The narrative alternates pretend past and present to explain how, exactly, he found himself in his predicament.

(Feb. 2)

The Project by Courtney Summers

Cult stories, get your cult stories here!

But hey, anything counts as escapism these days.

My Year Abroad

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(And, yes, she talks about Nick Jonas).

City of a Thousand Gates: A Novel by Rebecca Sacks

Harper

Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz

Grove Press

n/a

The Project by Courtney Summers

St. Martin’s Publishing Group

Milk Fed: A Novel by Melissa Broder

Scribner

Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris

Penguin Press

The Kindest Lie

William Morrow

Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler

Catapult

The Four Winds: A Novel by Kristin Hannah

St. Martin’s Press

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House: A Novel by Cherie Jones

Little, Brown and Company

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi

One World

We Run the Tides: A Novel Hardcover by Vendela Vida

Ecco

Super Host by Kate Russo

G.P. Putnam’s Sons

Unfinished

Ballantine Books

The Removed: A Novel by Brandon Hobson

Ecco

No One Is Talking About This: A Novel by Patricia Lockwood

Riverhead Books