New Adult Fiction

Updated November 24, 2025
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Picket line : the lost novella
Leonard, Elmore
"This is the best of a magnificent writer's magnificent books."--Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried  The first major release in nearly a decade from the late, best-selling Elmore Leonard--"the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!" (New York Times Book Review):...
The predicament : a novel
Boyd, William
Paper Book
"Boyd is one of my favorite authors."--Kate Atkinson From the internationally bestselling author, a thrilling novel starring the travel writer-turned-reluctant spy Gabriel Dax, who finds himself implicated in a dangerous conspiracy with global consequences 1963,...
The Queen Who Came in from the Cold : Her Majesty the Queen Investigates
Bennett, S. J.
Amateur sleuth Queen Elizabeth II is back on the case in 1960s England in the fifth installment of this historical mystery series The New York Times Book Review calls "sheer entertainment," perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Richard Osman. 1961, England. The...
Revenge of Odessa
Forsyth, Frederick
Paper Book
At last, the long-awaited sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller classic, The Odessa File. Fifty years after revealing the secrets of Odessa, an underground organization of former Nazis angling to regain power, Peter Miller is a retired legend in the...
Ripeness : a novel
Moss, Sarah
Paper Book
A story of sisterhood, forbidden desire, lost connection, and what it means to find a home among strangers. Edith, just out of school, has been sent from her quiet English life to rural Italy. It is the 1960s, and her mother has issued strict instructions: tend to her ballerina...
The second chance cinema
Weiss, Thea
Paper Book
A magical theater atop a cobblestone path alters what a couple knows about themselves--and each other--in this scintillating debut brimming with nostalgia and life-affirming wonder. At the end of a fog-covered alley, glitters a glamorous cinema. It's nearly impossible to find....
Seven reasons to murder your dinner guests : a novel
Whittle, KJ
Paper Book
"Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None gets a wicked update." --Publishers Weekly Three courses. Seven guests. One card. It's a deadly evening they'll never forget. Seven strangers meet for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening winds down, seven cards appear...
The Silver Hills Boarding House
Miller, Linda Lael
Paper Book
Fans of the hit TV show Yellowstone and its two prequel series will fall in love with this epic love story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller. Lizbet Fontaine will do anything to keep her family together, even leave behind the only life she's ever known to...
The Sister's Curse
Solvinic, Nicola
Lieutenant Anna Koray thought she'd finally found solid ground and escaped her past as the daughter of a notorious serial killer. A loving boyfriend, a loyal dog, a life that almost feels normal-except darkness has a way of seeping in. When she saves a boy from drowning, the strange marks on his...
Snow kissed
Thayne, RaeAnne
Paper Book
"RaeAnne Thayne will capture your heart with her beautiful, touching stories." --Robyn Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Virgin River series 'Tis the season for a little white lie... Christmas has always been...
Spread me
Gailey, Sarah
Paper Book
An instant USA Today bestseller! Named one of the Best Horror Books of 2025 by Vulture! Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly when the team...
The Strength of the Few
Islington, James
Paper Book
Featuring a reversible book cover that matches the original hardcover art design, sprayed edges, and beautifully designed endpapers! This highly anticipated sequel to The Will of the Many--one of 2023's most lauded and bestselling fantasy novels--follows Vis as he...
The summer war
Novik, Naomi
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this poignant, heartfelt novella from the New York Times bestselling author of Spinning Silver and the Scholomance trilogy, a young witch who has inadvertently cursed her brother to live a life without love must find a way to undo her spell. ...
The Sunshine Man : A Novel
Stonex, Emma.
"The week I shot a man clean through the head began like any other . . ." A taut, electrifying thriller about a woman determined to avenge her sister's murder--and the killer who must confront his own ghosts Birdie Keller wakes one freezing January morning to the...
The sword of light
Graham, Heather
Paper Book
Will fabled objects of myth be enough to defend their emerald isle? The mystical Tuatha Dé Danann walked the hills of ancient Ireland long before the first Rí, or king, ever ruled the land. Before they stepped back to make way for mankind, they left behind objects of incredible...
The ten year affair : a novel
Somers, Erin
Paper Book
"The best book about adultery since Madame Bovary." --Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection A hilariously acerbic sliding doors novel about a chance meeting between two young parents, both happily married (just not to each other) that sparks a will...
That's Not How It Happened (Original)
Thomas, Craig
Paper Book
"Funny and poignant... Craig Thomas is a big-hearted, empathetic writer who knows his characters inside and out." --Tom Perrotta, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Mrs. Fletcher and The Leftovers "Funny, real and...
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Qntm
Paper Book
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. "Inventively creepy . . . One...
To clutch a razor
Roth, Veronica
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth pulls from Slavic folklore to explore family, duty, and what it means to be a monster in this sequel to the USA Today bestselling novella When Among Crows. A funeral. A heist. A desperate mission. ...
Tom's crossing : a western
Danielewski, Mark Z.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author of House of Leaves comes a magisterial novel about two friends determined to rescue a pair of horses set for slaughter. "This is an amazing work of fiction. I absolutely loved it. At the heart you'll find a blood...
The tortoise's tale : a novel
Coulter, Kendra
Paper Book
A century of American history unfolds through the eyes of a giant tortoise with a heightened awareness for live music, the location of edible flowers, and the nuances of human behavior in this spellbinding debut novel. Snatched from her ancestral lands, a giant tortoise finds...
