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Adult Services Staff Picks October 2026 |
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Bodies of Magic
by Freya Marske
Recommended by: Julia
Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education in this dark academia fantasy from USA Today bestselling author Freya Marske. At the Academie, every mage with the healer's gift has five years to master their power and to prepare for the infamous Grand Exam--a five-day trial whose results determine their entire future. The trial requires performing five practical cases in an exam group that passes or fails together. It does not generally include a classmate's dead body in the exam hall, classmates that all have something to hide (and connections with the dead girl, a brilliant scholar who would have been first in their class). Five scholars. Five secrets. Five days in which to solve a murder, pass the most important exam of their lives, and uncover a secret larger than all of their own combined.
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones
Recommended by: Kelly
A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.
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The Devoted
by Catherine Cho
Recommended by: Sarah R.
In this emotionally transportive literary debut about family and fate, a young Korean woman becomes entrenched in an infamous crime organization--and the dangerous world she once sought to escape.
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Dodge City
by Patrick DeWitt
Recommended by: Sarah V.
From bestselling author Patrick deWitt comes Dodge City, a rollicking novel about a young man on an amphetamine-fueled cross-country road trip, fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada. Witty, moving, and delightfully off-kilter, Patrick deWitt's sixth novel is a brilliant and raucous exploration of family, country, division, and war, from an elegant humorist who never shies from the stranger aspects of human behavior.
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Exit Party
by Emily St John Mandel
Recommended by: Rachel
The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman--a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State--searches for answers.
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The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Audiobook recommended by: Lori
The sins of the Pyncheon father are visited upon his children over a period of several generations, until such time as one of his descendants unites with a member of the family he has wronged.
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No Way Home
by T. C. Boyle
Recommended by: Joanna
No Way Home tells the haunting story of Terrence Tully, an LA medical resident who is abruptly informed that his mother has died. Arriving at her home in a forlorn Nevada desert town, the naive doctor finds himself “like a swimmer caught in a riptide,” drawn into a love triangle involving the manipulative, margarita–swilling receptionist Bethany and her ex–boyfriend Jesse. With its depiction of a desiccated town struggling in the dark shadows of a luminous, mountainous horizon, No Way Home is a tour de force by an American master at his finest.
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Whalefall
by Daniel Kraus
Recommended by: Anna Jayne
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angel Down comes a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who's been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out. Soon to be a major motion picture from 20th Century Studios.
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Dear Dealer
by Nadia Bowers
Recommended by: Laura
For readers of Beautiful Boy and The Night of the Gun, this gripping memoir explores addiction, grief, and family trauma as one woman goes in search of her sister's killer.
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Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys
by Mariana Enriquez
Recommended by: Brandee
An enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world--part travelogue, part memoir, part excursions through death, by the author of Our Share of Night and queen of horror (Los Angeles Times).
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