The first in a spicy and unforgettable rom-com duology from #1 New York Times bestseller and tik tok favorite Tessa Bailey, in which a Hollywood “It Girl” is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town… where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong.

This book is a fun dive into 50s, 60s, and 70s Hollywood following the challenges, romances, and scandals of Evelyn Hugo. She is a messy, real, genuine, human character with flaws and we love her for it. This book is loved by multiple booksellers but is often seen on Lauren’s favorites shelf. This book helps you to understand who you are, makes you feel seen, and teaches you how to be fully yourself in a world that is not always accepting. A book filled with lust, drama, romance, and heartbreak.

One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn’t see coming…

Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.

Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between

Some of the best character interactions and world-building that Taylor has seen. A story with high stakes, great banter, heartstopping plot, and incredible writing. Leigh Bardugo has created an incredible duology that remains unmatched.

The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.

Enter #1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab’s beloved Shades of Magic trilogy—a dazzling world of parallel Londons where magic thrives, starves, or lies forgotten, and where power can destroy just as quickly as it can create.

Wistful, yearning, dreamlike, fantasy, romance…

“We are the stars,” he answers, as though it is the most obvious of facts afloat in a sea of metaphors and misdirections. “We are all stardust and stories.”

This book will help you learn, grow, feel, process, and heal your inner child.

“City of Brass” is more than just a glimpse into Chakraborty’s mesmerizing trilogy; it’s a masterfully crafted introduction. This book sets the stage for the trilogy’s exploration of growth, love, heartbreak, hope, and breaking brutal cycles. Fans of djinn mythology, intricate world-building, character development, slow-burn romance, and heart-wrenching twists will find themselves captivated by this series. Chakraborty is a master at infusing humanity in an engaging, heart-stopping story.

“If We Were Villains” is a gripping tale of friendship, rivalry, and tragedy set within the intense world of an elite Shakespearean acting troupe. As tensions rise and secrets unravel, the characters navigate love, betrayal, and the blurred lines between art and reality. With echoes of Shakespearean themes woven throughout, this novel keeps readers on the edge of their seats until its stunning conclusion.

Achilles, “the best of all the Greeks,” son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods’ wrath.

Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings.

First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. This book is sweet and healing.

A delicious Southern Gothic fairytale retelling (no spoilers) with magic realism, a splash of romance, and found family.

This book is twisted, deeply unnerving, bizarre, and experimental but also somehow fun, lighthearted, tongue in cheek, and hard not to finish in one sitting.

In this aching, melancholic read, Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.

A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student’s romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man’s first, hopeless, and heroic love.

Drawing on Maggie O’Farrell’s long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare’s most enigmatic play, Hamnet is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child. Maggie breathes full-blooded life into the story of a loss usually consigned to literary footnotes, and provides an unforgettable vindication of Agnes, a woman intriguingly absent from history.

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It’s now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are “relocated,” Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen’s life.

Taken from the poverty of her parents’ home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle’s absence in Antigua, the Crawford’s arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen’s first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.

In This Exquisite Loneliness, Richard Deming turns an eye toward that unwelcome feeling, both in his own experiences and the lives of six groundbreaking figures, to find the context of loneliness and to see what some people have done to navigate this profound sense of discomfort. Deming explores how loneliness has served as fuel for an intense creative desire that has forged some of the most original and innovative art and writing of the twentieth century.

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State — and she would do it alone.

Niamh Ó Conchobhair has never let herself long for more. The magic in her blood that lets her stitch emotions and memories into fabric is the same magic that will eventually kill her. Determined to spend the little time she has left guaranteeing a better life for her family, Niamh jumps at the chance to design the wardrobe for a royal wedding in the neighboring kingdom of Avaland. Transporting readers to a Regency England-inspired fantasy world, A Fragile Enchantment is a sweeping romance threaded with intrigue, unforgettable characters, and a love story for the ages.

This romance is beloved in our bookstore, frequenting four of our bookseller favorites shelves. “Forget Me Not” feels like a love letter to Sacramento, capturing the feeling so well that the city elicits. A devourable yet sweet romance about a grumpy florist and an ambitious wedding planner. We love this book.

Lesson One of the Scholomance: Learning has never been this deadly. A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) — until one girl, El, begins to unlock its many secrets.

Anyone who loves DnD, is in the mood for being cozy, and a heartwarming, sweet romance will love this book. Another frequenter of multiple favorite shelves, this book is a Capital Books all-time favorite. 

This collection of modern sonnets follows Trump’s election discussing the political police state in America.

A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness.

Rich with Ward’s distinctive, lyrical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic and unforgettable family story and “an odyssey through rural Mississippi’s past and present