Small Town

One Golden Summer

Carley Fortune · Romance

**A radiant, new escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune** I never anticipated Charlie Florek.

slow burn · second chance romance · small town · cozy vibes

Good Spirits

B.K. Borison · Romance

**He’s the Ghost of Christmas Past.

slow burn · grumpy sunshine · small town

Theo of Golden

Allen Levi · Literary Fiction

“[A] word-of-mouth smash hit.” —The New York Times One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden.

magical realism · small town

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson · Literary Fiction

Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark…

unreliable narrator · psychological thriller · gothic atmosphere · small town · morally grey character

The Hive

Melissa Scholes Young · Literary Fiction

The Hive is a story of survival, sisters, and secrets.

found family · coming of age · small town · survival

Sunburn

Chloe Michelle Howarth · Literary Fiction

It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place.

coming of age · small town · forbidden romance · historical fiction

Rewind it Back

Liz Tomforde · Romance

Hallie When I was eleven, my family moved next door to his.

second chance romance · slow burn · sports romance · small town

The Pumpkin Spice Café

Laurie Gilmore · Romance

**A spicy small-town romance and TikTok phenomenon, perfect for fans of Hannah Grace and Stephanie Archer.** When Jeanie's aunt gifts her the…

romantic comedy · cozy vibes · small town

If It Makes You Happy

Julie Olivia · Romance

An Instant USA Today Bestseller!

slow burn · small town · romantic comedy · cozy vibes

The Storm

Rachel Hawkins · Mystery & Thriller

St. Medard's Bay, Alabama, is famous for three things: the deadly hurricanes that regularly sweep into town; the Rosalie Inn, a century-old hotel…

psychological thriller · closed circle · small town · missing person

The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon · Mystery & Thriller

Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death.

historical fiction · psychological thriller · small town

We Are All Guilty Here

Karin Slaughter · Mystery & Thriller

Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone.

psychological thriller · small town · closed circle

Wild Side

Elsie Silver · Romance

I’d always dreamed of my wedding day.

enemies to lovers · marriage of convenience · forced proximity · small town · revenge plot

'Salem's Lot

Stephen King · Horror

Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own…

gothic atmosphere · vampires · small town · haunted setting · redemption arc

Big Girl Blitz

Danielle Allen · Romance

"Nothing is hotter and more fun than Danielle Allen's writing." -- Ali Hazelwood Jazmyn Payne fled the small town of Chance the minute she graduated…

slow burn · small town · coming of age · friends to lovers

Is This a Cry for Help?

Emily Austin · Literary Fiction

Emily Austin, the bestselling “queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines” (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous…

coming of age · trauma recovery · small town

Across the Vanishing Sky

Catherine Cowles · Mystery & Thriller

Braedyn Winslow never expected to return to Starlight Grove-the town that took everything from her.

missing person · coming of age · small town · trauma recovery

The Keeper

Sarah Langan · Horror

Some believe Bedford, Maine, is cursed.

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · small town

The Benefactors

Wendy Erskine · Literary Fiction

AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL 2025 'I couldn't put this book down' Sheena Patel, author of I'm a Fan 'A powerful, moving, compelling, utterly…

found family · coming of age · small town

Play Along

Liz Tomforde · Romance

Kennedy I’m the only woman on staff for the Windy City Warriors baseball team, and after years of putting up with a sexist lead doctor, I’m…

grumpy sunshine · slow burn · small town · found family

Done and Dusted

Lyla Sage · Romance

For the first time in her life, Clementine “Emmy” Ryder has no idea what she’s doing.

friends to lovers · brothers best friend · slow burn · small town · romantic comedy

Us Against You

Fredrik Backman · Literary Fiction

Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did. Have you ever seen a town rise? Ours did that, too. A small community tucked deep in the forest,…

found family · coming of age · trauma recovery · small town

Flesh

David Szalay · Literary Fiction

"Teenaged Istvâan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary.

