At some point last year, I stopped posting my monthly TBR list. I am back at it, but I am also trying to approach reading a bit differently this year. Rather than prescribing when I read which book, I am going to put together a simple list of books I want or need to read this month to reach my goals. Ultimately, I hope to end up reading books both on the list and off the list.
New & Upcoming Releases
The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now by Hilke Schellmann
Synopsis: In The Algorithm, Emmy‑award winning Wall Street Journal and Guardian contributor Hilke Schellmann delivers a shocking and illuminating exposé on one of the most pressing civil rights issues of our time: how AI has quietly, and mostly out of sight, taken over the world of work.
Publication Date: January 2, 2024
Anna O by Matthew Blake
Synopsis: Joining the ranks of Gillian Flynn, A. J. Finn, and Alex Michaelides, Matthew Blake delivers the thriller of the year: a dark, twisty, and shocking mystery about a young woman who commits a double murder while sleepwalking, and then never opens her eyes again.
Publication Date: January 2, 2024
Here in Avalon by Tara Isabella Burton
Synopsis: An enchanting New York City fairy tale about two sisters that fall under the spell of an underworld cabaret troupe that might be a dangerous cult—but one that makes the materialist world left in its wake feel like a sinister cult itself.
Publication Date: January 2, 2024
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
Synopsis: A spellbinding, sweeping novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII—and the shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family.
Publication Date: January 2, 2024
Love, Naturally by Sophie Sullivan
Synopsis: A charming opposites-attract romance, Love, Naturally by Sophie Sullivan is for anyone who ever stepped outside their comfort zone and found that all the best things can happen when you take a chance.
Publication Date: January 16, 2024
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
Synopsis: A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder — from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient.
Publication Date: January 16, 2024
Where You End by Abbott Kahler
Synopsis: From bestselling nonfiction author Abbott Kahler comes a spellbinding fiction debut: an unusual form of amnesia upends the lives of identical twins, forcing them to face the indelible, dangerous shadow of the past.
Publication Date: January 16, 2024
The Last Acts by Alexander Sammartino
Synopsis: Following a near-death experience, an entrepreneurial father-and-son duo wreak havoc and fend off bankruptcy in this unflinching portrayal of the absurdities of American life.
Publication Date: January 23, 2024
Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase
Synopsis: This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid’s Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman’s right to her own body.
Publication Date: January 23, 2024
Midnight on Beacon Street by Emily Ruth Verona
Synopsis: Chock-full of nods to classic horror films of the seventies and eighties, Midnight on Beacon Street is a gripping thriller full of electrifying twists and a heartwarming tale of fear and devotion that explores our terrors and the lengths we’ll go to keep our loved ones safe.
Publication Date: January 30, 2024
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Synopsis: From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah’s The Women―at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.
Publication Date: February 6, 2024
Redwood Court by DeLana R.A. Dameron
Synopsis: A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its youngest daughter as she comes of age in the 1990s.
Publication Date: February 6, 2024
Bookclub Picks & Subscriptions
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
Synopsis: Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.
Publication Date: January 2, 2024
Northwoods by Amy Pease
Synopsis: The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder with ties to America’s opioid epidemic in this unputdownable and thrilling debut that is perfect for fans of James Lee Burke, William Kent Krueger, and Mindy Mejia.
Publication Date: January 9, 2024
Sugar, Baby by Celine Saintclare
Synopsis: In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of the internet-an intoxicating, bold debut from a dazzling new voice.
Publication Date: January 9, 2024
Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
Synopsis: When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, they find something elusive―the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers.
Publication Date: December 21, 2023
ARC Backlist
Best Served Hot by Amanda Elliott
Synopsis: Two restaurant critics learn their opposing tastes might make for a five-star relationship in the next foodie romantic comedy from the author of Sadie on a Plate.
Publication Date: February 21, 2023
Love at 350° by Lisa Peers
Synopsis: When two women meet as judge and contestant on the set of a TV baking competition, they must decide what they’re willing to risk for the ultimate prize in this wholesome and delectable debut.
Publication Date: October 10, 2023
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Synopsis: A reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.
Publication Date: October 24, 2023
The Future by Naomi Alderman
Synopsis: The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.
Publication Date: November 7, 2023
Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes
Synopsis: An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate and his own redemption—from the author of the “vivid, immersive” (The Guardian) horror novel All the White Spaces.
Publication Date: December 5, 2023
