This week’s lineup features 32 fresh reads, including two haunting stories of love, loss, and life beyond the ordinary.
In Dandelion Is Dead by Rosie Storey , “Storey handily balances the heavy themes of grief and trauma with snappy wit and intriguing character development. It adds up to a moving and wildly entertaining tale of self-discovery.” (Publishers Weekly)
And a hauntingly romantic story, The Magic of Untamed Hearts by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland follows Sky Flores as she reconnects with life, and love, after years as a ghost.
You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and logged in members will find descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section.
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Dandelion Is Dead
by Rosie Storey
Debut Author
On sale Jan 13 from Berkley Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Members' Rating: 3.9/5
Jake has fallen head over heels for Dandelion. The only problem? Dandelion is dead. Perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton and the TV show Fleabag.
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The Magic of Untamed Hearts: Wild Magic #3
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
On sale Jan 13 from Berkley Books
Genre: Romance. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Members' Rating: 3.6/5
After several years stuck as a ghost, Sky Flores learns to reconnect with the living again with the help of her handsome neighbor in this lush romance from the USA Today bestselling author of Witch of Wild Things.
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Hyper
by Agri Ismaïl
Debut Author
On sale Jan 13 from Coffee House Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 360 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A cutting, hypermodern saga of money, family, and survival for fans of Zadie Smith, Patricia Lockwood, and Mohsin Hamid.
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Lost Lambs: A Novel
by Madeline Cash
Debut Author
On sale Jan 13 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Rippling with humor, warmth, and style, Lost Lambs is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction.
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Scavengers: A Novel
by Kathleen Boland
Debut Author
On sale Jan 13 from Viking
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Hacks meets Rebecca Makkai in this rollicking novel about a cautious daughter and her eccentric, estranged mother venturing west in search of buried treasure—and a way back to each other—before they run out of patience, money, and options.
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Sheer: A Novel
by Vanessa Lawrence
On sale Jan 13 from Dutton
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
An electrifying, propulsive novel about the rise and fall of a controversial beauty mogul and the moral gray areas at the intersections of beauty, power, and ambition.
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The Hitch
by Sara Levine
On sale Jan 13 from Roxane Gay Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island!!!, a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously rational world.
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The School of Night: A Novel
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
On sale Jan 13 from Penguin Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 512 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Karl Ove Knausgaard's most daring and macabre novel yet, The School of Night is an indelible tale about dark temptations and moral depravity, and what we forget when we bargain with the devil.
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The Bookbinder's Secret: A Novel
by A. D. Bell
On sale Jan 13 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Historical Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder.
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Divine Ruin: Sister Holiday Mysteries #3
by Margot Douaihy
On sale Jan 13 from Gillian Flynn Books/Zando
Genre: Mysteries. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
In the latest in the USA Today bestselling, award-winning, critically acclaimed series, New Orleans punk rock nun-detective Sister Holiday plunges into a "hellish underworld of drug trafficking, addiction, and her own dark past in a journey that is both riveting and sacred." (Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines)
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