New Fiction – August 2026

Staged evidence / Traci Hunter Abramson.

The animal room / Lauren Acampora.

People watching in the desert : a novel / Cali Adeline.

Soon by you / Dahlia Adler.

One leg on earth : a novel / 'Pemi Aguda.

The room in the ground : a thriller / John Ajvide Lindqvist translated by Michael Meigs.

A death in the dark / Ellie Alexander.

Big girl blitz / Danielle Allen.

Good morning means I love you : a novel / Kendra Allen.

The lord of the wood / E. M. Anderson.

The fine art of lying : a novel / Alexandra Andrews.

Road trip / Mary Kay Andrews.

Cross my heart, I hope you die / Mallory Arnold.

Guardian demon / Aurora Ascher.

A real animal : a novel / Emeline Atwood.

The fire agent : a novel / David Baerwald.

The secrets of the abbey / Jean-Luc Bannalec translated by Jamie Lee Searle.

Men like ours : a novel / Bindu Bansinath.

Sisterhood above all / Kathleen Barber with Amayah Shaienne.

Mortedant's peril / RJ Barker.

Stuart Woods' deep water / by Brett Battles.

Can't get enough of the duke : a novel / Lenora Bell.

The bush tea murder : a novel / Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier.

Abyss / Nicholas Binge.

The second death of Locke / V. L. Bovalino.

Big stick energy / Sarina Bowen.

No way home : a novel / T. Coraghessan Boyle.

Love galaxy / Sierra Branham.

Whisper creek : a thriller / Allison Brennan.

All hail chaos / Sarah Rees Brennan.

A disorganised death / Simon Brett.

The tomorrow tree / Carolyn Brown.

Clive Cussler cold fire / Graham Brown.

The lost book of Elizabeth Barton / Jennifer N. Brown.

Clawed and dangerous / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown illustrated by Michael Gellatly.

The obsessed : a novel / Lizzie Buehler.

The inn at the foot of Mount Vengeance / Chiara Bullen.

Famous men : a novel / Julie Buntin.

Yesteryear : a novel / Caro Claire Burke.

All us saints : a novel / Katherine Packert Burke.

Murder at first slice / Valerie Burns.

Out Law : a Dresden files novella / Jim Butcher.

Devotions : eight stories / Lucy Caldwell.

Fast and fastidious : a novel / R.M. Caldwell.

Backtrack / Marc Cameron.

A neighbor's guide to murder / Louise Candlish.

A zoom with a view : a mystery / Jess Cannon.

The May house : a novel / Jillian Cantor.

The eye of Leviathan / M. A. Carrick.

In the wake of the ruined / Kalie Cassidy.

Harbour of hungry ghosts / Eliza Chan.

How to fake it in society / KJ Charles.

The Secret Thread : a novel / by Eve Chase.

The photonic effect / Mike Chen.

The devoted / by Catherine Cho.

Hunger / Choi Jin-Young translated from the Korean by Soje.

Pool house : a novel / Mary H.K. Choi.

With friends like you : a novel / Amy Chozick.

The young will remember / Eve J. Chung.

The snowbirds : a novel / Christina Clancy.

The Felicity complex : or a brief forever in heaven underground / August Clarke.

Chapter one again : a novel / Keelia Clarkson.

Miss Bates : Emma revisited : a novel / Catherine Cliff.

Candy apple kisses / Amy Clipston.

Conspiracy / Colleen Coble.

A river red with blood / John Connolly.

Three queens / Rebecca Connolly.

Stay for a spell / Amy Coombe.

The faith of beasts / James S. A. Corey.

Afternoon hours of a hermit : a novel / Patrick Cottrell.

Into the fading twilight / Catherine Cowles.

A catered PTA murder / Isis Crawford.

A date with Death / Kelly Creagh.

A murder in Hollywood / Michael Crichton written as John Lange.

Give me everything you've got : a novel / Imogen Crimp.

Icarus 17 / Charles Cumming.

Fairfield County : a novel / DéLana R.A. Dameron.

The Devil and Mrs. Gooch : a novel / Oliver Darkshire.

Your name here / Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff.

The girl with a thousand faces / Sunyi Dean.

Desert heist : a thriller / Alex Dekker.

Bubble, bubble, tea & trouble / Vicki Delany.

The talking bone : a novel / Rene Denfeld.

A murder most camp : a mystery / Nicolas DiDomizio.

Teach the torches to burn / Christina Dodd.

Storm tide / Paul Doiron.

Sweet spot / Kemper Donovan.

American spirits : a novel / Anna Dorn.

The wrong sister : a novel / Claire Douglas.

The novel detective / Teresa Dovalpage.

Please don't touch the body : stories / Emily Doyle.

Sea of charms / Sarah Beth Durst.

Murder mindfully / Karsten Dusse translated from the German by Florian Duijsens.

If books could kill / Kate Eberle.

You won't forget me : a novel / Mazey Eddings.

City of gods and monsters / Kayla Edwards.

We sent them down singing / Libby Edwardson.

Make nice : a novel / Ryan Effgen.

Fat swim / Emma Copley Eisenberg.

Keep them close : a novel / David Ellis.

Red sheet : a novel / James Ellroy.

Second time's a charm / Taylor Epperson.

Spellcaster / Jaymin Eve.

Porcupines : a novel / Fran Fabriczki.

Liar's dice : a novel / Juliet Faithfull.

The final score / Lana Ferguson.

Sex on Murder Island / Jo Firestone.

How the story goes : a novel / Andrew Forrester.

Our perfect storm / Carley Fortune.

When I first met you / Lori Foster.

Rasputin swims the Potomac : a novel / Ben Fountain.

Enormous wings : a novel / Laurie Frankel.

Shaw Connolly lives to tell / Gillian French.

When Mikan Road was ours : a novel / D.K. Furutani.

A chance for Kallie Mae : a novel / Ann H. Gabhart.

Second first dates / Gabriella Gamez.

The kindness of strangers : a novel / Emma Garman.

Bumblebee season : a novel / Eileen Garvin.

The stargazer of Nantucket / Julie Gerstenblatt.

Love you more : a novel / Emily Giffin.

Too close to home / Seraphina Nova Glass.

A kiss before the end / Roy Glenn.

The lost book of Lancelot : a novel / John Glynn.

Carry me to my grave / Christopher Golden.

Found Time / Caroline Goldstein.

Our marriage is murder : a novel / Carol Goodman.

F*cked up fairy tales : sinful Cinderellas, prince alarmings, and other timeless classics / Liz Gotauco illustrations by Jade A. Gotauco.

Some sort of justice : a DC Smith/Kings Lake investigation / Peter Grainger.

Chosen family : a novel / Madeleine Gray.

D is for daisy / Shelley Shepard Gray.

Just for the season / Rachel Griffiths.

Short circuit : a novel / Wolf Haas translated by Jamie Bulloch.

Mist and malice : a Haven thriller / Rachel Howzell Hall.

Get lost / Justin Halpern.

Nasty little secrets / Gabbie Hanks.

Destination funeral : a novel / Paige Harbison.

City of widows : a novel / Nadia Hashimi.

Mare : a novel / Emily Haworth-Booth.

A fate worse than drowning : a novel / Sarah L. Hawthorn.

The princess trap / Talia Hibbert.

The red sacrament / Sara Hinkley.

Ignore all previous instructions / Ada Hoffmann.

The dogwalkers' detective agency / Michael Hogan.

Mr. and Mrs. Dixon hide a body : a novel / Jennifer Holdich.

Second chance duet / Ana Holguin.

Book club boyfriend / Jenny Holiday.

The last page : a novel / Katie Holt.

The antiquarian's object of desire / India Holton.

Chasing the fire / Paisley Hope.

Foxx / Paisley Hope.

Buyer beware : a thriller / Catherine Ryan Howard.

King of gluttony / Ana Huang.

Ask for Andrea / Noelle W. Ihli.

The last to drown / Noelle W. Ihli.

Poppy Montgomery gets even / Gordon Jack.

The shampoo effect / Jenny Jackson.

Not what it seems / Lisa Jackson.

Savvy Summers and the sweet potato crimes : a mystery / Sandra Jackson-Opoku.

Savvy Summers and the po'boy perils : a mystery / Sandra Jackson-Opoku.

Moonlight murder : a Detective Aunty novel / Uzma Jalaluddin.

The last Lady B / Eloisa James.

The alias agenda / Holly James.

The Greek house / Dinah Jefferies.

It could have been her / Lisa Jewell.

White elephant : a novel / Jeyamohan translated from the Tamil by Priyamvada Ramkumar.

Mrs. Shim is a killer / Kang Jiyoung translated by Paige Morris.

The top of the world : a novel / Ethan Joella.

Wait and see / Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen.

The reimagining of Thornwood House / Jaleigh Johnson.

The sea spinner / Julie Johnson.

We would never tell : a novel / Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau.

All to play for / Josie Juniper.

House of the rising sun / K'wan

Save the date : a novel / Mallory Kass.

The inklings detective agency : a novel / John R. Kelly.

Tempting venom / Rina Kent.

A botanist's guide to tradition and treachery / Kate Khavari.

Murder at the spirit lounge / Jess Kidd.

The winged game / Sophie Kim.

Not what we pictured / Becca Kinzer.

Gimme shelter / Libby Klein

The foursome : a novel / Christina Baker Kline.

Helpless / Jessica Knoll.

Prince of swords / Elise Kova.

Obstetrix / Naomi Kritzer.

Just a highland fling : a novel / Naina Kumar.

Feast / Catherine Kurtz.

Dominion / Jean Kwok.

Wretch : or, the unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw / Eric LaRocca.

Henry Tudor must die / Jillian Laine.

Among the thorns / Jennifer K. Lambert.

The Mortons / Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld.

Midnight, at the war : a novel / Devi S. Laskar.

The romance revival / Christina Lauren.

Not that kind of proposal : a novel / Victoria Lavine.

Wings of life : deluxe limited edition (dragonbound chronicles) / by Meghan Le Fay.

Radiant star / Ann Leckie.

The last contract of Isako / Fonda Lee.

Break Room / Miye Lee translated by Sandy Joosun Lee.

Headlights / CJ Leede.

Thirsty / Lucy Lehane.

Artifacts : a novel / Natalie Lemle.

Where the water meets the sky : a novel / Diane Les Becquets.

Happy ending / Chloe Liese.

Fishbone Cinderella / Elizabeth Lim.

Death at King's Cross : a Four Queens of Crime mystery / Rosanne Limoncelli.

Babylon, South Dakota : a novel / Tom Lin.

Rules for aging and larceny / Julia London.

How to kill a crime writer / Sarah Lotz.

Beginning middle end / Valeria Luiselli.

Coastal views to die for / Sam Lumley.

This weekend doesn't end well for anyone : a novel / Catherine Mack.

Permanence : a novel / Sophie Mackintosh.

Lost in Yellowstone : a novel / Nicole Maggi.

Summer of love / Kerri Maher.

Thrall : a novel / by Rebecca Mahoney.

Delusions of a side chick / Kandie Marie.

Our rogue fates : a novel / Sarah Glenn Marsh.

Witch of the shadow wood : a novel / Tori Anne Martin.

Manor of decay : a novel / Maxym M. Martineau.

A queen crowned in flames : a bonded to beasts novel / Hazel McBride.

Abby offsides : a novel / Anna McCallie.

Traitors : a novel / Robert B. McCaw.

Ungodly rich : a novel / Katharine McGee.

The cloak and dagger club / Jackie McMahon.

The silent ones / Anna McPartlin.

Three reasons for revenge : a novel / Dervla McTiernan.

Every version of you / Natalie Messier.

Bound by his touch / R. Michelle.

The Players Club / Rachel Mills.

We become darkness : a novel / Grace Morrow.

The winds of Maracaibo : a novel / María Elena Morán translation by Madeline Jones.

Cat love : a novel / Tomás Q. Morín.

Ghalen : a romance in black / Walter Mosley.

The night hunter / Natalie Moss.

Elizabeth and Marilyn : a novel / Julie Owen Moylan.

Heather : a novel / Caitlin Mullen.

Vera Stein is fine : a novel / Julie Murphy.

When sparks fly / Monica Murphy.

Cleo Dang would rather be dead : a novel / Mai Nguyen.

The wrath of the fallen / Amber V. Nicole.

The good parts : a novel / Evann Normandin.

Indie darling : a novel / Lauren Nossett.

It will come back to you : collected stories / Sigrid Nunez.

Die for me : a novel / Shirlene Obuobi.

Not with a bang / Temi Oh.

The radiant dark / Alexandra Oliva.

The things gods break / Abigail Owen.

Main characters / Bobby Palmer.

Workhorse : a novel / Caroline Palmer.

Blaze of glory / Diana Palmer.

The duke's got mail / Samara Parish.

The original : a novel / Priya Parmar.

The witch below the dreaming wood / H. G. Parry.

Whistler : a novel / Ann Patchett.

We dance upon demons : a novel / Vaishnavi Patel.

The sins of summer daughters / Lo Patrick.

The country road murders : a thriller / James Patterson and Mike Lupica.

Social animals : a novel / Camille Perri.

Shrink solves murder / Philippa Perry.

The Parisian heist : a novel / Jo Piazza.

The feywild job / C.L. Polk.

Children of the wild : a novel / Kevin Powers.

Five weeks in the country : a novel / Francine Prose.

Just for the plot / Meghan Quinn.

An accident of dragons / Cheri Radke.

Murder at the Hotel Orient / Alessandra Ranelli.

Rise of the celestials / Kritika H Rao.

Night objects : a novel / Eli Raphael.

Song for another home : a novel / Bora Lee Reed.

