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The Best New Biographies and Memoirs to Read in 2024

This year sees some riveting and remarkable lives—from artist ai weiwei to singer-songwriter joni mitchell—captured on the page..

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A life story can be read for escapist pleasure. But at other times, reading a memoir or biography can be an expansive exercise, opening us up to broader truths about our world. Often, it’s an edifying experience that reminds us of our universal human vulnerability and the common quest for purpose in life.

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Biographies and memoirs charting remarkable lives—whether because of fame, fortune or simply fascination—have the power to inspire us for their depth, curiosity or challenges. This year sees a bumper calendar of personal histories enter bookshops, grappling with enigmatic public figures like singer Joni Mitchell and writer Ian Fleming , to nuanced analysis of how motherhood or sociopathy shape our lives—for better and for worse.

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Here we compile some of the most rewarding biographies and memoirs out in 2024. There are stories of trauma and recovery, art as politics and politics as art, and sentences as single life lessons spread across books that will make you rethink much about personal life stories. After all, understanding the triumphs and trials of others can help us see how we can change our own lives to create something different or even better.

Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei and illustrated by Gianluca Costantini

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Ai Weiwei , the iconoclastic artist and fierce critic of his homeland China, mixes fairy tales with moral lessons to evocatively retrace the story of his life in graphic form. Illustrations are by Italian artist Gianluca Costantini . “Any artist who isn’t an activist is a dead artist,” Weiwei writes in Zodiac , as he embraces everything from animals found in the Chinese zodiac to mystical folklore tales with anamorphic animals to argue the necessity of art as politics incarnate. The meditative exercise uses pithy anecdotes alongside striking visuals to sketch out a remarkable life story marked by struggle. It’s one weaving political manifesto, philosophy and personal memoir to engage readers on the necessity of art and agitation against authority in a world where we sometimes must resist and fight back.

Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti

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Already well-known for her experimental writings, Sheila Heti takes a decade of diary entries and maps sentences against the alphabet, from A to Z. The project is a subversive rethink of our relationship to introspection—which often asks for order and clarity, like in diary writing—that maps new patterns and themes in its disjointed form. Heti plays with both her confessionals and her sometimes formulaic writing style (like knowingly using “Of course” in entries) to retrace the changes made (and unmade) across ten years of her life. Alphabetical Diaries is a sometimes demanding book given the incoherence of its entries, but remains an illuminating project in thinking about efforts at self-documentation.

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story by Leslie Jamison

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Unlike her previous work The Empathy Exams , which examined how we relate to one another and on human suffering, writer Leslie Jamison wrestles today with her own failed marriage and the grief of surviving single parenting. After the birth of her daughter, Jamison divorces her partner “C,” traverses the trials and tribulations of rebound relationships (including with “an ex-philosopher”) and confronts unresolved emotional pains born of her own life living under the divorce of her parents. In her intimate retelling—paired with her superb prose—Jamison charts a personal history that acknowledges the unending divide mothers (and others) face dividing themselves between partners, children and their own lives.

Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch

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Whether dancing figures or a “radiant baby,” the recognizable cartoonish symbols in Keith Haring ’s art endure today as shorthand signs representing both his playfulness and politicking. Haring (1958-1990) is the subject of writer Brad Gooch ’s deft biography, Radiant , a book that mines new material from the archive along with interviews with contemporaries to reappraise the influential quasi-celebrity artist. From rough beginnings tagging graffiti on New York City walls to cavorting with Andy Warhol and Madonna on art pieces, Haring battled everything from claims of selling out to over-simplicity. But he persisted with work that leveraged catchy quotes and colorful imagery to advance unsavory political messages—from AIDS to crack cocaine. A life tragically cut short at 31 is one powerfully celebrated in this new noble portrait.

The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul Charles

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In The House of Hidden Meaning , celebrated drag queen, RuPaul , reckons with a murky inner world that has shaped—and hindered—a lifetime of gender-bending theatricality. The figurative house at the center of the story is his “ego,” a plaguing barrier that apparently long inhibited the performer from realizing dreams of greatness. Now as the world’s most recognizable drag queen—having popularized the art form for mainstream audiences with the TV show RuPaul’s Drag Race —RuPaul reflects on the power that drag and self-love have long offered across his difficult, and sometimes tortured, life. Readers expecting dishy stories may be disappointed, but the psychological self-assessment in the pages of this memoir is far more edifying than Hollywood gossip could ever be.

Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne

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Patric Gagne is an unlikely subject for a memoir on sociopaths. Especially since she is a former therapist with a doctorate in clinical psychology. Still, Gagne makes the case that after a troubled childhood of antisocial behavior (like stealing trinkets and cursing teachers) and a difficult adulthood (now stealing credit cards and fighting authority figures), she receives a diagnosis of sociopathy. Her memoir recounts many episodes of bad behavior—deeds often marked by a lack of empathy, guilt or even common decency—where her great antipathy mars any ability for her to connect with others. Sociopath is a rewarding personal exposé that demystifies one vilified psychological condition so often seen as entirely untreatable or irreparable. Only now there’s a familiar face and a real story linked to the prognosis.

Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare

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Nicholas Shakespeare is an acclaimed novelist and an astute biographer, delivering tales that wield a discerning eye to subjects and embrace a robust attention to detail. Ian Fleming (1908-1964), the legendary creator of James Bond, is the latest to receive Shakespeare’s treatment. With access to new family materials from the Fleming estate, the seemingly contradictory Fleming is seen anew as a totally “different person” from his popular image. Taking cues from Fleming’s life story—from a refined upbringing spent in expensive private schools to working for Reuters as a journalist in the Soviet Union—Shakespeare reveals how these experiences shaped the elusive world of espionage and intrigue created in Fleming’s novels. Other insights include how Bond was likely informed by Fleming’s cavalier father, a major who fought in WWI. A martini (shaken, not stirred) is best enjoyed with this bio.

Knife: Meditations after an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie , while giving a rare public lecture in New York in August 2022, was violently stabbed by an assailant brandishing a knife . The attack saw Rushdie lose his left hand and his sight in one eye. Speaking to The New Yorker a year later , he confirmed a memoir was in the works that would confront this harrowing existential experience: “When somebody sticks a knife into you, that’s a first-person story. That’s an ‘I’ story.” Knife: Meditations after an Attempted Murder is promised to be his raw, revelatory and deeply psychological confrontation with the violent incident. Like the sword of Damocles, brutality has long stalked Rushdie ever since the 1989 fatwa issued against the author, following the publication of his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses . The answer to such barbarity, Rushdie is poised to argue, is by finding the strength to stand up again.

The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019–2022 by Peter Schjeldahl (Release: May 14)

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Peter Schjeldahl (1942-2022), longstanding art critic of The New Yorker , confronted his mortality when he was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer in 2019. The resulting essay collection he then penned, The Art of Dying , is a masterful meditation on one life preoccupied entirely with aesthetics and criticism. It’s a discursive tactic for a memoir that avoids discussing Schjeldahl’s coming demise while equally confirming its impending visit by avoiding it. Acknowledging that he finds himself “thinking about death less than I used to,” Schjeldahl spends most of the pages revisiting familiar art subjects—from Edward Hopper ’s output to Peter Saul ’s Pop Art—as vehicles to re-examine his own remarkable life. With a life that began in the humble Midwest, Schjeldahl says his birthplace was one that ultimately availed him to write so plainly and cogently on art throughout his career. Such posthumous musings prove illuminating lessons on the potency of American art, with whispered asides on the tragedy of death that will come for all of us.

Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers (Release: June 11)

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Joni Mitchell has enjoyed a remarkable revival recently, even already being one of the most acclaimed and enduring singer/songwriters. After retiring from public appearances for health reasons in the 2010s, Mitchell, 80, has returned to the spotlight with a 2021 Kennedy Centers honor , an appearance accepting the 2023 Gershwin Prize and even a live performance at this year’s Grammy Awards . It’s against this backdrop of public celebration of Mitchell that NPR music critic Ann Powers retraces the life story and musical (re)evolution of the singer, from folk to jazz genres and rock to soul music, across five decades for the American songbook. “What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell,” she writes in the introduction. Instead, Powers’ project is one showing how Mitchell’s many journeys—from literal road trips inspiring tracks like “All I Want” to inner probings of Mitchell’s psyche, such as the song “Both Sides Now”—have always inspired Mitchell’s enduring, emotive and palpable output. These travels hold the key, Powers says, to understanding an enigmatic artist.

