Books
Clear some space on your bookshelf the first quarter of the year is stacked with must-reads.
What will come in 2023is as unknown as ever.
But will there be new books?
And many are coming out in the first three months of the year.
Will there be new memoirs, essay collections, short stories, juicy novels, and knife-sharp satires?
We are a lucky bunch of readers.
All those and more.
Below, you’re able to find your favorites.
It unspools from there, pulling together the complexities of power, attraction, complicity, and desire.
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Spareby Prince Harry
When shall the appetite for tales from the ex-pat royals be satisfied?
Certainly not until theres a version of Prince Harry and Meghan Markles saga in every media format!
and the fickle, sweet impulses that drive us.
Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West!
This book reads as if its skipping: full of movement, lightness, and whimsical defiance.
Its a true gift to step inside the protagonists unusual, playful mind.
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Love, Pamelaby Pamela Anderson
Jan. 31
Pamela Anderson hasemphasized repeatedlythat this isherproject.
If you still arent sold:Love, Pamelaalso features her original poetry!
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Central Placesby Delia Cai
A meet-the-parents comedy of manners!
A well-observed study of a provincial Manhattanite!Central Placeshas it all.
In addition to this twisty premise,Big Swissis also a superb skewering of Hudson.
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Brutesby Dizz Tate
Brutesbegins with a missing girl and sprawls out into a narrative of obsession.
An agent from the Psychopigment Enforcement bureau becomes obsessed with an ambitious case.
Naturally, Sahara chooses to protest through her thesis.
Damani is an unsteady guide on the books ride through the activist scene and the precarious gig economy.
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Pineapple Streetby Jenny Jackson
Mar.
7
A novel about inheritance and the cultural inanities of the American WASP, set in a maximalist mansion?
This novel has a sea glass quality time-worn, beautiful, worth holding onto.
The creative pair travels up and down the California coast, mixing and talking and dancing.
She asks provocative, trippy questions (a chapter titled Can There Be Leisure?
Reading Odells books feels like living up to their lessons.
They spend the next decades developing increasingly high-stakes scams and an increasingly twisty queer romance.
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Brother & Sister Enter the Forest: A Novelby Richard Mirabella
Mar.
14
Told with an incredibly steady hand, this novel dissects a tense sibling relationship.
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In Search of a Beautiful Freedomby Farah Jasmine Griffin
Mar.
Amid this tumult, a young Ah Boon discovers a powerful insight about the land he was born on.