Adult Fiction Coming Soon

Explore what we're most excited to put on our shelves this July. For more, check out:

See all books in this list in our catalog.

Adult Bestsellers Coming Soon
Adult Nonfiction Coming Soon

Cover
Ernshaw, Shea

General

A new adult novel from New York Times bestselling author Shea Ernshaw, in which a woman rediscovers the mythical island she stumbled upon as a child—and the man she once met who apparently hasn’t aged.
 

Cover
Watkins, Claire Vaye

General

In the latest novel from "our most significant rising writer of the American West" (Vulture), an unfettered heroine searches for a new way to love, and live, in a deeply uncertain world.
 

Cover
Hashimi, Nadia

General

From bestselling novelist Nadia Hashimi—a gripping, occasionally terrifying, yet ultimately hopeful novel focusing on the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power.

 

Cover
Owens, Lisa

General

One perfect day. A million catastrophes.

Unfolding across 24 hours, this is a propulsive, funny and sharply observed novel about the absurd, frustrating, hilarious, precarious, bittersweet, sometimes astonishing challenge—literal, existential—of being a woman, a mother, a wife, a person for one single, entire day.   

Cover
Shroff, Parini

General

A man on the brink of divorce is forced to care for his injured future-ex-mother-in-law in this wise, witty, and heartfelt novel from the bestselling author of The Bandit Queens.
 

Cover
Normandin, Evann

General

An epic, unforgettable love story about a woman who takes a memory-erasing pill and the man she once loved who returns as a stranger, hoping to make her fall for him all over again—for fans of One Day and In Five Years.
 

Cover
Harbison, Paige

General

The Big Chill meets Groundhog Day when four estranged friends reunite for a funeral—only to find themselves reliving the same storm-lashed Saturday again and again.
 

Cover
Crimp, Imogen

General

An incendiary fever dream of a novel set during one sun-bleached July, Imogen Crimp’s Give Me Everything You’ve Got explores the dark corners of ambition, exploitation, and what it takes to be a woman artist.
 

Cover
Thompson, Kate

General

The Secret Society of Librarians is a heartbreaking yet heartwarming wartime library-set novel, inspired by real people, real stories, and extensive research.
 

Cover
Beanland, Rachel

General

From the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever and The House Is on Fire, a novel set on a remote Italian island about a navy wife’s reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atomic Age.
 

Cover
Guns, Priya

General

From the incendiary voice behind Your Driver is Waiting, a riotous novel following a family of Tamil refugees who fled civil war in Sri Lanka to pursue a better life, just for it to be up-ended by the schemes of a self-proclaimed day-trading savant, jeopardizing everything they’ve worked so desperately to secure.
 

Cover
Beaird, Rowan

General

From the beloved author of The Divorcées comes a novel set in the 1970s during an island wedding, where the bride has recently left a sinister cult that might still be trailing her
 

Cover
Dalton, Julie Carrick

General

The perfect choice for your next book club: three women from different generations navigate the complexities of family, the impacts of our choices, and our deep connections to the natural world.
 

Cover
Effgen, Ryan

General

Sandwich meets The Wedding People in this irresistible comedy of manners as three generations of a family—a snail scientist, a soon-to-be divorcée, her teenage daughter, a hapless con man, and their feckless patriarch—descend on a ritzy Lake Michigan vacation island.
 

Cover
Sanders, Shannon

General

The dead are relentless gossips, or at least these dead are.

An impulsive and heartbroken woman inherits her father’s share of a Tennessee farm that is rich in family secrets and occupied with busybody ghosts in this sweeping family portrait.

Cover
Gray, Madeleine

General

An exuberant and irreverently funny novel about one gorgeously messy friendship-feud-unrequited-love-affair set in Sydney across eighteen years.

 

Cover
Searles, John

General

An infectious and utterly charming fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brown’s early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan, and the intrepid group of women she took under her wing to create one of the most talked about magazines of all time.

 

Cover
Buntin, Julie

General

From the acclaimed author of the “wild, gorgeous” (San Francisco Chronicle) Marlena comes a novel about a young woman looking for a father and finding herself—a vivid, uncompromising exploration of sex, money, power, and art.
 

Cover
Upano, Alicia

General

Part riveting love story, part coming-of-age tale, Everything to the Sea is a breathtaking debut novel spanning years and shores after a sudden tsunami devastates the island of Hawai’i and cuts short a young couple’s budding romance—a deeply moving testament to the catastrophes love can endure.

 

Cover
Fader, Molly

General

The search for a notorious vigilante exposes the secrets among three generations of women in this propulsive novel of female resistance and rage, sweeping from contemporary L.A. to gritty 1970s New York.
 

