Fiction Books Collection September 17, 2025

A shocking murder in the New Zealand bush—and the witness who looks all too familiar—draws a woman back to the very place she swore she’d never return to in this breakneck debut thriller.

This haunting story transports us to the wild, rocky coast of Central America—and into the heart of a woman searching for the father she never knew.

Ranging from the dead sands of Mars to the half-flooded remnants of Amsterdam, from the seedy backstreets of Buenos Aires to the gravity well of a singularity, these action-packed tales explore mind-bending ideas through the eyes of unforgettable and all-too-human characters.

She’d gotten no trigger warning. And her entire life, she wanted to scream now, had deserved a trigger warning.

An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy.

A cozy debut science fiction novel by National Book Award–winning writer William Alexander, this story of found family follows a planetary courier training adolescent androids in a solar system grappling with interplanetary conflict after a devastating explosion on Earth’s moon.

What if the love of your life was the one who got away… over and over again? In 1988, Daniel Keller is a shy, brilliant college sophomore who never expected to fall for anyone—until Nora Langley crashes into his life like a thunderstorm in heels.

A firecracker bookworm. A Neanderthal surfer. One unforgettable summer. Seventeen-year-old Cat Kelty should be spending her last summer before year 12 buried in books, prepping for the future she’s determined to claim.

An isolated mansion outside New Orleans. A mercurial and enigmatic boss. And a young woman drawn to his horrific secret. This dark gothic romance offers a paranormal reimagining of Charlotte Brontё’s Jane Eyre, one that crosses both geography and time, a story about redemption, love and a reminder that the world is full of monsters in human form.

In this stellar debut fantasy, Nesi is desperate to earn the patronage of one of the Ninety-Nine Pillars of Heaven. But with ninety-six failed auditions and few options left, Nesi makes a risky prayer to T’sidaan, the Fox of Tricks…but will she be clever enough to save her own ancestors?

With an expert hand, Rachel Louise Adams’s debut No Rest for the Wicked reads like an edge of your seat, heart-pounding scary movie. In one Halloween obsessed Midwestern town, everyone’s on red alert after a local politician goes missing. Little do they know it’s only the beginning.

A desperate woman fights to escape captivity in this gripping thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things.