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!
About the Author
Emmie Pombo is a latte and tattoo-loving Tennessean who specializes in mental health and beauty writing. She holds a degree in Journalism and a certification in Makeup Artistry and Airbrushing. Follow her on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