Yes, chef : a novel / Grace Reilly.

Until midnight / Luanne Rice.

Cloudthief : a novel / Nathaniel Rich.

Dooneen / Keith Ridgway.

The story keeper : a novel / Kelly Rimmer.

Played to death / Mike Ripley.

The nanny / A.J. Rivers

The other Moctezuma girls : a novel / Sofia Robleda.

Man overboard! : a novel / Kathleen Rooney.

Pomona Afton can totally catch a killer : a novel / Bellamy Rose.

White rabbit / Abigail Rose-Marie.

Hysteria : an Alexander Gregory thriller / L.J. Ross.

To clutch a razor / Veronica Roth.

The way it haunted him / Laura Samotin.

Songs of the dead / Brandon Sanderson & Peter Orullian.

Mistborn : secret history / Brandon Sanderson.

The last human bear : a novel / Greg Sarris.

Livonia chow mein : a novel / Abigail Savitch-Lew.

Light wielder / Rachel Schneider.

Patient, female : stories / Julie Schumacher.

The insomniacs / Allison Winn Scotch.

This changes everything / Lisa Scottoline.

Single girls : a novel / John Searles.

We Hexed the Moon : a novel / by Mollyhall Seeley.

Valley of the moms : a novel / Hannah Selinger.

Falling into you / Jill Shalvis.

Among the burning flowers : a roots of chaos tale / Samantha Shannon.

Odessa : a novel / Gabrielle Sher.

The gulf of lions : a novel / Caitlin Shetterly.

An arcane study of stars / Sydney J Shields.

Wild card / Elsie Silver.

Portia : a Philadelphia story / Julia Press Simmons.

Ember / Naima Simone.

Huntsman / Naima Simone.

Dangerland! : a novel / Erin Singer.

Lidie : the further travels and adventures of Lidie Newton / Jane Smiley.

Extracurricular / Rachel Lynn Solomon.

The memory bookshop : a novel / Song Yu-jeong translated from the Korean by Shanna Tan.

Drayton and Mackenzie / Alexander Starritt.

Where the boys come to die / Porscha Sterling.

John of John : a novel / Douglas Stuart.

A murder in Marylebone / Emily Sullivan.

The teacher : a DS George Cross mystery / Tim Sullivan.

Ms. Mebel goes back to the chopping block / Jesse Q. Sutanto.

Hide and seek : a novel / Søren Sveistrup translated from the Danish by Ian Giles.

Steel gods / Richard Swan.

A private man : a novel / Stephanie Sy-Quia.

Queen of hearts / Dorian Sykes.

Deathbringer : a novel / Sonia Tagliareni.

And side by side they wander / Molly Tanzer.

The seekers of Deer Creek : a novel / Thao Thai.

Double standard / Mallory Thomas.

The neighbors are watching : a novel / Aggie Blum Thompson.

The secret society of librarians / Kate Thompson.

City of promises / Victoria Thompson with Ellen Thompson.

The mysterious affair of Judith Potts / Robert Thorogood.

Don't tell me how it ends : a novel / Adrienne Thurman.

Misery's wife : a novel / Joan Tierney.

How to find a guy in five weddings / Cynthia Timoti.

Don't fall in love with me / Paige Toon.

Dead but dreaming of electric sheep : a novel / Paul Tremblay.

Certainty : a novel / John Twelve Hawks.

Everything to the sea : a novel / Alicia Upano.

Based on a true story : a novel / Sarah Vaughan.

The Death Row Club / V.A. Vazquez.

Games : a love story / Anna Maria Volkova.

Wifehouse / Sonya Walger.

Furious Violet : a novel / Sarai Walker.

Ash / Louise Wallace.

Everybody's perfect / Jo Walton.

Pretty as a peach : a novel / Grace Helena Walz.

New skin : a novel / Sarah Wang.

Scent of hope / Susan May Warren.

Yellow pine / Claire Vaye Watkins.

Harvest season / Brynne Weaver.

The hope keeper : a novel / Heather Webb.

Dating to die / Carl Weber with C.N. Phillips.

Men in love / Irvine Welsh.

Stranger things have happened : a novel / Kasie West.

Irresistible impulse / Vickie West.

Like family : a novel / Erin O. White.

When you loved me : a novel / Beatriz Williams.

Richmond / Racquel Williams.

The trident and the pearl / Sarah K. L. Wilson.

Hot girl murder club : a novel / Ashley Winstead.

The dragon has some complaints / John Wiswell.

Daggermouth / H. M. Wolfe.

Spies and other gods : a novel / James Wolff.

The secrets of Provence / Daisy Wood.

Boring Asian female / Canwen Xu.

Stick-up girl / Zari.