The Best New Biographies and Memoirs to Read in 2024

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Now for new books. Siblings journey back to their ancestral home in North Carolina in Long After We Are Gone by Terah Shelton Harris. We get a taste of the horrible and the fantastical with the Caribbean-set YA mystery It Waits in the Forest by Sarah Dass. And, Lunar Boy by Jes Wibowo and Cin Wibowo is a queer, middle grade coming-of-age graphic novel with a gorgeous pastel palette.

The books I’ve featured below include a bid to overthrow a tyrannical king in 16th-century Korea, a genre-blending memoir, queer horror, and more.

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A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur

I love how June Hur sets her historical YA mysteries during the Joseon era — a period of Korean history that lasted from the 14th century to the 19th century. Here, 17-year-old Iseul and her sister have lived a sheltered life away from the tyranny of the current king. But then, her older sister Suyeon catches the king’s eye. Now, Iseul travels outside through the forbidden territory to get to the capital and save her sister. Then there’s Prince Daehyun, the half-brother of the king, who is trying to start a coup that will overthrow his awful brother. Iseul’s and Daehyun’s paths eventually collide, and, though they detest each other at first, they’re united in their hate for the king.

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Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace

In this memoir, award-winning journalist Carvell Wallace peels back layers of pain, beauty, and survival that have encompassed his life as a Black queer person in America. He recounts his experiences with homelessness, living in a white Pennsylvania town, and raising kids, and the love he’s experienced through it all.

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Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru

I’m adding this to the growing list of books about artists coming out lately. Here, Jay’s previously promising career as an artist fresh out of his London art school program has sputtered into an existence of working without documentation in the U.S. While living out of his car, he delivers groceries to people in a wealthy area in New York during the pandemic. It’s during one of these delivery runs that he runs into someone from his art school days. When he first sees Alice, a former boo thing, on the enormous estate, he hopes she doesn’t recognize him. But she does, despite the dirty mask he’s wearing and the 20 years since she left him for his best friend and fellow artist, Rob. She invites him to isolate and recover from his sickness in their barn, and the time Jay spends there turns to time spent revisiting the past, and reconsidering what being an artist means.

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Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

In these essays, award-winning poet Villarreal bends genres to look at her personal experiences — like a difficult childhood and divorce — colonial consequences, and migration, and analyzes them through a pop culture lens. In one piece, she’s looking at gender performativity through Nirvana and Selena, and in the next, the racial implications of Game of Thrones’ Jon Snow. She also looks at fantasy and considers collective imagination and how magic and ancestral teachings become invalidated through colonialism.

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My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

Roos Beckman has a companion who only she can see. Ruth is a spirit who has been dead for centuries, and she is the only good thing in Roos’ life. That is, until wealthy young widow Agness Knoop meets Roos, and the two women have undeniable chemistry. But when Roos goes to live with her at her crumbling estate, someone ends up dead. And, Roos is caught red-handed. But did she do it, or did her spirit companion, Ruth?

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When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

This novella is already gearing up to be a bit of a summer hit. In it, there’s a city where monsters feed on human emotions, and Dymitr sacrifices a little bit of himself every time he fights them. One night, Dymitr makes a bargain with Ala — a woman who’s inherited a curse from her mother. If she helps him find a legendary witch, she’ll get an enchanted flower that might cure her. But the flower will die in just one day, and Dymitr doesn’t fully even know who Ala really is.

Other Book Riot New Releases Resources:

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  • The New Books Newsletter , where we send you an email of the books out this week that are getting buzz.
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Looking for something good to read? Take a look at all the books published in 2024 to find amazing new 2024 book releases to add to your reading list.

I am easily distracted by new releases. 

They’re so shiny and full of promise. With book jackets describing thrilling mysteries and brilliant literary prose, I believe my next great read is just around the corner.

So I can drool over the new books out, I keep a running list of all the upcoming releases .

Every month, I scour through publication lists, searching for intriguing titles. And every month, I take off the titles that have already been published.

Then I collect them all here, on a list of books published in 2024. I’ll update this list monthly to reflect all the books that have been released so far in 2024.

