New Adult Fiction

Updated September 8, 2025
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The anatomy of magic
Cervantes, J. C.
A young woman learns to embrace all the messy imperfections of life and love with some help from her magical family Lilian Estrada seemingly has it all: an ob-gyn star on the rise, a master at balancing work with whirlwind romances and part of a family of fiercely loyal...
Archive of unknown universes : a novel
Reyes, Ruben, Jr.
Paper Book
From the critically acclaimed author of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, a piercing debut novel following two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war--a stunning exploration of the mechanisms of fate, the gravity of the past, and the endurance of love. "Beautiful...
The Baby Dragon Bakery (Baby Dragon, 2)
Qureshi, Aamna
Paper Book
"Sweet as a pastry and as charming as a baby dragon! A delicious friends-to-lovers story that will leave you smiling!" Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop 🧁🐉🔥💖🧁🐉🔥💖🧁&...
The Baby Dragon Cafe
Qureshi, A. T.
Paper Book
"IF I COULD GIVE 6 STARS I WOULD" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🐉🔥☕❤️🐉🔥☕❤️🐉🔥☕❤️🐉🔥☕❤️🐉🔥☕❤&...
Back after this : a novel
Holmes, Linda
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over and Flying Solo, a podcast producer agrees to host a new series about modern dating--but will the show jeopardize her chance at finding real love? "Romantic, smart, and exactly the book...
Backhanded compliments : a novel
Chandler, Katie
Paper Book
A steamy sapphic romance with a fantastical twist about two bitter tennis rivals who realize they are reluctant soulmates--perfect for fans of Expiration Dates and Here We Go Again. Juliette Ricci dreams of only one thing: being the best women's tennis player in the...
The Banned Books of Berlin
Wood, Daisy.
An unforgettable story, tying together past and present, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris and The Royal Librarian Berlin, 1933. The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books. The Nazi party is swelling in number and...
The battle of the bookshops : a novel
Alexander, Poppy
Paper Book
A charming literary-themed novel about a young woman determined to save her great-aunt's beloved bookshop from extinction by the shiny new competition--which also happens to be run by the handsome son of her family's rivals. The cute, seaside town of Portneath has been the home of...
Before Dorothy
Gaynor, Hazel
Paper Book
THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER ∙ Long before Dorothy visits Oz, her aunt, Emily Gale, sets off on her own grand adventure, leaving gritty Chicago behind for Kansas and a life that will utterly change her, in this transporting novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel...
Blood of Hercules
Mas, Jasmine
The Book Of Ile-Rien: ; The Element Of FireThe Death Of The Necromancer
Wells, Martha.
Ebook
A USA-Today Bestseller! Collecting Martha Wells' Element of Fire and Death of the Necromancer for the first time in one place, in a new and revised edition! From the author of Witch King and the Murderbot Diaries:
The boxcar librarian : a novel
Labuskes, Brianna
Paper Book
Inspired by true events, a thrilling Depression-era novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books about a woman's quest to uncover a mystery surrounding a local librarian and the Boxcar Library--a converted mining train that brought books to isolated rural towns...
The Busybody Book Club
Sampson, Freya
Paper Book
LibraryReads Pick They can't even agree on what to read, so how are they going to solve a murder? Having recently moved from London to a small Cornish seaside village, Nova Davies started a book club at...
The Cat Who Saved the Library
Natsukawa, Sosuke/ Kawai, Louise Heal (TRN)
Paper Book
"Cats, books, young love, and adventure: catnip for a variety of readers!" --Kirkus Reviews "Whimsical and wise."--Shelf Awareness The long-awaited sequel to the #1 international bestseller The Cat Who Saved Books--an uplifting tale from Japan about a talking cat, a book-loving...
The colony
Norlin, Annika
A mega best-seller in Sweden, with rights sold to over a dozen countries and a TV adaptation underway, Annika Norlin's debut novel The Colony is the biggest Swedish literary phenomenon since Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove. "A disturbing, engrossing portrait of a tiny community...
