This week’s theme is diversity! We are celebrating writers of different backgrounds and the books they’ve written that are to be released this week. Included on our list are novels by Tayari Jones and Lisa Gardner; cookbooks from Jenné Claiborne and Jerrelle Guy; and memoirs from Rachel Hollis and Sadie Robertson. We’ve also added a few surprises— perfect reads for cold winter nights.
Novels
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
No One is Coming to Save Us, Stephanie Powell Watts
Look For Me, Lisa Gardner
The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah
The Masterpiece, Francine Rivers
By The Book, Julia Sonneborn
The House of Impossible Beauties, Joseph Cassara
She Regrets Nothing, Andrea Dunlop
Good Neighbors, Joanne Serling
Memoir
Live Fearless: A Call to Power, Passion, and Purpose, Sadie Robertson
Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be, Rachel Hollis
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border, Francisco Cantú
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, Maggie O’Farrell
Poetry
Planting Gardens in Graves: Volume One, r.h. Sin
Drafts, Fragments, and Poems: The Complete Poetry, Joan Murray, edit. Farnoosh Fathi
Bloom, Beau Taplin
Non-Fiction
Travel as a Political Act: How to Leave Your Baggage Behind, Rick Steves
Directorate S: The CIA and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Steve Coll
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, Alex Hutchinson
The Earth Gazers: On Seeing Ourselves, Christopher Potter
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley, Emily Chang
Cookbooks
Sweet Potato Soul: 100 Easy Vegan Recipes for the Southern Flavors of Smoke, Sugar, Spice, and Soul, Jenné Claiborne
Black Girl Baking: Wholesome Recipes Inspired by a Soulful Upbringing, Jerrelle Guy
Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro Asian American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day, JJ Johnson, Alexander Smalls, with Veronica Chambers
Stuff Every Wine Snob Should Know, Melissa Monosoff
Science Fiction
How to Stop Time: A Novel, Matt Haig
Into the Fire, Elizabeth Moon
The Gone World: A Novel, Tom Sweterlitsch