Adult & Contemporary Fiction

One of Vanity Fair's Books That Will Get You Through This Winter.“One of the most uniquely fun and campily gory books in my recent memory... A Certain Hunger has the voice of a hard-boiled detective novel, as if metaphor-happy...

From bestselling indie author and TikTok favorite Laura Thalassa comes a witch fantasy set in the world of the Bargainer series.   At age twenty, Selene Bowers desperately hopes to be accepted into Henbane Coven, an academy for young witches. Since one...

Based off of the bestselling author's family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the United States where he and his descendants live through major historic events.When Roots was first published forty years ago,...

Evangeline Fox's mesmerising story comes to a heartstopping conclusion in the sweeping climax to Garber's Once Upon a Broken Heart trilogy.  Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after. Evangeline Fox ventured to the...

Named a Most Anticipated book of 2025 by Rolling Stone∙ PopSugar ∙ SheReads ∙ Brit + Co ∙ and more!Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and...

Obsession, desire and pain are at war in this literary still-life that takes place at an isolated house in the 1960s, where memories still shape and haunt emotional boundaries. Beautifully written with exacting, atmospheric prose, this is a remarkable...

Run off and join the circus with Scythe and Sparrow, the final book in the trilogy that stole our hearts and keeps us hooked on ultra-hot (and very funny) dark romance. God, I want to kiss her. I want to feel the heat of her lips against mine. Would...

From bestselling indie author and TikTok favorite Laura Thalassa comes the next installment of a witch fantasy set in the world of the Bargainer series. Only the dangerously handsome Memnon the Cursed can help Selene find the answers she seeks...if she...

A classic among the dark academia genre, The Secret History is a captivating thriller about a group of college students who slowly lose their morality as they search to transcend the triviality of their own lives. Tartt’s writing is lyrically...

The best way to get back at my horrible ex? Fake date Rory Miller--my ex's rival, the top scorer in pro hockey, and the arrogant, flirtatious hockey player I tutored in high school. Faking it is fun and addictive, though, and beneath the bad boy swagger,...

New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Ana Huang brings all the steam, angst, and forbidden love you could ask for in the all 4 books of her hit Twisted series, which follows four friends and the heartbreak and passion that lead them to...

Dale's jet-black final novel is a devastating dissection of human greed and casual cruelty, as two female ex-cons devise a seemingly watertight scheme to part old-age pensioners from their savings. It was a livelihood which comprised skill, nerve, an...

You have to read this. Everyone has to. It has all feels, from funny to devastating, and every word is practically breathing with life. Pick it up if you haven't read it, and pick it up if you have, it's an immortal classic."One Hundred Years of...

A modern classic first published in 1978 that is as much a sophisticated romantic comedy about the love between two partners as it is a novel about the powerful bonds shared by family members, friends, colleagues and confidants...

Riley Sager’s work straddles the suspense/thriller and horror lines. Here, deep family histories that are about myths or rumors (or maybe even both) get hinted at in the very in the spirit (or spirits, shall we say) of an Edward Gorey nursery rhyme...

“Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse...

In Jade War, the sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Jade City, the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for...

The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R.F. Kuang's acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of 20th-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect. After saving her nation of Nikan...

Whimsical without being twee, Klune’s enchanting fantasy romance sees a case worker for magical children forced to choose between saving the world or dividing a family when he is sent to a mysterious residence housing half a dozen unique youths...

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery,...