Coram House : a novel
Seybolt, Bailey
Paper Book
Sharp Objects meets The Appeal in this "atmospheric and chilling" (Flynn Berry, New York Times bestselling author) novel--based on a shocking true story--about a crime writer who risks everything as she investigates a decades-old mystery at a crumbling orphanage...
The creation of half-broken people : a novel
Ndlovu, Siphiwe Gloria
Paper Book
Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University's Windham-Campbell Prize Showcasing African Gothic at its finest, The Creation of Half-Broken People is the extraordinary tale of a nameless woman plagued by visions. She works for the Good Foundation and its museum filled with...
The dark maestro : a novel
Slocumb, Brendan
Paper Book
His cello made him famous. His father made him a target. "In this perfectly crafted thriller, Slocumb acts as the master conductor, bringing together a twisty plot and gorgeously wrought characters." -The Boston Globe Curtis Wilson is a cello prodigy, growing...
Deep Cuts: A Novel
Brickley, Holly
Paper Book
AN INSTANT CANADIAN BESTSELLER A love story about two people pulled apart by the same force that draws them together: music. It's a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates is on the...
Dengue Boy: A Novel
Nieva, Michel
Paper Book
A cyberpunk fever-dream of climate catastrophe: the full-length fiction debut from one of the boldest new voices in Argentinian literature, thrillingly translated by Rahul Bery. After the last Antarctic icecaps melt, calamity follows. Landscapes are radically transformed,...
The devil's charm
Frampton, Megan
Paper Book
In this delightfully enchanting first book in Megan Frampton's new series, Heirs and Spares, opposites attract when a devilish lord and a rule-following young lady from rival families find themselves inexplicably drawn to one another. Perfect for fans of Sarah MacLean and Julia...
Don't want you like a best friend : a novel
Alban, Emma R.
Paper Book
A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other--the lesbian Bridgerton/Parent Trap you never knew you needed! Gwen has a brilliant...
The dream hotel : a novel
Lalami, Laila
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ● READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY ● From Laila Lalami--the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a "maestra of literary fiction" (NPR)--comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman's fight for freedom, set in...
Dream state : a novel
Puchner, Eric
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK "The story of relationships built and broken, mistakes inherited and repeated, and the beauty of trying again....already one of the year's best." -People Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her...
The dressmakers of London
Kelly, Julia
Paper Book
The author of the "enthralling" (Woman's World) The Lost English Girl returns with a heartfelt new novel about estranged sisters who inherit their late mother's dress shop in World War II London. Isabelle Shelton has always found comfort in the predictable world of...
Drop dead
Chu, Lily
Paper Book
One mysterious mansion. Two rival journalists. Three weeks to uncover the story--and love--of a lifetime. Obituary writer Nadine Barbault doesn't mind being called "Lady Death." It suits the ice queen persona she's cultivated to survive the fast-paced Toronto Herald. So when Nadine learns...
A drop of corruption : an Ana and Din mystery
Bennett, Robert Jackson
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup. "Wonderfully clever and compulsively readable . . . another winning blend of fantasy and...
The emperor and the endless palace
Huang, Justinian
Paper Book
Stonewall Book Award Winner, 2025 "A sweeping triumph in queer romance." -Booklist "What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition, when your soul remembers someone from a previous life?"
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards
Raasch, Sara
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--featuring turquoise sprayed edges! Ali Hazelwood meets Dungeons & Dragons in this enemies-to-lovers fantasy academia romcom where rival grad student wizards are forced to work together without killing--or falling for--each other.
Everything Is Fine Here
Tushabe, Iryn
Paper Book
A beguiling coming of age novel set in Uganda in which a young woman grapples with the truth about her sister in a country that punishes gay people. Eighteen-year-old Aine Kamara has been anticipating a reunion with her older sister, Mbabazi, for months. But when Mbabazi shows up with an...
First wife's shadow
Parks, Adele
Paper Book
"Adele just gets better and better and First Wife's Shadow had me in a chokehold from beginning to end. The twists and the tension-building were spellbinding and masterfully done. A true five-star read." --Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of None of This is True
Flirting lessons
Guillory, Jasmine
"The banter zings. The steam rises off the pages and the chemistry is sapphic rom-com perfection. These two not only steal each other's hearts. They'll steal yours too! Jasmine Guillory delivers one of your favorite books of the year!"--Kennedy Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of...
