New & Notable Adult Fiction - August Highlights

Selected new additions published this month

Updated September 5, 2024
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Born of Blood and Ash
Armentrout, Jennifer L.
Paper Book
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes the thrilling conclusion to her beloved Flesh and Fire series... The line between love and obsession has never been wider. While Sera is finally free of Kolis and back with...
The Volcano Daughters
Balibrera, Gina Maria
Paper Book
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK * A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide--which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco's Cannery Row--each haunted along the way by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who are not yet done telling their stories
The Rose Arbor
Bowen, Rhys
Paper Book
An investigation into a girl's disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a haunting novel of suspense by the bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Paris Assignment. London: 1968. Liz Houghton is languishing as an obituary writer at a...
And so I roar : a novel
Daré, Abi
Paper Book
A stunning, inspiring new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother--terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria--and...
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Dinniman, Matt
Paper Book
The apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman--now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition. You know what's worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being...
Peggy : A Novel
Godfrey, Rebecca.
Paper Book
A dazzling, richly imagined novel about Peggy Guggenheim--a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself--by the award-winning author of Under the Bridge, now a Hulu limited series starring Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone "Godfrey brilliantly resurrects the avant...
A Fatal Feast at Bramsford Manor
Hannah, Darci
Paper Book
From the author of the charming Beacon Bakeshop Mysteries, the first in a new set at a haunted English manor and featuring chef Bunny MacBride, whose big break on her first reality TV show may be cut short by an unscripted murder... It isn't how chef Bridget "Bunny"...
Burn
Heller, Peter
Paper Book
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Last Ranger, a novel about two men-friends since boyhood-who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country racked by bewildering violence Every year, Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage...
The divorce : a novel
Herngren, Moa
Paper Book
An addictive domestic drama set during one hot Stockholm summer that marks the American debut of #1 Swedish bestselling author Moa Herngren. "The collapse of a thirty-two-year marriage is depicted with an even hand in this book, which amounts to two parallel novels: one about a woman...
Blackheart Man
Hopkinson, Nalo
Paper Book
The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within in this entrancing fantasy from the Grand Master Award-winning author Nalo Hopkinson. Veycosi, in training as a griot (an historian and musician), hopes to sail off to examine the...
I'll have what he's having
Khorram, Adib
Ebook
A sorceress comes to call
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee! From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call--a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's "The Goose Girl,"...
The Madness
Kurtagich, Dawn
Paper Book
Order now to get a limited special hardcover edition- available only on the first printing! This hardcover features beautifully designed end papers and a spectacular foil finish... perfect for collectors and book-lovers! Award-winning author Dawn...
The mercy of gods
Corey, James S. A.
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse comes a spectacular new space opera that sees humanity fighting for its survival in a war as old as the universe itself. ...
Hum
Phillips, Helen
Paper Book
A Most Anticipated Book for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Goodreads, LitHub, and Book Riot A Best Book of the Summer for Esquire, Electric Lit, and Town & Country A People Book of the...
By Any Other Name : A Novel
Picoult, Jodi
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the co-author of Mad Honey comes an "inspiring" (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart--one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare's plays--who are both forced to hide behind another name. "You'll...
There Are Rivers in the Sky : A Novel
Shafak, Elif.
Paper Book
From the Booker Prize finalist, author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water. "Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf. Make place for her in your heart too...
Glass houses
Ashby, Madeline
Paper Book
A group of employees and their CEO, celebrating the sale of their remarkable emotion-mapping-AI-algorithm, crash onto a not-quite-deserted tropical island. Luckily, those who survived have found a beautiful, fully-stocked private palace, with all the latest technological...
Lady Macbeth : a novel
Reid, Ava
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a "masterful reimagining" (Publishers Weekly) of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare's most famous villainess, giving her a voice, a past, and a power that transforms the story men have written for her...

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