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The HITS (High Interest Title Selections) lists include our top picks for the month of January.
Fiction
We’re looking forward to the release of several standout literary fiction titles. Paul Auster presents a 20th-century saga with a twist, Aravind Adiga revisits modern India, and Han Kang examines a shocking episode in South Korean history. In addition, story collections by Ottessa Moshfegh and Roxane Gay should not be missed.
Female protagonists navigate interesting circumstances in new novels by Danielle Steel, Chris Bohjalian, and Kathleen Rooney.
Thriller readers will want to curl up with the latest Stone Barrington novel by Stuart Woods, a new FBI Profiler thriller by Lisa Gardner, and a John Wells adventure by Alex Berenson. Additionally, James Patterson begins a new series, Gregg Hurwitz follows up Orphan X, and Brunonia Barry revisits the world of The Lace Reader. Other must-read thrillers include stand-alone novels by John Lescroart and Thomas Perry, and a literary thriller by Joanne Harris.
Readers who love a mystery will be looking for the latest Inspector Rebus novel by Ian Rankin and the crime fiction debut by fantasy author Sarah Pinborough that is receiving rave reviews.
In speculative fiction news, Star Wars fans will be looking for the novelization of the upcoming film, Karen Marie Moning continues her Fever series, and Terry Goodkind begins a new series. Notable debuts this month include a taut psychological thriller about a young woman who must discover what happened to the
previous tenant of her apartment and an exquisite literary novel featuring a troubled teenager who comes of age in the Minnesota woods.
Nonfiction
Always popular in the new year are health & fitness titles. The Mayo Clinic Diet and The Acid Watcher Diet are two diet books not to miss. Deep Nutrition, The Telomere Effect, and Primal Fat Burner address living longer and healthier. Also, Oprah’s Food, Health, and Happines is a must, along with Nourishing Fat by Sally Fallon Morell, and One-Pan Wonders
by America’s Test Kitchen.
In biographies, don’t miss Coretta Scott King’s My Life, My Love, My Legacy, In the Green Room, Three Days in January by Bret Baier, Rise: How a House Built a Family, or
A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama.
Popular business titles include The Upstarts, A Man for All Markets, and Own It: The Power of Women at Work.
Big relationship titles are Why Won’t You Apologize? by Harriet Lerner, Have a New Sex Life by Friday by Dr. Kevin Lehman, The Happiest Mommy You Know, and
F*ck Love by Michael Bennett, MD.
Letters to a Young Muslim, When Christ Appears by David Jeremiah, Love Hurts: Buddhist Advice for the Hearbroken, and The Women of Easter by Liz Curtis Higgs are all good choices for religion titles.
Science fans will want Reality is Not What it Seems by physicist Carlo Rovelli, Furry Logic, and
Storm in a Teacup.
History buffs will clamor for The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston, True South by Jon Else, The Blood of Emmett Till and
The House of the Dead.
Other interesting titles are Tools of the Titans by Tim Ferriss and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dust Bowl Girls, Audacity by Jonathan Chait, Mrs. Sherlock Holmes, and
The Little Book of Hygge.
Graphic Novels
The big titles for January are the first volume of Snotgirl, by Bryan Lee O’Malley, the second volume of Bitch Planet, the graphic adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred , and the first volume of Batman from the DC Universe: Rebirth.
New series to look for include Kill or Be Killed and Black Monday Murders, and Renato Jones: The One % all from Image Comics. In comic compilations, there is another
Garfield. For manga, we have new volumes of Akame Ga Kill!, Seraph of the End, and Monster Musume: I Heart Monster Girls.
There are also new volumes of Chew, Autumnlands, Deadpool: World’s Greatest, Dark Tower, Nowhere Men, and
Harley Quinn.
Visit our HITS lists on ipage to see these and other must-reads, split into Fiction, Nonfiction, and Graphic Novels. |