The Four Queens of Crime
Limoncelli, Rosanne
LIBRARY JOURNAL'S DECEMBER DEBUT OF THE MONTH! In this debut mystery, DCI Lilian Wyles, the first woman detective chief inspector in the CID, is determined to find a killer with the help of the four queens of crime, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and Margery...
Galaphile
Brooks, Terry
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks makes his triumphant return to the world of Shannara, delving deep into the origin story of the druid order and its enigmatic creator that will change the face of the Four Lands forever. One of the most iconic structures in...
The Gatsby gambit
Anderson-Wheeler, Claire
Paper Book
America's most beloved literary characters. A page-turning mystery. The gilded opulence of the Roaring Twenties. And a clever young woman of unusual persistence. Be ready to re-think the world of Gatsby. Freshly...
A gentleman's gentleman
Alexander, T. J.
Paper Book
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER * From the acclaimed author of Chef's Kiss, a groundbreaking trans Regency romance that's both delightfully witty and refreshingly iconoclastic. "A Gentleman's Gentleman is a thoroughly charming confection of a romance. If you're looking...
The Gingerbread Bakery
Gilmore, Laurie
Paper Book
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 Every book in the Dream Harbor...
Goddess complex : a novel
Sathian, Sanjena
Paper Book
Jezebel's May Book Club Pick * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Named a Most-Anticipated Book of 2025 by TIME and The Millions "Inventive . . . astute . . . sharp and unexpected . . . Haunting and hilarious, Goddess Complex is at once...
Good boy
Kennedy, Elle
Ebook
Gothikana
RuNyx
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--featuring beautiful purple sprayed edges, a foil case stamp, gorgeously detailed endpapers, an updated map and deliciously moody art throughout. Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! The eternal romance of Beauty and...
Happy land
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
Paper Book
A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom--and her family's ties to it--in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand. As featured in The Washington Post ∙ People...
The haunting of Paynes Hollow
Armstrong, Kelley
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a nail-biting supernatural horror about a haunted lakeside property and twisted family secrets. When Samantha Payne's grandfather dies, she figures she won't even get a mention in the will. After all, she hasn...
Heart, be at peace
Ryan, Donal
Winner of the Irish Book of the Year * Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction * Shortlisted for the Nero Novel of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice From one of the most acclaimed Irish writers today, a new novel about smalltown Ireland that...
Heartwood : a novel
Gaige, Amity
Paper Book
"The best thriller of 2025." --The Boston Globe * "Genius." --The Washington Post "A literary thriller of the highest order" (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Couple), Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a...
Human rites : a novel
Dawson, Juno
With Her Majesty's Royal Coven in shambles and the fate of the world hanging in the balance, the sisterhood of friends and witches must find a new way of putting together the pieces if (wo)mankind is to stand a chance, in this final chapter to Juno's  "irresistible" series (Lana Harper)...
In the Land of Simplicity
Lubchansky, Mattie.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . From the acclaimed author of horror sensation Boys Weekend, a vibrant new graphic novel about a timid academic sent out from the walled dystopian security territory of New York City to investigate a cult in the wilds of the Catskill Mountains "Mattie...
The irresistible urge to fall for your enemy
Knightley, Brigitte
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Loyalties are tested in this slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy following an assassin and a healer forced to work together to cure a fatal disease, all while resisting the urge to kill each other--or, worse, fall in love. ...
A Little Holiday Fling
Heron, Farah
The highly acclaimed author of Accidentally Engaged delivers a heartwarming holiday romance, full of grumpy/sunshine vibes. There are two things that Ruby Dhanji loves with her whole entire heart: Christmas and anything to do with the UK. For Ruby the...
The lost baker of Vienna
Kurtzman, Sharon
An historical novel inspired by the experiences of the author's own family after the Holocaust, a sweeping saga about survival, loss, love, and the reverberating effects of war In 2018, Zoe Rosenzweig is reeling after the loss of her beloved grandfather, a Holocaust survivor. She...
