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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The correspondent : a novel
Evans, Virginia
Life hacks for a little alien
Franklin, Alice
The Gingerbread Bakery
Gilmore, Laurie
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, small-town...
Theft
Gurnah, Abdulrazak
In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a master storyteller captures young people in Tanzania  in a time of dizzying global change. At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his...
The prospects : a novel
Hoffman, KT
Paper Book
'Tenacious, sexy, effervescent, doggedly hopeful, and endlessly charming, with characters to root hard for and an irresistible voice - I completely adored it' Casey McQuiston, author of Red, White & Royal Blue 'Endearing and tender'<...
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,...
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.<...
The Homemade God
Joyce, Rachel
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...
Paradise Logic
Kemp, Sophie
'A wild, roaming marvel of a debut... some of the weirdest and funniest prose imaginable' MEGAN NOLAN 'The funniest book of the year and one of the smartest' GARY SHTEYNGART A hilarious, surreal, and devastating journey into the mind of Reality...
Audition
Kitamura, Katie
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
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...
Bonds of Hercules
Mas, Jasmine
HERCULES IS BACK. AND YOU'RE BOUND TO LOVE HER. In this hotly anticipated follow-up to Jasmine Mas's BLOOD OF HERCULES, the stakes are higher and the villains darker than ever... Every hero has their monsters. And Alexis is bound to hers: tied eternally,...
Automatic noodle
Newitz, Annalee
The hounding : a novel
Purvis, Xenobe
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 lamb : a novel
Rose, Lucy
The antidote
Russell, Karen
***Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction*** 'Powerful' Financial Times 'A pure dust storm of utter genius' DAISY JOHNSON 'As profound as it is wonderfully strange' LAUREN GROFF What do we choose to remember and...
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...
Earl crush : a novel
Vasti, Alexandra
Paper Book
'Both a rollicking romp and the most tender of love stories... Sexy, kind, and full of adventure!' Naina Kumar, USA Today bestselling author of Say You'll Be My Jaan Right girl. Wrong Earl. Lydia Hope-Wallace's secret life as the anonymous author of rebellious political...
Ne'er duke well
Vasti, Alexandra
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...
Run for the hills : a novel
Wilson, Kevin
A road trip across America brings a family together, in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here. 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...

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