New & Notable Adult Fiction - April Highlights

Selected new additions published this month

Updated May 2, 2024
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories A Novel.
Alvarez, Julia. 
Literary icon and great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic. ...
Mal Goes to War.
Ashton, Edward. 
The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He's not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the...
A calamity of souls
Baldacci, David 
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times ...
The Familiar A Novel.
Bardugo, Leigh. 
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * #1 INDIE BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An immersive, sensual experience." --The New York Times "Essential." --The Washington Post From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh...
Truly, Madly, Deeply A Novel.
Bellefleur, Alexandria. 
Sparks fly when a lovelorn romance novelist and a divorce lawyer who has sworn off relationships agree to cohost a podcast series offering dating advice to viewers, in Truly, Madly, Deeply, the next steamy queer rom-com from Lambda Literary Award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria...
888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers A Novel.
Chang, Abraham. 
Goodreads Editor's Pick * Publishers Weekly Author to Watch "Packed with pop culture.... A beautifully tender and funny examination of love, of identity, of making your way in a world that is getting bigger and smaller at the same time." --Kevin Wilson,...
To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods.
Chang, Molly X. 
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * She has power over death. He has power over her. When two enemies strike a dangerous bargain, will they end a war . . . or ignite one? "A thrilling tale of magic and murder, intrigue and betrayal."--Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling...
Clear A Novel.
Davies, Carys. 
"Tender, riveting, and inventive is Clear, the newest offering and masterpiece from the brilliant Carys Davies. It will take your breath away...What a thrill." --Sarah Jessica Parker A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to...
Curiosities A Novel.
Fleming, Anne. 
Curiosities opens with a present-day amateur historian, Anne, who describes her unexpected discovery of five seventeenth-century manuscripts that, astonishingly, tell the same strange story from vastly different points of view. The five manuscripts spin this tale: after the Plague descends upon a...
The Night in Question A Novel.
Fletcher, Susan. 
For readers of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, comes this unforgettable novel about an eighty-seven-year-old woman on a quest for big answers and big adventures. Florrie Butterfield has...
The Library of Borrowed Hearts.
Gilmore, Lucy. 
A.J. Fikry meets The Bookish Life of Nina Hill in this charming, hilarious, and moving novel about the way books bring lonely souls together. Two young lovers. Sixty long years. One bookish mystery worth solving. Librarian Chloe Sampson has been...
Funny Story.
Henry, Emily. 
Named a Most Anticipated book of 2024 by TIME ∙ The New York Times ∙ Goodreads ∙ Entertainment Weekly ∙ Today.com ∙ Paste ∙ SheReads ∙ BookPage ∙ Woman's World ∙ The Nerd Daily and more! ...
Close to Death A Novel.
Horowitz, Anthony. 
In New York Times-bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series, Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case--a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound Riverside...
The Celestial Wife.
Howard, Leslie. 
A young fundamentalist Mormon girl facing a forced marriage escapes her strict, polygamist community and comes of age in the tumultuous 1960s in this captivating novel inspired by shockingly true events. Keep sweet no matter what, for this is the way to be lifted up ...
Just for the Summer.
Jimenez, Abby. 
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller and a Good Morning America Book Club Pick! This witty, slow-burn rom-com is the "ideal beach read." --Elle Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates...
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies A Novel.
Mack, Catherine. 
Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. "Quick, captivating, and oh-so-much-fun! This delicious mystery is as spellbinding as Knives Out."--Elle Cosimano, New York Times bestselling author of the Finlay...
The Cook of Castamar.
Munez, Fernando J. 
NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIESThe Duke of Castamar was once a noble figure who played a crucial role in his family's royal council. But ever since his wife's tragic death, he's been living in mourning, forgoing his noble duties. Clara, born into gentility but hard-up since the death of her...
Dayspring.
Oliveira, Anthony. 
A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre--at once a bold retelling of biblical tales and an unforgettable contemporary coming-of-age story, connected in collapsing time across millennia. There are few love stories in the holy books. Love is what ruins....
The Sicilian Inheritance A Novel.
Piazza, Jo. 
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted in the author's own family history about a long-awaited trip to Sicily, a disputed inheritance, and a family secret that some will kill to protect . . .
Bad Habit A Novel.
Portero, Alana S. 
"[Bad Habit] shows us that a 'trans novel' can actually be anything it wants to be." -The New York Times "A novel that could very well serve as a surrogate mother for future children who grow up lonely and trans." -The Washington Post "I urge you, read Alana S. Portero's Bad...
A sweet sting of salt a novel.
Sutherland, Rose. 
When a young woman in 19th century Nova Scotia uncovers a magical secret about her neighbour, she'll have to fight to keep the truth--and the woman she loves--safe in this stunning queer reimagining of the classic folktale The Selkie Wife. When a sharp cry wakes Jean, the...
Table for two fictions
Towles, Amor 
New York Times Bestseller "A knockout collection. ... Sharp-edged satire deceptively wrapped like a box of Neuhaus chocolates, Table for Two is a winner." --The New York Times From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A...
Ocean drive a novel
Wiebe, Sam 
A paroled killer and a small-town cop find themselves on a collision course when the murder-by-arson of a college student sparks off gang violence along the forty-ninth parallel. His first day out of prison, paroled killer Cameron Shaw meets with a mysterious lawyer who offers him a small...
Butter A Novel of Food and Murder.
Yuzuki, Asako. 
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story There are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and...

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