coming of age · forbidden romance · small town · trauma recovery

Beg, Borrow, or Steal

Sarah Adams · Romance

**Two feuding second-grade teachers (and neighbors) find themselves teaming up in this rivals-to-lovers romance by the New York Times bestselling…

enemies to lovers · small town · slow burn · opposites attract

Releasing 10

Chloe Walsh · Romance

He was her anchor. She was his storm. Together, they were everything—and it still wasn't enough. From Chloe Walsh, the international bestselling…

slow burn · second chance romance · trauma recovery · small town

Boy's Life

Robert McCammon · Literary Fiction

An Alabama boy's innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song.

coming of age · small town · trauma recovery · historical fiction

Land

Maggie O'Farrell · Literary Fiction

The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait, returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before…

historical fiction · small town

These Familiar Walls

C. J. Dotson · Horror

A spine-chilling, heart-pounding suburban horror novel at the heart of the genre, perfect for fans of T.

coming of age · haunted setting · psychological thriller · small town

The Gingerbread Bakery

Laurie Gilmore · Romance

**From the international bestselling author of The Pumpkin Spice Café and The Cinnamon Bun Book Store, comes the highly anticipated Dream Harbor…

small town · cozy vibes · romantic comedy · magical realism

Holiday Ever After

Hannah Grace · Romance

Clara Davenport wants to solve Fraser Falls’s biggest problem.

romantic comedy · workplace romance · small town

Soul Searching

Lyla Sage · Romance

Home is where the heart is—and this one is haunted.

paranormal romance · small town · slow burn · ghosts · trauma recovery

Shady Hollow

Juneau Black · Mystery & Thriller

The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together…

cozy vibes · small town · closed circle

The Killer Question

Janice Hallett · Mystery & Thriller

Janice Hallett, “the new queen of crime” (Electric Literature), returns with a fresh, edge-of-your-seat mystery that takes place at a pub’s weekly…

cozy vibes · small town · closed circle · cat and mouse

The Sun and the Starmaker

Rachel Griffin · Fantasy

There once was a village so far north that most considered it the top of the world...

slow burn · romantic comedy · magical realism · small town · paranormal romance

The Blue Castle

L.M. Montgomery · Literary Fiction

Valancy Stirling is 29, unmarried, and has never been in love.

coming of age · historical fiction · small town

The Winners

Fredrik Backman · Literary Fiction

A breathtaking new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove, The Winners returns to the close-knit,…

second chance romance · found family · small town · coming of age

Gloria Don't Speak

Lucy Apps · Literary Fiction

Gloria has a learning disability.

coming of age · found family · trauma recovery · small town

The Girls Who Grew Big

Leila Mottley · Literary Fiction

Adela Woods is sixteen years old and pregnant.

coming of age · historical fiction · found family · small town · trauma recovery

Crux

Gabriel Tallent · Literary Fiction

Dan e Tamma sono all’ultimo anno di liceo nella loro cittadina in California, all’ombra del Joshua Tree National Park, una delle mecche mondiali…

coming of age · psychological thriller · small town · trauma recovery

Garden Spells

Sarah Addison Allen · Literary Fiction

**In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small house in the smallest of towns, is an apple tree rumored to bear a very special…

magical realism · small town · found family · cozy vibes

Get Over It, April Evans

Ashley Herring Blake · Romance

A summer job at a lake-town resort brings together two women with an unlikely connection in this new contemporary romance by USA Today bestselling…

second chance romance · coming of age · small town · found family

Wild and Wrangled

Lyla Sage · Romance

Camille Ashwood had always loved a plan.

second chance romance · small town · slow burn · sports romance

Betting on You

Lynn Painter · Romance

When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers.

romantic comedy · coming of age · grumpy sunshine · small town

Middlemarch

George Eliot · Literary Fiction

Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several interlocking storylines…

historical fiction · small town · coming of age

The Catcher in the Rye

Jerome David Salinger · Literary Fiction

Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism.

