What Will You Read for January 2024?

By Rachel Tran | October 23 2023 | NewsStaff Picks

Request eGalleys of some of our favorite January titles, and if you love the books, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads! Remember, voting for the January list ends on 12/1.

View our featured picks below, or browse an extended Edelweiss collection here.

Martyr!
A novel
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.“Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.” —Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of There There“The best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness.” —Lauren Groff, best-selling author of Matrix and Fates and Furies

Say You'll Be Mine
A Novel
A teacher with big dreams joins forces with a no-nonsense engineer to survive an ex's wedding and escape matchmaking pressure from their Indian families. Their plan? Faking an engagement, of course."I couldn’t put down this page-turner . . . The new When Harry Met Sally. . . . A warm, smart, sexy, and absolutely charming debut." —Colleen Hoover

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it's too late in this heartwarming, enchanting second installment of the Emily Wilde series.

Come and Get It
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerA Good Morning America Book Club PickAn Indie Next Pick A LibraryReads PickFrom the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.

First Lie Wins
Reese's Book Club Pick (A Novel)
REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This fast-paced read has everything you could want in a thriller: secret identities, a mysterious boss and a cat & mouse game that kept me guessing the whole way through.”—Reese WitherspoonEvie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.

Infectious Generosity
The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of humankind’s defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future