Now you can peruse through all the 2024 book releases to discover new titles you can buy right now.

To be thorough, I’ve included all the new books released in 2024 that I’ve mentioned on the blog. Not to overwhelm, I’ve limited myself to a short blurb about each book.

If you want to learn more about any title, click any of the links following the description. You can read my review (if I’ve read it), read more about the book’s details, add it to your Goodreads to-read list, or purchase it on Amazon.

Go ahead. Browse through my list of 2024 book releases. I guarantee you’ll spot something that intrigues you.

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January 2024 Upcoming Book Releases

Book Cover First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

Mystery & Thriller January 2, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A con woman falls in love with her mark just as her past catches up to her.

book cover The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan

The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan

Historical Fiction January 2, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A Malaysian housewife gets roped into being a spy for the Japanese invasion and a decade later fights to save her family during the final days of World War II.

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Mercury by Amy Jo Burns

Contemporary Fiction January 2, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A blue collar American family struggles as their family plumbing business is on the brink of failure and their mother is dying.

Book Cover The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri

The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri

After a wildfire destroys their home in Greece, a woman becomes entangled in a murder investigation while her husband mourns his injuries and searches for his missing father.

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Midnight by Amy McCulloch

A woman is trapped at an art auction on a luxury Antarctic cruise when someone starts murdering the passengers and crew.

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The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Contemporary Fiction January 9, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A fierce matriarch raises her precocious granddaughter in the Michigan swamp but long-buried secrets end up dividing the community.

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Argylle by Elly Conway

Mystery & Thriller January 9, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A legendary spymaster needs the help of a troubled man to bring down a Russian magnate. A high-budget film adaptation debuting in February 2024.

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The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

The adopted son of North Carolina’s richest woman returns to her estate he refused to inherit and is sucked back into the family’s drama.

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Come & Get It by Kiley Reid

A visiting professor interviews college students about weddings but decides she can use her findings to her own advantage.

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Only If You’re Lucky by Stacy Willingham

Mystery & Thriller January 16, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

Margot moves in with three other college sophomores and by midyear, a boy next door is dead, her roommate is missing, and Margot is hiding secrets from the police.

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The Fury by Alex Michaelides

A Hollywood starlet invites her old friends to her private Greek Island, starting a cat-and-mouse game that ends in murder.

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No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall

Mystery & Thriller January 23, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

Once accused of her parents’ murders, a woman is forced to move back to her their estate and reconcile with her estranged sisters.

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Family Family by Laurie Frankel

Contemporary Fiction January 23, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

Actress and adoptive mom India Allred sparks a media firestorm with her comments on adoption, and the daughter she gave up for adoption as a teen wants to meet her and help.

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The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzales James

Literary Fiction January 23, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A Mexican actor finds a book about his grandfather, a train robber, and finds he must pay for his ancestor’s crimes.

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House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

Fantasy January 30, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

In the third Crescent City book, Bryce Quinlan struggles to find her way back to Midgard while Hunt Athalar struggles to escape prison to find Bryce.

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Good Material by Dolly Alderton

Contemporary Fiction January 30, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A stand-up comedian tries to figure out why his ex-girlfriend broke up with him.

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The Mayor of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham

Historical Fiction January 30, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

In the 1920s, A Black debutante teams up with the manager of a speakeasy to investigate Chicago’s chief vice lord.

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Be a Revolution by Ijeoma Oluo

Nonfiction January 30, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

Antiracist ways to change our structures to create positive lasting change.

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Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin

A true-crime obsessed woman recounts with her half-sisters and must face her fears and be vulnerable.

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February 2024 Upcoming Book Releases

book cover The Women by Kristin Hannah

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Historical Fiction February 6, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A female nursing student impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps to serve in the Vietnam War like her brother.

book cover Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood

Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood

Literary Fiction February 6, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A collection of stories about residents of an apartment building during the pandemic with each character’s story written by a different famous author.

book cover A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams

Romance February 6, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A misfit Atlanta socialite moves to Harlem and embarks on a romance with a mysterious and passionate artist that will change them forever.

book cover The Teacher by Freida McFadden

The Teacher by Freida McFadden

Mystery & Thriller February 6, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A math teacher is nervous when the student at the center of last year’s scandal is placed in her class.

