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https://tigestgirma.com/about/ Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Dark Academia Published by: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publish date: November 4, 2025 Number of pages: 544 pages Author’s website: https://tigestgirma.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Like all ruinous things, he came from the abyss. Kidan Adane has finally embraced her darkness. She’s killed without remorse, lied, and …
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Genre: Literary Fiction Published by: Marysue Rucci Books Publish date: September 23, 2025 Number of pages: 496 Author’s website: https://monaawadauthor.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique …
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Copyright Michelle Terris Genre: Fiction, Satire, Dark Academia Published by: Macmillan Audio Publish date: 10/21/25 Number of pages: 368 pages Author’s website: https://www.olivieblake.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Every member of The House, the most exclusive sorority on campus, and all its alumni, are beautiful, high-achieving, and universally respected. After a freshman year she would …
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Arielle Lewis Studios Genre: Horror, Queer Published by: S&S/Saga Press Publish date: September 9, 2025 Number of pages: 336 pages Author’s website: https://andrewjosephwhite.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White about identity, survival, and transformation amidst an alien invasion in rural West Virginia. Festering masses …
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Photo credit: Sara Nicole Lemon Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Queer Fiction Published by: Harper Voyager Publish date: September 9, 2025 Number of pages: 400 pages Author’s website: https://kosokojackson.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A picture is worth a thousand nightmares. A struggling painter, Lewis Dixon is shocked when the British Museum shows an unusual interest in …
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https://www.leilamottley.com/ Genre: Literary Fiction Published by: Knopf Publish date: June 24, 2025 Number of pages: 352 pages Author’s website: https://www.leilamottley.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Adela Woods is sixteen years old and pregnant. Her parents banish her from her comfortable upbringing in Indiana to her grandmother’s home in the small town of Padua Beach, Florida. …
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https://www.dylinhardcastle.com/ Genre: Literary Fiction, LBGTQ+ Published by: Dutton Publish date: June 03, 2025 Number of pages: 304 pages Author’s website: https://www.dylinhardcastle.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A breathtaking, sliding-doors, will-they-won’t-they love story and a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community and how joy is found in even the …
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Genre: Romance Published by: Forever Publish date: May 20, 2025 Number of pages: 352 pages Author’s website: https://www.nishajtuli.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Two workplace enemies find themselves in close proximity on a tropical company retreat that challenges their assumptions--and just might make them to fall for each other--in this romcom by a by a …
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Genre: Thriller, Romance Published by: Berkley Publish date: April 29, 2025 Number of pages: 384 pages Author’s website: https://www.kateposey.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! What would you do if you thought your coworker was getting away with murder—literally? Dolores dela Cruz has been dying to spot one in the wild, and he fits the mold …
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Genre: Fiction, Mystery Published by: The Dial Press Publish date: April 15, 2025 Number of pages: 448 pages Author’s website: http://author.annamariemclemore.com/p/welcome.html Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A social media influencer’s empire is burned to the ground—literally. The top suspects? The five daughters who made her famous. What do you really know about the people you’ve …
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