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The 10 best books you'll want to read this January, according to Amazon's editors
The 10 best books you'll want to read this January, according to Amazon's editors
Dominique McInteeJan 1, 2020, 20:41 IST
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A new year brings often brings reading resolutions that end up falling to the wayside by mid-January.
To help you stay on track and provide some guidance, Amazon's book editors have handpicked a list of noteworthy titles for the site's Best Books of the Month section.
Check out this month's top picks below, with short synopses provided by Amazon's book editor, Erin Kodicek.
When it comes to New Year's resolutions, you're sure to find healthy-eating credos, self-care mantras, and lofty financial benchmarks on pretty much everyone's list. But for bookworms, those more typical goals are often supplanted by one simple objective: to read more.
Get started on your reading resolutions with January 2020's book selection below - or take a trip down memory lane with the complete breakdown of Amazon's Best Books of 2019.
Captions have been provided by Erin Kodicek, editor of books and Kindle at Amazon.com.
In this compulsively readable, empathy-arousing read, a mother and son are forced to flee from Acapulco to the United States after inadvertently getting in the crosshairs of a drug cartel.
In this timely memoir that serves as a cautionary tale, Anna Wiener describes her transition from book publishing to the Silicon Valley bubble, a place with excesses and unbridled ambitions that overshadowed its progressive ideals.
Hyper-masculinity, hookup culture, racial stereotypes, and consent are among the numerous topics discussed in this compassionate, insightful, and potentially uncomfortable read by Peggy Orenstein.
A perfect new-year-new-you read, "Tiny Habits" is a prescriptive guide for changing behaviors that are impeding you from achieving goals ranging from getting more sleep, to losing weight, to reducing stress and anxiety.
In this Dennis Lehane-esqe thriller that's also a moving story of family and addiction, a policewoman must investigate the disappearance of her estranged sister, who may have fallen prey to a serial killer.
Twelve-year-old Edward Adler is the sole survivor of a plane crash that kills 183 other passengers, including his family. "Dear Edward" is the poignant story of some of those passengers, and of summoning the resilience necessary to move forward after unimaginable tragedy.
In William Gibson's thought-provoking sequel to The Peripheral, which can also be read as a stand-alone, individuals in the future are reckless puppeteers with other people's pasts.
Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino sheds light on a dark and little-known part of history: the overthrow of an elected government in the U.S. by white supremacists bent on destroying their mixed-race community.
In Melissa Albert's fascinating (and macabre) follow-up to her dark fairy tale, "The Hazel Wood," Alice Proserpine escapes the Hinterlands, but her attempts to forge a normal life in New York City prove highly challenging (and potentially deadly).
Seth has three wives. After finding a piece of paper with a random woman's name on it, the wife he is legally married to surreptitiously seeks her out. This sets off a chain of events with catastrophic consequences in this page-turning psychological thriller.
Need more inspiration? See last year's Amazon Book Of The Month picks below:
