New Adult Fiction: October 2024Like this list

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• Love Can't Feed You

  a Novel

  Sy, Cherry Lou,

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  A beautiful, tender yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love After Midnight

  a Novel

  Souljah, Sister,

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  After suffering a horrifying, yet soul stirring death experience, worldwide top bitch Winter Santiaga, of The Coldest Winter Ever, is alive and facing a dilemma that every living person faces: how to respond to the Fear of God, awareness of heaven…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mistletoe Mystery

  a Maid Novella

  Prose, Nita,

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  Molly Gray has always loved the holidays. When Molly was a child, her gran went to great lengths to make the season merry and bright, full of cherished traditions. The first few Christmases without Gran were hard on Molly, but this year, her beloved…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love You a Latke

  Elliot, Amanda,

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  Love comes home for the challah-days in this sparkling romance. Snow is falling, holiday lights are twinkling, and Abby Cohen is pissed. For one thing, her most annoying customer, Seth, has been coming into her café every morning with his sunshiny…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women's Hotel

  a Novel

  Lavery, Daniel M.,

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  The Beidermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but its residents manage to occupy one another nonetheless. There’s Katherine, the first-floor manager, lightly cynical and more than lightly suggestible.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Season of the Swamp

  a Novel

  Herrera, Yuri, 1970-

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  New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of George

  a Novel

  Greathead, Kate,

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  If you haven’t had the misfortune of dating a George, you know someone who has. He’s a young man brimming with potential but incapable of following through; sweet yet noncommittal to his long-suffering girlfriend; distant from but still reliant on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eurotrash

  a Novel

  Kracht, Christian, 1966-

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  A probing masterpiece-in-miniature of self-reflection and cultural reckoning. Eurotrash begins in Zurich, where Christian has arrived to care for his eighty-year-old mother after her discharge from a mental institution. Reckoning with his family’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Masquerade

  a Novel

  Fu, Mike, 1985-

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  A surreal, queer, coming-of-age mystery set between New York and Shanghai. Newly single Meadow Liu is house-sitting for his friend, artist Selma Shimizu, when he stumbles upon The Masquerade, a translated novel about a masked ball in 1930s Shanghai.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

  a Novel

  Loigman, Lynda Cohen,

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  It's never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs―an active senior community in southern Florida―she unexpectedly crosses paths with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The December Market

  Thayne, RaeAnne,

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  The magic of Christmas—and a second shot at romance—is in the air in Shelter Springs this holiday season… Amanda Taylor isn’t a fan of Christmas, but as the owner of a local soap shop, ignoring the holiday season isn’t an option. To forget the pain…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shock Induction

  a Novel

  Palahniuk, Chuck,

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  In Shock Induction, the best and brightest students at a seemingly reputable high school are disappearing. Every day it seems another overachiever is lost to an apparent suicide. But something far more sinister is lurking beneath the surface. These…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shred Sisters

  a Novel

  Lerner, Betsy,

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  It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight until her stunning confidence becomes erratic and unpredictable, a hurricane leaving people wrecked in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Third Realm

  Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968-

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  A kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face of enormous change—and the warring impulses between light and dark that live in all of us For several days, a strange and bright new star in the sky above Norway has sown an unyielding sense of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Seventh Floor

  a Novel

  McCloskey, David,

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  Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other people’s secrets. Now they must steal each other’s. A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Betrayal at Blackthorn Park

  An Evelyne Redfern Mystery

  Kelly, Julia, 1986-

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  Freshly graduated from a rigorous training program in all things spy craft, former typist Evelyne Redfern is eager for her first assignment as a field agent helping Britain win the war. However, when she learns her first task is performing a simple…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Drowned

  a Novel

  Banville, John,

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  1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. Knowing he shouldn’t approach but unable to hold back, he soon finds himself embroiled in a troubling missing person case, as a husband claims his wife may have thrown…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Exposure

  Emerson, Ramona, 1973-

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  In Gallup, New Mexico, where violent crime is five times the national average, a serial killer is operating unchecked, his targets indigent Native people whose murders are easily disguised as death by exposure on the frigid winter streets. He slips…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Make the Season Bright

  Blake, Ashley Herring,

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  It's been five years since Charlotte Donovan was ditched at the altar by her ex-fiancée, and she’s doing more than okay. Sure, her single mother never checks in, but she has her strings ensemble, the Rosalind Quartet, and her life in New York is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Merriest Misters

  Janovsky, Timothy,

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  Patrick Hargrave and Quinn Muller have been married for less than a year, but their passionate romance is cracking under the pressures of domestic life and a cumbersome mortgage. That’s until Christmas Eve when Patrick wakes Quinn up with: “I think…Read moreRead more of this annotation