Best New Books: Week of February 2, 2021

The following books, published this week, received starred reviews in Booklist. Want to read our starred reviews before the books go on sale? Subscribe to Booklist!

Adult Fiction

★ Annie and the Wolves, by Andromeda Romano-Lax

★ The Bad Muslim Discount, by Syed M. Masood

★ Beneath the Keep, by Erika Johansen

★ City of a Thousand Gates, by Rebecca Sacks

★ The Dead Hours of Night, by Lisa Tuttle

★ The Devil’s Harmony, by Sarah Rayne

★ Fake Accounts, by Lauren Oyler

★ The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah

★ Girl A, by Abigail Dean

★ Good Neighbors, by Sarah Langan

★ Land of Big Numbers, by Te-Ping Chen

★ Milk Fed, by Melissa Broder

★ My Year Abroad, by Chang-rae Lee

★ On Fragile Waves, by E. Lily Yu

★ Ridgerunner, by Gil Adamson

★ The Sanatorium, by Sarah Pearse

★ The Survivors, by Jane Harper

★ The Unwilling, by John Hart

★ When Twilight Breaks, by Sarah Sundin

Adult Nonfiction

★ An Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering, by Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen

★ Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal, by Mark Bittman

★ Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph, by Chad Sanders

★ Fish out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life, by Eric Metaxas

★ Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019, by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

★ Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, by Analee Newitz

★ Leave Out the Tragic Parts: A Grandfather’s Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction, by Dave Kindred

★ Mike Nichols, by Mark Harris

★ The Scaffold Effect: Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant, and Secure Kids in an Age of Anxiety, by Harold S. Koplewicz

★ The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation, by Anna Malaika Tubbs

Youth Fiction

★ Follow That Frog, by Philip C. Stead and illustrated by Matthew Cordell

★ Ground Zero, by Alan Gratz

★ Love Is a Revolution, by Renée Watson

★ The Midnight Fair, by Gideon Sterer and illustrated by Mariachiara Di Giorgio

★ Milo Imagines the World, by Matt de la Peña and illustrated by Christian Robinson

★ Muted, by Tami Charles

★ The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. (as Told to His Brother), by David Levithan

★ A Place to Hang the Moon, by Kate Albus

★ The Project, by Courtney Summers

★ Red, White, and Whole, by Rajani LaRocca

★ Sydney & Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World, by Jacqueline Davies and illustrated by Deborah Hocking

★ The Year I Flew Away, by Marie Arnold

★ Wolfboy, by Andy Harkness

★ Yesterday Is History, by Kosoko Jackson

Youth Nonfiction

★ Chickenology: The Ultimate Encyclopedia, by Barbara Sandri and Francesco Giubbilini and illustrated by Camilla Pintonato

★ Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Floyd Cooper

★ We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance, by Deborah Hopkinson