New Book Releases: January 11, 2022

Each week, I’ll catalog the biggest and most exciting adult and YA fiction — and the occasional nonfiction — coming out that Tuesday.

TO PARADISE, Hanya Yanagihara. A sprawling epic from the acclaimed author of A Little Life. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

YONDER, Jabari Asim. The friendship between two enslaved men begins to unravel when a preacher with a mysterious past comes to their plantation. “A wonder-filled novel about the power of words and stories to bring hope to the most difficult situations,” writes Kirkus in a starred review. Bookshop.

A FLICKER IN THE DARK, Stacy Willingham. A psychologist whose father confessed to killing twelve girls when she was a child finds her past barreling into the present when another teen goes missing. Peter Swanson for Book of the Month calls it a “thrilling debut.” Bookshop.

THE STARS ARE NOT YET BELLS, Hannah Lillith Assadi. As an old woman finds her cognitive faculties fading as she descends into Alzheimer’s, she desperately attempts to hold on to memories of her life on an island off the coast of…