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Redwood Court by DéLana R. A. Dameron

A series of vignettes about a Black working class family in South Carolina as the youngest daughter comes of age.

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The Resort by Sara Ochs

Mysterious deaths start stacking up with ties to a group of expats living in Thailand who are all outrunning their pasts.

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Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead  by Jenny Hollander

The survivor of a massacre finds her newly rebuilt life threatened when a fellow survivor announces they are creating a movie about that night.

Book Cover Bride by Ali Hazelwood

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

Paranormal Romance February 6, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

The daughter of a powerful Vampyre, Misery Lark is promised in marriage to their mortal enemies, the Weres, as a peacekeeping measure.

book cover The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang

The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang

Historical Fiction February 13, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

Two women must solve the mystery of an ancient Chinese relic that disappeared during the San Francisco Earthquake only to turn up years later in Paris.

book cover The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

Historical Fantasy February 13, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

In 1908, a woman seeking justice for her son and a detective travel from China to Japan searching for truth while navigating the truths and myths about fox spirits.

book cover Ready or Not by Cara Bastone

Ready or Not by Cara Bastone

Romance February 13, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

An accidental pregnancy leaves a woman to rethink her life in this friends-to-lovers romance.

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The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

Skeptical after her brother’s death in WWI, Laurie volunteers as a nurse in Belgium and hears rumors of a man who can make soldiers forget.

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End of Story by A. J. Finn

Mystery & Thriller February 20, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A woman is invited to write the life story of a reclusive mystery writer who might have been involved in the disappearance of his wife and son decades earlier.

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Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli

Fantasy February 20, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A witch and a witch hunter using each other for information accidentally fall in love.

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Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg

Nonfiction February 20, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

Using the power of storytelling, Duhigg teaches you become more adept at recognizing and navigating any conversation you find yourself in.

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Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

Literary Fiction February 27, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

In the 1800s, two children attend a school that tries to strip them of their Native Identity while in 2018, a descendant tries to hold her family together after a school shooting.

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Brooklyn by Tracy Brown

Contemporary Fiction February 27, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

During her dying moments, a woman contemplates what led her to become the cold calculating manipulator that everyone wanted dead.

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Normal Women by Philippa Gregory

Nonfiction February 27, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A retelling of British history with the contributions of ordinary women at the forefront.

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After Annie by Anna Quindlen

When Annie Brown dies, her husband, four children and best friend are all left reeling and must find themselves again.

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The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez

Historical Fiction March 5, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A look at the building of the Panama Canal and the ups and downs of the people who lived nearby and worked on its construction.

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The Hunter by Tana French

Mystery & Thriller March 5, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

Sequel to The Searcher . When Trey’s long-lost father appears searching for gold, former detective Cal Hooper must protect everything he’s built in Ireland.

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Murder Road by Simone St. James

After picking up an injured hitchhiker who dies, a newlywed couple investigates a series of murders along a deserted stretch of road.

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Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez

A Latina art student at an Ivy League school discovers the work of female artist who was mysteriously murdered a decade earlier.

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Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

When a popular true crime podcaster wants to cover her best friend’s murder, a woman must help him even though she knows she might be guilty.

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The Prisoner’s Throne by Holly Black

Fantasy March 5, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

Sequel to The Stolen Heir . The battle for Elhame concludes. Can the imprisoned prince defeat the vengeful queen?

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The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger

A couple inherits a luxury apartment in New York City only to discover that something darker is happening behind the perfectly constructed facade.

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Maktub by Paulo Coelho

Literary Fiction March 5, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

The first English translation of a collection of Coelho’s stories that highlight the human experience.

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Here After by Amy Lin

Nonfiction March 5, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A memoir of a young widow processing her grief after her husband suddenly dies during a half-marathon.

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Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner

Mystery & Thriller March 12, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

Frankie Elkin goes undercover on a remote Pacific island to solve the long-ago disappearance of a convicted serial killer’s sister before her execution date.

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Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle

Romance March 19, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

Every time she dates a new man, Daphne receives a paper telling how long the relationship will last until she goes on a blind date without an expiration date.

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Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher

Mystery & Thriller March 19, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads

A woman goes undercover at an isolated insane asylum to solve her sister’s long-ago disappearance.

