Sci-Fi / Fantasy/ Horror / Graphic Novel
September 2025
Mate
by Ali Hazelwood

As the first Human-Were hybrid, Serena is prey to the political machinations of Weres, Vampyres, and Humans; her mate, Koen, Alpha of the Northwest pack, may be the only thing standing between her and total annihilation.
Thief of Night
by Holly Black

There'd always been something wrong with Charlie Hall, crooked from the day she was born, never met a bad decision she wasn't willing to double down on, but will she be good enough to steal back a heart?
Famous
by Blake Crouch

Lancelot Blue Dunkquist has spent a decade preparing to become his celebrity lookalike, James Jansen, but when obsession turns into action, his dark journey blurs the line between impersonation and identity. 
What We Can Know
by Ian McEwan

In a future drowned by climate disaster, solitary scholar Thomas Metcalfe uncovers a trail to a lost 2014 poem that once stirred scandal, unraveling a century-old mystery of love, betrayal, and artistic legacy in a world longing for what it has lost.
Among the Burning Flowers
by Samantha Shannon

A standalone legend to the New York Times bestselling fantasy series bridges the events of A Day of Fallen Night and The Priory of the Orange Tree.
The Shattering Peace
by John Scalzi

In a series installment a decade in the making, the author returns to the galaxy of the Old Man's War series with the long awaited seventh book.
The Summer War
by Naomi Novik

When Celia's accidental curse condemns her brother Argent to a loveless life, she spends years mastering her prophetic magic to break it, uncovering along the way a buried truth about an ancient war that could finally bring peace—or destroy her people entirely.
What Stalks the Deep
by T. Kingfisher

Alex Easton investigates the dark, mysterious depths of a coal mine in America.
We Love You, Bunny
by Mona Awad

After publishing a novel that enrages her former MFA classmates, Samantha Mackey is kidnapped by the eerie, cult-like Bunnies, who force her to hear their surreal origin story, a tale of monstrous creativity, deadly friendship, and the violent magic at the heart of dark academia.
Rose in Chains
by Julie Soto

Captured as her castle is overrun by the enemy, the world as Briony Rosewood knows it is changed forever.
To Clutch a Razor
by Veronica Roth

The author pulls from Slavic folklore to explore family, duty and what it means to be a monster, in a sequel to the USA Today bestselling When Among Crows.
Fiend
by Alma Katsu

Historical horror maven Alma Katsu turns her talents to the modern world for the first time, in this terrifying tale about an all-powerful family with an ancient evil under its thumb. Imagine if the Sackler family had a demon at their beck and call. 
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
by Andrew Joseph White

In a decaying Appalachian landscape where hives of parasites offer shelter in exchange for corpses, trans man Crane embraces the safety they offer—until an unexpected pregnancy with his volatile partner Levi sparks a horrifying descent that threatens to unravel his fragile existence.
The Whistler
by Nick Medina

For fear of summoning evil spirits, Native superstition says you should never, ever whistle at night. Henry Hotard was on the verge of fame, gaining a following and traction with his eerie ghost-hunting videos. Then his dreams came to a screeching halt.
Spread Me
by Sarah Gailey

A routine probe at a research station turns deadly when a team discovers a strange specimen in search of a warm place to stay.
Breathe In, Bleed Out : a novel
by Brian McAuley

Hannah has been running from her demons ever since she emerged from a harrowing wilderness trip without her fiance. No one knows exactly what happened the day Ben died, and Hannah would like to keep it that way... even if his ghost still haunts her with vivid waking nightmares.
The Macabre
by Kosoko Jackson

Painter Lewis Dixon is called upon by the British Museum to test whether the fugue-like state he enters when painting portends magical ability that would enable him to enter and destroy a series of paintings created by his own great-grandfather and imbued with dark, world-destroying power.
The Maiden and Her Monster
by Maddie Martinez

An atmospheric fantasy novel rooted in history, folklore and sapphic romance. A first novel.
We Are Always Tender With Our Dead
by Eric Larocca

After three faceless intruders commit unspeakable violence on Christmas morning, the haunted residents of Burnt Sparrow, New Hampshire—especially teenage Rupert Cromwell—must reckon with grief, family fracture, and the disturbing realization that vengeance offers no salvation.
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