Essential titles and great reads in our January 2021 print issue, spanning mystery & suspense, sf/fantasy, horror, romance, audiobooks, nonfiction, and more. 

Booth, Claire. Fatal Divisions. 

Florio, Gwen. Best Laid Plans.

Reynolds, Allie. Shiver. 

Stallings, Josh. Tricky. 

Bishop, Anne. The Queen's Weapons. 

Gornichec, Genevieve. The Witch's Heart. 

Johnson, Joshua Phillip. The Forever Sea. 

Maxwell, Everina. Winter's Orbit. 

Osborne, Karen. Engines of Oblivion. 

Waggoner, C.M. The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry. 

Chase, Loretta. Ten Things I Hate About the Duke. 

Malik, Usman T. Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan. 

Pelayo, Cynthia. Children of Chicago. 

Audrain, Ashley. The Push.

Chance, Megan. A Splendid Ruin. 

Davies, Carys. The Mission House. 

Dillon, Alena. The Happiest Girl in the World. 

Dobmeier, Tracy & Wendy Katzman. Girls with Bright Futures. 

Fernández, Nona. The Twilight Zone. 

Hubbard, Ladee. The Rib King.

Johnson, Sadeqa. Yellow Wife. 

Okri, Ben. Prayer for the Living. 

Ruchti, Cynthia. Facing the Dawn. 

Vlautin, Willy. The Night Always Comes. 

Byrd, James P. A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War. 

Greene, Richard. The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene. 

Spitzer, Michael. The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth. 

Bren, Paulina. The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free. 

Brina, Elizabeth Miki. Speak, Okinawa.

Healy, Thomas. Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia. 

Juan, Li. Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders. 

Kefalas, Maria J. Harnessing Grief: A Mother's Quest for Meaning and Miracles. 

LaPorte, Nicole. Guilty Admissions: The Bribes, Favors, and Phonies Behind the College Cheating Scandal. 

Larman, Alexander. The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication. 

Pearson, Bradford. The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America.

Ricketts, Rachel. Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy. 

Vedantam, Shankar & Bill Mesler. Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain. 

Engelhaupt, Erika (text) & Briony Morrow-Cribbs (illus.). Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science. 

Freeman, Jackie. Easy Beans: Simple, Satisfying Recipes That Are Good for You, Your Wallet, and the Planet. 

Nimura, Janice P. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine. 

Roberts, David. The Bears Ears: A Human History of America’s Most Endangered Wilderness. 

Siemens, Kelsey. The Farmer's Daughter Bakes: Cakes, Pies, Crisps and More for Every Fruit on the Farm. 

Wang, Jason & Jessica Chou (text) & Jenny Huang (photos). Xi'an Famous Foods: The Cuisine of Western China, from New York's Favorite Noodle Shop. 

Bartrop, Paul R. & Eve E. Grimm. Children of the Holocaust. 

New York Magazine. The Encyclopedia of New York. 

Hillstrom, Laurie Collier. Family Separation and the U.S.-Mexico Border Crisis. 

Turton, Stuart. The Devil and the Dark Water.