August 2026 Adult Top 10 Picks

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  1. Big Little Truths
    by Liane Moriarty
    Doubleday Canada
    Aug 25, 2026
    FICTION/Women
    Hardback
    Big Little Truths
    by Liane Moriarty
    Doubleday Canada
    Aug 25, 2026
    FICTION/Women
    Hardback
    FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BIG LITTLE LIES, THE RUNAWAY PHENOMENON THAT INSPIRED THE MEGA-HIT HBO SERIES

    In this highly anticipated sequel, Liane Moriarty examines the complexities of modern women’s lives, shining light on family dynamics and long-hidden truths with wit and compassion. Whether you’ve read Big Little Lies or not, this is the perfect novel for longtime fans and new readers alike.

    “Equal parts juicy, gripping, and impossible to put down . . . I loved diving back into the lives of these unforgettable characters.”­—Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid

    The last time we saw the women of Big Little Lies—Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie—their children were five years old. If someone wasn’t invited to a birthday party, feelings were hurt. But ten years have passed and the kids are in high school, navigating all of the drama that accompanies teendom (goodbye playdates, hello drugs, sex, and alcohol).

    When the high school principal receives a threatening package in the mail, word quickly spreads throughout the community and parents are in an uproar. But Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie have other things to worry about. Celeste’s mother-in-law, Mary Louise, is behaving oddly—is it old-age forgetfulness and bluntness or something more sinister? Madeline is facing perhaps the biggest challenge of her life, Jane is at a dangerous fork in her marriage, Bonnie has realized there’s only so much solace in yoga. And Renata? Renata is living her best life—revenge is sweet.

    When a stranger begins lurking around the school asking supposedly innocent questions, this tightly connected group of women must finally face the full repercussions of the big little truths they have and haven’t shared with their kids. Because the stakes are now much higher than not being invited to an ice-skating party—and the ice has never been thinner for any of them.
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  2. The Secrets We Hide
    by Karin Slaughter
    William Morrow
    Aug 11, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense
    Hardback
    The Secrets We Hide
    by Karin Slaughter
    William Morrow
    Aug 11, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense
    Hardback

    The next thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Good Daughter and the Will Trent Series.

    Welcome to North Falls. A small town with big secrets…

    1601 Iris Drive looks like any other house on the quiet, residential street. But rumors are rampant about the Vickery family, and what goes on behind closed doors.

    When gunshots ring out, Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer, discover a devastating crime scene. Allison Vickery has been murdered in her own kitchen, and her teenage daughter is bleeding upstairs, left for dead.

    Everyone thinks they know what happened. But secrets are buried everywhere in this small town.

    And it’s up to Emmy Clifton to uncover the truth…

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  3. Not a Word
    by Linwood Barclay Canada
    William Morrow
    Aug 25, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense
    Hardback
    Not a Word
    by Linwood Barclay Canada
    William Morrow
    Aug 25, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense
    Hardback

    In the latest chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a man’s world is upended after he stumbles upon a grisly crime scene in the family home.

    Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents’ house, he’s shocked to find them in bed, dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there’s clearly more to the story. For starters, inconsistencies in the crime scene suggest his dad may not have shot himself.

    As Reece, shaken by his horrifying discovery, awaits questioning from the police, his phone lights up with a call. It’s the last person he ever would have expected to hear from.

    Reeling from the day’s events, Reece finds himself questioning everything he thought he knew about his parents—and whether he and his own family are in danger now. While the authorities work to untangle the baffling crime scene, Reece is pulled into a web of secrets linked to the unscrupulous pharma company his father worked for years ago.

    In order to protect the people he loves most, he’ll have to dig deep into his own past to understand who his parents were, what they did, and who they hurt—before he ends up paying for their sins.

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  4. Delusional
    by James Patterson
    Little, Brown and Company
    Aug 17, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Crime
    Hardback
    Delusional
    by James Patterson
    Little, Brown and Company
    Aug 17, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Crime
    Hardback
    Detective Michael Bennett and army-sniper-turned-NYPD-officer Rob Trilling travel to Montana to investigate a case that crosses state borders and family lines in this thriller from the world's bestselling author.

    In New York City, a series of deadly bombs explodes. Across the river, a military base is burglarized for munitions. In Montana, violence and arson rock a small town outside of Bozeman. Are the incidents related?

    Bennett, Trilling, and the ATF investigate. A single-minded group angry with the government keep turning up in unexpected places, insisting that they’re only trying to make the world a better place. To law enforcement, their claims seem delusional.

