New Adult Fiction

Updated November 27, 2025
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As the Earth Dreams : Black Canadian Speculative Stories
Mason Pierre, Terese
A groundbreaking anthology of haunting stories by Black Canadian writers Edited by esteemed poet Terese Mason Pierre, this bold and innovative anthology of speculative short fiction reveals and uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reveries, reflections, experiments, and hopes of Black...
George Falls Through Time
Collett, Ryan
GEORGE FALLS THROUGH TIME IS. . . "Incredibly entertaining and intelligent." --GARRARD CONLEY "Big-hearted and inspired." --STEVEN ROWLEY "Funny, surprising, profound." --GRANT GINDER "Unputdownable." --LUNA MCNAMARA Less meets the year 1300 in this exhilarating...
Woman Down
Hoover, Colleen
In this twisty thriller from New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a frustrated author looks for her muse in a remote hideaway, but what she finds defies all expectations...and reality. Her words used to set the page on fire. But a viral backlash over her latest...
The Murder at World's End
Montgomery, Ross
Knives Out meets Downton Abbey! Secrets, murder, and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo--an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogenarian--hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world, in this locked-room mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ross...
Some Bright Nowhere
Packer, Ann
"Profound and moving and real."--Andrew Sean Greer "Some Bright Nowhere is a novel that draws you in deeply and holds you there. Wonderful."--Meg Wolitzer The bestselling, beloved author returns with her first novel in over a decade, an intimate and profoundly moving look at a long...
Symphony of Monsters
Levy, Marc
Set against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, international bestselling author Marc Levy's new novel is a page-turning thriller full of courage, resilience, and love. A mother's love knows no borders, and her fight knows no limits. Veronika, a nurse, returns home to find that her...
Yours for the Season
Jalaluddin, Uzma
For an ambitious attorney and a rising-star chef, a cross-cultural fake romance takes an unexpected detour in a heartwarming and funny novel by the author of Much Ado About Nada and Ayesha at Last. When Sameera Malik and Tom Cooke meet at a ho-hum holiday party,...
Private Rome: A Private Novel
Patterson, James
Paper Book
A priest is murdered and a Private agent is the number one suspect. Jack Morgan is in Rome celebrating the opening of a new local Private office, when the party takes a deadly turn. Private agent Matteo Ricci is found at the party standing over the body of a dead priest with a...
Make It Out Alive
Brennan, Allison.
Allison Brennan returns to her bestselling series with an edge-of-your-seat thriller that thrusts Quinn and Costa into the crosshairs of a sadistic serial killer.   Three newlywed couples have disappeared from an exclusive resort in Florida, only to turn up dead soon...
Afrofuturism Short Stories
Grayson, Sandra M. (INT)/ Asare, Isis/ Shawl, Nisi (FRW)
The National Museum of African American History and Culture characterises Afrofuturism (as distinct from Africanfuturism) as expressing "notions of Black identity, agency and freedom through art, creative works and activism that envision liberated futures for Black life." This new book offers new...
Wreck Your Heart: A Mystery
Rader-Day, Lori
From award-winning author Lori Rader-Day, Wreck Your Heart is an engaging, "wisecracking and wonderful" crime novel with a big heart, about a country and midwestern singer out to catch her big break before family--or murder--wrecks everything. ...
My Husband's Wife
Feeney, Alice
The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists is back with a psychological masterpiece that will leave you questioning everything you know about love, identity, and revenge. "Nonstop thrills! The best Feeney book yet!" --FREIDA MCFADDEN Eden Fox, an artist...
The Bookbinder's Secret
Bell, A D
Every book tells a story. This one tells a secret. A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder. Lilian ("Lily") Delaney,...
Best Canadian Stories 2026
Gartner, Zsuzsi.
"Combines both emerging and established voices for a fascinating glimpse at the most exciting short fiction coming out of this country."--Open Book Selected and introduced by Zsuzsi Gartner, Best Canadian Stories 2026 provides a distinctive sample of the best Canadian short fiction...
The Bond That Burns
Boleyn, Briar
At Bloodwing Academy, blood is currency, but a dragon's legacy is priceless-and as dangerous as fire. I thought surviving my first year in Bloodwing's deadly halls would be enough. I was wrong. I accidentally woke a dragon-a creature of myth, of death, of fire. Now every...
