A new year brings a new crop of new titles to peruse and read! Whether you’re continuing a reading streak or following a New Year’s resolution, you’ll find plenty of new January titles to dig into.
1/7: All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
In a flooded world, Nonie, her parents and their community make a life on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History, considering themselves protectors of the collections within. When a superstorm hits, they’re forced to adventure north through other ad hoc communities. (science fiction)
1/7: The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison
When a health diagnosis rocks the life they’ve created on a Bainbridge Island farm over 70 years of marriage, Abe and Ruth reflect on their past and their future. (general fiction)
1/7: How to Sleep at Night by Elizabeth Harris
Two couples tangle with political and career aspirations in this comedy of manners. (general fiction)
1/7: The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis
In 1978 Met curator Charlotte Cross teams up with Met Gala assistant Annie Jenkins when a famous Egyptian artifact is stolen from the museum in an adventure that will take them to Egypt and force them to confront personal demons. (historical thriller)
1/14: A Calamity of Noble Houses by Amira Ghenim, translated by Miled Faiza & Karen McNeill
The aftermath of an affair echoes through the history of two Tunisian families, from 1935 to the present day, as told by eleven different narrators. (historical fiction)
1/14: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
In this book-within-a-book, a disabled Nigerian American woman writes a blockbuster science fiction novel, only to have the response to her work upend her life – and potentially all life. (science fiction)
1/14: Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto
After serving eight years on an icy prison planet, Edie gets early parole only to find out it comes with a catch – to help their former partner, Angel, on one last job. If Edie can find a way to trust Angel and the crew Angel has assembled, they’ll take down a billionaire tech mogul. (science fiction thriller)
1/14: Vantage Point by Sara Sligar
The Wieland family – wealthy, powerful, cursed – have arrived at another April, a month when a disproportionate number of their family have died. Clara, her brother Teddy, and Teddy’s wife Jess live at the family mansion while Teddy wages a gubernatorial campaign, but when April rolls around strange videos – deepfakes? – target Clara and the campaign. Is this the curse, or is someone else out to get them? (thriller)
1/14: We Lived on the Horizon by Erika Swyler
Enita Malovis, the lone bio-prosthetist in Bulwark, decides to preserve her skills and legacy by imbuing them in a physical being, Nix. But when a member of Enita’s own elite class is murdered, and the incident is wiped from record by the city’s AI, Enita and Nix begin to dig into the order than underpins their city. (science fiction)
1/14: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
In 1970, teenage Fern arrives at a home for wayward (pregnant) girls in St. Augustine, Florida. She and the other girls live under watchful and controlling eyes, until Fern gets a book about witchcraft, and the balance of power shifts. (horror)
1/28: The English Problem by Beena Kamlani
In the 1930s, Shiv Advani travels from India to London to study British law, with the ultimate goal of returning to India to help overthrow British colonial rule. But once in England he finds himself simultaneously repulsed and attracted to the life there. (historical fiction)
1/28: Johnny Careless by Kevin Wade
Jeep Mullane burned out of big city policing and now leads the small police department in the town where he grew up. When the corpse of Jeep’s childhood friend Johnny Chambliss washes up, Jeep is pulled into the glitter and rot of the rich side of town. (mystery)
~ posted by Andrea G.
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