5 Books to Read This January
A New Year normally brings out a need to change or grow. People start journals that they lose in March. Others slowly regret the impulsive haircut they got on New Years Eve. But this year, most of us just don’t want a repeat of 2020. As we all hesitantly enter this new year, now might be a good time to pick up reading again or maybe just find some new books to start the year with. Three of these books are just coming out sometime in January 2021 and two are based around or involve New Years Eve in it’s plot. But they’re all equally enjoyable.
5. Influence by Sara Shepard and Lilia Buckingham
Coming out: January 5th, 2021
From the author of Pretty Little Liars, Sara Shepard, and an actual teen influencer and actress, Lilia Buckingham comes a story about teen influencers who would do anything for fame and adoration. But under each social media star’s seemingly perfect images lies secrets, betrayal, and even murder.
4. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
On the last day of 1937, Katey Kontent was in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, sat at the neighboring table. This serendipitous encounter pushes Katey in a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society.
3. Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
Coming out: January 26th, 2021
This is a collection of twelve essays from 1968 to 2000 that offer a glimpse into the mind of one of the most influential writers, Joan Didion. Her essays cover topics like not getting into Stanford, her admiration for Hemingway’s sentences, and writing itself all in her classic wit and acute reporting.
2. The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin
Coming out: January 12th, 2021
Thirteen years after Cinderella married her ‘true love’, she is completely fed up with her happily ever after. So, one night, she leaves the palace to get help from a witch. But she doesn’t need a love spell, she wants her Prince Charming dead.
1. New Years Eve Murder by Leslie Meier
After the annual Christmas parade, Lucy Stone and her daughter win a free trip to Manhattan for mother-daughter makeovers from Jolie Magazine. Once they arrive, self-absorbed fashion editor Nadine Nelson falls ill and mysteriously dies. Lucy takes it upon herself to find the murderer herself before the ball drops in Time Square.
