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Publishing This Week: Rachel Hawkins, Roshani Chokshi, Jennifer Niven, and 19 more

Publishing This Week: Rachel Hawkins, Roshani Chokshi, Jennifer Niven, and 19 more

Discover new and notable books publishing this week!

January 04, 2026

Publishing This Week

Hello Readers,

This week’s 22 releases deliver a page-turning mix of bold fiction, gripping mysteries, and compelling true stories.

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.

For more soon to publish books including paperbacks, check out BookBrowse's "What's New" section. You can also check out the latest topics and posts in the BookBrowse Community Forum.

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This Week's New and Notable Books

There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.

More about how we pick and rate books.

Watching Over Her: A Novel
by Jean-Baptiste Andrea

On sale Jan 6 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

From French literary talent and Prix Goncourt winner Jean-Baptiste Andrea, a "sprawling fresco and star-crossed love story" (The New York Times) following a dwarf and skilled sculptor as he recounts the moments in his life that inspired his mysteriously powerful masterpiece—perfect for readers of Martyr! and The Covenant of Water.

Call Me Ishmaelle
by Xiaolu Guo

On sale Jan 6 from Grove Press
Genre: Historical Fiction. 448 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author, a feminist reimagining of Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dick through the eyes of one inimitable woman and a diverse, swashbuckling crew.

Skylark: A Novel
by Paula McLain

On sale Jan 6 from Atria Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 464 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife weaves a mesmerizing tale of Paris above and below—where a woman's quest for artistic freedom in 1664 intertwines with a doctor's dangerous mission during the German occupation in the 1940s, revealing a story of courage and resistance that transcends time.

Return of the Maltese Falcon
by Max Allan Collins

On sale Jan 6 from Hard Case Crime
Genre: Mysteries. 224 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

Hardboiled noir that picks up where legendary author Dashiell Hammett left off, telling the story of iconic private eye Sam Spade and the quest for the priceless Maltese Falcon.

The Murder at World's End: Stockingham & Pike #1
by Ross Montgomery

Debut Author
On sale Jan 6 from William Morrow
Genre: Mysteries. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

Knives Out meets Downton Abbey! Secrets, murder, and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo—an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogenarian—hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world, in this locked-room mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ross Montgomery.

Beth Is Dead
by Katie Bernet

Debut Author
On sale Jan 6 from Sarah Barley Books
Genre: Thrillers (Young Adult). 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

Beth March's sisters will stop at nothing to track down her killer—until they begin to suspect each other—in this "brilliantly snappy…electrifying" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) debut thriller that's also a bold, contemporary reimagining of the beloved classic Little Women.

The Storm: A Novel
by Rachel Hawkins

On sale Jan 6 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Thrillers. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins is back with a thrilling new gothic suspense set in a Gulf Coast beach motel where hurricane season can be murder.

The Swan's Daughter: A Possibly Doomed Love Story
by Roshani Chokshi

On sale Jan 6 from Wednesday Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

In this lush and enchanting novel from New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi, a prince is only as good as his beating heart and a maiden is only as good as her honest word. But when love and the truth become impossibly tangled, the two must figure out how to survive together, or fall completely apart.

Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture
by Samantha Ellis

On sale Jan 6 from Pegasus Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

A life-affirming memoir about resilience, language, and the healing power of our ancestor's music, stories, and recipes.

Digital Inc.: From Print to E-Book-Inside the Transformation of the Book Industry
by Richard Curtis

On sale Jan 6 from Rivertowns Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

The digital transformation of the past fifty years has been widely chronicled, but the story of how the book industry went from print to digital has never been adequately told.

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