New Year’s resolutions are meant to be harsh and unforgiving, but who wants to start off the year feeling dour or Puritanical? Maybe, for now, you’re on the straight and narrow, and maybe you’re doing an admirable job of it. But even the saints among us need an outlet now and then. Why do we have writers around if not to help us imagine what it’s like to live as someone who’s different from ourselves? The bad boys and girls in these 10 books will let you slip into some naughty, scandalous lives—people who willingly disappear (or are disappeared), cads, philanderers, murderers—you know the types. Just make sure you wake up as your resolution-abiding self in the morning.
FICTION
Released: Feb. 7, 2013
"Nicely done--and you may never look at doctors the same way again."
Atmospheric New England supernaturalism from not-Stephen King, but a latter-day disciple who deservedly earns the master's praise.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 22, 2013
"Now we know what happens to all those SNL sketches that Lorne Michaels shoots down."
FICTION
Released: Jan. 15, 2013
"Black's tempered pace and moody vulnerability creates a rich debut: both sensitive and sensational."
In this contemporary Southern gothic, a young artist returns home to Galveston, Texas, and uncovers a century's worth of sordid secrets.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 15, 2013
"Satisfies from start to finish."
FICTION
Released: Dec. 24, 2012
"As exhaustingly inventive and jokey as Dan's debut. Think of the entire first season of True Blood on fast forward."
Another full caseload for Dan Shamble, the zombie detective who was just warming up when he solved his own murder in
Death Warmed Over (2012).
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 4, 2012
"A captivating tale of an oft-overlooked, morally ambiguous moment in American history."
An exploration of the violent downfall of Little Crow's Dakota nation at the hands of American soldiers.
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