Fire Sword and Sea
Riley, Vanessa
"In her latest, Riley provides a fresh take on high seas adventure through the eyes of the courageous, swashbuckling, based-on-a-real-life female pirate Jacquotte Delahaye. The research Riley has done on this 1600s saga is truly remarkable, second only to her depictions of the lush Caribbean...
Cowboy, It's Cold Outside (Original)
Yates, Maisey
Paper Book
A favor owed. An Off-limits romance. Four Corners is in for the hottest Christmas it's ever seen. Sheena Patrick has done well, all things considered. After her father's death, she raised her sisters and did all she could to give them the best life possible. But they're...
Death and Other Occupational Hazards
Dapunt, Veronika
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2023 An original and darkly comedic murder mystery about a female personified Death whose sabbatical in modern-day London gets rudely interrupted by a string of unplanned murders. Perfect for fans of Good Omens, The Good...
Catch Her If You Can
Bailey, Tessa
#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey is back with an all-new marriage of convenience, friends-to-lovers sports romance about a baseball catcher and the burlesque club owner he can't get out of his head. Madden Donahue, the newest catcher for the Yankees, has been in...
The Briars
Crouch, Sarah
The Cabin
Horst, Jorn Lier
Fans of Jo Nesbø and Stieg Larsson will be captivated by this thrilling and atmospheric second novel in the Cold Case Quartet, from award-winning Nordic crime writer Jørn Lier Horst. Fifteen years ago, Simon Meier walked out of his house and was never seen again. ...
The Castaways
Clarke, Lucy
Paper Book
*A Waterstones Thriller of the Month selection & the Sunday Times bestseller* A SECRET BEACH. A HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME. WISH YOU WERE HERE? THINK AGAIN... 'We're tipping it as one of 2021's best reads' Marie...
The Cormorant Hunt
Idov, Michael
Slow Horses meets Red Sparrow in this electrifying spy thriller and follow-up to The Collaborators, where a disillusioned CIA officer infiltrates an extremist group in the heart of Europe. Disheartened CIA officer Ari Falk, now hiding in the Republic...
Darkrooms
Hannigan, Rebecca
"A lush, moody mystery. Darkrooms is gripping and atmospheric, as two women wrestle with guilt and injustice." -- Flynn Berry, New York Times bestselling author of Northern Spy Two unforgettable women investigate the disappearance of...
Dead in the Water
Marrs, John
From the multi-million copy bestselling author comes a chilling tale about life flashing before your eyes--including terrifying scenes you don't remember. When Damon survives a near-drowning, his life flashes before his eyes. Every memory is crystal clear--except one. A dead boy. A...
Dear Debbie
McFadden, Freida
Departure(s) : A Novel
Barnes, Julian.
On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, one of our great novelists delivers a playful and profound work about memory, love and the writer's endgame. Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he...
Detour
Rake, Jeff
Everything for everyone : an oral history of the New York commune, 2052-2072
O'Brien, M. E.
Paper Book
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism--New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the...
The Fair Weather Friend
Garcia, Jessie
The Friend of the Family
Koontz, Dean
A girl liberated from a carnival sideshow discovers her mysterious purpose in a moving novel about family, sacrifice, and transcendent love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. The human "oddities" in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the...
Fundamentals of Being a Good Girl
Murphy, Julie
This deluxe hardcover edition will feature stenciled edges and illustrated endpapers. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone comes a brand-new college town raunch-com about a sexy single dad professor and a feisty law school...
The Future Saints
Winstead, Ashley
Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and In Five Years--a beautiful, powerful, and transportive new novel about a music executive desperately trying to bring a rock band back from the brink, from bestselling author Ashley Winstead. The best love...
Graceless Heart
Ibanez, Isabel
#1 New York Times bestseller Isabel Ibañez in her adult debut: a gorgeous, historical, and romantic fantasy that will leave readers breathless for more! This stunning luxe edition includes a gorgeous cover printed over foil with a custom two color map endpapers, pink gilded...
Half His Age : A Novel
McCurdy, Jennette.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we'll go to in order to get what we want.
The Heir Apparent
Armitage, Rebecca
Herculine
Byron, Grace
One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 Debutiful * LitHub * AV Club * Our Culture * Maximum Fun * CrimeReads * LGBTQ Reads A "witty, often-chilling, compulsively readable" (Vogue) horror debut...
