The 20 Books to Pick Up This January

After we officially turned the calendar page to 2021, we couldn't help but feel just a little bit of hope—hope for a chance not only to say "Goodbye to all that," but also "Hello to whatever's next."

We hope the following 20 books will help you do just that. We’ve got a prequel to The Great Gatsby, which enters the public domain this month, a feminist retelling of the Trojan War, and a wicked reworking of Cinderella. There's also ahort story collections set in Argentina and Ireland, a novella set over the course of one day along a foreboding Scottish loch, and memoirs from iconic actors. And you won't want to miss a “Black power manifesto or" and the dystopian western; we’ve even got a compendium of writing lessons compiled by the Booker-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, the one and only George Saunders.

So here's a literary champagne toast to a year in which we lose ourselves in books—not because we have to, but because we want to. Enjoy some of the best books January 2021 has to offer.