New Adult Fiction

The latest adult fiction books in print. (Please note that New NL/Local Books are covered in a separate list.)

Updated January 22, 2026
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New Adult Fiction

The latest adult fiction books in print. (Please note that New NL/Local Books are covered in a separate list.)

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Star Trek: Voyager Omnibus
Baker, Dave
Paper Book
Join Captain Janeway and the Voyager crew in four tales of adventure and intrigue! First, in Seven's Reckoning, a chance encounter with a reptilian alien race draws Seven of Nine and the rest of the U.S.S. Voyager crew into an ancient class conflict that's on...
Crema : a haunted romance in three chapters
Christmas, Johnnie
Paper Book
#1 New York Times Bestselling cartoonist Johnnie Christmas and Prism Award Nominee Dante Luiz bring you a haunted tale of love, ghosts, and coffee beans. Esme, a barista, feels invisible, like a ghost... also, when Esme drinks too much coffee she actually sees ghosts. Yara, the elegant heir to a...
Wake up, Nat and Darcy
Cochrane, Kate
Paper Book
Ex-lovers. Ex-rivals. New cohosts. Oh, puck. Cut from the U.S. women's hockey team right before her third chance at gold, Natalie Carpenter is scrambling for a plan that'll help her avoid moving back home. The answer: a guest hosting gig on Wake Up, USA's ...
Yours for the Season: A Spicy Sapphic Christmas Romance
Cochrane, Kate.
Paper Book
Making the yuletide gay JT Cox never quite fit into Hart's Landing. Playing on the boys' hockey team and coming out young didn't help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT's name is on a sign greeting visitors to her hometown. Her family of artists and creatives still...
You dreamed of empires
Enrigue, Alvaro
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF 2024 A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR "Short, strange, spiky and sublime." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Funny, ghastly, eye-opening, marvelous." --Wall Street Journal
The correspondent : a novel
Evans, Virginia
Paper Book
Let me go mad in my own way
Feeney, Elaine
Paper Book
THE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR WINNER OF AUTHOR OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, THE IRISH TIMES, RTE, STYLIST MAGAZINE, IRISH INDEPENDENT<...
Life Hacks For a Little Alien
Franklin, Alice.
Paper Book
'Wise and playful and tender and beautiful' Bobby Palmer 'So brilliant, so original and lovely and funny, that it reminds you of the point of reading' Rebecca Wait 'Climb up here, Little Alien. Sit next to me. I will tell you about life on this planet. I will tell...
The Gingerbread Bakery
Gilmore, Laurie
Paper Book
The highly anticipated new Dream Harbor romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pumpkin Spice Café! 'All the makings of a top tier Hallmark movie that happens to include a nice dash of spice'--People on the Dream Harbor series 'If you like steamy...
Rockstar and Softboy
Grace, Sina
Paper Book
Sina Grace returns to writing and drawing for the firsttime in five years to deliver a frenzied story about two best friends and theirantics in Hollyweird, CA! Rockstar plans thegreatest house party ever as a means of lifting roommate...
The book of I
Greig, David
Paper Book
2025 Indies Introduce & Indie Next Pick The Globe and Mail Best Books of 2025 New York Times Editors' Choice WSJ Notable Book of 2025 ★ "A small treasure... A bloody and beautiful sojourn in the distant past."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A brilliant...
Theft
Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Paper Book
Named a Washington Post Top 10 Fiction Book of 2025 In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change. At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania....
The prospects : a novel
Hoffman, KT
Paper Book
"A queer sports romance and a triumphant debut . . . a heartstring-pulling tale of two minor-league baseball rivals who realize they play much better together."--Elle, The Best (and Most Anticipated) Romance Books of 2024, So Far "I completely adored it."--Casey...
Harley Quinn. Vol. 3, Clown about town
Howard, Tini
Paper Book
The madcap hijinks of Gotham's Clown Queen Of Crime are nonstop! Harley Quinn's adventures continue in her ongoing solo series, featuring new and familiar faces all across the weirdest and most wonderful corners of the DC Universe! Harley is going back to her roots! She's...
Moan: Junji Ito Story Collection
Ito, Junji
Paper Book
Obsession and persistence warp reality in this collection of macabre stories set in Junji Ito's bloodcurdling world. A dark evil lurks in the unreachable depths of a pipe, groaning out moans that echo through the house of a germophobe mother and her daughters. In another tale,...
Crash test : a novel
James, Amy
Paper Book
Formula 1 meets Red, White, & Royal Blue in this contemporary MM sports romance in which an F1 phenom battling for the championship is sent spinning after his secret love is involved in a massive crash. Twenty-four-year-old Formula 1 driver Travis Keeping is halfway through...