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Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

Science Fiction March 19, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A robot created to be the perfect girlfriend tries to become more human and begins to wonder what she owes herself.

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Kill For Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh

Mystery & Thriller March 19, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

Two strangers who meet at a bar decide to trade murders, seeking revenge on the men who ruined their families.

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The Truth About the Devlins by Lisa Scottoline

Mystery & Thriller March 26, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

The black sheep in a family of lawyers tries to save the family firm after his older brother murders a client accused of embezzlement.

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All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore

Historical Fiction April 2, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

In Philadelphia, an escaped slave and a Black abolitionist work to free a slave visiting from the South, risking their own lives in the process.

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The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

Romance April 2, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A woman discovers the magical ability to swap out husbands, and lives, and must decide what she really wants from life.

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Table for Two by Amor Towles

Literary Fiction April 2, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

Six short stories about the delicate nature of modern marriage and a novella about Evelyn Ross from Rules of Civility rebuilding a life in the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez

A writer tries to bury her unfinished manuscripts, but the characters have a life of their own and their narratives inspire the local townspeople.

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Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

A man cursed that every woman he dates goes on to find true love after they breakup dates a woman with the same curse … just for the summer.

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Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

Mystery & Thriller April 9, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

The daughter of a local detective returns to her hometown to find that the drought has revealed clues to her mother’s disappearance hidden in the lake bed.

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How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

Romance April 9, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

An author and a screenwriter, connected by a tragic accident when they were teens, begin to fall in love even though they shouldn’t.

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The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

Historical Fantasy April 9, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

During Spain’s Golden Age, a maid finds herself caught up in politics when the King’s disgraced former secretary learns she can do magic.

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The Wives by Simone Gorrindo

Nonfiction April 9, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

An insightful look into the lives of Army wives as well as an intimate look at Gorrindo’s marriage.

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Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier

Fantasy April 9, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads

A woman and a prince search for a dragon egg in a new fantasy romance based on Pacific Island mythology.

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A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci

Mystery & Thriller April 16, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

In Southern Virginia in 1968, a white male lawyer and a Black female lawyer work together save an innocent man from the electric chair.

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An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nonfiction April 16, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

Weaving together American history and her personal life, historian Goodwin gives an intimate look at the 1960s from her and her husband’s time working with the political leaders of the day.

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Funny Story by Emily Henry

Romance April 23, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

When her fiancé leaves her, Daphne becomes roommates with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex.

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Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth

Mystery & Thriller April 23, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

When a body is discovered on the farm where they grew up, three foster sisters find themselves the prime witnesses, and possibly suspects.

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A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh

In the Welsh mountains, DC Ffion Morgan investigates a group of reality stars, each with an alibi and a reason to kill.

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The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson

Nonfiction April 30, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

The tumultuous five months between Abraham Lincoln’s election and the firing on Fort Sumter.

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Real Americans by Rachel Khong

Literary Fiction April 30, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

A woman falls in love with a wealthy East Coaster and decades later her teenage son looks for his biological father.

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Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles

Historical Fiction April 30, 2024 Amazon | Goodreads | More Info

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If you're looking for a romance movie or show, then you'll love the series One Day . Just be sure to bring some tissues, because it's every bit as heartbreaking as it is heartwarming. If you're into more historical dramas (or even movies and shows based on true stories ), then look no further than the Apple TV+ series , Masters of Air . Just be careful, you might fall in love with each and every actor on the screen. There are also other long-awaited and highly-anticipated films on this list, like the musical Wicked and the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us . Though, instead of spoiling the entire list, just go ahead and read on to see what else there is in store.

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Masters of Air

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Release Date: January 26, 2024

Cast: Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Barry Keoghan, and Isabel May.

If you're looking for an inspirational and historical watch, this is certainly it. The series, which was adapted from the book by Donald L. Miller, tells the true story of a group of men in the Mighty Eighth Air Force during World War II. The friendships that were formed and dangers that were faced will all be exhibited.

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Release Date: February 2, 2024

Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Dua Lipa, Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, John Cena, and Ariana DeBose.

An author thinks that she's simply writing fictional stories in her espionage novels. When her plots begin to replicate real life events, things start to get a little tricky—and now, she's at the forefront of a high-stakes investigation. Fun fact: While the author of the book is deemed to be Elly Conway (also the name of the main character in the story), the real writers are Terry Hayes and Tammy Cohen.

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Release Date: February 8, 2024

Cast: Ambika Mod, Leo Woodall, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jonny Weldon, and Amber Grappy.

David Nicholls sent readers for an emotional doozy when he wrote this book back in 2009. The Netflix series will leave you teary-eyed as it follows two students who don't officially meet until the night of their graduation. Falling in love instantly, they struggle with the fact that the next day they'll have to leave each other for good.

Lisa Frankenstein

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Release Date: February 9, 2024

Cast: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, and Paola Andino.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has been adapted into many different series, movies, and plays. This time around, the story is being turned into a comedy horror about a gal who wishes to bring Frankenstein back to life. Why? Well, because he's her true love, apparently!

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Release Date: February 23, 2024

Cast: Adam Sandler, Paul Dano, Carey Mulligan, Kunal Nayyar, and Isabella Rossellini.

This one is for the sci-fi privy folks out there. The Adam Sandler led movie is based off the book by Jaroslav Kalfař. You'll watch as Sandler's character flees earth for Venus, which is where he discovers an abnormally sized spider who he can somehow communicate with. If it sounds weird... it is! But it's also one fascinating watch.

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Release Date: March 1, 2024

Cast: Timotheé Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, and Rebecca Ferguson.

If you loved the first movie in this sci-fi series, then just wait 'til you see the second one. Dune 2 still covers the bases of the first book in the Frank Herbert original—so it'll pick up right where the first film left off. Basically, you'll see Paul Atreides win the Arrakis people over, while the leaders of Harkonnen begin their plot of regaining power.

The Sympathizer

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Release Date: April 14, 2024

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Hoa Xuande, Scott Ly, Fred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, and Tien Pham.

Robert Downey Jr. helped create (and acted in) this HBO series which was ultimately constructed from a book of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen. You'll watch as a North Vietnamese mole tries to figure out secrets by being sent to the United States with the South Vietnamese army.

Turtles All the Way Down

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Release Date: May 2, 2024

Cast: Isabela Merced, Felix Mallard, Cree Cicchino, Hannah Marks, John Green, and Debby Ryan.

John Green is sort of a master at young adult novels with plenty of his books becoming screen-adaptations, including his most recent page-turner Turtles All the Way Down . It's a peculiar but riveting story of a teenage girl (who suffers from OCD), and the journey she ventures on to find her neighbor's missing billionaire dad. The catch: if she does find him, she gets a whopping prize of $100,000.

Bridgerton Season 3

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Release Date: May 16, 2024 and June 13, 2024

Cast: Nicola Coughlan, Simone Ashley, Jonathan Bailey, Luke Newton, Claudia Jessie, and Hannah Dodd.

The Bridgerton novel series written by Julia Quinn have been transformed into an aesthetic Netflix series filled with fictional English romances and drama, made modern only by the classic covers of pop songs that play in the background. Season 3, which is split up into two parts, will focus on a blossoming connection between fan-favorites Colin and Penelope.

The Watchers

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Release Date: June 7, 2024

Cast: Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré, Siobhan Hewlett, Alistair Brammer, and Oliver Finnegan.

Horror fans, rise up. The Watchers , a gothic and suspenseful book composed by by A.M. Shine, will come to life on the big screen in June. It tells the eerie chronicles of a supernatural game of hide and seek. Basically, a group of people are trapped in an enclosed space, and have to try to escape the mystic creatures looming in the shade.

It Ends With Us

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Release Date: August 9, 2024

Cast: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Brandon Sklenar, Isabela Ferrer, and Jenny Slate.

If you know anything about author Colleen Hoover, it likely has to do with her smash hit of a book, It Ends With Us . The screen adaptation will focus on the same plot as the novel, which follows a woman named Lily and her struggling love life and niche career. There are heavy themes within this one, so keep that in mind before watching.

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Release Date: November 27, 2024

Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater, and Jonathan Bailey.

Gregory Maguire's Wicked scored two power vocalists as its cinematic leads: Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. They'll play Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) and Glinda (Glinda the Good) in the musical story of two friends with opposite personalities. It's essentially the unofficial origin story of the two characters from The Wizard of Oz .

