Error: List cannot contain more than 100 items.

New Adult FictionUnpublished

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

Updated February 16, 2026

Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries NLPL Selections Team

This is your list in printable form. Simply print this page using your browser's print command.

New Adult Fiction

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

List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.
List cannot contain more than 100 items.

Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.

300 New Year's Eves

Carmichael, K. C.

For fans of Timothy Javonsky and Ashley Herring Blake, a heartfelt and hilarious time-loop romance set in a snowy holiday retreat, where a charming playboy must fix his mistakes--or be stuck reliving New Year's Eve forever. Sergio Durand, renowned photographer and playboy...

Alchemy and a cup of tea : a cozy fantasy brewed with magic and romance

Thorne, Rebecca

Paper Book

DELUXE EDITION--this gorgeous paperback release features romantic lavender sprayed edges, a beautiful color illustration, and a bonus short story! USA Today, Sunday Times, and Indie bestselling author Rebecca Thorne brings the Tomes & Tea series to a...

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

"Sweet and delicious!" --Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop "Delightful." --Samantha Sotto Yambao, New York Times bestselling author of Water Moon In this charming, fable-like book from Japan, a fox spirit...

Angelhunting

Sayo, Ji Hong

Having tried his hand at medicine, pickpocketing, and good old-fashioned thuggery, Seamus Caron has finally settled into life as a private detective, hunting down lost money and wandering husbands. It's not glamorous work, but it pays the bills and provides a steady supply of fistfights for...

As many souls as stars : a novel

Siegel, Natasha

"This novel will bend and twist your notion of what love is, while leaving you utterly bewitched." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS (Starred Review) "Vivid and impressive...Fans of Addie LaRue will be enthralled." -- PUBLISHER'S WEEKY (Starred Review) An inventive and romantic speculative novel...

Audrey Lane stirs the pot

Hall, Alexis J.

Paper Book

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...

August Lane

Black, Regina

A Southern small-town romance about the visibility of Black women's voices in country music, perfect for fans of Beyonce's Cowboy Carter and The Final Revival of Opal & Nev. "The best romance I've read all year." --The New York Times ...

Awake in the floating city : a novel

Kwan, Susanna

Paper Book

WINNER OF THE ASIAN AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE IN ADULT FICTION * LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE An utterly transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for--two of the last...

Backslide

Dahlia, Nora

The author of the "sexy, smart, and sweetly satisfying" (Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Pick-Up returns with a second chance romance perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Abby Jimenez! Exes are thrown together at their best friends' wine country un-wedding and forced...

Blood slaves

Redmond, Markus

What if nobody ever freed the slaves... because they freed themselves - 150 years before the Civil War? In the Province of Carolina, 1710, freedom seems unattainable for Willie, for his beloved Gertie, and for their unborn child. They live, suffer, and toil under their brutal master, James 'Big Jim'...

The bodyguard affair

Lea, Amy

A secret romance writer discovers that the hottest story of summer might just be the one happening between her and the Prime Minister's bodyguard, from the international bestselling author of Set On You. Andi Zeigler lives a double life. By day, she's the no-nonsense,...

The Bookshop Below

Summers, Georgia

Paper Book

Below the streets of London, a secret network of magical bookshops has existed for millennia. But they're slowly disappearing, and no one knows why. Only one dishonored bookseller can uncover the truth and rewrite her story--in this spellbinding standalone fantasy novel from the ...

The burning grounds

Mukherjee, Abir

In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta where the dead are laid to rest, a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear. The body is that of a popular patron of the arts, a man who was, by all accounts, beloved by all- so what was the motive for his murder? Despite being out of...

Call Me Ishmaelle

Guo, Xiaolu

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Pick "Well worth your time . . . By adding in new characters while adhering to the original story, the author creates something new, strange and thrilling."--Los Angeles Times "An astonishingly ambitious...

Can't spell treason without tea : a cozy fantasy steeped with love

Thorne, Rebecca

Paper Book

DELUXE EDITION--featuring beautiful jade sprayed edges and brand-new original art! In the tradition of Legends & Lattes, comes a cozy fantasy steeped in sapphic romance about one of the Queen's private guards and a powerful mage who want to open a bookshop and live...

The cathedral of lost souls

Brackston, Paula

Book two in the Hecate Cavendish series from New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston - a magic infused series about an eccentric and spirited young woman who can see ghosts. Hereford, England 1881. The adventure continues! After the fire and the...

Crawl : stories

Delsohn, Max

A darkly comic, introspective debut collection that looks beneath the surface of trans life in 2010s Seattle People called it paradise, but baby, it wasn't. What to do when starting testosterone unlocks a newfound desire for men? How to respond when your boss's...

Daedalus is dead

Sullivan, Seamus

A delirious and gripping story of fatherhood and masculinity, told through the reimagined Greek myth of Daedalus, Icarus, King Minos, Ariadne, and the Minotaur. Daedalus of Crete is many things: The greatest architect in the world. The constructor of the Labyrinth that...

