New Book Releases: January 18, 2022

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

ALL DAY IS A LONG TIME, David Sanchez. A young Floridian finds his way into — and out of — addiction. “This gritty and engrossing account of a man traversing into and out of hopelessness will stay with readers,” writes Publisher’s Weekly. Bookshop.

SUCH A PRETTY SMILE, Kristi Demeester. A teenager tries to uncover what her mother, a brilliant sculpture artist with paranoid schizophrenia, knows about a serial killer who has been working on and off for decades. Publisher’s Weekly calls it “a chilling probe into gender-based violence.” Bookshop.

HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK, Sequoia Nagamatsu. After an explorer accidentally unleashes an ancient virus preserved beneath the Siberian permafrost, a cast of characters find their lives irrevocably transformed for generations. “Humming beneath the fantastical, scientific and mystical imaginings of this book are quiet and tender stories of love, family and belonging,” writes Scientific American. Bookshop.