Hollow (Deluxe Limited Edition) (Original)
Myers, Celina
"Brilliant new vampire lore.... Spine-tingling!" --L.J. Smith, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vampire Diaries Preorder now to get a deluxe limited edition of Hollow! This special-edition hardcover will include beautifully designed endpapers and...
If I Ruled the World
Barnett, Amy DuBois
A fast-paced, juicy debut novel that peeks behind the curtain at the cutthroat world of hip-hop music and the glamorous magazine scene in the late 1990s, written by the ultimate insider It's 1999, and Nikki Rose is the only Black editor on the staff of a prestigious fashion...
The Infamous Gilberts
Tomaski, Angela
The Remains of the Day meets The Royal Tenenbaums in this darkly funny debut novel about a wealthy, eccentric family in decline and the secrets held within the walls of their crumbling country manor. Thornwalk, a once-stately English manor, is on the brink of...
Inside Man: A Head Cases Novel
McMahon, John
In this sequel to McMahon's electrifying series debut, Head Cases, Gardner Camden and the PAR team return to investigate potentially connected cases. FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He and his squad of brilliant yet quirky...
The Invisible Woman: A Thriller
Patterson, James
Is This a Cry for Help? : A Novel
Austin, Emily.
Emily Austin, the bestselling "queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines" (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book-banning crusaders in an empowering story...
Just Watch Me
Torenberg, Lior
Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this bold debut about a charismatic misfit who livestreams her life for seven days and nights to raise money to save her comatose sister--a poignant and darkly funny exploration of grief, forgiveness, and redemption. Dell Danvers is...
A Ladder of Bones
Oyinsan, Bunmi
In intertwined stories, A Ladder of Bones tells a series of narratives that take place in West Africa, Canada, the United States and the Caribbean. Siaka becomes a child soldier in Sierra Leone after being compelled to shoot his six-year-old brother. Melvin witnesses the murder of his parents by...
Lost Lambs
Cash, Madeline
Meet the Newmans
Niven, Jennifer
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Niven, a novel about America's favorite TV family, whose perfect façade cracks, for fans of Lessons in Chemistry and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. "I loved Meet the Newmans!" --Judy Blume, #1...
The Method: A Thriller
Quirk, Matthew
From the author of The Night Agent--the #1 global Netflix sensation--comes an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a young actress who must go undercover in a deadly world of espionage to save her best friend...and herself. A silent war. An unlikely spy. She's done playing by...
THE MIDNIGHT CAROUSEL
Mclynn, Fiza Saeed
Paris, 1900 Carousel-maker Gilbert works tirelessly to finish his masterpiece in time for the city's Exposition Universelle. But Gilbert is struggling in the wake of his wife and son's tragic deaths, and as he finalises his creation, a dangerous idea forms in his mind ....
Anatomy of an Alibi
Elston, Ashley
A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hwawoldang
Onhwa, Lee
For readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Dallergut Dream Department Store, and The Midnight Library, a sweetly magical and uplifting novel about a  young woman who inherits an enchanted bakery that spirits visit on their last stop before the afterlife. Twenty...
Missing Sam
Umrigar, Thrity.
Newlyweds Can Be Knocked Off
Flower, Amanda
After two decades as a widow, Millie Fisher, Amish matchmaker, quilter, goat tender, and sleuth is now a 60-something newlywed! But when she adds snowbird to her list amid the chill of an Ohio winter, murder finds a way to follow . . . After years on her own, Millie has...
No one would do what the Lamberts have done : a novel
Hannah, Sophie
'No one writes twisted, suspenseful novels quite like Sophie Hannah'. Liane Moriarty The twistiest murder mystery you are ever likely to read? A story about a family that does the unthinkable? Both? Or something else altogether? You think it will never happen to you....
No safe place : detective liz field #1
Brennan, Hannah
''I was hooked!'' Meet your new favourite detective DCI Liz Field in this dark and twisty crime thriller You can''t hide from the past... Fifteen years ago, five vulnerable teenagers took part in a life-changing study of OCD. Now, their psychologist has been brutally...
The Odds of You
Dramis, Kate
DELUXE LIMITED EDITION--featuring beautiful stenciled edges! Once is chance. Twice is fate. "This book made me remember why I fell in love with reading." - B. Celeste Sage Collins knows a thing or two about odds. A year ago, she...
Order of Royals
Deveraux, Jude.