Cover
Lattimore, Ashton

General

In this gripping, emotionally-layered novel set in Prohibition-era Martha’s Vineyard, a young woman from a Black seafaring family plunges into the dangerous world of rum-running to save her home and uncover the truth about her father’s death.
 

Cover
Maher, Kerri

General

In this moving novel about the transformative power of storytelling, three women make life-changing decisions set in motion by the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller.
 

Cover
Rooney, Kathleen

General

From the nationally bestselling author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, comes a funny and moving novel in which a former college swimmer falls off a cruise ship and must keep treading water as memories and regrets wash over him—perfect for fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette; Florence Adler Swims Forever; and The Wedding People.
 

Cover
Reed, Bora Lee

General

Pachinko meets Homegoing in this powerful story of family separation and reunion amid love and war from a Reese’s Book Club LitUp fellow.
 

Cover
Uptmor, Andrea

General

A searing and strikingly intimate debut set in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, about a newly married lesbian couple who move into a flipped foreclosure, unaware that the former homeowners are still living in the attic.
 

Cover
Sethi, Roshan

General

A razor-sharp novel about the rise and fall of an unemployed actor who lands the greatest role of his life when he’s hired as a personal assistant to an absurd Hollywood family.
 

Cover
Soileau, Stephanie

General

An epic debut novel that follows one family across four centuries, from France to Acadia to the bayous of Southern Louisiana—a poignant examination of belonging, place, and how individual acts of moral compromise contribute to cycles of injustice and destruction.
 

Cover
Atwood, Emeline

General

In this unforgettable debut, a moment of metaphysical transformation launches a woman’s beautiful and terrifying journey through her twenties, through loneliness and complicated love that takes her from the depths of the Pacific Ocean to the plains of Texas
 

Cover
Wiswell, John

Fantasy

In this heartfelt and humorous fantasy from the Nebula-winning author of Someone You Can Build a Nest In, a dragon whose three heads bear rather…different...personalities finds family in the most unexpected of places.
 

Cover
Lim, Elizabeth

Fantasy

A mother and daughter must break their family’s curse through trials of war and immigration, love, loss, and redemption in this riveting multi-generational saga with a shimmer of magic, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Forgery of Fate.
 

Cover
Laine, Jillian

Fantasy

One queen exiled. Another headed for the gallows. Both hungry for revenge. England’s most infamous queens unite in vengeance against Henry VIII.
 

Cover
Bullen, Chiara

Fantasy

An ambitious young scholar is sent to research the mysteries of an adventurer's inn—only to uncover a centuries-old secret while finding true friendship and a new home in this heartwarming cozy fantasy.
 

Cover
Tierney, Joan

Fantasy

A queer and cli-fi reimagining of a Portuguese folktale about a young trans woman who must save her elder sisters from the King of the Air, the King of the Sea, and the King of Misery
 

Cover
Cross, Charlotte

Horror

Creepy, sumptuous and incredibly gripping, The Brides is a feminist gothic horror about the three women who became the brides of Dracula – and the fourth who managed to escape . . .

Cover
Edwardson, Libby

Horror

This book is a testament to the resilience of grieving mothers and the tenacity of the beautiful people of Appalachia, a place where the accents sing rather than talk and the tea is always sweet.
 

Cover
McMahon, Jackie

Mystery

Inspired by Agatha Christie's real-life Detection Club, a murder among a group of golden age mystery writers meets a second chance romance in this debut novel from author Jackie McMahon.
 

Cover
Friday, Jack

Mystery

A wild and wickedly funny series debut, introducing readers to the irresistible and irrepressible private investigator, Peter Key.
 

Cover
Lowry, Mary Pauline

Mystery

A suspenseful, bighearted, and laugh-out-loud story of a single mom trying to do it all—including solve a murder she may or may not have committed…

 

Cover
Rimmer, Kelly

Mystery

The literary twist of Patti Callahan Henry's The Secret Book of Flora Lea meets the family secrets of Kate Morton’s Homecoming when a woman discovers a curious novel in the library of her crumbling gothic estate, whose uncomfortably familiar story ultimately brings a generations-old mystery to light.

 

Cover
Messier, Natalie

Romance

For fans of The Love of My Afterlife and The Seven Year Slip, Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellow Natalie Messier’s heartfelt contemporary romance debut follows a woman who gets a second chance at a formative time in her adult life—this time to win the “one that got away.”
 

Cover
Solomon, Rachel Lynn

Romance

When a former pop star enrolls in college, the last thing she expects is A-plus chemistry with her psychology professor in this sexy and tender romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Lynn Solomon.
 

