New Adult Books May 2025

Updated April 27, 2025
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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 Jackal's mistress : a novel
Bohjalian, Chris
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she's willing to risk...
The railway conspiracy
Nee, John Shen Yen
Paper Book
Judge Dee and Lao She must use all their powers of deduction--and kung fu skills--to take down a sinister conspiracy between Imperial Russia, Japan, and China in a rollicking new mystery set in 1920s London. The follow-up to The Murder of Mr. Ma, this historical adventure...
Thirty below : the harrowing and heroic story of the first all-women's ascent of Denali
Randall, Cassidy
Paper Book
Winner of the 2025 Banff Mountain Literature Award for Nonfiction "An entrancing tale of a harrowing adventure." --Kirkus (starred review) Winner of the Banff Mountain Literature Award for Non-Fiction Celebrated in Vanity...
The unworthy : a novel
Bazterrica, Agustina María
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER | LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent...
What is wrong with you? : a novel
Rudnick, Paul
Paper Book
"[A] rollicking farce about the things we do for love...A perfect book for this moment." --People "The genuinely hilarious Paul Rudnick" (Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author) returns with a witty, insightful new novel about the joy, delight, pain, and...
Wild dark shore
McConaghy, Charlotte
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025 An ENTHRALLING new novel from the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves "A WILDLY TALENTED writer." ―...

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