Hello,
The holidays seem to go so fast! Here we are now in 2022, and the publishers are hitting the ground running. We have 80 titles on our new and notable list for January, 14 of which publish this week--see them below.
They include The Latinist, a cerebral thriller set in Oxford, England by debut novelist Mark Prins, which our members reviewed for our early reader program, First Impressions; and Anthem by Noah Hawley, which is set in a dystopian near-future America.
The New Year also sees a new batch of books enter the public domain; you'll find some of the most notable in our blog.
With best wishes for 2022,
Davina Morgan-Witts,
BookBrowse Publisher
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This Week's New and Notable Books |
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There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. For more about our process, see “Picking Books” and “Rating Books”. |
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| The Latinist: A Novel
by Mark Prins
Debut Author
On sale Jan 4 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Thrillers. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.2/5
A contemporary reimagining of the Daphne and Apollo myth, The Latinist is a page-turning exploration of power, ambition, and the intertwining of love and obsession.
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| Olga Dies Dreaming: A Novel
by Xochitl Gonzalez
Debut Author
On sale Jan 4 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Novels. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots - all in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
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| Beautiful Little Fools: A Novel
by Jillian Cantor
On sale Jan 4 from Harper Perennial
Genre: Historical Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
USA Today bestselling author Jillian Cantor reimagines and expands on the literary classic The Great Gatsby in this atmospheric historical novel with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women's alternating voices.
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| Fiona and Jane
by Jean Chen Ho
Debut Author
On sale Jan 4 from Viking
Genre: Short Stories. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades.
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| Spirits and Smoke: A Mystic's Accomplice Mystery #2
by Mary Miley
On sale Jan 4 from Severn House
Genre: Mysteries. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Deadly drinks, vicious gangsters, missing money...Reluctant sleuth Maddie Pastore is back with a bang, in the second Mystic's Accomplice historical mystery set in 1920s Chicago.
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| Anthem
by Noah Hawley
On sale Jan 4 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Thrillers. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The first big novel of 2022: an epic literary thriller set where America is right now, in which a band of unlikely heroes sets out on a quest to save one innocent life - and might end up saving us all.
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| When You Are Mine: A Novel
by Michael Robotham
On sale Jan 4 from Scribner
Genre: Thrillers. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
In this page-turning psychological thriller from an author who Stephen King called "an absolute master," a young female police officer faces danger on all fronts - from a clever victim of abuse, her colleagues on the force, and even her own mobster father.
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| The Unfamiliar Garden: The Comet Cycle #2
by Benjamin Percy
On sale Jan 4 from Mariner Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
The night the sky fell, Jack and Nora Abernathy's daughter vanished in the woods. And Mia's disappearance broke her parents' already fragile marriage.
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| Where the Drowned Girls Go: Wayward Children #7
by Seanan McGuire
On sale Jan 4 from Tor.com
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 160 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
In Where the Drowned Girls Go, the next addition to Seanan McGuire's beloved Wayward Children series, students at an anti-magical school rebel against the oppressive faculty.
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| This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
by Taylor Harris
Debut Author
On sale Jan 4 from Catapult
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
A Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed - about science and medicine, about motherhood, and about her faith - in search of the truth about her son.
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