Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
Opal is a lot of things - orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic, and part-time cashier - but above all, she’s determined to find a better life for her younger brother, Jasper. One that gets them out of Eden, Kentucky, a town remarkable for only two things: bad luck and E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author of The Underland, who disappeared over a hundred years ago.
Spells For Forgetting by Adrienne Young
Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever on the eve of her high school graduation, when the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her best friend, Lily. She’d once dreamt of running away with August, eager to escape Saoirse Island and chase new dreams together. Now, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence amount this tight-knit community steeped in folklore and tradition.
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. She’s had no choice. Since childhood, she’s been haunted by visions of the Fairy King. She’s found solace only in the pages of Angharad - Emrys Myrrdin’s beloved epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King and then destroys him.
The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab
Once there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London.
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it. For Clementine West, that means burying her head in her work as a book publicist, being practical, and forgetting the silly things her beloved aunt Analea taught her - like living wide and chasing the moon. Clementine would rather stay grounded and keep her heart safe. For the last six months, she’s done just that.
But when she moves into her late aunt’s apartment and finds a strange man standing in the kitchen - a man with kind eyes, a Southern drawl, and a taste for lemon pies - her well-laid plans begin to fall apart. Because he’s the type of man who, before it all, she would’ve fallen head over heels for. And she still might.
Bunny by Mona Awad
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort — a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other “Bunny,” and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled “Smut Salon,” and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door — ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process.
Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
With ailing family to support, Evie Sage’s employment status isn’t just important, it’s vital. So when a mishap with Rennedawn’s most infamous Villain results in a job offer - naturally, she says yes. No job is perfect, of course, but even less so when you develop a teeny crush on your terrifying, temperamental, and undeniably hot boss. Don’t find evil so attractive, Evie.
She Started It by Sian Gilbert
Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe are best friends - or were, as children. They drifted apart in adulthood, but shared secrets have kept them bonded for better or worse, even as their childhood dreams haven’t quite turned out as they’d hoped. Then one day they receive a wholly unexpected invitation from another old friend. Poppy Greer has invited them all to her extravagant bachelorette party: three days of white sand, cocktails, and relaxation on a luxe private island in the Bahamas.
House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig
When Verity receives word that the Duchess of Bloem - wife of a celebrated botanist - is interested in having Vertity paint a portrait of her son, Alexander, Verity jumps at the chance, but Camille won’t allow it. Forced to reveal ithe secret she’s kept for years, Camille tells Verity the truth one day: haunted by tragic childhood events, Verity is still seeing ghosts, she just doesn’t know it.
Forget Me Not by Julie Soto
Ama Torres is a wedding planner who doesn’t believe in marriage. But weddings? they’re amazing. Elliot Bloom is a brooding florist who hates owning a flower shop… until a certain bright-eyed, donut-loving workaholic shows up at his door.
Once upon a time, they collaborated on events by day, and by night, Ama traced the intricate flower tattoos etched along his body. Then Ama shattered his heart and never spoke to Elliot again.
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly hones people pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.
The Chestnut Springs Series by Elsie Silver
Summer, a lawyer and PR person for her father’s business must help bull-rider Rhett clean up his image.
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
Medusa is the only mortal in a family of gods. Growing up wth her sisters, she quickly realizes that she is the only one who gets older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know.
Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1) by Rebecca Ross
When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war between gods, to seal their fate forever.
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away… because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect: he’s star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top in all his classes… except the ones he shares with Celine Bangura. They used to be best friends, until Brad decided he was too cool for consipracy-theory-obsessed Celine and literally abandoned her for the popular kids’ table. (At least, that’s how Celine sees it.) These days, Brad hates her guts - and the feeling is mutual.
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark magic, friendship, and love, in this heartwarming and enchanting fantasy.
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college - they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except now - for reasons they’re still not discussing - they don’t. They broke up five months ago… and still haven’t told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
On a bitter cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster Ichigo.