coming of age · small town · anti hero · unreliable narrator

Reckless

Elsie Silver · Romance

Theo Silva. Rowdy bull rider, notorious ladies' man, scorching hot trouble wrapped up in a drool-worthy package. And he's looking at me like I…

romantic comedy · small town · grumpy sunshine · slow burn

Sundown Girls

L.S. Stratton · Mystery & Thriller

In the tradition of Jordan Peele and Tiffany Jackson’s The Weight of Blood, a YA thriller about a Black teen whose fight for survival forces a small…

psychological thriller · survival · small town · coming of age

No Place Like You

Jillian Meadows · Romance

Childhood friends turned high school rivals fall into a small-town fake dating scheme in this sweet, spicy, and utterly irresistible romance from the…

friends to lovers · fake relationship · romantic comedy · small town · enemies to lovers

August Lane

Regina Black · Romance

A Black country music star who lied about writing his only hit risks his comeback to reunite with the woman he stole it from, a first love the lyrics…

second chance romance · small town · redemption arc

The Hounding

Xenobe Purvis · Horror

Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on…

gothic atmosphere · small town · haunted setting · psychological thriller · closed circle

The Good House

Tananarive Due · Horror

Award-winning author Due's spine tingling tale of supernatural suspense "weaves a stronger net than ever" (Kirkus Reviews") as a woman searches for…

haunted setting · found family · small town

Go Gentle

Maria Semple · Literary Fiction

'I ADORED THIS NOVEL' NINA STIBBE 'LOADED WITH MARIA SEMPLE'S SIGNATURE WIT' BONNIE GARMUS 'SMART, FUNNY AND DEVASTATING IN A GREAT WAY' JENNETTE…

coming of age · small town · found family

The Christmas Tree Farm

Laurie Gilmore · Romance

**From the author of the viral TikTok sensation, The Pumpkin Spice Café, comes the only spicy grumpy x sunshine Christmas romcom you need this…

grumpy sunshine · romantic comedy · small town · holiday romance

Story Of My Life

Lucy Score · Romance

THE ALL-NEW SMALL-TOWN ROMCOM FROM LUCY SCORE Hazel is given a one-two punch when she's forced to move out of her Upper East Side apartment and is…

romantic comedy · small town · coming of age · fish out of water

When in Rome

Sarah Adams · Romance

Opposites certainly attract for the stranded pop star and small-town baker in this charming slice of romance from the author of the TikTok sensation…

romantic comedy · opposites attract · slow burn · small town · fish out of water

Wild Eyes

Elsie Silver · Romance

A rugged mountain town seemed like the perfect escape from a life in shambles.

small town · found family · slow burn · grumpy sunshine

Redeeming 6

Chloe Walsh · Romance

I'm saving you, six. Joey Lynch's life is falling apart. Obsessed with proving himself to the only person he's ever truly trusted, Joey fights to…

coming of age · slow burn · small town

A Murder Is Announced

Agatha Christie · Mystery & Thriller

The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which read: 'A murder…

cozy vibes · small town · twist ending

A Quiet Life in the Country

T E. Kinsey · Mystery & Thriller

Emily, Lady Hardcastle, is a widow with a mysterious and unconventional past.

small town · historical fiction · cozy vibes

Burn Bright

Nancy Hall · Mystery & Thriller

"Burn Bright" is a tale of moonlight, murders, money and mystery.

paranormal romance · psychological thriller · werewolves shifters · small town · slow burn

Grace

A.M. Shine · Horror

A haunting tale of ancient evil and long-buried secrets in an isolated Irish community from the author of hit horror novel The Watchers.

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · small town · closed circle

Funeral Song

Carly Racklin · Horror

"A grotesque beauty in the vein of Guillermo del Toro, matched only by Carly Racklin's elegant prose." —Rachel Bolton, author of Please Serve Cold…

gothic atmosphere · small town · haunted setting

Last One Out

Jane Harper · Mystery & Thriller

From the New York Times bestselling author of Exiles and The Dry comes a captivating new novel set in a modern ghost town.

psychological thriller · small town · closed circle

Swift and Saddled

Lyla Sage · Romance

The last thing Ada Hart needs is a man to take care of her.

forced proximity · opposites attract · small town · slow burn · romantic comedy

Knot Before You Enter

Tish Bouvier · Mystery & Thriller

Maxine Gerimatter, an octogenarian is sharp as a tack and fiercely independent, even if life has landed her at Sunny Ridge Living Care Facility.

