*New & Notable Adult Fiction - January Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated January 20, 2026
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Watching over her
Andrea, Jean-Baptiste
Paper Book
The international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt 2023, with over 700,000 copies sold in France
The First Time I Saw Him
Dave, Laura.
Paper Book
No life forsaken
Erikson, Steven
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Steven Erikson continues his beloved Malazan Book of the Fallen--the iconic epic fantasy series that has sold more than 1.5 million copies--with the second book in the thrilling Witness sequel series. Return to the Malazan Empire! ...
Call me Ishmaelle
Guo, Xiaolu
Paper Book
Call Me Ishmaelle reimagines the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville's Moby Dick from a female perspective. 'Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange' Philip Hoare 'A clever and original skewering of a classic' i
No one would do what the Lamberts have done
Hannah, Sophie
Paper Book
'No one writes twisted, suspenseful novels quite like Sophie Hannah'. Liane Moriarty The twistiest murder mystery you are ever likely to read? A story about a family that does the unthinkable? Both? Or something else altogether? You think it will never happen to you....
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
McConigley, Nina.
Paper Book
Dear Debbie
McFadden, Freida.
Paper Book
The burning grounds
Mukherjee, Abir
Paper Book
'Compulsive reading. This is a master storyteller at the top of his game.' Ann Cleeves 'Historical crime fiction at its best' The Times 'An utterly spellbinding triumph from a master storyteller' Joseph O'Connor In the Burning Ghats of...
Vigil
Saunders, George
Paper Book
"After his spectacular Lincoln in the Bardo, Saunders returns . . . with a new novel even more spectacular than the last."--Los Angeles Times A "daring" (Time) novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of A Swim in a Pond...
The poet empress
Tao, Shen (Fiction writer)
Paper Book
*A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK* 'Vicious, gorgeous, and fiercely haunting' CHLOE GONG 'Sublime' AMELIE WEN ZHAO 'Enthralling' ANDREA STEWART 'Astounding' CHELSEA ABDULLAH 'Lyrical' K. X. SONG 'Devastating' KRITIKA H. RAO 'Fantasy at its...

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