Winter 2023 Adult Fiction HighlightsLike this list

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• Ms. Demeanor

  Lipman, Elinor

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  HUMOR & ROMANCE, December 27. From one of America’s most beloved contemporary novelists, a delicious and witty story about love under house arrest.

• Age of Vice

  Kapoor, Deepti,

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  THRILLER, January 3. Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Town & Country and Goodhousekeeping! This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. Equal parts crime thriller…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bandit Queens

  a Novel

  Shroff, Parini,

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  WOMEN'S FICTION, January 3. A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful—until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands—in this razor-sharp debut.

• The Villa

  Hawkins, Rachel

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  THRILLER/SUSPENSE, January 3. From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set at an Italian villa with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware.

• Hell Bent

  Bardugo, Leigh

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  FANTASY, January 10. Alex Stern returns in #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo's Hell Bent, another tale of murder and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite.

• Observer

  Lanza, Robert/ Kress, Nancy

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  SCIENCE FICTION, January 10. "Nancy Kress is a master storyteller, and her trademark empathy is on every page. Even as we venture into the heady territory of quantum physics and the nature of reality that Robert Lanza is known for, we never lose…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Exes and O's

  Lea, Amy,

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  CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE, January 10. A January LibraryReads Pick · One of Buzzfeed's Romance Books To Look Out For In 2023. A romance novel-obsessed social media influencer revisits her exes on her hunt for true love in this romantic comedy from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Dangerous Things

  Willingham, Stacy,

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  THRILLER/SUSPENSE, January 10. Following up her instant New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past in All the Dangerous Things. "True crime's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Deluge

  Markley, Stephen,

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  LITERARY, DYSTOPIAN FICTION, January 10. "This is a stunning achievement that may earn a place among dystopian and apocalyptic classics like 1984 and On the Beach. And perhaps most of all, it’s an unflinching and utterly compelling call to action to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Just the Nicest Couple

  Kubica, Mary,

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  THRILLER/SUSPENSE, January 10. “Just the Nicest Couple is Mary Kubica at her twisty, mysterious best. Every character brims with secrets. Every page holds a surprise. It's entirely unputdownable and everything a reader is looking for in their next…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Must Remember This

  Rosenfield, Kat

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  MYSTERY, January 10. A Knives Out-style whodunnit with a twist of Taylor Jenkins Reid, You Must Remember This is an immersive Gothic mystery, with a long-ago love affair, icy death, and a rich family gone bad, from Kat Rosenfield, the acclaimed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Travelers

  a Novel

  Correa, Armando Lucas, 1959-

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  HISTORICAL FICTION, Jan. 10. “A stunning multigenerational story…the taut pacing keeps the pages flying. Readers will be deeply moved.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review). Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Small World

  Zigman, Laura

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  WOMEN'S FICTION, January 10. “A tender story of two sisters who, both in midlife and both recently divorced, move in together. . . A moving story about the power of family secrets, sisterhood, and memory. Readers of authors such as Jodi Picoult,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lunar Love

  a Novel

  Jessen, Lauren Kung,

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  ROMANCE, January 10. This sweet, enemies-to-lovers debut rom-com filled with Chinese astrology will undoubtedly prove to be a perfect match with readers of Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, and Helena Hunting

• The Shards

  Ellis, Bret Easton

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  THRILLER/SUSPENSE, January 17. A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city.

• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

  Stevenson, Benjamin

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  MYSTERY, January 17. Knives Out and Clue meet Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club in this “utterly original” (Jane Harper), “not to be missed” (Karin Slaughter), fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery.

• How to Sell a Haunted House

  Hendrix, Grady

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  HORROR, January 17. “Skillfully balances complete creep outs and moments of outright hilarity. The down-home charm of the Charleston family is on point, and the scares are fun and frequent, while the author almost painfully captures sibling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mitford Affair

  Benedict, Marie

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  HISTORICAL FICTION, January 17. From New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict comes an explosive novel of history's most notorious sisters, one of whom will have to choose: her country or her family?

• Really Good, Actually

  a Novel

  Heisey, Monica,

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  HUMOR/WOMEN'S FICTION, January 17. Laugh-out-loud funny and filled with sharp observations, Really Good, Actually is a tender and bittersweet comedy that lays bare the uncertainties of modern love, friendship, and our search for that thing we like…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Locust Lane

  Amidon, Stephen,

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  THRILLER/SUSPENSE, Jan. 17. For fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon’s Locust Lane is a taut and utterly propulsive story about the search for justice and the fault lines of power and…Read moreRead more of this annotation