cozy vibes · small town · found family

Darkrooms

Rebecca Hannigan · Mystery & Thriller

'Haunting, fast-paced and unforgettable' KARIN SLAUGHTER 'Astonishing' LUCY ROSE A chilling thriller' PETER SWANSON A masterful, menacing debut' ANNA…

psychological thriller · small town · trauma recovery

All the Little Houses

May Cobb · Mystery & Thriller

"May Cobb's most explosive book yet.

psychological thriller · small town · twist ending

We Are Always Tender with Our Dead

Eric LaRocca · Horror

Michael McDowell’s Blackwater meets Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show in the disturbing first installment of a new trilogy of intense,…

gothic atmosphere · found family · small town · grimdark

You Again

Amanda Waters · Romance

The summer before her senior year of high school, Rosalee fell in love with George.

second chance romance · small town · slow burn · coming of age

Village Diary

Miss Read · Literary Fiction

Here, the characters include dictatorial Amy, an old college friend, Mr Mawne, whom the village sees as a possible husband for the unwilling Miss…

small town · historical fiction · cozy vibes

Miss Buncle’s Book

D.E. Stevenson · Literary Fiction

Who Knew One Book Could Cause So Much Chaos?

romantic comedy · small town · coming of age

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Deesha Philyaw · Literary Fiction

coming of age · small town

You've Reached Sam

Dustin Thao · Literary Fiction

Seventeen-year-old Julie has her future all planned out—move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city, spend a summer…

coming of age · trauma recovery · magical realism · small town · missing person

Anderson in Bloom

Jennifer Dugan · Romance

Former child star Anderson “Andy” Ducharme is hiding—has been for a long time, if she’s honest with herself, which she isn’t.

enemies to lovers · second chance romance · romantic comedy · small town · she falls first

Secret Haven

Catherine Cowles · Romance

Get ready for your next reading obsession, the spicy small-town romance filled with mystery and suspense from the bestselling author, perfect for…

small town · romantic comedy · psychological thriller · second chance romance · forced proximity

A Pack for Autumn

Emilia Emerson · Romance

She was looking for quiet. She found them instead. Starlight Grove needs a new Lighthouse Keeper and Olive Autumn Harvest needs a fresh start.…

paranormal romance · found family · slow burn · small town · fated mates

Lovelight Farms

B.K. Borison · Romance

*Where the lovelight gleams …* A pasture of dead trees.

fake relationship · romantic comedy · friends to lovers · holiday romance · small town

Delicate Escape

Catherine Cowles · Romance

Get ready for your next reading obsession, the spicy small-town romance filled with mystery and suspense from the bestselling author, perfect for…

small town · found family · slow burn

Holiday Romance

Jill Sanders · Romance

Just in time for the holidays, take another wonderful trip to Oregon.

romantic comedy · small town · holiday romance · opposites attract

Needful Things

Stephen King · Horror

“There are two prices for this. Half…and half. One half is cash. The other is a deed. Do you understand?” The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen…

grimdark · small town · psychological thriller · demons

Blackwater

Michael McDowell · Horror

On the crest of the worst flood that Perdido, Alabama has ever seen, the mysterious Elinor Dammart is rescued from the topmost room of a flooded…

gothic atmosphere · dark academia · small town

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving · Horror

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · small town · love triangle

Seascraper

Benjamin Wood · Literary Fiction

Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker.

coming of age · small town

Stay with Me

Ayobami Adebayo · Literary Fiction

"A novel about a married Nigerian couple who must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for…

coming of age · small town · trauma recovery

Lake Effect

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney · Literary Fiction

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nest and Good Company comes a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one…

historical fiction · found family · small town

A Long Winter

Colm Toibin · Literary Fiction

Available for the first time in a beautiful standalone edition, one of Colm Tóibín’s finest short stories and “the most striking example of Tóibin’s…

historical fiction · small town

Pick a Color

Souvankham Thammavongsa · Literary Fiction

Henry Award winner and two-time Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an…

