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July 2025

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Salt Bones

Salt Bones

Three women in one twisted family race for answers in this "stunning" mystery set in the Mexicali borderlands that "breathes new life into the myth of Persephone and Demeter" (Ana Reyes, author of The House in the Pines).

Horror
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Sounds Like Love

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.

Romance
Magical Realism
Includes a Dog
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Hot Girls with Balls

Hot Girls with Balls

In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in their off-court romance ahead of their rival teams’ first rematch in a year.

Debut Novel
Literary
Satire
LGBTQIA+
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Party of Liars

Party of Liars

A lavish, Texas-sized Sweet Sixteen turns deadly in this twisty, pulse-pounding new novel — serving up a fresh take on a classic locked-room whodunnit. Let the festivities begin…

Debut Novel
Thriller
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House of Beth

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).

Award Worthy
Debut Novel
Gothic
LGBTQIA+
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A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping

A whimsical and heartwarming novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magical powers—and her life—back on track, from the national bestselling author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.

Fantasy
Romance

June 2025

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Disappoint Me

Disappoint Me

An electrifying story of love, betrayal, and the complicated allure of bougie domesticity.

LGBTQIA+
Literary
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Left of Forever

Left of Forever

An emotional, irresistible second-chance romance filled with sparkling humor, big feelings, and "melt your face off intimacy" (Jessica Joyce) from celebrated USA Today bestselling author Tarah DeWitt.

Romance
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Someone Knows

Someone Knows

An English professor’s deadly past comes back to haunt her in this chilling thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vi Keeland.

Thriller
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The Memory Collectors

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.

Sci-Fi
Mystery
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The Devils

The Devils

A brand-new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie, featuring a notorious band of anti-heroes on a delightfully bloody and raucous journey.

Fantasy
Satire
Horror
LGBTQIA+
Includes a Dog
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The Starving Saints

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.

Horror
LGBTQIA+
Historical
Gothic

May 2025

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The Original Daughter

The Original Daughter

In this dazzling debut, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.

Debut Novel
Literary
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The Pretender

The Pretender

Set in the tumultuous period of the Tudors’ ascent, The Pretender brings to life the little-known story of Lambert Simnel.

Historical
Satire
Coming of Age
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Immaculate Conception

Immaculate Conception

From the author of Natural Beauty, set in the fiercely competitive art world, a novel about an obsessive friendship upended by a cutting-edge technology purported to enhance empathy and connection.

Sci-Fi
Horror
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When the Tides Held the Moon

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.

Debut Novel
Fantasy
Romance
LGBTQIA+
Historical
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Julie Chan is Dead

Julie Chan is Dead

In this razor-sharp, diabolical debut thriller, a young woman steps into her deceased twin’s influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade.

Debut Novel
Thriller
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When the Wolf Comes Home

When the Wolf Comes Home

Nat Cassidy, author of the acclaimed horror Mary, returns with When the Wolf Comes Home, an unabashed, adrenaline-fueled pop horror thriller where the darkest fears can become reality.

Horror
Includes a Dog

April 2025

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A Drop of Corruption

A Drop of Corruption

The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup.

Fantasy
Mystery
LGBTQIA+
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Any Trope But You

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.

Debut Novel
Romance
Includes a Dog
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Blood on Her Tongue

Blood on Her Tongue

The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy's twin sister Sarah is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a centuries-old corpse recently discovered on her husband's grand estate.

Award Worthy
Gothic
Horror
Historical
LGBTQIA+
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Tilt

Tilt

Set over the course of one day, a heart-racing debut about a woman facing the unimaginable, determined to find safety.

Debut Novel
Contemporary
Thriller
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Dissolution

Dissolution

A woman dives into her husband’s memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself in this staggering technothriller from the bestselling author of Ascension.

Movie/TV Coming
Sci-Fi
Thriller
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Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

In this explosive horror novel, a woman is haunted by inner trauma, hungry ghosts, and a serial killer as she confronts the brutal violence experienced by East Asians during the pandemic.

Horror
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The Tainted Cup

The Tainted Cup

A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson Bennett.

