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Our Top 10 books of January 2025

Add “acclaimed author” to Brooke Shields’ list of accomplishments! The actor’s new memoir made our list of the best books of the month, alongside standout titles by Mary Balogh and Nnedi Okorafor.
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Author-illustrator Kari Percival’s Safe Crossing is an exciting, informative call to action for budding scientists and environmental activists.

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Karissa Chen’s Homeseeking is both a love story and a family story, capturing the ever-present yearning for “people, people who shared the same ghosts as

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Remember When by Mary Balogh is a quietly enchanting story of second-chance love in the Regency period.

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Laughter about the Lai siblings’ antics in Remy Lai’s semi-autobiographical novel Chickenpox will be as contagious as chickenpox was in the ’90s.

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We can never resist a book within a book, and Nnedi Okorafor (Who Fears Death, She Who Knows) has pulled one off brilliantly here: Though

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Sara Sligar’s Vantage Point is an entertaining literary companion to shows like Succession, but also a chilling warning about the rise of deepfake technology.

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Zeinab Badawi’s incredible An African History of Africa should be studied in every school across the West.

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At 14, Brooke Shields was the youngest model ever to appear on the cover of Vogue. She grew up in public, and now, at 59,

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Part engrossing memoir, part page-turning detective story and part mesmerizing biography, The Secret History of the Rape Kit is a bold, feminist history of a

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Cathartic and moving, Mother of Rome reimagines the myth of Romulus and Remus by placing their mother, Princess Rhea Silvia, center stage.

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