The Best New Books to Check Out in Paperback This January

The Best New Books to Check Out in Paperback This January

Wondering what to pick for book club? Try one of these affordable, buzz-worthy titles.

By CrimeReads | January 15, 2021

Diamonds in Literature: The Ultimate MacGuffin

Diamonds in Literature: The Ultimate MacGuffin

"Radiant, indestructible, immortal – diamonds are what we are not, and our admiration of them comes to no good."

By Victoria Gosling | January 14, 2021

Nine Great Science Fiction Thrillers

Nine Great Science Fiction Thrillers

Deep characters and big ideas drive these science fiction classics built on the chassis of crime fiction.

By Nick Petrie | January 14, 2021

10 of the Best Dinner Parties in Modern Fiction

10 of the Best Dinner Parties in Modern Fiction

"Study the smiling, privileged guests around you: can you guess which one knows where the bodies are buried?"

By Emma Rous | January 13, 2021

The Literature of Children Who Raise Themselves and Demand Justice

The Literature of Children Who Raise Themselves and Demand Justice

"Children witness parental and social failure and compensate for them, survive, raise each other, raise themselves [and] try to understand..."

By Una Mannion | January 13, 2021

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | January 11, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Exit Party
  • Fallow
  • Our Noble Selves
  • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
  • The Newer World
  • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
  • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
  • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
  • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
  • The Rouse

All Epistolary Novels Are Mysteries

By Amy Stewart | January 11, 2021

A Short History of Classic TV’s Most Unusual Investigators

By Keith Roysdon | January 8, 2021

5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read This January

By Lisa Levy | January 8, 2021

The Many and Sometimes Sinister Retellings of Jane Eyre

The Many and Sometimes Sinister Retellings of Jane Eyre

"Reader, I murdered him."

By Rachel Hawkins | January 8, 2021

The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021

The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021

89 mysteries, thrillers, and crime novels to get you through the year.

By Molly Odintz | January 7, 2021

Ten Historical Crime Novels That Trace the History of New York City

Ten Historical Crime Novels That Trace the History of New York City

For a richer, darker vision of New York in centuries past, try a historical novel.

By Stacie Murphy | January 7, 2021

PI Storytelling Through the Ages: Books, Blogs and Podcasts by Real Private Eyes

PI Storytelling Through the Ages: Books, Blogs and Podcasts by Real Private Eyes

If you want to stalk real private investigators and learn their secrets, all you have to do is read, listen, and subscribe.

By Kim Green | January 6, 2021

Ten Classic Crime Novels That Have Just Entered the Public Domain

Ten Classic Crime Novels That Have Just Entered the Public Domain

From Agatha Christie to Theodore Dreiser

By Olivia Rutigliano | January 6, 2021

10 Novels You Should Read This January

10 Novels You Should Read This January

The month's best in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | January 5, 2021

Passing Noir: Nine Novels That Explore Secrecy and Deception in Racial Identity

Passing Noir: Nine Novels That Explore Secrecy and Deception in Racial Identity

Race, identity, and secrecy intersect in these powerful novels.

By Zach Vasquez | January 5, 2021

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