Mate
Hazelwood, Ali
A Human hybrid and an Alpha Were claw against the bonds of fate in the highly anticipated companion novel to the New York Times bestselling Bride. Serena Paris is orphaned, pack-less, and one of a kind. Coming forward as the first Human-Were hybrid was supposed to...
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
Bowen, Rhys
Blindsided by betrayal in pre-WWII England, a woman charts a daring new course in this captivating tale of resilience, friendship, and new love by the bestselling author of The Rose Arbor and The Venice Sketchbook. Surrey, England, 1938. After thirty devoted years of...
The names : a novel
Knapp, Florence,
READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY | AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "Beautiful, heart-wrenching, utterly original." --Miranda Cowley Heller, bestselling author of The Paper Palace The story of one family told three...
Of monsters and mainframes
Truelove, Barbara
Paper Book
Spaceships aren't programmed to seek revenge--but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying--and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system,...
Paladin's faith
Kingfisher, T.
Audiobook
Parasol Against the Axe: A Novel
Oyeyemi, Helen
Paper Book
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ELLE, THE SEATTLE TIMES, LITERARY HUB, THE MILLIONS AND MORE! "A shape-shifting novel about the power of stories . . . Helen Oyeyemi is a literary pied piper--her voice is the kind that readers gamely follow into the most...
The Passengers on the Hankyu Line : A Novel
Arikawa, Hiro.
Welcome aboard the Hankyu train! Come along on a heartwarming, funny, and a perfectly cosy voyage with the charming and relatable passengers--including one dashing dachsund--whose lives intersect and affect each other on one of Japan's most romantic railway lines. ...
Pitcher Perfect
Bailey, Tessa
#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey is back with an all-new enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating sports romance about a playboy hockey rookie and the disciplined softball pitcher completely immune to his charms. Boston Bearcats rookie Robbie Corrigan is...
Problematic summer romance
Hazelwood, Ali
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by the New York Times bestselling author of Deep End. Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out...
Queen Demon
Wells, Martha
Paper Book
From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes the remarkable sequel to the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling novel, Witch King. A fantasy of epic scope, Queen Demon is a story of power and friendship, of trust and betrayal, and of the families we...
Queen Esther : A Novel
Irving, John.
After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award winner The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud's, Maine, where Dr. Larch takes in Esther, a three-year-old Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism. ...
A rare find
Lowell, Joanna
When an aspiring archaeologist teams up with her childhood enemy for a treasure hunt, they find it impossible to bury their growing feelings, in a charming queer historical romance from the author of A Shore Thing. Elfreda Marsden has finally made a major discovery-an...
Rewitched
Wood, Lucy Jane
Paper Book
In this spellbinding warm and cozy debut novel, a burned-out witch will need to turn to her friends and trust in herself to find the magic in her own life again. Belladonna Blackthorn hasn't lost her magical spark, precisely . . . but she hasn't seen it in a while either....
The river is waiting : a novel
Lamb, Wally
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK A USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, celebrated for two prior Oprah Book Club selections, returns with an exceptional third pick, a...
The road to tender hearts : a novel
Hartnett, Annie
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush--bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death--by the beloved author of Rabbit Cake and Unlikely...
Roll for romance : a novel
Woods, Lenora
Paper Book
Two fledgling tabletop gamers find themselves falling for each other--both in and out of their weekly D&D sessions--in this cozy, fantasy-tinged romance. "Sweet, charming, and wonderful!"--Sarah Beth Durst, author of The Spellshop "The perfect entry point...
The secret, book & scone society
Adams, Ellery
Paper Book
Miracle Springs, North Carolina, is a place of healing. Strangers flock here hoping the natural hot springs, five-star cuisine, and renowned spa can cure their ills. If none of that works, they often find their way to Miracle Books, where, over a fresh-baked ocomforto scone from the Gingerbread...
