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Frosty Favorites
With winter in full swing, it's prime time to let our books be the axes for the frozen seas within us (or however that one goes). This week, we've got a chilly sit-down with suspense writer Alice Feeney, an illuminating chat with horror upstart Grady Hendrix, plus excellent new titles on food, AI, and modern masculinity. Happy reading!
January 17, 2025
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Okri and Kitamura discuss the respective influences of Christopher Okigbo and Natalia Ginzburg on their work. more
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For the mystery author—both in life and in her fiction—secrets abound and nothing is as it seems. more

Dark Justice: Inside the World of Paedophile Hunters
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While the author's novels traffic in horror, it’s his humor, empathy, and heart that make him a standout. more
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Throughout her prolific career, the writer has always done things on her own terms. more
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The team behind Epum's form-breaking memoir discusses how it came together. more

Editors’ Picks
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We Lived on the Horizon

By Erika Swyler (Atria)

I've been a fan of Swyler since she debuted with The Book of Speculation. Her third novel, the intensely emotional and deeply thought-provoking story of septuagenarian ex-wives and their AI child in a postapocalyptic future, is her most ambitious yet. —Phoebe Cramer, SFF, horror, and romance reviews editor
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Something Rotten

By Andrew Lipstein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

I’m reading and loving this tale of a disgraced NPR host, a well-meaning liberal “man who forsook manhood” only to get canceled anyway after a farcical Zoom accident. He then spends a would-be restorative summer in Copenhagen, where he falls under the increasingly dangerous influence of a charismatic and manly Dane. —David Varno, literary fiction reviews editor
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How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty

By Bonny Reichert (Ballantine)

Reichert deepens the conventions of food memoirs, Holocaust memoirs, and mental health memoirs in this casually profound account of growing up as the daughter of (and sharing meals with) an Auschwitz survivor. —Conner Reed, mystery and memoir reviews editor

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Top 10 Bestsellers
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The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Author
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Dog Man: Big Jim Begins: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #13): From the Creator of Captain Underpants
Dav Pilkey, Author, Dav Pilkey, Illustrator
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Potty Time with Bean (Ms. Rachel)
MS Rachel, Author, Monique Dong, Illustrator
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Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Author
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Author
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The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Shari Franke, Author
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Rebecca Yarros, Author
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Percival Everett, Author
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