43 new eBooks and audiobooks coming out January 11 - 17, 2022
The best eBooks and audiobooks coming out this week
If you don’t know the name Hanya Yanagihara at first glance, you certainly know the cover of her international bestselling novel A Little Life if you’ve browsed in a bookstore in the last 7 years. That novel is a highly regarded work of literature and a guaranteed tearjerker of a book—as well as being one of the best really long books in recent publishing history. Yanagihara’s new novel To Paradise retreads the literal territory of A Little Life insofar as both books are set in New York. But To Paradise travels along an alternate history of America, touching down in 1893, 1993, and 2093. Like David Mitchell’s similarly sprawling Cloud Atlas, To Paradise is likely to be the kind of work of speculative fiction that reaches readers who don't often pick up the genre but are eager to follow Yanagihara across time and space.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein is best known for the work he did with his colleague Bob Woodward to uncover the activities we’ve come to know as “Watergate,” which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. In Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom Bernstein shares the story of how a job as a copyboy at a small Washington newspaper called The Evening Star provided his 16-year-old self a sense of purpose that led to a landmark career in journalism. At a time when truth seems less secure than ever, there’s comfort in this story of a young man driven to report the facts.
In How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them political scientist Barbara F. Walter lays out the major risk factors for a democracy to fail, including factionalization and proliferating politics of resentment. Walter is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and specializes in the outbreak and resolution of civil wars, so she brings a broad view of what civil wars can and do look like in practice. In this book she sketches a very worrying picture of patterns of violence in America that might escalate in severity and frequency, like the proverbial water slowly warming to boil the frog. Fortunately, she also prescribes solutions for turning things around—with the hope that it’s not already too late.
More books coming out January 11 - 17, 2022
🧰 Health and Self-help
- Organizing for the Rest of Us: 100 Realistic Strategies to Keep Any House Under Control by Dana K. White
- Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr. Julie Smith
- HWPO: Hard Work Pays Off by Mat Fraser
- Hero on a Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life by Donald Miller
- The Blue Zones Challenge: A 4-Week Plan for a Longer, Better Life by Dan Buettner
💭 Big Ideas
- Enough: Learning to simplify life, let go and walk the path that's truly ours by Jessica Williams
- Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers by Chip Heath
- The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 by Sid Holt
- How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter
- Fear of Black Consciousness by Lewis R. Gordon
🗣 True Stories
- Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 by Harald Jähner
- Rise: My Story by Lindsey Vonn
- I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg
- Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz
- Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom by Carl Bernstein
- High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir by Edgar Gomez
- This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown by Taylor Harris
💘 Romance
- Damon's Deal by Dale Mayer
- Juniper Hill by Devney Perry
- The Family You Make by Jill Shalvis
- Shopping for a Highlander by Julia Kent
- Dusk Unveiled by Carrie Ann Ryan
- Beautiful Nightmare by Giana Darling
- Scorpio by Gemma James
🗡️ Crime, Action, and Mystery
- Something to Hide by Elizabeth George
- End of Days by Brad Taylor
- The Dying Game by Ruhi Choudhary
- The Saxon Wolf by Angus Donald
- Find Me by Alafair Burke
🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction
- To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
- The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain
- Wahala by Nikki May
- Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
- None But the Righteous by Chantal James
- A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf
- Yonder by Jabari Asim
✨ Fantasy and Speculative Fiction
- The Silver Bullets of Annie Oakley by Mercedes Lackey
- Quantum of Nightmares by Charles Stross
- The Shattered Skies by John Birmingham
- The Prophecy of the Seven by Kyle West
- Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
- A Practical Guide to Conquering the World by K. J. Parker
- Battle of the Linguist Mages by Scotto Moore
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