    Will words or gunpowder light the next fuse?
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  5. Brain Damage
    by Freida McFadden
    Poisoned Pen Press
    Aug 25, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Psychological
    Hardback
    Brain Damage
    by Freida McFadden
    Poisoned Pen Press
    Aug 25, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Psychological
    Hardback
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Intruder !
    How can you survive when you can't remember who wants you dead?
    Dr. Charly McKenna had the perfect life: a thriving dermatology practice, a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, and a handsome husband who adored her.
    Until the night a bullet tore through her skull. . . and stoleeverything.
    Now Charly wakes in a rehabilitation hospital unable to walk, speak, or remember her own name. All she knows is that someone tried to kill her - and they may still be out there. As fragments of memory surface, so do unsettling questions about the people around her, including the attentive man who keeps appearing at her bedside.
    The truth of what happened that night lives somewhere inside her brain. And as Charly pieces together the jagged edges ofher past, she begins to realize the most terrifying possibility: the person who wants her dead might be the one she once trusted most.
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a scalpel-sharp psychological thriller about fractured memory, buried secrets, and how far the mind will go to protect you from the truth.
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  6. The True Meaning of Love
    by Danielle Steel
    Delacorte Press
    Aug 11, 2026
    FICTION/Women
    Hardback
    The True Meaning of Love
    by Danielle Steel
    Delacorte Press
    Aug 11, 2026
    FICTION/Women
    Hardback
    This powerful novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel is a stirring story of the lives of ordinary people during wartime.

    February 24 is the eighteenth birthday of a Ukrainian ballet school student named Vlad. It also happens to be the day that the first bombs of the 2022 Russian attack land on his homeland. As life for every person in the country is turned upside down in a moment, Vlad is immediately called up to serve in the military. But as much as he wants to defend his country, he is desperate to get his girlfriend, Tatyanna, an orphan whose only home has been the ballet school, out of the country.

    With their home under siege, Tatyanna tries to make her way to safety in Poland. Also joining the refugees is Yulya, who is torn between getting her young children across the border and staying at the side of her husband, Symon, and her elderly parents, Petro and Oxana, who refuse to abandon their home. As millions flee, Vlad and Symon join a volunteer civilians’ unit to fight. Even elderly citizens like Petro and Oxana are given AK-47s, though soon starvation becomes as much of a threat as the encroaching troops.

    Sasha, an obstetrician, and Anton, a surgeon, who are secretly lovers, stay behind to treat the never-ending waves of wounded. When the Russians bomb hospitals, the heroic couple finds themselves delivering babies in bomb shelters.

    Through the stories of Vlad, Tatyanna, Yulya, Symon, Sasha, and Anton—each struggling to protect their loved ones and preserve their own humanity—Danielle Steel tells a gripping and deeply moving story of regular people surviving as a war rages around them.
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  7. The Unknown
    by Riley Sager
    Dutton
    Aug 04, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense
    Hardback
    The Unknown
    by Riley Sager
    Dutton
    Aug 04, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense
    Hardback
    THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    The first edition of this stunning hardcover features designed endpapers, a foil-stamped case, hued edges, and a shimmery jacket!

    In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one hundred years later, it’s happening again.


    Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an island on sprawling Lake Faraday in Vermont. She’s even more surprised when she learns that the role requires a weeklong research trip to that very spot.

    Because New Avalon isn’t your ordinary island. A century ago, it was a commune for spiritual mediums—until they all vanished in 1926. The only trace of them was five dresses hanging from the branches of an old oak tree in the middle of the island, one for each missing woman. Some locals say they simply left. Others think they were murdered. But the prevailing opinion, thanks to a diary left behind by one of the vanished, a young woman named Daisy Rue, is that a séance gone wrong conjured something supernatural that took them all one by one.

    Not long after arriving, Marin and her castmates, including legendary actress Violet Wright and white-hot director Ronan Peters, begin to realize all is not right with New Avalon. They hear strange noises in the night and notice mysterious symbols left behind by the island's previous occupants. And after a sudden health emergency leaves Marin, Ronan, and the other actors stranded on the island, the disappearances begin again.

    Is it the work of someone trying to derail the movie? Or is the island’s alleged supernatural past catching up with the present? As fear and suspicion mount, Marin turns to Daisy’s diary, hoping it holds the key to figuring out what really happened to the women of New Avalon—and how to keep the island’s terrible history from repeating itself.
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  8. Eliza Sunshine
    by Michelle Good Canada
    Random House Canada
    Aug 18, 2026
    FICTION/Indigenous/Women
    Paperback / softback
    Eliza Sunshine
    by Michelle Good Canada
    Random House Canada
    Aug 18, 2026
    FICTION/Indigenous/Women
    Paperback / softback
    From the award-winning and bestselling author of Five Little Indians comes a powerful family saga following three generations of Cree women and the storytelling tradition that connects them to each other.