A daughter's place : a novel

BÃ¡tiz Zuk, Martha Beatriz

Paper Book

A sweeping historical romance inspired by the real-life daughter of Miguel de Cervantes, celebrated author of Don Quixote Madrid, 1599. Following her mother's sudden death, fifteen-year-old Isabel goes to live in the family home of her father, the poet and war hero Miguel de Cervantes, a...

Deeper Than the Ocean

Ojito, Mirta

Divine Ruin

Douaihy, Margot

A Most Anticipated Book of 2026 from CrimeReads In the latest in the USA Today bestselling, award-winning, critically acclaimed series, New Orleans punk rock nun-detective Sister Holiday plunges into a "hellish underworld of drug trafficking, addiction, and her...

The emergency : a novel

Packer, George

A gripping fable of imperial collapse that illuminates the crises of our times. George Packer's bestselling nonfiction work exploring American life has won many prizes, including the National Book Award. With The Emergency, he returns to fiction, bringing us a visionary...

The fake mate

Ferguson, Lana

Paper Book

Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail - she hasn't had a successful date in months. Only a year out of residency, her grandmother's obsession with Mackenzie finding the perfect mate to settle down with...

A family matter : a novel

Lynch, Claire

Paper Book

A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * "Burns like a sparkler, quick and mesmerizing." --The New York Times * Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize A young wife following her heart. A husband with the law on his side. Their daughter,...

Fate's Bane

Clark, C. L.

Paper Book

Ignyte Award-winning author C. L. Clark brings fantasy to the fens with Fate's Bane, a tragic sapphic adventure. Warring clans. Burning hearts. Deadly fate. The clans of the fens enjoy a tenuous peace, and it is all thanks to Agnir, ward and hostage....

For Our Next Song

James, Jessica

For Glitter Bats keys player Jane Mercer, writing music helps tune out her self-doubt from a strict upbringing. Composing also distracts from her longtime feelings for her bandmate and best friend, Keeley, who Jane can't pursue if she wants to keep her bisexuality out of the media. But when an...

The forget-me-not library

Webber, Heather S.

Paper Book

A detour. A chance encounter. Two women who alter the pages of each other's story. Juliet Nightingale is lucky to be alive. Months after a freak accident involving lightning, she's fully recovered but is left feeling that something is missing from her life. Something big....

The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu

Hung, Mindy

A seemingly inexplicable magic takes over the lives of three generations of women in this gripping and romantically steamy novel sure to captivate readers of At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities and The Change. Leeann Wu's hands have started glowing at the most...

Go luck yourself

Raasch, Sara

Paper Book

DELUXE EDITION--featuring stunning shamrock green sprayed edges! It's enemies to lovers in this sexy and delightful holiday mash up that pairs the spare prince of Christmas with the crown prince of St. Patrick's Day! Someone has been...

The Grand Paloma Resort : a novel

Natera, Cleyvis

Paper Book

AN ELLE AND ELECTRIC LIT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * The Grand Paloma Resort is a lush paradise in the Dominican Republic where the guests enjoy incredible luxury, and the staff is always eager to please--that is, until they are pushed to the brink. Laura is a local...

Greta Gets the Girl

Marr, Melissa

From New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr comes a steamy tale of forbidden romance. NY publishing is Greta Clayborne's life, and she's on a high since she edited a hot new series that was just adapted for television. In her career, everything is on track. On...

Harriet Tubman: live in concert : a novel

Bob, the Drag Queen

Paper Book

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025 by Pride * Best New Books of Spring 2025 by Bustle * Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by LitHub * Biggest Books of March by Book Riot * Most Anticipated Books of March by...

Hello, Juliet

Bailey, Samantha M.

Paper Book

In a dark thriller from USA Today bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey, a TV reunion brings costars back for the drama and betrayals their viewers once craved--and this time, the stakes are deadly. Ivy Westcott fled LA as her acting career imploded. In a flash, she lost her...

I got abducted by aliens and now I'm trapped in a rom-com

Lemming, Kimberly

Paper Book

Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she's attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she's saved! On the not-so-bright side, it's because they're abducted by aliens. In her scramble to escape, Dory and the lion commandeer an escape pod and crash-land on an alien...

It Had to Be Him

Khorram, Adib

Heartstopper meets Eat Pray Love in this swoony, spicy, second-chance romance from USA Today bestselling author Adib Khorram about two former classmates unexpectedly reuniting in Italy. "It Had To Be Him<...

Last First Kiss

Winters, Julian

They say you never forget your first kiss. But Jordan Carter wishes he could forget the one he shared with Jamie Peters as teens. And the one they almost shared again last year before Jamie made it clear he wasn't the "right" man for Jordan to be with while he's figuring himself out.Now, Jordan's...

Like in Love with You

Alban, Emma R

Mean Girls meets Northanger Abbey in this sharp and sexy Regency Romance that begs the question: what if Cady and Regina just... kissed When Catherine Pine relocates to Bath in 1817, she comes face-to-face with her mother's arch nemesis and her daughter--the wildly popular...

