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What better way to celebrate the new year than by checking out one of January’s hottest reads?

Here are the 20 to have on your radar.

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Scribner; Little, Brown and Company; Atria Books; Harry N. Abrams; Imprint

The obsession worsens, and the stakes turn dangerous.

But a juicy bonus lurks for fans: a new, wide-ranging interview withSopranoscreator David Chase.

And in it, he just might shed some light on that perennially controversialfinal scene.

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Penguin Books

The latter has already calledThick"transgressive, provocative, and brilliant."

(ThinkThe Handmaids Taleset on the outskirts of Gilead.)

Expect new blood to be shed.

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Dutton

She finds it in the life (and potential unfinished, unknown project) of a deceased author.

But early word is this may rank among the best in that ever-popular subgenre.

(As to whom, that remains under wraps.)

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Scribner

Bardugo fans probably don’t want to miss this one.

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Scribner

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Little, Brown and Company

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Harry N. Abrams

Mesha Maren, Sugar Run Publisher: Algonquin Books

Algonquin Books

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The New Press

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Catapult

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Doubleday

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Random House

Madhuri Vijay, The Far FieldPublisher: Grove Press

Grove Press

You Know You Want This by Kristen RoupenianCredit: Scout Press

Scout Press

Tim Johnstone, The Current

Algonquin

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Little, Brown and Company

The Falconer by Dana Czapnik

Atria Books

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Imprint

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Redhook

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Little, Brown and Company