Cover
Meyers, Laura Marie

Romance

It’s all fun and games until someone falls in love.
 

Cover
Rene, Leslie

Romance

A dangerous spell gone wrong forces the passionate professor of incantations to share tight quarters with her magical college’s leading—and most brooding—alchemist.
 

Cover
Gamez, Gabriella

Romance

One bad date, shame on you. Two bad dates, shame on me ...
 

Cover
McGee, Katharine

Romance

New York Times bestselling author Katharine McGee’s wickedly addictive adult debut is set in a world where power is eternal—and love comes at a cost.
 

Cover
Murphy, Julie

Romance

From #1 New York Times bestseller Julie Murphy comes a heartfelt and hilarious tale of a woman who thinks life and love have passed her by until she’s thrown into her grandmother’s quirky world of octogenarian free love and gets a second chance with the one man she never expected to see again. Perhaps it’s never too late to play the opening credits…

 

Cover
Thorne, Rebecca

Science Fiction

USA Today Bestselling author Rebecca Thorne delights in a brand new cozy science-fiction romance series...for fans of Martha Wells! Featuring french flaps and original inside cover art!
 

Cover
Oh, Temi

Science Fiction

Station Eleven meets Leave the World Behind in this family drama at the end of the world about a crumbling household’s attempts to find their way back to each other amidst a cataclysmic event.
 

Cover
Howard, Catherine Ryan

Thriller

From the internationally bestselling author of 56 Days, a page-turning thriller about two women whose shattered lives come crashing together around a house whose secrets could bury them both.
 

Cover
Rich, Nathaniel

Thriller

A smart, multilayered heist novel by a true student of the form.
 

Cover
Vazquez, V A

Thriller

A dark, dazzlingly original psychological thriller about a woman invited to an annual weekend getaway for the adult children of serial killers...but when one of the participants ends up dead, they begin to wonder if someone among them might be carrying on the family traditions.
 

Cover
Dekker, Alex

Thriller

A former Green Beret and aspiring archaeologist’s expedition to uncover a long-lost ancient civilization turns deadly in this explosive thriller teeming with adventure and discovery.
 

Cover
Walker, Sarai

Thriller

From the author of the bestselling phenomenon Dietland comes a razor-sharp, subversive thriller about motherhood, obsession, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.

 

Cover
Sveistrup, Soren

Thriller

The author of The Chestnut Man and creator of the hit television series The Killing returns with a twisty, breakneck psychological thriller that takes an innocent children’s game to its most terrifying and diabolical extreme.

 

Cover
Winstead, Ashley

Thriller

From national bestselling author Ashley Winstead comes a buzzy, bloody new thriller of about success, sisterhood, and demanding justice…by any means necessary.
 

Cover
Nossett, Lauren

Thriller

A brilliant breakout novel from ITW Thriller Award–winning author Lauren Nossett—a mystery set in Nashville, where a Dolly Parton–loving private detective is drawn into the disappearance of an enigmatic pop star.
 

Cover
Sims, Laura

Thriller

From the highly acclaimed author of How Can I Help You, a New York Times Best Thriller of the Year: a singular take on the psychological suspense novel that follows a 1960s housewife turned amateur photographer who begins to fear for her life when she notices the dark silhouette of a man in the background of her self-portraits.
 

Cover
Larbalestier, Justine

Thriller

Meet the Mortons: In this family, murder is currency—and business is booming.
 

Cover
Lavender, Meredith

Thriller

Following a shocking murder, a woman must face the secrets from her past—and a husband she thought she knew—in this twisty, sizzling novel from the bestselling authors of Happy Wife.
 

Cover
Cox, Kelsey

Thriller

Beauty dies. Secrets never do.
 

Cover
Denfeld, Rene

Thriller

From the revered bestselling author, a compulsive, page-turning thriller inspired by her real life work exonerating innocents, a novel that asks how far we’ll go in our pursuit of the truth—an emotionally rich, luminously written book about evil and people trying to do good in the world.

 

Cover
McTiernan, Dervla

Thriller

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of What Happened to Nina? comes a gripping high-stakes novel of suspense about three seemingly unconnected people, caught in a lethal web of deceit and unhealed wounds.

Someone’s watching. Someone’s waiting.

Cover
Chozick, Amy

Thriller

From a New York Times bestselling author comes a gripping debut that defies all expectations—a story of feverish obsession, new motherhood, and a friendship pushed to the edge.
 

Summaries provided by DPL's catalog unless otherwise noted. Click on each title to view more information.