January 2025 Adult Top 10 Picks

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  1. Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
    by Rebecca Yarros
    Entangled: Red Tower Books
    Jan 21, 2025
    FICTION / Romance / Fantasy
    Hardback
    Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
    by Rebecca Yarros
    Entangled: Red Tower Books
    Jan 21, 2025
    FICTION / Romance / Fantasy
    Hardback

    After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there’s no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty.

    Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it’s impossible to know who to trust.

    Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him.

    Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything.

    They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find—the truth.

    But a storm is coming...and not everyone can survive its wrath.

    The Empyrean series is best enjoyed in order.
    Reading Order:
    Book #1 Fourth Wing
    Book #2 Iron Flame
    Book #3 Onyx Storm

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  2. The Crash
    by Freida McFadden
    Poisoned Pen Press
    Jan 28, 2025
    FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological
    Hardback
    The Crash
    by Freida McFadden
    Poisoned Pen Press
    Jan 28, 2025
    FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological
    Hardback

    A brand new psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden!

    The nightmare she's running from is nothing compared to where she's headed.

    Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn't realize she's heading straight into a blizzard.

    She never arrives at her destination.

    Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she's made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle occurs: she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.

    But something isn't right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she comes to realize she is in grave danger. This safe haven isn't what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet.

    And now she must do whatever it takes to save herself—and her unborn child.

    A gut-wrenching story of motherhood, survival, and twisted expectations, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden delivers a snowbound thriller that will chill you to the bone.

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  3. Never Say Never
    by Danielle Steel
    Delacorte Press
    Jan 07, 2025
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    Never Say Never
    by Danielle Steel
    Delacorte Press
    Jan 07, 2025
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This deeply moving novel from Danielle Steel tells the story of a woman who finds her life turned upside down while living temporarily in the French countryside.

    Oona Kelly Webster has much to be grateful for. A striking woman with red hair and green eyes, she has a loving family and a job she adores, editing a prestigious line of books. To celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, she and her husband, Charles, have planned a visit to France.

    But then Charles drops a bombshell. He has been living a lie—hiding an affair for a year—and he is leaving Oona for a younger male lover.

    Although devastated, Oona decides to travel to France without Charles. She arrives in a charming village an hour outside of Paris, and settles into the house she has rented, called La Belle Florence—named after the king’s mistress for whom it was built. But just as she’s catching her breath, she’s dealt another blow: Her company’s merger will eliminate her job.

    In the space of a few months, everything she nurtured for decades has slipped through her fingers. The only silver lining is that she can remain in France, where the simple life in beautiful surroundings slowly begins to heal her, as does the little white dog she rescues, and her friendly neighbor hailing from Trinidad, who delights her with his openness and warmth.

    Though she does not recognize him at first, she soon realizes her neighbor is a well-known actor. As their feelings for each other begin to deepen, Oona wrestles with the risks of opening her heart again—especially to a younger, very famous man.

    Never Say Never is an inspiring novel about a woman who finds a second chance at happiness and love, all because she understands the importance of being brave enough to stay open to change.
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  4. More or Less Maddy
    by Lisa Genova
    Simon & Schuster
    Jan 14, 2025
    FICTION / Women
    Paperback / softback
    More or Less Maddy
    by Lisa Genova
    Simon & Schuster
    Jan 14, 2025
    FICTION / Women
    Paperback / softback
    The powerhouse New York Times bestselling author and Harvard-trained neuroscientist returns with a breathless, exhilarating, and heartbreaking novel about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder and the ripple effects her mental health has on her family and her pursuit of a career in stand-up comedy.

    Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between heaps of homework, finals, and navigating life in the city, it’s normal to be feeling the pressure. It doesn’t help that she’s always felt like the odd one out in her “perfect” Connecticut family: her blonde, toned, and tanned mother; her flawless, high-achieving, engaged sister, Emily; and her always popular, athletic, easygoing brother, Jack. Yet lately, Maddy’s highs seem dizzyingly high, and the lows seem terrifyingly low. Suddenly, the things that used to make her happy are becoming harder and harder to grasp.

    When a spontaneous visit to a comedy club opens her eyes to a new hobby just as her mental health begins to spiral and an incident at a family Thanksgiving dinner leads to a terrifying breaking point—and to a new diagnosis—Maddy’s life starts to look quite different. As she struggles to accept her bipolar disorder and attempts to navigate her burgeoning stand-up career, she’ll have to figure out how to manage being both too much and not enough.
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  5. Holmes Is Missing
    by James Patterson
    Little, Brown and Company
    Jan 06, 2025
    FICTION / Thrillers / Crime
    Hardback
    Holmes Is Missing
    by James Patterson
    Little, Brown and Company
    Jan 06, 2025
    FICTION / Thrillers / Crime
    Hardback

    “Best-selling author James Patterson populates his murder-mystery novels with cold-blooded killers and smart detectives” (USA Today). In Holmes is Missing, PI Brendan Holmes has committed the perfect crime—he’s made himself disappear.