    Sometimes I feel that I wasn’t born at all, rather sculpted and formed by the storms of my grandmother’s life.

    When Eliza comes home from her first year at residential school, she is barely recognizable to her Nôhkom, Swan. Once bright-eyed and curious, Eliza is now stick-thin with roughly shorn hair and dull, listless eyes. Gathering bag in hand, Swan gently leads Eliza on long walks through untouched prairie grasses, harvesting medicines, certain that the power of the land will heal her. And as they walk, she shares stories of her own suffering when her traditional ways of being and living collided with the greed and violence of encroaching settlers. For Eliza, Swan's journey offers a master class in how to face unspeakable adversity and remain true to herself.

    Decades later, Eliza and her daughter are at a crossroads. When Ella comes home from her first year at university wearing bell-bottoms, braids, and a beaded headband, Eliza is horrified. Eliza fought her whole life to be free of the oppression that comes with being Cree, and she can’t fathom why her daughter would choose to proclaim her heritage so proudly, disregarding the consequences. With a steaming cup of tea in hand, Eliza follows in her grandmother’s footsteps, sharing with Ella the story of the adversities she faced in her own relentless pursuit of freedom.

    But Ella's idea of freedom isn’t the same as Eliza’s. And when tragedy strikes, Ella must decide how to build her life in the aftermath and navigate how best to keep the stories of her family alive when the world around her seems to want them buried along with the legions of the missing and the dead.
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  9. You'll Be Sorry
    by Lisa Gardner
    Grand Central Publishing
    Aug 04, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense
    Hardback
    You'll Be Sorry
    by Lisa Gardner
    Grand Central Publishing
    Aug 04, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense
    Hardback
    A newlywed couple each with their own secrets. An abandoned lodge with a horrific decades-old mystery. And a small mountain town where everyone believes they know their neighbors, in this thriller from a master storyteller.

    "Chilling, gripping." —Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True


    For Raquel and Theo Collins, it appeared to be love at first sight. Raquel, a renowned interior designer, and Theo, a brash financial wizard met and married in a matter of months, only to confront a terrible tragedy. Now, unbearably aware of the distance between them, they’ve come to a remote town in New Hampshire to begin anew.

    Perched on a ledge with stunning views, the Dixon’s family lodge was once a crown jewel of the mountains. Until late one August night, when both parents and their four children vanished, leaving behind a trail of bloody footprints, and a mystery that has endured for thirty years. Now, its latest occupants, the Collinses, are arriving, and the former grand lodge is once more stirring to life.

    For Amanda Grady, following in her father’s footsteps as the recently appointed Shereford police chief, it’s good to see a fresh start for the derelict Dixon place. However, not everyone is happy about a new family in the old home and its hidden past may have returned with a vengeance.

    When a stray dog leads to the discovery of a skeleton on the property, Raquel and Theo face a daunting choice of what to believe, who to trust, and how to survive. Because in the tiny village of Shereford the time has come. The local residents, the new neighbors, and the fledgling police chief must work together to unravel the terrifying events that happened one night thirty years ago, or …

    You’ll be sorry.
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  10. That Night
    by Gillian McAllister
    William Morrow
    Aug 18, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense
    Hardback
    That Night
    by Gillian McAllister
    William Morrow
    Aug 18, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense
    Hardback

    NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX

    “McAllister is the best at putting her characters in impossible situations and making her readers not only contemplate but feel what it would be like to find themselves in those situations.” — Emily Henry

    From the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes an electrifying thriller about three siblings torn apart by the cover-up of a death while on a family vacation in Italy.

    On vacation in Europe, Frannie makes two urgent phone calls. One to her sister, and one to her brother. The siblings come running, and they find their sister covered in blood, kneeling over an unmoving body.

    There’s been an accident: Frannie has hit a man with her car, and she needs their help. They bury the body, and they make a promise. They’ll never tell anyone.

    But when the police come calling, the siblings’ lies start to spiral. They begin to doubt their trust in each other. Because what really happened that night?

    And who will be the first to crack?

    With the incredible twists and turns and a unique look at family relationships that McAllister has become known for, That Night is the ultimate summer thriller that asks: what would you do to protect your family?

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