Tome for the Holidays: 7 New Reads for Every Bookworm on Your List

Turn the page on your holiday shopping with some of the season’s hottest reads, guaranteed to please the bibliophiles on your list.

For fiction fanatics … 

Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty returns with Nine Perfect Strangers, about a novelist who finds herself among a group of guests who get more than they bargained for during a stay at a health resort, while a ruthless writer who steals others’ stories to fuel his own fame lies at the heart of A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne, acclaimed author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

For the frustrated sleuth … 

Chief Inspector Gamache returns in an attempt to prevent a disastrous drug outbreak while dealing with a bizarre case of executing a stranger’s will in Louise Penny’s latest, Kingdom of the Blind. And Jonathan Lethem’s The Feral Detective marks the author’s first whodunit in nearly a decade — a race to find a missing girl before it’s too late.

For the history buff … 

Multi-award winning historian and biographer Andrew Roberts offers up what some hail as a biographical triumph in Churchill: Walking With Destiny, chronicling the life of one of the 20th century’s most influential figures.

For those who laugh at love … 

From hot and bothered tales of gender equality to steamy scenarios involving job promotions, writers Caitlin Kunkel, Brooke Preston, Fiona Taylor and Carrie Wittmer balance cultural insight with comedy in New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust, and Equal Pay.

For the classical music lover …

In need of a Mozart Monday? Clemency Burton-Hill’s Year Of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day, delivers 365 days of classical composers and the stories behind their captivating tunes.