30 new eBooks and audiobooks coming out February 2 - 8

In Four Hundred Souls, co-editors Keisha N. Blain and Ibram X. Kendi (author of How to be An Antiracist) assemble writing covering four centuries of African-American history. Through the writing of 90(!) writers each covering a period of a few years, a reader can skip ahead and jump forward in the timeline chasing themes and following historical figures, gaining a historical perspective informed by truly diverse voices. In this single, sprawling book, Blain and Kendi have assembled a Black History compendium unlike any other.

For a more focused view of Black History, looking at three major figures from the mid-twentieth century, there’s The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation. Author Anna Malaika Tubbs asks a question rarely seen in the field of “great men” biographies: who parented them, and how? What she finds is that in each man’s upbringing exists a set of values that manifests later in their extraordinary accomplishments. It’s a fresh and humanizing view of a trio of icons.

We’ve all been digesting a lot of data points lately: whether it’s infection rates, per capita vaccinations, new infection rates, R0 values (?), or some other new indicator, the last 10 months has thrown a lot at us. On top of that, for every new statistic there’s someone standing up to dispute it. Without making data analysis a full-time job, how are we to make sense of it all? Tim Harford is a popular writer on economics whose new book The Data Detective might be the remedy we’ve been seeking. Unlike so many other smart books about how to understand data, The Data Detective sets out ten rules we can all follow to arrive at valid conclusions. Harford’s clear writing will ensure that even if you can’t recall all ten rules afterwards, you’ll still be smarter for having read how we tend to go wrong, and what to do to ensure you’re asking the right questions about information that is often presented as self-evident.

More books coming out February 2 - 8

✍ Poetry

• God I Feel Modern Tonight: Poems from a Gal About Town by Catherine Cohen

💭 Big Ideas

• Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy by Andy Ngo
• Can You Hear Me Now? How I Found My Voice and Learned to Live with Passion and Purpose by Celina Caesar-Chavannes
• Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy by Rachel Ricketts
• Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. 10 Questions to Take Your Friendships to the Next Level by Laura Tremaine
• The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics by Tim Harford

🗣 True Stories

• The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
• Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
• Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
• The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
• Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration by Reuben Jonathan Miller

💘 Romance

• Still Standing by Kristen Ashley
• 365 Days by Blanka Lipinska
• Much Ado About You by Samantha Young
• The Wooing of a Wayward Rogue by Emma Locke
• Love Is a Revolution by Renée Watson

🗡️ Thrillers, Action, and Crime fiction

• Serpentine by Jonathan Kellerman
• Silent Voices by Patricia Gibney
• Lifeless in the Lilies by Dale Mayer
• Blink of an Eye by Roy Johansen
• Blood Grove by Walter Mosley

🖊️ Literary Fiction

• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• The Girl from the Mountains by Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger
• Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
• This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
• Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz

✨ Fantastical tales of Other Worlds and Other Times

• The Children of D'Hara by Terry Goodkind
• All the Tides of Fate by Adalyn Grace
• Shadow of the Hawk by David Gilman
• Star Wars: The High Republic: Into the Dark by Claudia Gray
• Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell