Lists and Suggestions
List: New Fiction in January
The Children's Blizzard
Benjamin, Melanie
Draws on oral histories of the Great Plains blizzard of 1888 to depict the experiences of two teach...
The Prophets
Jones, Robert
Two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation find refuge in each other while transforming a qu...
The Wife Upstairs
Hawkins, Rachel
Supplementing her modest income by stealing small valuables from her gated-community clients, a brok...
Our Darkest Night
Robson, Jennifer
Hiding from the Nazis in the guise of a Christian farmer's wife, a Jewish woman is met with sus...
The Narrowboat Summer
Youngson, Anne
Abandoning their previous lives, two friends agree to drive a third friend's narrowboat through...
Yellow Wife
Johnson, Sadeqa
Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman...
Before She Disappeared
Gardner, Lisa
Investigating the cold-case disappearance of a Haitian teen in a gritty Boston neighborhood, Frankie...
The Perfect Guests
Rous, Emma
A twisty novel features a grand estate with many secrets, an orphan caught in a web of lies, and a y...
The Last Garden in England
Kelly, Julia
A tale of five women living across three different times whose lives are all connected by one very s...
Nick
Smith, Michael Farris
A tale inspired by Fitzgerald's famous narrator imagines the life of Nick Carraway before Gatsb...
Across the Green Grass Fields
McGuire, Seanan
Regan passes through a mysterious doorway before finding herself in a fantastical world of magical e...
Prodigal Son
Hurwitz, Gregg
Retiring from his Nowhere Man activities in exchange for an unofficial pardon, former government ass...
Better Luck Next Time
Johnson, Julia Claiborne
Follows the experiences of a former Yale student whose life at a 1930s Reno divorce ranch is upended...
Black Buck
Askaripour, Mateo
An unambitious college graduate accepts a job at Sumwun, the hottest NYC startup, and reimagines him...
Siri, Who Am I?
Tschida, Sam
Waking from a coma with no memory of who she is, a wealthy millennial tries to piece together her id...
The Push
Audrain, Ashley
A devoted mother with a painful past gradually realizes that something is very wrong with her daught...
The Titanic Sisters
Falvey, Patricia
Sisters Nora and Delia have been given the chance of a lifetime--to escape their poor Irish farm and...
American Traitor
Taylor, Bradley
Assisting a witness's flight from murderous foreign agents, Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill unco...
The House on Vesper Sands
O'donnell, Paraic
A Victorian-inspired supernatural mystery follows the experiences of a Cambridge dropout and his sav...
The Divines
Eaton, Ellie
Piecing together memories from her teen years at an elite English boarding school, Josephine gradual...
Outlawed
North, Anna
A riveting adventure story features a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangero...
The Scorpion's Tail
Child, Lincoln
A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a re...
The Captive
Foster, Fiona King
A woman with elite skills from her violent past travels with her family and an escaped criminal thro...