50 new books coming out January 7 - 13, 2024

Anita Desai’s career launched in 1963 with the publication of Cry, the Peacock, and in the ensuing 62 years her books have won several prizes and appeared on the shortlist for the Booker Prize three times. Which is to say, the 87-year-old novelist’s new book Rosarita is as close as it gets to a guaranteed Booker finalist. It’s a beautiful, brief book about Bonita, an Indian woman studying Spanish in Mexico whose mother, according to a strange old woman who approaches her out of the blue, was a talented artist who the woman got to know when she lived in Mexico. Bonita knows none of it is true, yet she’s shaken by the woman’s certainty, and she begins to question what she really knows about her mother’s past. While its material accolades are yet to accrue, it’s not too early to call Rosarita a late masterpiece from a celebrated literary master.

Like Desai, German novelist Bernhard Schlink’s career goes back over half a century, but it’s his fifth novel, 1995’s The Reader, which made him an international star when it was selected by Oprah Winfrey for her eponymous book club. Since then, Schlink has continued to write prolifically. His latest novel is The Granddaughter, a suspenseful novel about a German bookseller who discovers after his wife’s death that she left behind an infant daughter in East Berlin when she fled to join him decades ago. The bookseller’s quest to locate his wife’s long-lost daughter, who now has a daughter of her own, leads him to a community of neo-Nazis, which sets a challenge before him: to love this woman and girl despite the ideological chasm between them, or lose the last remaining threads of connection to his wife.

Health law & policy expert Timothy Caulfield has been battling pseudoscience and disinformation for years, with books including The Vaccination Picture, The Cure for Everything, and The Science of Celebrity… or, Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? In his new book The Certainty Illusion: What You Don’t Know and Why It Matters, Caulfield digs into the ways in which we learn and identify fact and fiction, and how we can all be fooled, even experts like him. He carefully picks apart science, opinion, and our sense of “goodness” to reveal each can be exploited to pull the wool over even the most well-informed eyes, and that an approach rooted in humility and free of tribalism is the most promising path to truth.

More books coming out now

🧰 Help and How-to

What If YOU Are the Answer? And 26 Other Questions That Just Might Change Your Life by Rachel Hollis

Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose by Martha Beck

Buy What You Love Without Going Broke: Transform Your Spending and Get More of What Money Can't Buy by Jill Sirianni and Jen Smith

The Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy Workbook: Embodied Healing Practices to Transform Trauma—For therapists, students, clients, and groups by Susan McConnell

Beyond Stoicism: A Guide to the Good Life with Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Other Ancient Philosophers by Massimo Pigliucci, Gregory Lopez, and Meredith Alexander Kunz

The Unshaming Way: A Compassionate Guide to Dismantling Shame by David Bedrick

💡 Big Ideas

The Certainty Illusion: What You Don't Know and Why It Matters by Timothy Caulfield

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly

🗣 True Stories

The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom by Shari Franke

The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network by Richard Kerbaj

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was) by Colette Shade

You'll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist by Kari Ferrell

Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens by Nicola Clark

💘 Romance

Never Say Never by Danielle Steel

Shattering Dawn by Jayne Ann Krentz

Deserving Ryleigh by Susan Stoker

Dark Hope by Christine Feehan

An Honored Vow by Melissa Blair

The Starlight Heir by Amalie Howard

Single Player by Tara Tai

🗡️ Crime, Mystery, and Action

Dead Man's Shoes by Marion Todd

See How They Hide by Allison Brennan

Girl, Unseen (An Ella Dark FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 23) by Blake Pierce

Death in the Hills by Kate Wells

A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young

The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis

The Note by Alafair Burke

🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction

One Day and Forever by Shari Low

The Granddaughter by Bernhard Schlink

Homeseeking by Karissa Chen

Sweet Fury by Sash Bischoff

Rosarita by Anita Desai

Playworld by Adam Ross

✨ Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction

The Dryad Storm by Laurie Forest

Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire

A Conventional Boy by Charles Stross

A Language of Dragons by S. F. Williamson

Breath of the Dragon by Fonda Lee and Shannon Lee

The Dark Ascension Series: The Wishless Ones by Hafsah Faizal

Bemused by Farrah Rochon

Nature of Frost by Jus Accardo

Cold Storage by Michael C. Grumley

Alien: Seventh Circle by Phillippa Ballantine

🗯 Manga & Graphic Novels

Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 3 by Tang Jiu Qing

Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro 18 by Nanashi

Mobsters in Love 03 by CHIYOKO ORIGAMI

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 17 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling (Light Novel) Vol. 9 by Nekoko

Black Clover, Vol. 36 by Yūki Tabata

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