10 Books to Read This January 2020
The new year usually marks a new beginning for everyone. And what better way than to start anew than having your nose in a great book and embarking on a new adventure with its protagonists? Encompassing different genres of fiction, here is a list of new books to read this January:
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Despite the chaos brought by drug cartels, Lydia Quixano Perez lives a fairly comfortable life in Acapulco City, Mexico with her husband and son while running a bookstore. One day, a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy–two of them her favorites. Unknowingly, this man is the leader of the drug cartel, which has taken over the city.
When Lydia’s husband’s tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.
Release date: January 21
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
Two siblings namely Kacey and Mickey live in Philadelphia during an opioid epidemic. Kacey is in the vice of addiction while her sibling Mickey is on her police beat catching crimes in the same place. Both don’t keep in touch anymore but Mickey always cared about Kacey. While mysterious cases of murders started happening in Mickey’s district, her sibling Kacey went missing— making Mickey engaged in finding the perpetrator.
Release date: January 7
We Will Rise: A True Story of Tragedy and Resurrection in the American Heartland by Steve Beaven
Acing five small-college national championships, the University of Evansville basketball team hopes to establish their name in the national scene. On a blurry night, the plane that they are riding crashed after takeoff— killing the team and its coach. The sad tragedy seems impassable but Coach Dick Walters, the aspiring new coach brings hope to the institution by assembling a team of people with diverse personalities.
Release date: January 1
Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
Set in 2018, Morgan Christopher has been suffering in North Carolina Women’s Correctional Center for a crime she didn’t commit. Until one day, a strange visitor offers her to restore an old post office mural. In exchange, she will be released immediately. Morgan finds out that under the layers of the painting is a story of madness, violence, and a conspiracy of small-town secrets.
Flashback to 1940, Anna Dale is an artist who won a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina. Alone in the world and desperate for work, she accepts. But what she doesn’t expect is to find herself engaged in a town filled with prejudice and secrets.
Release date: January 14
Martha Stewart’s Organizing: The Manual for Bringing Order to Your Life, Home & Routines
A perfect company at the beginning of the year, this book by American TV personality Martha Stewart serves as guidance in organizing, sorting, and simplifying life through DIY projects, and tried and tested methods. Apart from that, the book also offers strategies and checklists for you to be organized throughout the whole year.
Release date: January 7
All the Ways We Said Goodbye by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White
All the Ways We Said Goodbye a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts–Aurelie, Marguerite, and Barbara find refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel.
Release date: January 14
The Night Country by Melissa Albert
The adventure of Alice Prosperine continues as The Hazel Wood was only just the beginning. Alice with the help of Ellery Finch travels back in the fascinating world of dark fairy tales. She runs away from Hinterland and tried to make a new life in New York City, but something is following the Hinterland’s survivors. Meanwhile, in Hinterland, Ellery Finch goes on a journey of his own–finding his way back home.
Release date: January 7
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
In the 1930 Civil War, a pregnant young widow named Roser marries an army doctor Victor Dalmau, the brother of her deceased love, in order to survive. The couple is sponsored by poet Pablo Neruda to embark on the SS Winnipeg along with 2,200 other refugees in search of a new life. As unlikely partners, they embrace exile and emigrate to Chile as the rest of Europe erupts in World War.
Release date: January 21
Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim
After rescuing a mysterious man, Amaya is offered by the man she saved unthinkable riches and a new identity—leading her on a dangerous path through the city-state of desperate gamblers, Moray. As she becomes involved in this plan, she met the son of the man who she wanted to take revenge on— unveiling the truth about her past.
Release date: January 7
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Twelve-year-old Edward Adler is the only survivor in a plane crash. He was with his parents, brother, and 183 other passengers in a Newark-Los Angeles flight. Edward struggled to find a place in the world after the tragic incident. But then he makes an unanticipated discovery ultimately leading him to find the true meaning of life.
Release date: January 6
Which among these amazing reads are you going to add to your bookshelf? Tell us in the comments below!
