*New & Notable Adult Fiction - May Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated May 11, 2026
G
Greater Victoria Public Library Greater Victoria Public Library
This is your list in printable form. Simply print this page using your browser's print command.

*New & Notable Adult Fiction - May Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
A Very Vexing Murder: Harriet Smith Investigates
Andrew, Lucy
Paper Book
Harriet Smith investigates...A murder most Austen. A witty debut whodunit that reimagines Harriet Smith, the gullible sidekick of Jane Austen's Emma, as a spitfire con woman, hired to break off an engagement and uncover a murderer in the genteel village of Highbury.<...
Burnt Ends : A Novel
Calderone, Andrew.
"Andrew Calderone is a talented writer and this deft, entertaining novel has much to say about Canadian food, identity, and coming of age."--Alix Ohlin, author of Dual Citizens and Inside Like many passionate cooks, Luca Russo learned to love food at his mother's elbow...
The Young Will Remember
Chung, Eve J
Paper Book
A sweeping novel about a correspondent trapped behind enemy lines during the Korean War, and the women who help her find her way home, from the national bestselling author of Daughters of Shandong When I found the courage to lift my head, I expected to stare down the...
The Girl with a Thousand Faces
Dean, Sunyi
Paper Book
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Book Eaters comes The Girl with a Thousand Faces, a stunning Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong that meshes ancient myths and local legends into a haunting story of ghosts, grief, and women who will not forgive. ...
Homebound : A Novel
Elan, Portia.
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * In this novel of friendship and hard-won hope, four lives are entangled across time by one story, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s and destined to ripple across the centuries. "A joy...and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what...
Our Perfect Storm
Fortune, Carley.
INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Best friends have one week in paradise to fix their friendship or fall apart in this heart-stopping, utterly romantic new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After and One Golden Summer.
The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts : A Novel
Fu, Kim.
A New York Times Best Book for March 2026 | A Belletrist book Club Pick | A Book Riot Most Anticipated Book of 2026 | A Chicago Review of Books Most Anticipated Book of 2026 | A Selection for The Booksellers' List An eerie, spellbinding novel of grief, ghosts,...
The Daisy Chain Flower Shop
Gilmore, Laurie
Paper Book
The brand new summer romance set in Dream Harbor from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pumpkin Spice Café and The Strawberry Patch Pancake House! "Another gentle small-town romance with Hallmark movie vibes... Dream Harbor remains a cozy spot to linger" Publisher's Weekly<...
Mercutio
Heartfield, Kate.
Paper Book
From Sunday Times bestselling author of The Embroidered Book and The Valkyrie comes an opulent 13th century epic retelling of the life of Mercutio before he ever encountered Romeo and Juliet. On the battlefield, as warring factions deal out death, young Mercutio chances upon...
Coyoteland
Hua, Vanessa
Living in El Nido, a privileged community in the hills east of Berkeley, is supposed to mean you've made it. So when Jin Chang moves there with his wife and daughters after years of scraping by, he hopes it will finally be the end of his bad luck. What his family doesn't know is that he's bending...
Before I Knew I Loved You.
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu.
Paper Book
The sixth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series about a cozy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time. In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible - not just a...
Love Among Thieves
Kwan, Katrina.
Adelina Choi is a hacker with a heart of gold and a talent for emptying bank accounts. An MIT dropout with Robin Hood tendencies, she funnels cash from greedy marks to those who need it most. It's a simple gig... until she targets the wrong man. West is a retired conman-turned-single-dad who catches...
The Last Contract of Isako
Lee, Fonda
Paper Book
A battle-worn corporate samurai undertakes one last mission on a merciless planet where death is always a mere breath away, in this standalone dystopian epic from the author of the modern fantasy classic Jade City.  LIVE BY THE CODE. DIE BY THE...
Babylon, South Dakota
Lin, Tom
Paper Book
From the author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction winner The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu comes a tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful, mysterious, and morally dubious military secret shapes their lives.
And the corpse wore tartan
MacBride, Stuart
Paper Book
A darkly funny and unexpectedly chilling Scottish detective novel from internationally bestselling crime writer Stuart MacBride. Move over Miss Marple... The great and the not-so-good are gathered at Skirivour Castle Hotel, in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, for...
The Outer Country
Malasarn, Davin
Paper Book
This tender, elegant debut examines the struggle of holding a family together when secrets threaten to unravel it. "Both a book of demons and a book of uncommon grace; an instant classic in the queer canon. Davin Malasarn is an exquisite writer of the heart."--Justin Torres, author...
Palaces of the Crow
Nayler, Ray
Paper Book
In Ray Nayler's speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect. Neriya, a young Jewish girl who...
The Last Mandarin
Penny, Louise
Paper Book
A gripping thriller about family and power co-written by Louise Penny, #1 bestselling author of the Gamache novels, and Mellissa Fung, an award-winning journalist. A mother and a daughter race against time in this all-too-real thriller that reaches from Tiananmen Square all...
Sisters of a Halved Heart A Novel.
Roy, Nayantara.
The electric story of two sisters and an unthinkable betrayal.  Mira Guhathakurta is a poetry editor at a distinguished literary magazine in New York, a dream job that has given her nearly everything she's always wanted. And then she reconnects with Jack from...
The Things We Never Say
Strout, Elizabeth
In this "profound, resplendent novel"* from Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout, a chance incident sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher's life "Strout's capacious empathy and rigorous attention to the nuances of...
John of John
Stuart, Douglas.
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by GQ * The New York Times * The Guardian * Esquire * Chicago Review of Books * The Sydney Morning Herald * Time * Oprah Daily * Vogue * ELLE * Kirkus Reviews * Los Angeles Times * Literary Hub * Washington Post * Goodreads *...
Villain: A Novel
Walschots, Natalie Zina
Paper Book
The Boys meets Assistant to the Villain in the electrifying, sharp, violent, and hilarious sequel to the highly acclaimed novel, Hench. Filled with a queer and neurodiverse cast, Villain asks the question: what happens when a diabolically brilliant henchperson looks back at their...
New Skin A Novel.
Wang, Sarah.
Paper Book
A scalding, darkly humorous debut following an enmeshed mother-daughter duo, both best friends and enemies, and the plastic surgery addiction that warps their lives into a perilous spiral   At twenty-six, Linli Feng is still trying to escape her mother Fanny's...
Platform Decay
Wells, Martha
Paper Book
Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know.Including human children. Ugh.This may well call for... eye contact!...
Questions 27 & 28
Yamashita, Karen Tei
Paper Book
In February 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the secretary of war to remove 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast and corral them into inland concentration camps. To be considered for release, they...
Treat Them as Buffalo : A Novel
Yoxall, Blair Palmer.
Paper Book
An electrifying anti-Western from an exciting new Indigenous writer. As teenage boys begin to disappear from a great plains Métis community, a young man attempts to uncover the evil force lurking out of sight. In 1885, Nikosis "Niko" Eriksen spends his days playing...
Seek Immediate Shelter
Yu, Vincent
Paper Book
A BREATHTAKING DEBUT novel about survival, hope, and second chances in an Asian American community in Massachusetts, when a false missile throws the residents' lives into chaos. "Propulsive and poetic...A MASTERFUL debut." --Jenny Tinghui Zhang "A PROFOUND work about...
Find this list online

https://librarian.syndetics.com/syndeticsunbound/lp/750.1113/list/7955

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