coming of age · small town

Dubliners

James Joyce · Literary Fiction

James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to…

historical fiction · small town

I Hope This Finds You Well

T.R. Mintz · Literary Fiction

One day in early February Nancy Perkins, a nurse in a decaying marriage, receives an assignment to care for a Vietnam War veteran suffering from a…

small town · coming of age · trauma recovery

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe · Literary Fiction

coming of age · small town · romantic comedy · friends to lovers

The Baby Dragon Café

A. T. Qureshi · Fantasy

magical realism · found family · small town

This Ain't Our First Rodeo

Liara Tamani · Romance

Love is a wild ride. Hold on. When life lassoes Josie and Shawn back together three years after their dreamy first date, their second chance at love…

second chance romance · slow burn · small town

It Seemed Like a Good Idea

Lauren Blakely · Romance

"A Lauren Blakely book is a guarantee of a good time." --Meghan Quinn, USA Today bestselling author Grumpy meets sunshine with a Hollywood twist in…

grumpy sunshine · small town · romantic comedy · bodyguard romance · slow burn

In a Holidaze

Christina Lauren · Romance

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… but not for Maelyn Jones.

romantic comedy · holiday romance · love triangle · coming of age · small town

The Secret Crush Book Club

Karmen Lee · Romance

A dedicated single mother and a librarian with a secret write their own sweet and sexy love story in this small-town rom-com about family,…

romantic comedy · found family · slow burn · small town · coming of age

The Bright Side of Christmas

Morgan Elizabeth · Romance

From #1 Amazon best-selling author of Tis the Season for Revenge comes a new steamy, small-town grumpy sunshine romance!

enemies to lovers · grumpy sunshine · forced proximity · romantic comedy · small town · holiday romance

Long Time Gone

Charlie Donlea · Mystery & Thriller

On the first day of an elite two-year fellowship, Sloan Hastings receives a research assignment in the emerging field of forensic genealogy.

psychological thriller · missing person · small town · political intrigue · cat and mouse

A Very Novel Murder

Ellie Alexander · Mystery & Thriller

Opening a detective agency above her beloved bookstore seems like the perfect business plan--until Annie Murray's first case involves a suspicious…

cozy vibes · small town · closed circle

One for the Money

Janet Evanovich · Mystery & Thriller

Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since…

romantic comedy · small town

The Power of the Dog

Thomas Savage · Literary Fiction

**NOW THE WINNER OF THE 2022 BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR AND TWO 2022 BAFTA AWARDS** Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th…

psychological thriller · historical fiction · small town · cat and mouse · morally grey character

Hopeless

Elsie Silver · Romance

Beau Eaton is the town prince, a handsome military hero with a tortured past.

grumpy sunshine · small town · slow burn · romantic comedy · opposites attract

The Midnight Taxi

Yosha Gunasekera · Mystery & Thriller

When the last fare of the night turns up dead in her backseat, a Sri Lankan American taxi driver works off the clock to clear her name in this…

small town

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey · Mystery & Thriller

"A quietly moving and intimate tale about family mysteries in a small town." —People magazine "We'll make a list.

coming of age · small town · cozy vibes

The Only One Who Knows

Lisa M. Matlin · Mystery & Thriller

A disgraced TV news reporter returns to her violent hometown to investigate a series of deadly shark attacks in this nail-biting suspense novel from…

psychological thriller · gothic atmosphere · revenge plot · small town · cat and mouse

A Slow and Secret Poison

Carmella Lowkis · Mystery & Thriller

In the early 1900s, a young gardener at a lush English manor falls in love with her employer whose past is shrouded in deadly secrets—from the author…

forbidden romance · gothic atmosphere · historical fiction · small town · slow burn

Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes

Sandra Jackson-Opoku · Mystery & Thriller

A sparkling debut mystery set on the south side of Chicago, featuring the quick-witted, unforgettable Savvy Summers, proprietor of a soul food café.

cozy vibes · small town · closed circle

Nowhere

Allison Gunn · Mystery & Thriller

"Rachel Kennan, the new police chief of a fundamentalist southern town, relies on her job to push through the pain of losing her young son and the…

psychological thriller · trauma recovery · small town · morally grey character