Love and sportsball
James, Meka
Paper Book
Don't miss this spicy, sapphic sports romance from Meka James! 'I tore through this novel so fast because I couldn't put it down. Five solid stars' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review 'Absolutely loved it, and excited to read more in the series.' ⭐⭐...
Loot
James, Tania
Paper Book
'Loot held me spellbound from the first page...an expertly-plotted, deeply affecting novel ' Maggie O'Farrell Young toy maker and dreamer Abbas is whisked away to Tipu Sultan's glorious palace in Mysore and ordered to create a musical tiger to delight Tipu's sons.<...
Les NormauxVolume one
Janssen, Janine
Paper Book
"Les Normaux is one of my favourite webcomics of all time. Featuring a gloriously diverse cast of characters, this story is a celebration of love, friendship, community, and self-expression." -- Alice Oseman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Heartstopper series "A...
The homemade god
Joyce, Rachel
Paper Book
Family is everything, even when it falls apart. There is a heatwave across Europe. Goose and his three sisters gather at the family's house by Lake Orta in Piedmont, Italy. Their father, a famous artist, has recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish...
Several people are typing : a novel
Kasulke, Calvin
Paper Book
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! * A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. * "An absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism." --Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House   Told entirely through clever and...
How you get the girl
Kelly, Anita (Romance author)
Paper Book
'No one understands the beauty of quiet moments in romance quite like Kelly' ALISON COCHRUN 'Kelly never fails to bring the perfect combination of humor, swoons, and grounded emotion' Timothy Janovsky 'I can't get enough of Anita Kelly's writing' Ava Wilder ...
Paradise logic
Kemp, Sophie
Paper Book
'George Saunders meets Ottessa Moshfegh' OBSERVER 'Smart, jarring and wickedly funny' GUARDIAN 'The excavation of heterosexual desire our age deserves' LITHUB 'Imagine Vladimir Nabokov as a manic pixie dream girl,...
Audition
Kitamura, Katie
Paper Book
Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He's attractive, troubling, young - young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two...
Empire of the damned
Kristoff, Jay
Paper Book
The highly anticipated sequel to the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE 'Bloody brilliant' V.E. Schwab 'A ripping read' Joe Abercrombie Gabriel de León has saved the Holy Grail from death, but his chance to end the...
Empire of the dawn
Kristoff, Jay
Paper Book
From holy cup comes holy light; The faithful hands sets world aright. And in the Seven Martyrs' sight, Mere man shall end this endless night. Gabriel de León has lost his family, his faith, and his last hope of ending the endless night - the Holy Grail,...
The frozen river : a novel
Lawhon, Ariel
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GMA BOOK CLUB PICK * AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR * From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha...
Guardian and a thief
Majumdar, Megha
Paper Book
Bonds of Hercules
Mas, Jasmine
Paper Book
Featuring a first-print run exclusive foiled board design and full-colour endpapers, while supplies last! 🔗HERCULES IS BACK. AND YOU'RE BOUND TO LOVE HER.🔗 In this hotly anticipated follow-up to Jasmine Mas's instant NEW YORK TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES...
People like us : or The other continent, or Johnny Wordcount stumbles into a high-end croissant bar on the Sienne in search of The Kid & orders the big dream
Mott, Jason
Paper Book
The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 National Book Award winner and bestseller, Hell of a Book PEOPLE LIKE US is Jason Mott's electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason's life. And while rooted in reality, it explodes with dream-like experiences...
The beauty of your face : a novel
Mustafah, Sahar
Paper Book
A uniquely American story told in powerful, evocative prose, The Beauty of Your Face navigates a country growing ever more divided. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a...
Automatic noodle
Newitz, Annalee
Paper Book
A cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle shop, from acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz. An instant USA Today and indie bestseller! Indie Next pick | Library Reads pick | Best of the Year at...
The hounding
Purvis, Xenobe
Paper Book
A THE TIMES AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Extraordinary . . . clever, strange and beautifully written' THE TIMES 'A rich, atmospheric novel thrumming with menace' NEW YORK TIMES 'Prompts thoughts of both THE...
The lost passenger : a novel
Quinn, Frances (Journalist)
Paper Book
An immersive historical drama about a young mother who starts a new life with her son in New York after faking their deaths on the Titanic--the U.S. debut of acclaimed British novelist Frances Quinn. "A compelling examination of the cost of dreams, delusions of the heart...
Pucking strong
Rath, Emily
Paper Book
He's the Star Forward, I'm the Team Therapist - Married on Paper, But Our Chemistry is Becoming 100% Real. The next spicy chapter in the internationally bestselling Jacksonville Rays hockey romance series 'I devoured it in one sitting!' 5*...
Tender cruelty
Robert, Katee
Paper Book
I was his wife. His lover. His sworn enemy. The ice queen to Olympus's most hated king. *A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Hera and Zeus.* The barrier that's protected Olympus for generations has fallen. The enemy's breached the gates and the...
