Reset Your Reading Goals For The Year With January's Books

From the best-selling author of “I'm Glad My Mom Died” comes this highly anticipated novel about a high schooler who’s hungry for her creative writing teacher, despite their age difference, his marriage and his withering dreams. The book is poignant, very funny and a little too on-the-nose when it comes to loneliness.

Fans of “Daisy Jones and the Six” will love this new novel about a music executive and the band he’s trying to save, despite the best efforts of their self-destructive lead singer, Hannah. The group's new sound is going viral, but Hannah needs to get it together to handle the fame she so desperately wants.

This epic family drama is supersized, spanning seven generations of Dupree women. When teenage Tati tries to uncover the identity of her father, she opens a Pandora’s box of family secrets, going back over a hundred and fifty years.

Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders is back with a novel about an oil company CEO on his deathbed, as seen through the eyes of his own angel of death, Doll. As she observes him on his final evening, with visitors from various realms crowding the room for his final reckoning, what is to become of a soul who wrongly believes he has nothing to regret?

Camille and Aubrey swap places for the night, leaving one without an alibi after a murder. Camille thinks her husband, Ben, is hiding things, but she can’t investigate because he’s tracking her every move. Aubrey thinks Ben has information about a life-changing night a decade ago, so she and Camille team up and switch identities for the night. When Ben is found dead the next morning, their whole plan starts to unravel.

When Eden returns to her house, Spyglass, after a run, a stranger who looks like her answers the door. Her husband insists the strange woman is his wife! Six months earlier, Birdy inherits Spyglass. In a London clinic, they claim to be able to predict the exact date of Birdy’s death. This mind-bender will make you question everything you know.

Darcy’s life seems picture perfect, from her job as a local librarian to her marriage to Joy, a bookbinder. When one of Darcy’s ex-boyfriends dies, it leads to Darcy’s mental breakdown and leave from work. When she returns, there’s a proposed book ban to deal with and scrutiny into the branch’s DEI programs. Darcy must lean on her community, her colleagues and most importantly, everything she has learned about herself to make it through.

When a woman needs to raise funds for her comatose sister’s hospital bill, things escalate quickly. Dell starts a 24-hour livestream to get cash, but soon she’s eating the hottest peppers on Earth for views and sinking to her lowest lows. Dell needs to find what she’s lost, smack down online trolls and get the comeback she deserves.

After being accused of murder in a seaside Alabama town in 1984, Lo Bailey returns to clear her name, with a true crime writer in tow. Geneva, the new owner of the local inn, is suspicious of the pair, even if their arrival helps keep her historic hotel afloat. As a hurricane approaches the town, Geneva clashes with Lo to learn the truth.

Written by a former “Survivor” contestant, this novel follows a reality show winner looking for a second chance on a new show and a producer looking for a redemption arc for herself. As the game progresses, alliances form and things start to unravel; the big question becomes not who will win, but who will make it out alive.