A shore thing
Lowell, Joanna
Paper Book
"Glorious.... Every scene in this book is a treasure."-The New York Times "A Victorian queer love story that will have you giggling and blushing... This book is full of charm and low-stakes adventure, just the warm and soft romance many of us are looking for."-NPR
Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys
Tucker, Aaron
Paper Book
CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023 THE TORONTO STAR 'MUST READ, HANDS DOWN BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR' 'Cat Person' meets Station Eleven in this apocalyptic depiction of toxic masculinity. An unnamed man is...
Stone & sky
Aaronovitch, Ben
Paper Book
THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES "This isn't London. The rules are different up here..." All Detective Sergeant Peter Grant wanted was a nice holiday up in Scotland. He'll need one once this is...
The sunlit man
Sanderson, Brandon
Paper Book
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson--creator of The Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn Saga, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy--comes this standalone novel showing a rare glimpse of a future Cosmere universe. Running....
Sweet obsession
Robert, Katee
Paper Book
He was mine to protect. Mine to adore. Mine to lose forever. *A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Poseidon and Icarus.* Icarus may not have flown particularly close to the sun, but he has fallen...right into the rough hands of Olympus's own Poseidon. Being held captive by the...
System collapse
Wells, Martha
Paper Book
A New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today bestseller. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I...
The tainted cup
Bennett, Robert Jackson
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A Holmes and Watson-style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson Bennett "Like an endearing fantasy version of Knives Out . . . A great murder mystery is hard to...
The teacher of Auschwitz
Holden, Wendy
From the bestselling author of Born Survivors, a novel inspired by the powerful true story of a man who risked everything to protect children in Auschwitz. Fredy built a wall against suffering in their hearts . . . Amid the brutality of the Holocaust, one bright spot shone...
The teller of small fortunes
Leong, Julie
Paper Book
USA TODAY BESTSELLER * A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this cozy fantasy debut, hailed as "perfection...a beautiful treasure of a book that will warm your heart and heal your soul."--Sarah Beth Durst, Author of The Spellshop "The warmest,...
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us : A Novel
Ma, Yiming.
For fans of American War and Cloud Atlas, a hauntingly beautiful and prescient debut novel set in a future where a renamed China is the sole global superpower and citizens can record and transfer memories between minds. When I was a boy, my mother used to...
Three Parties
Saadi, Ziyad
A queer Palestinian refugee plans to come out at his elaborate birthday dinner party in this tragicomic modern reimagining of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Firas Dareer wakes up on his twenty-third birthday with a sense of purpose: today he'll jump from a Stage 3 to a...
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
Sutanto, Jesse Q.
Paper Book
Vera Wong is back and as meddling as ever in this follow-up to the hit Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.... Ever since a man was found dead in Vera's teahouse, life has been good. For Vera that is. She's surrounded by loved ones, her shop is bustling, and best...
We Love You, Bunny : A Novel
Awad, Mona.
Paper Book
Named a Must-Read Pick by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, People, Associated Press, Marie Claire, Bustle, The Boston Globe, Goodreads, Women's Wear Daily, and more "Dark academia clan, rise up! We Love You, Bunny feels...
The weavers of Alamaxa
Elsbai, Hadeer
Paper Book
Following up on one of the most exciting fantasy debuts, The Daughters of Izdihar, Hadeer Elsbai concludes her Alamaxa Duology--inspired by Egyptian history and myth--with a tale of magic, war, betrayal, sisterhood, and love. The world is on fire...but some women can control it. The...
Who cries for the lost
Harris, C. S.
Paper Book
A gripping new historical mystery featuring Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin from the bestselling author of When Blood Lies.
Who will remember
Harris, C. S.
Paper Book
The macabre murder of a prominent nobleman throws an already unsettled London into chaos in this electrifying new historical mystery by the USA Today bestselling author of What Cannot Be Said. August 1816. England is in the grip of what will become known as...
Words of radiance
Sanderson, Brandon
Paper Book
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began. Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave,...
You've Changed
Williams, Ian.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The eagerly awaited follow-up novel from the Giller prize-winning author of Reproduction, You've Changed is a daring and clever dissection of a crumbling marriage between two people who are morphing in ways that confound each other. ...

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