The lamb
Rose, Lucy
Paper Book
The antidote
Russell, Karen
Paper Book
From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town
North sun, or, The voyage of the whaleship Esther : a novel
Rutherford, Ethan
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION From "one of our great artists of catastrophe" (Laura van den Berg) comes North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther--an allegory of extraction and a tale of adventure and endurance during the waning days of the...
Bored gay werewolf
Santorella, Tony
Paper Book
Juno Dawson's Her Majesty's Royal Coven meets a Jim Jarmusch movie , a directionless college-dropout deals with sexuality, minimum-wage jobs, lunar cycles, toxic masculinity and the everyday perils of life as a modern werewolf.
Colored television
Senna, Danzy
Paper Book
Jane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets, she and her family are living in luxury for a year, house-sitting in the hills above Los Angeles. The gig magically coincides with Jane's sabbatical, giving her the...
Monstrilio: a novel
Sm̀ano Cr̤dova, Gerardo
Paper Book
"Heartfelt, bizarre, and unexpected. . . . At once a novel about family and love, a creepy tale that questions what it means to be human, and a celebration of queer stories, Monstrilio is as shocking as it is profound, and as humorous as it is thoughtful." ―Gabino Iglesias, The...
Star maker
Stapledon, Olaf
Paper Book
This bold exploration of the cosmos ventures into intelligent star clusters and mingles among alien races for a memorable vision of infinity. Cited as a key influence by science-fiction masters such as Doris Lessing, this classic has left its mark not only in modern literature but also in the...
The Witcher, Vol. 9: Corvo Bianco
Sztybor, Bartosz.
Paper Book
Enjoying the fruits of his labour, Geralt acquires a taste for a simple life-good wine and good company. With Yennefer at his side, the routines of a witcher are eclipsed. But when a claim to the vineyard is made from a descendant of the original owner, Geralt must make a choice: take what he can...
Never been better : a novel
Toshiko Simpson, Leanne
Paper Book
A hilariously offbeat and tender comedy about one bipolar woman's messy search for love at a seaside wedding where no one can stay afloat. Is she falling in love, or falling apart? Dee, Misa, and Matt were the "three musketeers" of the psych ward. A year after discharge, Dee is...
Earl crush : a novel
Vasti, Alexandra
Paper Book
"Bridgerton at its sexiest . . . Crush? Ha. I'm in love with the earl!" - Eloisa James, New York Times bestselling author USA Today bestselling author Alexandra Vasti returns with another hot, hilarious Regency romp about a reclusive earl and the wallflower...
Ladies in Hating
Vasti, Alexandra
Paper Book
INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Named Best Romance of 2025 by Amazon, Kirkus, Chicago Public Library, and more . . . A pair of Gothic novelists trade rivalry for love in this swoony, steamy, sapphic Regency by USA Today bestselling author Alexandra...
Ne'er duke well
Vasti, Alexandra
Paper Book
A scandalous duke enlists the help of the most proper debutante in London to save his reputation, in this swoony, feminist, witty Regency romance, perfect for fans of Tessa Dare, Martha Waters and Lex Croucher.
Spectators
Vaughan, Brian K.
Paper Book
"It's an eye-popping show." --Publishers Weekly "A visually ambitious, thematically daring, and powerfully unsettling supernatural romance that veers into incendiary social critique." --Library Journal A gripping and provocative graphic novel...
The riveter : a novel
Wang, Jack
Paper Book
In the vein of All the Light We Cannot See, a cross-cultural love story set against the dramatic backdrop of the Allied invasion of Europe during WWII. Vancouver, 1942. Josiah Chang arrives in the bustling city ready to make a new life for himself. The Second World War...
Creature from the black lagoon lives!
Watters, Dan
Paper Book
A NEW HORROR DREAM TEAM RESURRECTS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC MONSTERS Acclaimed creators Dan Watters (Home Sick Pilots, Lucifer), Ram V (The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Batman: Detective...
Leather & Lark
Weaver, Brynne
Paper Book
From the author of the genre-breaking international TikTok sensation Butcher & Blackbird comes the second book in the Ruinous Love Trilogy - a hate-to-love dark romantic comedy packed with danger, chaos, and heat. 'Brynne is a master weaver of words in this...
Cleat cute
Wilsner, Meryl
Paper Book
A sapphic rivals-to-lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own They're risking their hearts for a match worth winning. Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women's National Team since she was 16. But when she's...
Run for the hills
Wilson, Kevin
Paper Book
Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it's just been Madeline Hill and her mother on their Tennessee farm. It's mostly okay. Maybe sometimes a bit lonely... Then one day a stranger pulls up in a rental car and informs Madeline that he's her half brother, Reuben, abandoned by their dad...
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