*New & Notable Adult Fiction - September Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated September 16, 2025
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The true true story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother)
Alameddine, Rabih
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination."--NPR From National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction comes a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the...
We Love You, Bunny : A Novel
Awad, Mona.
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize 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,...
Sweet Heat
Babalola, Bolu
BOLU BABALOLA IS... "A queen of romantic comedy." - Oprah Daily * "Incisively funny." - Entertainment Weekly * "A really great romance writer." - Quinta Brunson, Harper's Bazaar * "Keeping the hope for true love alive and enjoyable." -Shondaland * "A rom-com expert." - New York Times ...
The Secret of Secrets
Brown, Dan
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The world's most celebrated thriller writer and author of The Da Vinci Code returns with his most stunning novel yet--a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do. ...
Rufous and Calliope : A Novel
Butler, Sarah Louise.
In this stunning tale of love and loss, a middle-aged cartographer, suffering from memory loss and claustrophobia, hikes through the interior of British Columbia in search of a treehouse where he spent one memorable summer on the run with his four siblings. In Rufous and Calliope, Sarah...
One of us : a novel
Chaon, Dan
Paper Book
A playfully macabre and utterly thrilling tale about orphaned twins on the run from their murderous uncle who find refuge in a bizarre traveling carnival, from master of literary horror Dan Chaon It's 1915 and the world is transforming, but for thirteen...
The Book of Guilt : A novel
Chidgey, Catherine.
In an alternate world where nobody won WWII, three brothers are the only boys left in an orphanage whose dark secret is the reason for their existence--and the key to their survival--from the acclaimed author of Pet. "[Q]uietly devastating, fiercely intelligent and...
The Midnight Timetable : A Novel in Ghost Stories
Chung, Bora/ Hur, Anton (TRN)
Paper Book
From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research center that houses cursed objects, where those who open the wrong door might find it's disappeared behind them, or that...
The Killing Stones : The Return of Jimmy Perez
Cleeves, Ann.
Paper Book
Detective Jimmy Perez returns in The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves, New York Times bestselling author of the Vera, Shetland, and Two Rivers series. When a violent storm descends upon the Orkney Islands, the body of Archie Stout is left behind in its...
Exiles
Coile, Mason
A terrifying locked-room mystery from the author of William--this time set on a remote outpost on Mars. The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray--the...
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny : A Novel
Desai, Kiran.
BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST * KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years--an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of...
The wilderness : a novel
Flournoy, Angela
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION "Flournoy has delivered a future classic--the kind of novel that generations to come will read to understand the nuances and peculiarities of this time."...
Circle of Days
Follett, Ken
Paper Book
From a bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to...
Clown town
Herron, Mick
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "May be the best Slow Horses book to date."--The Wall Street Journal THE NEW NOVEL IN THE SERIES BEHIND SLOW HORSES, AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+ Jackson Lamb and the bad spies...
Saltcrop
Kitasei, Yume
Paper Book
From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister--and Earth's environmental salvation. In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate...
Cannon
Lai, Lee
Paper Book
A LAMBDA Award winner and breakout fiction sensation returns with a darkly funny slice of friendship strife We arrive to wreckage--a restaurant smashed to rubble, with tables and chairs upended riotously. Under the swampy nighttime cover of a Montreal heat-wave, this is...
The Hunger We Pass Down : A Novel
Lee, Jen Sookfong.
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER. From the bestselling author of Superfan comes a haunting novel about the demons passed down through five generations of women in a Chinese Canadian family, and what it might take for them to finally break free of the past. Will you break your mother's curse...
The Cree Word for Love : Sâkihitowin
Lindberg, Tracey.
Bestselling author of Birdie, Tracey Lindberg, and renowned artist George Littlechild join together in a stunning collaboration of story and art to explore love in all its forms--romantic, familial, community and kin--in the Cree experience In The Cree Word for Love, author Tracey Lindberg...
Will there ever be another you
Lockwood, Patricia
Paper Book
"Lockwood has written a roving chronicle of the madness of illness and the frightening porousness of what it means to be yourself in the hilariously profound way that only she could." - Vulture "Reliably brilliant." - The Washington Post "Characteristically...
What We Can Know : A Novel
McEwan, Ian.
"A philosophically charged tour de force by one of the best living novelists in English." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[What We Can Know] gave me so much pleasure I sometimes felt like laughing. . . . It's the best thing McEwan has written in ages. It's a...
The Heartbreak Hotel
O'clover, Ellen
Louisa Walsh emerged from a tumultuous childhood with a degree in counselling, a wealthy boyfriend, and her sunny outlook on life mostly intact. But that optimism is tested when she's dumped and left unable to afford rent on their gorgeous house in the mountains of Colorado. Even with her life in...
The Impossible Fortune
Osman, Richard
Paper Book
The unmissable new mystery in the Thursday Murder Club series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Osman, now streaming on Netflix Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan? It's been a quiet year for the Thursday...
The most unusual haunting of Edgar Lovejoy
Parrish, Roan
Jamie Wendon-Dale may design haunted houses, but they don't actually believe in ghosts-until they meet Edgar Lovejoy, who is tall, clever, beautiful...and 100% haunted. A COZY, GHOSTLY LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE Jamie Wendon-Dale creates haunted houses for a...
To the Moon and Back : A Novel
Ramage, Eliana.
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK: "A breathtaking debut about family, identity, and love across generations." --REESE WITHERSPOON "Eliana Ramage will break your heart and take you to the stars. From painfully accurate depictions of adolescence to effortless jumps through time...
Minor Black Figures
Taylor, Brandon
A newcomer to New York, Wyeth is a Black painter who grew up in the South and is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. It's challenging. Gallery shows displaying bad art. Pretentious artists jockeying for attention. The gossip and the backstabbing. While his part-time...
Pick a Colour : A Novel
Thammavongsa, Souvankham.
*Shortlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize* From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labour, and class. An intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged...
Earl crush : a novel
Vasti, Alexandra
Paper Book
"Bridgerton at its sexiest . . . Crush? Ha. I'm in love with the earl!" - Eloisa James, New York Times bestselling author USA Today bestselling author Alexandra Vasti returns with another hot, hilarious Regency romp about a reclusive earl and the wallflower...

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