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July 2025

Sounds Like Love
A hitmaking songwriter and a bitter musician share a startling and inexplicable connection that they’ll do anything to shake, in the next sparkling, magical book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and A Novel Love Story.

House of Beth
A haunting and seductive tale of a young career woman who slides quickly into the role of stepmother, in a life that may still belong to someone else. “Vivid, addictive, and crackling with life (yes, even the ghost), House of Beth asks us to consider how and why we make the lives we make” (Lynn Steger Strong).
June 2025

The Memory Collectors
Four strangers time travel to the past and find themselves stuck on the day all their lives were changed in this stunning speculative mystery from award-winning film and television producer Dete Meserve, perfect for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Wrong Place Wrong Time and The Paradox Hotel.

The Starving Saints
From the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous Dead and The Death of Jane Lawrence, a transfixing fever dream of medieval horror following three women in a besieged castle that descends ravenously into madness under the spell of mysterious, godlike visitors.
May 2025

When the Tides Held the Moon
The Shape of Water meets The Greatest Showman in this beautifully illustrated queer historical cozy fantasy, as a young Puerto Rican immigrant goes through a journey of love and self-discovery after capturing a merman for a Coney Island sideshow act in turn-of-the 20th century New York.
April 2025

Any Trope But You
A bestselling romance author flees to Alaska to reinvent herself and write her first murder mystery, but the rugged resort proprietor soon has her fearing she’s living in a rom-com plot instead in this earnestly spectacular debut by a stunning new voice.
March 2025

The Strange Case of Jane O.
In this spellbinding and provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles, a young mother is struck by sudden and puzzling psychological symptoms that illuminate the mysterious dimensions of the human mind—and of love.
February 2025

Good Girl
An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery—“a stunning coming-of-age story” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can’t escape its history.

Death of the Author
In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative—a surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human. This is a story unlike anything you’ve read before.
January 2025

Cross My Heart
She has his wife’s heart; the one she wants is his. The author of The Family Plot brings her signature “taut, emotionally charged, and propulsive” (Jeneva Rose, New York Times bestselling author) prose to a twisty novel about a heart transplant patient who becomes romantically obsessed with her donor’s husband.

After the Ocean
A painful unsolved mystery resurfaces after decades of confusion, sending one woman and her daughters on a journey of redemption in this emotional story about intergenerational trauma, family, and the beauty of Puerto Rico for fans of Nina LaCour, Xochitl Gonzalez, Elizabeth Acevedo, Jodi Picoult, Celeste Ng, and Julia Alvarez.

We Lived on the Horizon
The city of Bulwark is aptly named: a walled city built to protect and preserve the people who managed to survive a series of great cataclysms, Bulwark was founded on a system where sacrifice is rewarded by the AI that runs the city. Over generations, an elite class has evolved from the descendants of those who gave up the most to found mankind’s last stronghold, called the Sainted.

The Reformatory (2024 Members' Choice Winner)
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.
December 2024

The Resurrectionist
In the tradition of The Alienist and A Love Story, a decadently macabre, dark and twisty gothic debut set in 19th century Scotland – when real-life serial killers Burke and Hare terrorized the streets of Edinburgh – as a young medical student is lured into the illicit underworld of body snatching. Historical fiction, true crime, and dark academia intertwine in a harrowing tale of murder, greed, and the grisly origins of modern medicine for readers of Lydia Kang, ML Rio, Sarah Perry, and C.E. McGill.
November 2024

Eleanore of Avignon
Rich with unforgettable characters, gorgeously drawn, and full of captivating historical drama, Eleanore of Avignon is the story of a healer who risks her life, her freedom, and everything she holds dear to protect her beloved city from the encroaching Black Death.
October 2024

The Lightning Bottles
The author of New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club pick Lucky returns with a spellbinding story of rock ‘n’ roll and star-crossed love—about grunge-era musician Jane Pyre’s journey to find out what really happened to her husband and partner in music, who abruptly disappeared years earlier
September 2024

Colored Television
Jane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets, she and her family are living in luxury for a year, house-sitting in the hills above Los Angeles. The gig magically coincides with Jane’s sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novel—a centuries-spanning epic her artist husband, Lenny, dubs her “mulatto War and Peace.” Finally, some semblance of stability and success seems to be within her grasp.
August 2024

Catalina
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies on two continents, and the tantalizing possibilities of love and freedom.
Aardvark Exclusive
Horror anthology by Aardvark authors.
No, you can't get it anywhere else.

One Bad Night & Other Stories
Aardvark Book Club launched in October 2022, and we’re celebrating our three-year anniversary with this original horror anthology featuring past 8 Aardvark authors.
Authors
Kay Chronister, Del Sandeen, Kylie Lee Baker, Rachel Harrison, CJ Leede, Jennifer Thorne, S.A. Barnes, Stephen Graham Jones
"An absolutely phenomenal anthology of short stories from some of the best voices in horror right now!" - Trisha
"Not a bad story in the bunch. “One Bad Night” wrecked me." - Brittany
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Members’ Choice Winners
Every year Aardvarkians vote on their favourite reads and we celebrate with a special reprinting. These titles have won our hearts and minds over the last few years.
Books FAQ
When are new books dropped?
We drop 5-7 new books on the first of the month at 8am ET. Yes, even January 1st! We drop the 1st rain or shine, holiday or not!
Do I get to pick my books?
Yes! Every month members can select 1 book using their credit and purchase up to 2 extra books at a discount. The first book must be from the newest month’s picks but the extra books can be from any month.
What types of books do you carry?
We carry a range of genres from horror to literary fiction to romance to thriller and more! We love spotlighting debut voices and introducing our members to under-the-radar picks. We have a full-time editorial team dedicated to curating our selections.
Do you offer e-books or audiobooks?
We exclusively offer hardcover Aardvark editions with a matte dust jacket and buttery soft hardcover underneath. Check under the dust jacket and you’ll notice a foiled hardcover spine. Hardcover > ebooks any day. Our books won’t die on a trans-Atlantic flight!
Can I order a box without a book from the current month?
No, every order must include at least one book from the current month’s selections. Your add-ons (up to 2) can be from any month.
How do I remove a book from my box in-app?
You can remove a book from your box by following these steps:
1. Click the book that is on your box and view its page with the synopsis
2. Click the "View in box" button in the bottom
3. Click the top right corner of a book that you'd like to remove
Will out-of-stock books come back?
Very rarely, our team is focused on carrying upcoming picks for our members!
Do I get to keep my books?
Yes, they’re yours to read, donate, share, annotate or hoard! Loan them to friends at your own risk!




























