"Jude Deveraux's writing is enchanting and exquisite." --BookPage The second book in Jude Deveraux's spellbinding and unforgettable Blue Swan series weaves an intricate tapestry of fantasy and intrigue on the enigmatic planet of Bellis. 
Paper Cut
Taff, Rachel
Pendergast: The Beginning
Preston, Douglas
From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes the Agent Pendergast origin story--a golden opportunity for longtime fans and new readers to learn about Agent Pendergast's strange and shocking first case. It only took six months for...
The Poet Empress
Tao, Shen
'Vicious, gorgeous, and fiercely haunting' CHLOE GONG 'Sublime' AMELIE WEN ZHAO 'Enthralling' ANDREA STEWART 'Astounding' CHELSEA ABDULLAH 'Lyrical' K. X. SONG 'Devastating' KRITIKA H. RAO 'Fantasy at...
Property
Cayley, Kate
A spring day in a gentrifying neighbourhood begins unremarkably enough; by evening someone has died. Nat, a middle-aged queer mother of two, feigns normalcy as she worries about her taciturn, loner son locked in his room. Her friend Maddy, a failed actress and fellow parent, frets over her...
The Rest of Our Lives
Markovits, Ben
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 'Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend . . . a profoundly moving experience.' ANN PATCHETT 'Deeply human ... a beautifully quiet and devastating book.' SARAH JESSICA PARKER ...
Rifle Season: A Thriller
Kelly, Pat
The Right to Remain: A Jack Swyteck Novel
Grippando, James
In this thrilling novel from bestselling author James Grippando--the twentieth in his revered series--legendary criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck takes on a twisty, difficult case that becomes one of the most complex in his illustrious career. Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack...
The room in the attic
Logan, T. M.
A "darkly gripping and addictive read" from a Sunday Times bestselling author, wherein a new homeowner faces the dark secrets buried inside a hidden room--perfect for fans of Mary Kubica and B.A. Paris (Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author). ...
See You at the Summit
Taylor, Jordyn.
"The bi romance of your dreams is finally here!" --Cosmopolitan For fans of Alison Cochrun and Abby Jimenez, a heartfelt and sexy romance following one bi woman's messy journey through coming out--and reluctantly falling for a straight man. From the USA TODAY...
The Seven Daughters of Dupree
Williams, Nikesha Elise
Skylark
McLain, Paula
Slice the Water
Wong, PP.
Sociopath's Guide to a Successful Marriage : A Novel
Oliver, M. K.
The Storm
Hawkins, Rachel
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins is back with a thrilling new gothic suspense set in a Gulf Coast beach motel where hurricane season can be murder. St. Medard's Bay, Alabama is famous for three things: the deadly hurricanes that regularly sweep into town...
Such a Clever Girl
Kane, Darby
Darby Kane, author of the #1 international bestseller Pretty Little Wife, returns with a gripping domestic thriller in which a family goes missing and a long-buried family mystery resurfaces. Fifteen years ago, the Tanner family vanished without a trace, leaving...
That's Where You Were, Then
Pond, Judith.
Jen begins life as a solitary and somewhat diabolical child growing up in a rural Nova Scotia, who comes up with - at best - unusual ways of dealing with an annoying baby brother, a depressed mother, a disappearing father, and frogs that should be toads. Through the linked stories of this...
This Is the Only Kingdom
Diaz, Jaquira
LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL AWARD * From the Whiting Award-winning author Jaquira Díaz, an epic novel of a mother and daughter wrestling with the aftermath of a murder, set against the backdrop of a tightknit, working-class barrio in Puerto Rico.  ...
Twelve Months
Butcher, Jim
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, has always managed to save the day--but, in this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, can he save himself? One year. 365 days. Twelve months. Harry Dresden has been through...
Vigil
Saunders, George
Pre-order the latest book from the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo - a playful, wise, electric novel taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO, in the twilight hours of his life, as he is ferried from this world into the next 'He will be read...
The Viper: A Zig & Nola Novel
Meltzer, Brad
"A thrilling adventure, full of twists and turns, gripping from the first page to the last. Hugely enjoyable. The perfect book to meet Zig & Nola." -- Alex Michaelides, New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient New York Times bestselling author...
Virginia Lane is not a hero
Stopps, Rosalind
'Rosalind Stopps is a born storyteller with a gift of balancing the gritty and dark with humour ... a blooming marvellous page turner' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Warm, wise and compelling' Daily Mail 'This story is fantastic' Reader...
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