Award Worthy
Fantasy
Mystery
LGBTQIA+

March 2025

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Back After This

Back After This

From the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over and Flying Solo, a podcast producer agrees to host a new series about modern dating—but will the show jeopardize her chance at finding real love?

Romance
Includes a Dog
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You Are Fatally Invited

You Are Fatally Invited

An exclusive thriller writer’s retreat hosted on a private island turns lethal when one of the authors is found murdered.

Debut Novel
Thriller
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians is a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

Award Worthy
Horror
Historical
Includes a Cat
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The Unworthy

The Unworthy

The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos.

Literary
Horror
Translated
LGBTQIA+
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The Strange Case of Jane O.

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.

Sci-Fi
Mystery
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Upon a Starlit Tide

Upon a Starlit Tide

Upon a Starlit Tide is a dark and enchanting historical fantasy combining elements of "The Little Mermaid" and "Cinderella" into a wholly original tale of love, power, and betrayal.

Fantasy
Historical

February 2025

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Good Girl

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.

Award Worthy
Debut Novel
Literary
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Flirting With Disaster

Flirting With Disaster

She needs a divorce from her husband—but a hurricane threatens to dredge up their stormy, passionate past in this sizzling romance from the bestselling author of Say You’ll Be Mine.

Romance
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Death of the Author

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.

Award Worthy
Sci-Fi
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Junie

Junie

A young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister’s ghost, navigating truths about love, friendship, and power as the Civil War looms.

Debut Novel
Historical
Magical Realism
Coming of Age
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Dead Money

Dead Money

“A stone-cold banger of a novel—a twisty journey through Silicon Valley’s dark side, wrapped in a stunning mystery package with some wild surprises along the way.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter.

Debut Novel
Thriller
Movie/TV Coming
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Hungerstone

Hungerstone

A compulsive feminist reworking of Carmilla, the queer novella that inspired Dracula.

Award Worthy
Horror
Gothic
Historical
LGBTQIA+

January 2025

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Cross My Heart

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.

Thriller
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After the Ocean

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.

Mystery
Contemporary
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We Lived on the Horizon

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.

Sci-Fi
LGBTQIA+
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Motheater

Motheater

In this nuanced queer fantasy set amid the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia, the last witch of the Ridge must choose sides in a clash between industry and nature.

Debut Novel
Fantasy
LGBTQIA+
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Unromance

Unromance

A recently dumped TV heartthrob enlists a jaded romance novelist to ruin romance for him—one rom-com trope at a time—so he never gets swept off his feet again…

Debut Novel
Romance
LGBTQIA+
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The Reformatory (2024 Members' Choice Winner)

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.

Award Worthy
Historical
Horror
Coming of Age

December 2024

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Alter Ego

Alter Ego

Alex Segura, LA Times Book Prize–winning author of Secret Identity, returns with a clever and escapist mystery set in the world of comic books. In the present day, a comics legend is given the chance to revive a beloved but forgotten character. But at what price?

Thriller
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What It's Like in Words

What It's Like in Words

Eliza Moss's intoxicating debut novel is a dark, intense, and compelling account of what happens when a young woman falls in love with the wrong kind of man.

Debut Novel
Literary
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The Serpent and the Wolf

The Serpent and the Wolf

Perfect for fans of Raven Kennedy and Thea Guanzon, Rebecca Robinson’s thrilling romantasy debut combines high-stakes political intrigue and a steamy, slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance.

Debut Novel
Fantasy
Romance
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Under Loch and Key

Under Loch and Key

A woman discovers that not all monsters are her enemy—the opposite, in fact—in this new paranormal romance by Lana Ferguson, author of The Fake Mate.

Romance
Fantasy
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The Resurrectionist

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.

Debut Novel
Historical
Gothic
LGBTQIA+
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Private Rites

Private Rites

From the beloved, award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world.

Sci-Fi
Horror
Literary
LGBTQIA+

November 2024

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Like Mother, Like Mother

Like Mother, Like Mother

An enthralling novel about three generations of strong-willed women, unknowingly shaped by the secrets buried in their family’s past.

