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Every season has its charms for readers, but there’s surely nothing cozier than snuggling up under a fuzzy blanket with a good book during winter’s cold, dark nights. We’ve highlighted 21 fiction and nonfiction titles coming out in the next three months, including some lighthearted novels, gripping thrillers, two books about aging well and memoirs from Billie Dee Williams and Patti Davis.
Fiction
For readers looking for novels on the lighter side, there’s a new offering in paperback from Suzanne Allain (Mr. Malcolm’s List): The Ladies Rewrite the Rules (Jan. 9), billed as “a romantic comedy with a feminist bent” and set in Regency England. Here wealthy high society widows protest their presence in a directory of rich, single women and fight the fortune hunters.
The Friendship Club by the best-selling Robyn Carr (Jan. 23) is centered around Marni McGuire, the host of a cooking show, who’s in her mid-50s and trying to navigate the dating world after being widowed and divorced. Three women in her life — her best friend, pregnant daughter and an intern on the show — face their own relationship challenges, but they learn to rely on each other for invaluable support and friendship.
The Excitements by CJ Wray (Jan. 30) is a madcap tale of two nonagenarian World War II veterans, sisters Josephine and Penny Williamson who are celebrated for their heroics in the war. It turns out there’s so much more to their story, as their great-nephew Archie discovers while accompanying his aunts on an extremely eventful trip to Paris.
And Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford (Jan. 30), is a sweet-sounding debut featuring Jenny Quinn, 77, who applies to be a contestant on a baking show (Britain Bakes) and enters a new world of rising fame. The delicious recipes bring back memories of the past, including those of a long-ago deceit that Jenny fears will be brought to light amid the publicity and threaten her marriage of 60 years.
For gothic suspense, check out The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins (Jan. 9), author of The Wife Upstairs. This twisty, twisted tale is centered around the death of North Carolina’s richest woman, Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore, who’s left her estate to her adopted son. He rejects the vast estate for a normal life in Colorado until he’s pulled back into the fold 10 years later, only to discover some disturbing truths about the heiress (who was — red flag! — widowed four times) and the fortune she left behind.
The Fury by Alex Michaelides (Jan. 16), best-selling author of The Silent Patient, features a reclusive ex-movie star who invites a small group of friends and family to her private Greek island, where they find themselves cut off from the outside world by fierce winds (called the Fury). Their tense interactions and backstories are all described by an unreliable narrator, playwright Elliot Chase, who begins his tale: “There were seven of us in all, trapped on the island. One of us was a murderer.”
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