    Success has come quickly to Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. The New York City agency led by three detectives—Brendan Holmes, “the brain,” Margaret Marple, “the eyes,” and Auguste Poe, the “muscle”—with famous names and mysterious pasts is one major case away from cementing its professional reputation.

    But as a series of child abductions tests the PIs’ legendary skills, the cerebral Holmes’s absence leaves a gaping hole in the agency roster.

    Only by closing ranks and solving the mystery within can they recover all that’s been lost.

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  6. Beautiful Ugly
    by Alice Feeney
    Flatiron Books
    Jan 14, 2025
    FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological
    Paperback / softback
    Beautiful Ugly
    by Alice Feeney
    Flatiron Books
    Jan 14, 2025
    FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological
    Paperback / softback

    “Her best book yet.” Harlan Coben
    The million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists Alice Feeney returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage. . .
    . . . and revenge.

    Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.

    Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.

    A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible – a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.

    Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t.
    Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.

    “Magnetic and jaw-dropping.” —Mary Kubica, bestselling author
    "Unforgettable." —Chris Whitaker, bestselling author

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  7. The Texas Murders
    by James Patterson
    Little, Brown and Company
    Jan 14, 2025
    FICTION / Thrillers / Crime
    Hardback
    The Texas Murders
    by James Patterson
    Little, Brown and Company
    Jan 14, 2025
    FICTION / Thrillers / Crime
    Hardback

    In this thrilling novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the great Texas Rangers go on a no-holds-barred pursuit of the most dangerous killer ever to terrorize Texas.

    Texas Ranger Rory Yates protects his home state wearing a five-pointed silver badge and carrying a Sig Sauer.

    When a native woman disappears on the summer solstice, clues point to a cold case.

    Yates, a quick-draw champion, partners with expert archer Ava Cruz of the Tigua Tribal police.

    The investigation leads to the edges of Texas’s most unforgiving landscape, where the officers take dead aim with every shot in their arsenals.

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  8. The Big Empty
    by Robert Crais
    G.P. Putnam's Sons
    Jan 14, 2025
    FICTION / Crime
    Hardback
    The Big Empty
    by Robert Crais
    G.P. Putnam's Sons
    Jan 14, 2025
    FICTION / Crime
    Hardback
    Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner, Joe Pike, race to find a terrifying, unidentified killer in this twisting, unpredictable thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais.

    Traci Beller was thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha, not far from Los Angeles. The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned his family, but Traci never believed it. Now, ten years later, Traci is a high-profile influencer with millions of followers and the money to hire the best detective she can find: Elvis Cole.

    Elvis heads to Rancha where an ex-con named Sadie Givens and her daughter, Anya, might have a line on the missing man. But when Elvis finds himself shadowed by a gang of vicious criminals, the missing persons cold case becomes far more sinister.

    Elvis calls his ex-Marine friend, Joe Pike, for help, and they follow Tommy Beller's trail into the depths of a monstrous, hidden evil. The case flips on its head, victims become predators, predators become prey, and the question becomes: Can Elvis Cole save them all from this nightmare?
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  9. The Note
    by Alafair Burke
    Knopf
    Jan 07, 2025
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    The Note
    by Alafair Burke
    Knopf
    Jan 07, 2025
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife comes a suspenseful story about a vacation in the Hamptons that goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history.

    "It's only January, but your perfect Summer thriller is here already."—Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post

    “I absolutely loved The Note. Trust no one in this irresistible page-turner.” —Ashley Elston, #1 New York Times best-selling author of First Lie Wins


    It was meant to be a harmless prank.

    Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of her class, a compulsive rule-follower. Raised by a first-generation Chinese single mother with high expectations, May didn’t have room to slip up, let alone fail. Her friends didn’t call her the Little Sheriff for nothing.

    But even good girls have secrets. And regrets. When it comes to her friendship with Lauren and Kelsey, she's had her fair share of both. Their bond—forged when May was just twelve years old—has withstood a tragic accident, individual scandals, heartbreak and loss. Now the three friends have reunited for the first time in years for a few days of sun and fun in the Hamptons. But a chance encounter with a pair of strangers leads to a drunken prank that goes horribly awry.

    When she finds herself at the center of an urgent police investigation, May begins to wonder whether Lauren and Kelsey are keeping secrets from her, testing the limits of her loyalty to lifelong friends.

    What had they gone and done?

    The Note is a page-turner of the highest order from one of our greatest contemporary suspense writers.
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  10. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
    by Grady Hendrix
    Berkley
    Jan 14, 2025
    FICTION / Horror
    Hardback
    Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
    by Grady Hendrix
    Berkley
    Jan 14, 2025
    FICTION / Horror
    Hardback
    "Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times

    There’s power in a book…


    They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.

    Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.

    Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid...and it’s usually paid in blood.

    In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).
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