Lore of the tides : a novel

Sbrana, Analeigh

Paper Book

From the author of Lore of the Wilds comes the exciting and passionate conclusion, as Lore navigates Fae magic amid looming dangers in this high-stakes fantasy romance. Lore Alemeyu wakes up to discover she's on a ship in the middle of the ocean. Held prisoner and...

A mannequin for Christmas

Janovsky, Timothy

Paper Book

A Christmas romance for Barbie fans who wished Ken and Allan got their own love story. Henry Aster swears he is unlucky when it comes to love. He thought he'd finally found The One, but a sudden break-up has left him hopeless right before the holiday season. ...

Mayhem and the Mortal

Williams, Shanora

Paper Book

"I am obsessed with this book! ... A top read of the year and a book that's going straight to my favorites shelf." --#1 New York Times bestselling author Devney Perry Don't miss out on the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION while supplies last. This breathtaking...

Middle spoon

Varela, Alejandro

"Middle Spoon subverts the ordinary novel with intelligence and vulnerability. . . . Varela has made a sly, analytical opera of the heart." --Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less and Less Is Lost "A rollicking delight! . . . Varela asks...

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...

The body in the trees : a novel

Fletcher, Jessica

The newest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series. It's leaf-peeping season in Cabot Cove, but for someone, it's killing season! A quartet of friends from Florida have come to Maine to experience a New England autumn, complete with hiking...

Next Level Love

Patel, Shameez

When two people find out their online crushes are actually their IRL coworkers, they must figure out a way to work with each other in this charming and geeky romcom perfect for fans of Olivia Dade. When your favorite player turns out to be your very real boss...

Oil people : a novel

Huebert, David

Paper Book

Shortlisted for the 2025 Amazon First Novel Award and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Part generational saga, part eco-gothic fable, Oil People is a luminous debut novel about history and family, land and power, and oil as an object of toxic wonder. ...

An oral history of Atlantis : stories

Park, Ed

Paper Book

Gilt-edged stories that slice clean through the mundanity of modern life, from the author of Same Bed Different Dreams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize "Ed Park is one of the funniest writers working today, and...

The Rarest Fruit

Belem, Gaelle

NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025・BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - Washington Independent Review of Books "A gorgeous novel."--New York Times Based on a true story, The Rarest Fruit is a captivating tale of resilience, discovery, and the...

The shocking experiments of Miss Mary Bennet : a novel

Taub, Melinda

An utterly fantastical and undeniably queer melding of Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein that recasts Mary Bennet as an insatiable scientist, one who creates a monster in an attempt to save herself from spinsterdom Awkward, plain, and overlooked,...

Skin

Bush, Catherine

Paper Book

Now, for the first time, a blistering book of short fiction from one of Canada's most loved novelists. In Skin, Catherine Bush plunges into the vortex of all that shapes us. Summoning relationships between the human and more-than-human, she explores a world where touch and...

Smeg

Wishart, Diane

Former detective and perpetual grouch Charlie Smeg is old-at least that's the way he feels-and newly retired from the Edmonton Police. He's washed up, burnt out, and unappreciated by younger cops clawing for his job. He'd been a good detective but methods change, times change. He's looking forward...

A special interest in murder

Harrison, Mette Ivie

A brilliant neurodivergent female sleuth colliding with an FBI agent with a secret. A crime that is not all it seems. A page-turning, red-herring-filled murder mystery, perfect for fans of Nita Prose, Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz."A clever series kickoff featuring a sleuth who opens the often...

Tall Is Her Body

Chevotiere, Robert de la

Paper Book

Readers of Black Cake and Family Lore will be captivated by this sweeping, multicultural family story of keen observation and the supernatural in which one man's journey to wholeness-both emotionally and physically-is shaped by the lands of his childhood and those of his...

Terry Dactyl

Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein

From iconic author and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore comes a breathless search for intimacy and connection, ranging from club culture to the art world, from the AIDS crisis to COVID-19. Terry Dactyl has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she...

This Gilded Abyss

Thorne, Rebecca

From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Thorne comes This Gilded Abyss, a thrilling lesbian fantasy where Arcane meets Titanic Sergeant Nix Marr is a damn good soldier, but she's desperate to leave her haunted past in the bioluminescent ocean,...

This Kind of Trouble: A Novel

Eze, Tochi

A powerful debut novel of forbidden love, family history, and the ways we seek healing in a changing world, centred on an estranged couple who are brought together to reckon with the mysterious events that splintered their family apart decades earlier. In 1960s Lagos, a city...

When sleeping women wake : a novel

Pei Yin, Emma

Paper Book

In this remarkable and harrowing debut novel, three extraordinary women--a mother, her daughter, and their maid--are each forced on a journey of survival during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in World War II. "A lushly romantic and impassioned story of women's agency and...

With stars in her eyes : a novel

Burke, Andie

Paper Book

The instant USA Today bestselling sapphic bookstore romance about fresh starts and finding that one person who feels like home. "Snappy, smart, and endlessly swoon-worthy, With Stars In Her Eyes is a front-row ticket to a love story that's impossible to...

Find this list online

https://librarian.syndetics.com/syndeticsunbound/lp/750.1113/list/7330

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.