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90 Books From All Of Your Favorite Genres Published In 2021

The ultimate list of 90 new books that will fit whatever genre you love.

I don’t know about you, but one of my favorite things about winter is curling up with a good book under a fluffy blanket with hot cocoa within reach. No matter what genre you love – romance, bios, sci-fi, etc. – there’s definitely something in this list for you. These books have also been very recently released, which means you’ll be among the first to read them. Here are 90 books that fit your genre, whatever it may be.

Romance:

For the Love of April French – Penny Aimes

Heartbreak for Hire – Sonia Hartl

Incense and Sensibility – Sonali Dev

Neon Gods – Katee Robert

Seven Days in June – Tia Williams

The Girl With Stars in Her Eyes – Xio Axelrod

The Intimacy Experiment – Rosie Danan

Love at First – Kate Clayborn

The Ex Talk – Rachel Lynn Solomon

Shipped – Angie Hockman

Mystery

The Last Thing He Told Me – Laura Dave

The Maidens – Alex Michaelides

The Wife Upstairs – Rachel Hawkins

Local Woman Missing – Mary Kubica

When the Stars Go Dark – Paula McLain

For Your Own Good – Samantha Downing

The Night She Disappeared: A Novel – Lisa Jewell

The Man Who Died Twice – Richard Osman

A Slow Fire Burning: A Novel – Paula Hawkins

Too Good to Be True – Carola Lovering

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

The Nature of Middle Earth – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Body Scout: A Novel – Lincoln Michel

The Last Graduate – Naomi Novik

The Brides of Maracoor – Gregory Maguire

Perhaps the Stars – Ada Palmer

Noor – Nnedi Okorafor

Termination Shock – Neal Stephenson

Alien³: The Unproduced First-Draft Screenplay by William Gibson – Pat Cadigan

Truth of the Divine: A Novel – Lindsay Ellis

The Veiled Throne – Ken Liu

Horror

Later – Stephen King

The Last House on Needless Street – Catriona Ward

The Mary Shelley Club – Goldy Moldavsky

The Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix

The Book of Accidents – Chuck Wendig

My Heart is a Chainsaw – Stephen Graham Jones

Revelator – Daryl Gregory

A Broken Darkness – Premee Mohamed

Whisper Down the Lane – Clay McLeod Chapman

The Drowning Kind – Jennifer McMahon

Poetry

Many Kinds of Love: A Love Story of Life, Death and the NHS – Michael Rosen

A Blood Condition – Kayo Chingonyi

Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems – Wanda Coleman

Teeth in the Back of My Neck – Monika Radojevic

Rotten Days in Late Summer – Ralf Webb

Poems: 1962-2020 – Louise Glück

Call Us What We Carry: Poems – Amanda Gorman

The Crossing – Manjeet Mann

Sho – Douglas Kearney

Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems – Arthur Sze

Young Adult

Roman and Jewel – Dana L. Davis

Be Dazzled – Ryan La Sala

Lore – Alexandra Bracken

Happily Ever Afters – Elise Bryant

You Have a Match: A Novel – Emma Lord

The Girls I’ve Been – Tess Sharpe

City of Villains – Estelle Laure

Written in Starlight – Isabel Ibañez

Hot British Boyfriend – Kristy Boyce

These Feathered Flames – Alexandra Overy

Historical Fiction

Band of Sisters: A Novel – Lauren Willig

The Rose Code: A Novel – Kate Quinn

Our Woman in Moscow: A Novel – Beatriz Williams

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur – Alka Joshi

The Forest of Vanishing Stars: A Novel – Kristin Harmel

Three Words for Goodbye: A Novel – Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb

Harlem Shuffle – Colson Whitehead

Of Women and Salt – Gabriela Garcia

The Social Graces – Renee Rosen

The Personal Librarian – Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

Non-Fiction

Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir – Ashley C. Ford

The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt – Audrey Clare Farley

My Broken Language: A Memoir – Quiara Alegría Hudes

White Magic – Elissa Washuta

Crying in H Mart – Michelle Zauner

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty – Patrick Radden Keefe

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism – Amanda Montell

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance – Hanif Abdurraqib

Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, From Sustainable to Suicidal – Mark Bittman

Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes – Phoebe Robinson

Biography/Autobiography

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power – Max Chafkin

Philip Roth: The Biography – Blake Bailey

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music – Dave Grohl

Goodbye, Guns N’ Roses: The Crime, Beauty, and Amplified Chaos of America’s Most Polarizing Band – Art Tavana

Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise – Joel Selvin

The Triumph of Nancy Reagan – Karen Tumulty

Unfinished: A Memoir – Priyanka Chopra Jonas

The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction – Julie Klam

The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World – Claire Tomalin

Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century – Tim Higgins

Check out some of these reads and see if you can borrow them from the library (old-school style), download them to your electronic devices, or purchase them to keep it all to yourself. Happy reading!

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13 Reasons Why You Should Still Be Going to the Library

Though you may have found yourself relying much more on the Internet and tablets for reading books and gathering information, there is still one building that should always be on your list of places to go: The Library!

Despite the rise in Internet usage and ebook publishing, public libraries aren’t going anywhere. In fact, they’ve seen a 32.7% increase in physical visits from 2001 to 2010. If you want to see what all the fuss is about when it comes to these magical realms, then read on.

  1. The feel of a physical book is lovely. Ebooks certainly take up (way) less space, but they don’t have one thing that physical books have: the feeling of turning the page. You also get that unique book smell that so many people find intoxicating. Admit it: You love it.
  2. You can read books for free. Although this has always been an obvious draw for libraries, it bears repeating: you can read books for free. Yep, just pick up a book, check it out, and bring it home for weeks of entertainment.
  3. You can borrow other stuff besides books. DVDs, Blu-rays, audio books—you can borrow these things, too. Sure, Redbox lets you rent a DVD for only a couple of bucks, but free is always better, right?
  4. There are lending options for ebook-lovers. Public libraries are well aware that people love ebooks. Rather than staying in the past, many libraries are getting with the times and offering an ebook borrowing service—for free. Check out your local library’s website or talk to a librarian to see what they offer.
  5. Free classes are where it’s at. Want to learn how to use that fancy new software? Take a yoga class? Maybe you want to learn how to paint. Good news: Public libraries have a wide variety of classes for free.
  6. You can always use the computers for free. When the Internet is down at your place, you can bring your laptop to the library for some free wifi without being guilted into buying a cup of coffee. And, if you only have a desktop computer, you can use the PC stations free of charge.
  7. They specialize in local history. If you’ve ever wondered about the history of your town, this is the place to go. Libraries collect everything they can from their town, including maps, genealogy of local families and books written by local authors, among other things. Likewise, if you’re into history and are always looking to learn more about the past, then you’ll probably enjoy some of the best history books around.
  8. You can meet new people—in person! Public libraries are just one more way to meet people in person. If you love books, then this is the place to find other book lovers. Heck, you might even come away with a date as well as a stack of books.
  9. It’s your one-stop shop for government paperwork. Need income tax forms? Or register to vote? You can always get this stuff at the library.
  10. You can pick the brains of librarians. Sometimes you’re looking for something, but you just don’t know how to find it. Maybe it’s a book about a type of diet, but you don’t know the name. Or you read a great book years back, but don’t remember who the author was. Visit the reference desk—they’ll help!
  11. Libraries are growing with the times. Although they still have stacks and stacks of great books, libraries aren’t the soon-to-be-extinct dinosaurs that nay-sayers would lead you to believe. In addition to the aforementioned ebook lending library, these meccas of culture have other new-fangled ideas. My local library even has a 3D printer that anyone can use for free.
  12. Material in the library is much more trust-worthy. Sure, you can find a lot of information online, but can you trust it? In a lot of cases, online information isn’t well-researched or it’s based off of fake data. If you want a better chance of finding something real, go to the library.
  13. Nothing replaces aimless browsing among the stacks. Let’s say you’re looking for a new book to read. Sure, you could click around Amazon and find something, but it doesn’t feel the same as walking amidst the stacks, looking for the spine of a book that calls out to you. Sorry, Internet…libraries and bookstores win out on this one.
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