*New & Notable Adult Fiction - December Highlights*Unpublished

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An irresistible modern fairy tale about a British princess who must decide between her duty to her family--or to her own heart. A Reese's Book Club Pick! It's New Year's Day in Australia and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is...

Ginny Spain usually loves Christmas. Not this year, though. After witnessing a traumatic accident and breaking up with her ex, she plans to spend it alone. But her formidable art historian mother, Evie, has other ideas. Determined to drag her daughter out of isolation, Evie persuades...

She's bound by tradition, but maybe they're destined for love... Priya Solanki is a 'Dalit' or 'untouchable,' the lowest echelon of Indian castes-a stigma that follows individuals from birth to death, and as Priya learns, beyond oceans and continents. Traditionally assigned to occupations considered...

Sergio Durand, renowned photographer and playboy extraordinaire, plans to welcome the New Year in style. Along with his brother Adrien, they're off to the winter wonderland of Lake Placid, ready for a holiday filled with skiing, laughter, and good company. Their group includes best friend Holden,...

A modern-day dark academia fantasy with a twist, perfect for fans of Babel and A Deadly Education. Warren University has stood amongst the ivy elite for centuries, built on the bones--and forbidden magic--of its most prized BIPOC students...hiding the rot of a secret society that will do...

Nora Bird works for S.C.Y.T.H.E., which might seem odd for someone as terrified of death as she is. But ever since her parents died in an accident when she was six, she's been obsessed with avoiding risk, and what better place to learn how to cheat death than the company that employs the nation's...

"Enthralling and eloquently bittersweet--a vivid historical portrait of the pivotal yet overlooked struggle to save Italian Jews in WWII, and how one unforgettable woman risks everything for love. Devereaux writes with great authority and masterfully blends imagination and history. A deeply...

Newly released from prison, Kristine Woods discovers that her father has disappeared into a mysterious town hidden in the New Mexico desert. When she arrives to the town of Promise, though, she doesn't find an average Southwestern town but an oasis of blossoms and lush greenery in the desert... and...

"Beautifully written with a twist you won't see coming." --HELEN HARDT, #1 New York Times bestselling author on When We Had Forever An emotionally gripping page-turner about heartbreak, old secrets, and second chances--with an unexpected Cyrano...

A paraplegic bull rider and his new home aide fall in love as they pick up the pieces of their lives in the second book in the popular Griffith Brothers series. Rule #1 of almost dying: Make sure someone knows your passwords. It's hard to cancel your phone plan if you're dead.

"What could be more magical than a writer who can flip from hilarity to darkness and back on the same page? Jennie Godfrey does this and more...in a voice that is as authentic as it is unforgettable." --Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street "We'll make a list...

A charming new LGBTQIA+ romcom from the bestselling author of BOYFRIEND MATERIAL. Audrey Lane is perfectly fine. Really. So what if she left her high-powered job as a Very Important Journalist--and her even higher-powered long-term girlfriend--to live a quiet life as a reporter for the...

A novel about a man who returns home, only to find that home is now unrecognizable, by the Nobel laureate Peter Handke. Gregor returns home from another continent. The landscape, formerly dotted with small villages, has been absorbed into the outskirts of a large city, both...

A funny, heartfelt, late coming-of-age story that examines the role of memory in holding us back--and in moving us forward--for fans of The Collected Regrets of Clover and Maame. Call it inertia. Call it a quarter-life crisis. Whatever you call it, Cricket...

A high society fraud and a scrappy swindler team up to take down Gilded Age New York in this tale of intrigue, drama, and female friendship. The Grand Duchess Marie Charlotte Antonie of Würrtemberg--a turmoil-plagued Germanic nation with closely guarded emerald mines--has taken Gilded Age...

A Zibby's Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2025! From New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes a page-turning drama that explores the beauty of female friendship; the relationship between money, power, and sex; and the very human desire to protect...

Don't miss the brand-new cozy crime series from Greg Mosse - available to pre-order now! Zoe Pascal has decided to live her dream: leave England and open up a bookshop in a small village in the south of France. She wants to spend her later years in life eating croissants,...

Acclaimed author Carlene O'Connor has long enchanted readers with her charming, smart, and quirky bestselling mysteries set in Ireland's idyllic locales. Now she delivers a heartfelt, relatable novel about one woman who travels to the Emerald Isle hoping to find a new direction for her ...

"The Award begins as a wryly funny satire of thwarted literary ambition, but it quickly evolves into something darker and more disturbing. Matthew Pearl's addictive and propulsive novel has the twisted nightmare logic of a Patricia Highsmith thriller."--Tom Perrotta, New York Times ...

The internationally acclaimed and nationally bestselling author of Brightly Shining returns with a trio of tender, powerful stories of courage and overcoming adversity Ingvild Rishøi is one of Scandinavia's most revered literary voices, winner of the Dobloug Prize from the...

Bojack Horseman meets Joan Didion in this smart, sly, and irresistibly stylish debut novel about a jaded movie star and the two differently conflicted women in his orbit. Some people you meet them and you imagine this movie together. The two of you make a kind of movie and...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson―creator of the Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn saga, and numerous smash-hit works of science fiction and fantasy―comes Tailored Realities, a new short fiction collection including the...

'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time' C. K. MCDONNELL The nail-bitingly tense, rib-crackingly funny new TIME POLICE mission from the million-copy bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S. The Time Police are accustomed to jumping to the past....

"Bewitching ... Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller." --The New York Times A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead<...

"Ultimately, if you're seeking murderous mayhem, repartee to relish in, and fashionista friendships -- 'I Was A Fashion School Serial Killer' -- is for you." --FORBES Sewing together serial killer horror and college drama feels so right--like slipping into a warm blood bath.<...