and versatile...
The Girls Before
Marshall, Kate Alice
Paper Book
A search & rescue expert. A kidnapped woman. The lost girls who haunt them both. "A haunting, dual-narrative thriller that traps you in the dark." --The Seattle Times "A superb mystery. . . Readers will be thinking about this long after they turn...
How to Cheat Your Own Death
Perrin, Kristen
Paper Book
From the gritty streets of 1960s Soho to the lofty galleries of present-day West London, two interlocking mysteries decades apart unfold in this latest instalment in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series Some secrets...
The mountains we call home : the book woman's legacy : a novel
Richardson, Kim Michele
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek comes a triumphant tale of a librarian's fight to bring literacy to the prisons of Kentucky and the underserved neighborhoods of downtown Louisville, revealing a story of fierce love, quiet strength...
One & only
Goo, Maurene
Paper Book
In Five Years meets a millennial The Joy Luck Club in the adult debut from the author of YA Reese Pick Throwback-- a funny and fresh love story of a woman thrown a curveball by fate, and the family secret that will make her question everything. She knows...
The Tree of Light and Flowers
Perry, Thomas
Paper Book
Jane Whitefield is used to protecting vulnerable people, but after she gives birth, the fugitives she must rescue are her own family. A violent car crash brings on the premature birth of the baby that Jane Whitefield and her husband have hoped for, but it also shatters the period...
Warning signs
Sierra, Tracy
Paper Book
"Nerve-shredding. . . . What could have been a pure tale of icy survival is enhanced by [Sierra's] thoughtfulness." --The New York Times "The tension, the atmosphere, the dread . . . This is a book that sticks in your head long after the last page." --Lisa Jewell ...
What happened to the McCrays? : a novel
Lange, Tracey
Paper Book
"Lange has proved herself to be a deft spinner of shamrock-tinged family yarns.... Her portrait of complicated, deeply rooted relationships is a sight to behold." --The New York Times "The novel's emotional range is impressive, particularly the slow-burn...
Whidbey
Madden, T Kira
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Audacious and instantly gripping . . . hums with cinematic tension, echoing classic thrillers without tipping into pastiche. . . . In Madden's vision, justice is partial at best and closure rare--and yet Whidbey is deeply satisfying." --...
The Young Will Remember
Chung, Eve J
Paper Book
A sweeping novel about a correspondent trapped behind enemy lines during the Korean War, and the women who help her find her way home, from the national bestselling author of Daughters of Shandong When I found the courage to lift my head, I expected to stare down the...

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