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is working on his third book, a memoir that will allow him to tell his life’s story to a national audience that may not know much about the Democratic governor who will leave office in 2½ years.

Boosting his national image has become a regular feature of Newsom’s second and final term as governor, as he’s traveled the country to stump for President Biden’s reelection , attack Republicans and appear on cable news shows. Newsom has said he’s not interested in running for president, but writing a memoir may be his most overt move yet that indicates otherwise.

“The governor is writing a book, and he looks forward to sharing it whenever it is completed,” said Nathan Click, a spokesperson for Newsom, when asked about the project.

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Politicians seeking to introduce themselves to more voters routinely publish an autobiographical book as they explore whether to launch a campaign. A litany of presidential candidates — successful and not — have written books before they embarked on runs, including Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Ron Desantis and Sen. Bernie Sanders, to name a few.

The promotional tours that typically accompany a book release provide opportunities to meet voters in swing states and appear on a range of media platforms.

David Axelrod, former adviser to President Obama and CNN analyst, recalled how the 44th president released his second book “Audacity of Hope” in fall of 2006, months before he announced his run for president. The tour gave him a reason to speak to audiences who were unfamiliar with the then junior Senator from Illinois.

That book and Obama’s memoir were both successful, Axelrod said, because they were bracingly authentic and did not come off as canned stories told by a politician. When Axelrod had Newsom on his podcast last year, the governor talked about his struggles with dyslexia and the challenges of his upbringing with divorced parents.

On the podcast, Newsom described the juxtapositions he experienced growing up in San Francisco where his father, an attorney who managed the trust of the Getty family of oil heirs, exposed him to a world of wealth and privilege that included safaris to Africa, while his mother struggled financially.

“When politicians are revealing in these books, they truly give you a window into something. Not a lot of politicians do that, especially practicing ones,” Axelrod said.

“The temptation is to tell the story with some gloss on it because you think that’s the story that will be most salable. Newsom has a really interesting life. This could be a great book. What I learned from sitting down with him is he presents more like a Getty than a Newsom, but what he has is a story of real struggle and triumph over those struggles. That’s a good story.”

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Newsom has been working on the book over the last four years, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter who declined to be named in order to discuss private conversations. It’s not clear when the book will be published or which publisher is involved.

Newsom’s prior books were published by imprints of Penguin Random House. His first, “Citizenville, How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government,” was co-written with Lisa Dickey and surveyed Silicon Valley leaders about how data could be better used to make government decisions.

The book was informed by his time as San Francisco mayor and came out in 2013 after he’d been elected lieutenant governor. His second foray into publishing was a children’s book, “Ben and Emma’s Big Hit ,” which he co-wrote with Ruth Shamir and Alexandra Thompson illustrated.

The book focused on a young boy’s love of baseball and attempts to overcome his struggles with dyslexia. The story was inspired by Newsom’s own history with dyslexia , which he said he discovered he had in fifth grade. The learning issue caused him to fall behind in school and other children viewed him as the “slow kid,” he told The Times in a 2021 interview.

Newsom said he was hesitant to talk about his experience with dyslexia for decades and he later realized that the learning disorder was a gift that forced him to work harder than his competitors.

In the interview, Newsom said stories about his connection to the Gettys belied his actual upbringing. But the more he attempted to recast the narrative about his life, he said, the more people pushed back.

“I’m not the person that I see in those headlines, the Gavin-Getty articles that have been written 3000 times,” Newsom said. “I mean, at a certain point, you just give up.”

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I was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment in March 2024. My crime was caused by a mental illness, gambling disorder. My memoir goes into a lot of detail about my life, my crime and my experiences in one of the worst prisons in South Africa. My grandfather, Ernest Blow, published his one and only book in 1963. My uncle, Desmond Blow, published his book in 1974. My dad, John Blow, was head of paperbacks at CNA in South Africa. My brother, Adrian Blow, my sister, Jane Avis and my niece Megan Landman, have all published books. My fiction book I hope to publish in May 2024 and then at least three religious books by the end of 2024. The sales of my books will go a long way to funding my appeal. Please read it and thank you in advance for your support.

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