Quiz: Plan Your Perfect New Year’s Eve Celebration and Get A 2023 Book Recommendation

You should read Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert. Bradley Graeme and Celine Bangura are ex–best friends. They hang out with totally different crowds and don’t have much to say to one another outside of exchanging insults. But fate brings them back together when they have to work as co-competitors in an outdoor survival competition. Will they be able to work together and win?

You need to read one of the most highly anticipated horror novels of 2023, How to Sell A Haunted House by Grady Hendrix. Siblings Louise and Mark Joyner are totally different from each other and basically never speak. But when their parents die at the end of the coronavirus pandemic, Louise and Mark are forced back together to get their childhood home on the market. But there’s something weird about the house. Before their parents died, they taped newspaper over the mirrors and nailed the attic door shut. And that’s just the beginning of the disturbing events Mark and Louise will experience in that house.

Your book for 2023 should be this thrilling historical fiction novel: Daughters of Victory by Gabrielle Saab. Svetlana Petrova is a revolutionary who was imprisoned for years. When she is released from prison in 1917, she discovers that her beloved uncle was murdered by a mysterious assassin who blinds her victims before she kills them. And Svetlana resolves to avenge his death. Decades later, in 1941, Svetlana is living in a remote village and meets her 18-year-old granddaughter Mila Rozovskaya for the first time. In Mila, Svetlana recognizes that same passionate idealism that she displayed in her youth. As Mila joins the resistance against the Nazis, dangerous secrets and old enemies resurface.

Does a fun psychological thriller set in Hawaii sound appealing to you? Check out Someone Else’s Life by Lyn Liao Butler. Annie Lin’s life is falling apart. First, her dance studio goes bankrupt. Then her mother dies. And her dog dies. And her son gets into an accident. Annie is desperate for a fresh start, and she thinks Kauai could be just that for her and her family. But then unexplainable things start happening, and a strange woman shows up on Annie’s doorstep one stormy night.

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the book for you. This dystopian novel is set in a world where a controversial program called the Criminal Action Penal Entertainment (CAPE) allows prisoners to fight to the death for their freedom. Chain-gang all-star Loretta Thurwar is only a few fights away from winning her freedom. But will the system ever really allow her to be free?