New Releases - Week of April 28th
We know all the choices for new books can be overwhelming, so we've picked our top ten fiction releases this week to help you narrow down your choices.
Check out our Bookshop & Libro for extended versions of this list, including gorgeous new shelf trophy editions of books we've already loved, sequels / new installments in ongoing series we loved, and more.
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Our Pick: Adult Dark Academia / Fantasy Romance 
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Our Pick: Adult Fantasy Romance Adventure A debut fantasy romance in the Blood Bound series, this story follows a cursed witch and a powerful dragon rider bound for a deadly duel over the source of all magic... until rebellion, secrets, and unexpected alliances begin to change everything. Perfect for fans of high-stakes romantasy like Fourth Wing and Throne of Glass.
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Our Pick: Adult Cozy Fantasy As Fraywell's self-proclaimed villainess, Iris needs a fearsome enforcer. Instead she gets Talon, a half-orc as sweet at the cookies he bakes (and just as irresistible). Perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes, Dreadful, and Apprentice to the Villain.
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Our Pick: Adult Supernatural Thrillers A slow-burn psychological thriller set in a seaside Maine town, this story follows a former homicide detective whose attempt to repair her marriage in a cliffside fixer-upper quickly turns into an obsession with the house’s dark and disturbing past. Perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Ashley Winstead who love eerie settings, buried secrets, and twisty mysteries that refuse to stay hidden.
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Our Pick: Adult Horror Romance (yes, that's a thing) A twisty, revenge-fueled thriller set on a Hollywood film reboot gone violently off-script, this story follows a Final Girl returning to the studio lot where her mother died... only to uncover secrets, bodies, and an uneasy alliance with her charming ex who may be helping her or manipulating her. Perfect for fans of Brynne Weaver or anyone looking for a dark, fast-paced romantic thrillers with Hollywood glamour, enemies-to-lovers tension, and a heroine taking control of her own ending.
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Our Pick: Adult Lit-RPG Fantasy Romance A second-chance, enemies-to-lovers queer fantasy romance following two estranged childhood best friends forced back together on a deadly treasure hunt through a cursed swamp, where buried history, growing danger, and undeniable chemistry collide. Perfect for fans of Critical Role, Tusk Love and Sara Raasch - or anyone who might enjoy a D&D-style quest fantasy with sharp banter, high tension, and emotionally charged romance.
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Our Pick: Adult SYP* Horror From the award-winning author of The Eyes Are the Best Part, this disturbing psychological thriller set in Seoul follows a woman whose life implodes after a hidden-camera scandal exposes betrayal, obsession, and surveillance within the city’s elite... all while a voyeuristic IT technician watching her from the shadows becomes dangerously fixated. Perfect for readers drawn to intense, unsettling fiction about power, female rage, and revenge in a world where privacy no longer exists. * sh!t your pants
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Our Pick: Adult Epic Fantasy A sweeping Afrocentric fantasy where a dying magical resource, silent gods, and rising political unrest push a fractured kingdom toward collapse... while a young woman with a buried secret may hold the key to salvation or ruin. Perfect for readers who love richly built secondary worlds, myth-infused intrigue, and high-stakes fantasy where power, prophecy, and survival are deeply intertwined.
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Our Pick: Adult Speculative Fiction Indie Next Pick | A heart-wrenching end-of-the-world road trip from #1 New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, this standalone novel follows an elderly gay couple racing across a collapsing America to reach unfinished business as a rogue black hole approaches Earth. Perfect for readers who love emotionally rich speculative fiction about love, mortality, and finding meaning in the final stretch of life even as the world burns around them.
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Our Pick: Young Adult Fantasy Romance A lush, cozy romantasy where a gifted enchantress infiltrates the mysterious Night King’s ever-changing nocturnal court to find her missing father, only to uncover a spellbinding world of beauty, memory loss, and growing danger. Perfect for fans of Anna Bright and Sarah Beth Durst or any reader looking for immersive magical courts, slow-burn sapphic romance, and dark enchantment wrapped in dreamy, atmospheric fantasy.
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Honorable Mentions:
An Accident of Dragons by Cheri Radke
We already chose an Adult Cozy Fantasy, but it was a tough decision between that title and this charming queer cozy fantasy adventure following an unlikely lord-turned-hero who must set aside charm and comfort to rescue his kidnapped daughter from pirates, sorcerers, and political intrigue on a dragon-ruled island. Perfect for readers who love chaotic found-family vibes, side-quest energy, whimsical high fantasy, and heartfelt stakes wrapped in humor and warmth. Fans of Travis Baldree, Rebecca Thorne, TJ Klune, and Sarah Beth Durst will be delighted by this story.
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Certainty by John Twelve Hawks
Second runner up for us in the Adult Spec Fiction category is this gripping dystopian sci-fi thriller set in a near-future world where AI governs daily life and reality itself has blurred into the digital, this story follows a ten-year-old orphan who flees across an Orwellian America with only her AI toy companion to guide her toward a dangerous truth in New York City. Perfect for anyone looking for a tense, prescient speculative fiction about surveillance, identity, and the fragile line between human and machine.
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Parallax by Jeremy Robinson
This mind-bending sci-fi thriller follows a man with unexplained visions who is drawn into a secretive collective and ultimately trapped in a vast, reality-warping labyrinth beneath the Grand Canyon... where perception, time, and identity begin to collapse. If you liked There is No Anti-memetics Division, or are looking for a high-concept / hard sci-fi with a side of psychological thriller, conspiracy theorizing, and escalating “what is real?” paranoia, this title might be for you.
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Roots Stirred by Cristóvão de Aguiar, translated by David Brookshaw
This adult fiction work-in-translation is not in my typical preferred genres, but it is about the small town and island where my father's family lived before immigrating to America, and for that reason alone it made my list!
Buy on Bookshop.org (Available April 30) > | Not Available on Libro.fm