The Tourists
Reich, Christopher
From the New York Times bestselling author of Matterhorn comes a heart-stopping thriller about a man who returns to a life of espionage to save the woman he loves and the City of Light. Retired special agent Mac Dekker travels to Paris to propose to Ava Attal, once...
The Unseen
Martin, Kat
Paper Book
For fans of Darcy Coates's paranormal thrills and Jeneva Rose's romantic suspense, the supernatural and physical worlds collide in this mesmerizing tale of a gruesome murder set against the Southern Gothic backdrop of a historic Louisiana mansion. It begins when two young boys...
The vanishing place
Rankin, Zoë
A shocking murder in the New Zealand bush--and the witness who looks all too familiar--draws a woman back to the very place she swore she'd never return to in this breakneck debut thriller. A child who ran from the forest. A woman who must return to it ...
Venetian vespers
Banville, John
Paper Book
A masterful, enthralling new novel from the Booker Prize winner Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . . . 1899. As the new century approaches, struggling English writer Evelyn Dolman--a hack, by his own description--marries...
The Wasp Trap
Edwards, Mark.
Paper Book
"So clever and fresh with a wild and incredibly satisfying twist at the end." --Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author A dinner party in a beautiful Notting Hill townhouse turns into a sinister game as six old friends are forced to spill their darkest secrets...
We Had a Hunch
Ryan, Tom.
Nancy Drew meets Yellowjackets in We Had a Hunch--a dark and suspenseful thriller from USA Today bestseller Tom Ryan that asks a simple question: what happens to your favorite teenage detectives when they grow up? Few stories captured the public's imagination in...
We Love You, Bunny : A Novel
Awad, Mona.
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A finalist for the 2025 Giller Prize Named a Must-Read Pick by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, People, Associated Press, Marie Claire, Bustle,...
The Weekend Crashers
Brenner, Jamie
Paper Book
A knitting retreat gets knotty in this humorous and poignant novel about love, second chances, and the unyielding bonds between mothers and daughters. Maggie Hodges and her daughter Piper are looking forward to a restful knitting retreat in the picturesque village of New...
What a time to be alive : a novel
Chang, Jade
Paper Book
A deeply moving and often hilarious novel following a woman who becomes an internet folk hero in the most unexpected way, catapulting her into fame and influence just as she's finally beginning to reckon with her complicated past Lola...
What the Night Brings : The Most Shocking, Gripping Tom Thorne Thriller Yet
Billingham, Mark
Paper Book
What the Night Brings by Mark Billingham is the latest mystery in the bestselling Tom Thorne series, and this time, a killer is targeting the police. Is it payback? And is it justified? "Three dead coppers, Tom, maybe four by lunchtime..." The targeted...
Whatever happened to Lori Lovely? : a novel
McCoy, Sarah
From New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy--a spellbinding novel based on a true story: a beautiful young movie star of Hollywood's Golden Age gives up her bright career to become a nun. In 1969, twenty-three-year-old starlet Lori Lovely, the apple of Hollywood's eye,...
When they burned the butterfly
Lee, Wen-Yi
Paper Book
In this fierce, glamorous adult fantasy debut, Silvia Moreno-Garcia meets Fonda Lee, with the feverish intensity of R.F. Kuang's Poppy War trilogy. Singapore, 1972: Newly independent and grappling for power in a fast-modernizing world. Here, gangsters in Chinese secret...
The whisper place : a thriller
Mejia, Mindy
"There are few authors who can twist the ordinary into such frightening and compelling scenarios, and Mindy Mejia tops that list." --William Kent Krueger The latest thriller in the USA Today bestselling Iowa Mysteries series starring Max Summerlin and Jonah Kendrick, an...
The White Octopus Hotel
Bell, Alex
Journey to a magical hotel in the Swiss Alps, where two lost souls living in different centuries meet and discover if a second chance awaits them behind its doors. "Have you travelled a long way?" she asked carefully.. A smile twitched at the corner of his mouth....
Wild Animal
Dicker, Joel
Paper Book
From the devious mind of New York Times bestselling author Joël Dicker --master of the plot twist--comes this gripping domestic thriller that transforms into an ambitious heist mystery involving a famed Geneva jewelry boutique. On July 2, 2022, two criminals set out to rob a jewelry...
Wild instinct : a novel
Parker, T. Jefferson
Paper Book
INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! A gripping high-stakes thriller by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker ("A marvel...hits the high-water mark for crime fiction every time out." --Gregg Hurwitz) ...
The wilderness : a novel
Flournoy, Angela
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION "Flournoy has delivered a future classic--the kind of novel that generations to come will read to understand the nuances and peculiarities of this time."...
The witching moon manor : a novel
Sivinski, Stacy
Paper Book
The magical Quigley sisters return to bargain with fate once more in this follow-up to the "charming, uplifting, and utterly enchanting" (Lana Harper, New York Times bestselling author) national bestseller The Crescent Moon Tearoom. The Crescent Moon is thriving...
The Women of Wild Hill
Miller, Kirsten
A witty, spectacular, and timely tale of modern-day witches waging war on the patriarchy, from fan favorite Kirsten Miller, the author of The Change and Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books. There are places on earth where nature's powers gather. Girls raised there are...
You weren't meant to be human
White, Andrew Joseph
Paper Book
A Washington Post and Publishers Weekly Best SF/Fantasy/Horror Novel of 2025 Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White about identity, survival, and transformation amidst an alien invasion...
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