We’re starting the new year off with a bang, and twelve new Peak Picks! Check out these books coming your way in January 2024.
In fiction, Susan Muaddi Darraj gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Behind You is the Sea; Karl Marlantes transports readers to Cold War Finland where loyalty, friendship, and love are put to the ultimate test in Cold Victory; Kiley Reid (Such a Fun Age) returns with a provocative story about messy entanglements on a college campus in Come and Get It; Shubnum Khan debuts with the story of a spirit that haunts a mansion off the South African coast in The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years; Laurie Frankel’s latest, Family, Family proves not all adoption stories are filled with pain and regret; and Ray Nayler delivers a tense science fiction thriller about the resurrection of the mammoth in The Tusks of Extinction.
In nonfiction, Ijeoma Oluo takes a galvanizing look at current state of anti-racist activism in America in Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World, and How You Can, Too; Dr. Mariel Buqué weaves together scientific research with practical exercises and stories in
Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma; Emily Nagoski illuminates how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship in Come Together: The Science (And Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections; Madeline Pendleton offers a compassionate alternative to capitalism along with no-nonsense financial advice in I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money; Antonia Hylton tells the story, in the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, of one of the last segregated asylums in America in Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum; and Shoji Morimoto’s international bestseller provides “distinctly Japanese musings on meaning and connection” in Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir.
~posted by Frank B.
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