New Adult Fiction

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

Updated February 16, 2026
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Alchemy and a cup of tea : a cozy fantasy brewed with magic and romance
Thorne, Rebecca
Reyna and Kianthe have no trouble ruling the Queendom, battling evil alchemists and rescuing baby dragons, but can they save their town from the ravening influx of . . . tourists?!All Reyna wanted was a relaxing cup of tea. She didn't expect to be kidnapped and dropped in a hidden cell, but never...
Alice Rue evades the truth : a novel
Zipps, Emily
"Vibrant, voice-y, tender, genuinely funny, and bursting with all the imperfect charm of a real, hopeful love. I can't wait to make everyone I know read this."-Casey McQuiston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pairing In this sapphic homage to While You...
All of us murderers
Charles, KJ
BookPage top 10 Best Mystery & Suspense books of 2025 "Wildly inventive, twisty tour de force"--BookPage The lush Gothic drama of Crimson Peak meets the murderous intrigue of Knives Out with an LGBTQIA+ love story to die for from award-winning author KJ Charles. WHO WILL...
The amberglow candy store
Kurisu, Hiyoko
A charming book of linked stories with a sprinkling of cosy fantasy and a fable-like touch . . . The Amberglow Candy Store in the Night Alley introduces the reader to half-fox shopkeeper Kogetsu, whose magical wagashi sweets from his shop on Gloaming Lane promise to change...
Awake in the floating city : a novel
Kwan, Susanna
For fans of Station Eleven, Birnam Wood and Migrations, an astonishingly beautiful literary dystopia about care and compassion in times of devastation.   In a future San Francisco transformed by years of rain, Bo, a 40-year-old lapsed...
The Bookshop Below
Summers, Georgia
Call Me Ishmaelle
Guo, Xiaolu
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
Can't spell treason without tea : a cozy fantasy steeped with love
Thorne, Rebecca
Paper Book
Reyna and Kianthe dream of opening a friendly book shop together, serving the very best tea and cakes. Worn wooden floors, plants on every table, firelight drifting between the rafters - all complemented by love and good company. But Reyna is an elite bodyguard to a vengeful queen, and Kianthe is...
Cat Dragon
Birch, Samantha
'A new favorite! Completely charming and delightful! I loved every magical second!' Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of THE SPELLSHOP 'Cat Dragon is charming, gentle and all that a cosy fantasy should be!' Lucy Jane Wood, Sunday Times bestselling author of Rewitched...
The elopement
Hornby, Gill
The brand new novel from the bestselling author of Miss Austen and Godmersham Park plunges us into the lives of the Austen family during the early 19th Century, where an unconventional marriage divides a family and turmoil ensues. 'Gill Hornby's trilogy...
The fake mate
Ferguson, Lana
Paper Book
'Addictive, epically smutty and the breath of fresh air the romance genre didn't know it needed' ELENA ARMAS, New York Times bestselling author Two wolf shifters agree to be fake mates but unexpectedly find something real in this steamy paranormal romantic...
Harriet Tubman: live in concert : a novel
Bob, the Drag Queen
From RuPaul's Drag Race winner and host of HBO's We're Here comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation, and hip-hop. In an age of miracles where our greatest...
I got abducted by aliens and now I'm trapped in a rom-com
Lemming, Kimberly
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! AN INDIE NEXT MARCH 2025 PICK ∙ A FEBRUARY LIBRARYREADS PICK A hilarious and sexy romance about a woman who gets dropped on a strange planet only to fall for not one, but two, aliens, from the author of I Got Drunk and Yeeted a...
Mayhem and the Mortal
Williams, Shanora
The New Neighbours
Douglas, Claire
Do you trust the couple next door? When Lena overhears a conversation between her next-door-neighbours she thinks she must have misheard. After all, the Morgans are a kind, retired couple who have moved to a suburban street in Bristol where nothing ever happens. But it sounded...

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