Movie/TV Coming
Contemporary
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The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

From the author of The Magician’s Daughter comes The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, a mythic, magical tale full of secret scholarship, faerie curses, and the deadliest spells of all—the ones that friends cast on each other.

Fantasy
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Perfect Fit

Perfect Fit

A hilarious and heartfelt rom-com about having it all, slowing down to see the big picture, and finding out that the person you least expect could be your perfect fit.

Romance
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Eleanore of Avignon

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.

Debut Novel
Historical
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Memorials

Memorials

A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the “unforgettable and scary” (Harlan Coben) Chasing the Boogeyman.

Horror
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American Rapture

American Rapture

The instant USA Today bestseller from CJ Leede, author of Maeve Fly—a scorching and sweeping new novel about the end of the world as we know it.

Sci-Fi
Horror
LGBTQIA+
Includes a Dog
Coming of Age

October 2024

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When the World Tips Over

When the World Tips Over

An explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson, Printz Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of I’ll Give You the Sun.

Magical Realism
LGBTQIA+
Includes a Dog
Coming of Age
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The Lightning Bottles

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

Award Worthy
Mystery
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Where I End

Where I End

A modern gothic horror where a young woman falls into a dark obsession after a new artist and her baby arrive on her small Irish island.

Award Worthy
Horror
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This Cursed House

This Cursed House

In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: They’re under a curse, and they think she can break it.

Debut Novel
Gothic
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My Vampire Plus-One

My Vampire Plus-One

Nothing sucks more than fake dating a vampire in this paranormal romantic comedy from the USA Today bestselling author of My Roommate Is a Vampire.

Romance
Fantasy
Includes a Cat
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The City in Glass

The City in Glass

In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.

Award Worthy
Fantasy

September 2024

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How to Hide in Plain Sight

How to Hide in Plain Sight

The unbreakable bonds of family and love are explored in this brilliant and tender story from the author of Guy’s Girl.

Romance
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A Dark and Drowning Tide

A Dark and Drowning Tide

A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor’s murder in this lush and enthralling sapphic fantasy romance from the New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic.

Fantasy
Romance
LGBTQIA+
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Colored Television

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.

Award Worthy
Literary
Satire
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Red River Road

Red River Road

Anna Downes's extraordinary next thriller Red River Road follows a woman desperate to discover what happened to her sister on a solo road trip through the Australian outback.

Thriller
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Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

A “masterful reimagining” (Publishers Weekly) of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most famous villainess, giving her a voice, a past, and a power that transforms the story men have written for her.

Fantasy
Gothic
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So Thirsty

So Thirsty

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in this juicy, thrilling novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Black Sheep.

Horror

August 2024

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The Truth According to Ember

The Truth According to Ember

A Chickasaw woman who can’t catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much more in this witty and irresistible rom-com by debut author Danica Nava.

Debut Novel
Romance
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Mistress of Lies

Mistress of Lies

A villainous, bloodthirsty heroine finds herself plunged into the dangerous world of power, politics and murder in the court of the vampire king in this dark romantic fantasy debut.

Debut Novel
Fantasy
Romance
LGBTQIA+
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The Bright Sword

The Bright Sword

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium.

Award Worthy
Movie/TV Coming
Fantasy
LGBTQIA+
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Bury Your Gays

Bury Your Gays

Bury Your Gays is a heart-pounding new novel from bestselling author Chuck Tingle about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead.

Award Worthy
Horror
LGBTQIA+
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Look In the Mirror

Look In the Mirror

From the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water comes “an utter white-knuckle ride that took me into a heart of darkness” (Lucy Foley, author of The Paris Apartment).

Thriller
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Catalina

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.

Award Worthy
Debut Novel
Literary

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Horror anthology by Aardvark authors.
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One Bad Night & Other Stories

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.

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Horror

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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.

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (2025 Members' Choice Winner)
Stephen Graham Jones
2025
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The Reformatory (2024 Members' Choice Winner)
Tananarive Due
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Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023 Members' Choice Winner)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
2023
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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.

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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!

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