Books that are targeted at adults but are likely to be of interest to older teens and young adults

Adult-YA Crossover Fiction

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Sky Full of Elephants

A Novel

by Cebo Campbell

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In a world without white people, what does it mean to be black?

Masquerade

by O.O. Sangoyomi

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman's fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she'll go to secure her future.

One of Our Kind

A Novel

by Nicola Yoon

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Thrilling with insightful social commentary, One of Our Kind explores the ways in which freedom is complicated by the presumptions we make about ourselves and each other.

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

A Novel

by James McBride

Hardcover: Aug 2023 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah's Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.

A Sorceress Comes to Call

by T. Kingfisher

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call―a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's The Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic.

The Lion Women of Tehran

by Marjan Kamali

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.

The Bright Sword

A Novel of King Arthur

by Lev Grossman

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

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.

There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven

Stories

by Ruben Reyes

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.

The Heart in Winter

A Novel

by Kevin Barry

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry's first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana.

These Heathens

A Novel

by Mia McKenzie

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In this vibrant, gratifying novel, a pious, small-town teenager travels to Atlanta to get an abortion and finds herself smack in the middle of the civil rights movement and the secret lives of queer Black people.

The Slip

A Novel

by Lucas Schaefer

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Nathan Hill comes a haymaker of an American novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing.

Endling

A Novel

by Maria Reva

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-...

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