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April 2026: New Adult Fiction
A listing of new adult fiction books published in April.
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- In Jessica George's heartwarming, funny, and soulful second novel, she explores the restorative nature of female friendship and the life-changing power of platonic love.
- A traditional American wife and mother suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1855--where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in…
- Rainbow Rowell returns with a breathtakingly honest novel about a woman who lost everything -- and isn't sure she wants it back.
- The author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette returns to form in her most exuberant and life-affirming novel yet with the story of one woman's cheerful determination to live a life of the mind only to have the heart force its way in.
- When the American Fantasy cruise ship sets sail for a four-day themed voyage, aboard are all five members of a famous, nineties-era boy band and three thousand screaming women who have worshipped them since childhood A smart and incisive book packed…
- There are two kinds of people no one ever expects to be murderers: little girls and old ladies. Meet Mad Mabel.
- In the stormy, scandalous summer of 1816, daring eighteen-year-old Claire Clairmont changed the course of literature forever. But then--unlike her stepsister Mary Shelley--she was forgotten, until now.
Japanese Gothic: A Gothic Dual-Timeline Novel of Ghosts, Hauntings and Redemption (Original)
Baker, Kylie LeeIn this lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, two people living centuries apart discover a door between their worlds.- A captivating new novel set in a modern ghost town. Five years ago, Sam vanished while visiting during a break from college, leaving behind a rental car with his belongings inside. When his mother Ro returns to Carralon Ridge on the anniversary of…
- A supernatural horror about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job from Craigslist, only to discover the position has consequences far greater--and more dangerous--than she ever could have imagined.
- A rousing novel that follows two young women fleeing a divided America: one running toward a dazzling future and the other running from a troubled past,
- The exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum. This isn't your usual jaunt through quantum physics.
- The survivor of a brutal academy must exhume her own past in the first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of the Library Trilogy and the Broken Empire series.
- This debut follows a woman who gets a chance to relive her college years and win back the one that got away--for fans of The Love of My Afterlife and The Seven Year Slip .
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