New Books Available in February 2021
New month, new books! February releases are on fire and I am so excited for so many of these titles! Here are 21 books coming out in. February 2021! You’ll want to get on your library holds list ASAP and preorder a bunch of these!
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas—February 16, 2021—Need I say more? We know I’m excited for this one! If you haven’t read the series yet, this is the first book in a spin off series following Nesta, Feyre’s sister.
Four Winds by Kristin Hannah—February 2, 2021—I love Kristin Hannah’s books and I look forward to reading this one ASAP! It’s set in the Dustbowl era and is supposed to be heart wrenching.
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna—February 9, 2021—This cover is so stunning, I can’t get over it! It’s a new fantasy that is on my must read list! It’s about how girls are judged by their blood but can grow into warriors by choice.
Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano—February 2, 2021—I love this cover and this concept, it sounds so fun! A single mother of two and novelist is overheard describing the plot of her new novel and mistaken for a contract killer.
Make Up, Break Up by Lily Menon—February 2, 2021—I read Menon’s Booked for Christmas and got hooked on her writing, so I’m excited for this one! Two clashing App creators find themselves thrust together in this enemies to lovers romance.
The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood—February 2, 2021—I love books set in the 1990’s and this one sounds good as it travels from the 90’s in Pakistan and Iraq to San Francisco in 2016 in the lives of two different families.
Muted by Tami Charles—February 2, 2021—This book sounds similar to Grown, which was one of my favorite books of last year! It follows Denver, who just wants to escape her very white hometown, as she falls into the dark side of the professional music industry,
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado—February 2, 2021—A coming of age story of Charlie, a brown girl growing up in a very white Connecticut suburb. She’s learning to love her body, but her mother’s obsession with her weight isn’t helping.
This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross Smith—February 2, 2021—So many people I trust have raved about this book and I cannot wait to read it! It’s told in dual perspective by a therapist, Tallie, and Emmet, a man who is struggling. Tallie stops him from ending his own life and struggles to create a safe space for him.
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers—February 23, 2021—Okay this book sounds so good, so charming, so heartfelt, so I am going to let the synopsis speak for itself!
“With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that.
This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her parent’s expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows.
In New York, she’s able to ignore all the constant questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wife, Yuki Yamamoto. But when reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she’s been running from all along—the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.” —From the publisher
How the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones—February 2, 2021—I am so excited to read this book. It feels like one of those stories that will fill up your soul. It’s set in a resort town and discusses how class and race intersect while the town rapidly changes.
The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson—Another book where the synopsis speaks for itself!
“It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to—and was forced to leave behind—when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she’d never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past.
Returning home, Ruth discovers the Indiana factory town of her youth is plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair. As she begins digging into the past, she unexpectedly befriends Midnight, a young white boy who is also adrift and looking for connection. Just as Ruth is about to uncover a burning secret her family desperately wants to keep hidden, a traumatic incident strains the town’s already searing racial tensions, sending Ruth and Midnight on a collision course that could upend both their lives.
Powerful and revealing, The Kindest Lie captures the heartbreaking divide between Black and white communities and offers both an unflinching view of motherhood in contemporary America and the never-ending quest to achieve the American Dream.”
Four Hundred Souls by Dr. Ibram X Kendi, Keisha N. Blain—February 2, 2021—There isn’t a more brilliant mind than Dr. Kendi.
“The story begins in 1619—a year before the Mayflower—when the White Lion disgorges “some 20-and-odd Negroes” onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and millions of ordinary lives passing through extraordinary history.
Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume “community” history of African Americans. The editors, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span. The writers explore their periods through a variety of techniques: historical essays, short stories, personal vignettes, and fiery polemics. They approach history from various perspectives: through the eyes of towering historical icons or the untold stories of ordinary people; through places, laws, and objects. While themes of resistance and struggle, of hope and reinvention, course through the book, this collection of diverse pieces from ninety different minds, reflecting ninety different perspectives, fundamentally deconstructs the idea that Africans in America are a monolith—instead it unlocks the startling range of experiences and ideas that have always existed within the community of Blackness.
This is a history that illuminates our past and gives us new ways of thinking about our future, written by the most vital and essential voices of our present.” —From the publisher
A Tip for the Hangman by Allison Epstein—February 9, 2021—I heard about this book from Amber and immediately added it to my list! It’s historical fiction heist following Queen Elizabeth and Kit Marlowe, who was a contemporary of Shakespeare!
A Pho Love Story by Loan Le—February 9, 2021—I think this is going to be a favorite for so many people! Rival families and rival restaurants, enemies to lovers romance, it’s a recipe for success!
A Taste for Love by Jennifer Yen—February 2, 2021—Baking and The Bachelor? Sign me up! I am SO EXCITED to read this one!
Prepped by Bethany Mangle—February 23, 2021—Doomsday preppers don’t seem that far off from how we’re living through the pandemic, huh? An unlikely lovestory from the daughter of doomsday preppers who plots her escape with the boy…from the bunker next door.
Love is a Revolution by Renee Watson—February 2, 2021—2021 covers are out of control beautiful. This is romance where girl meets boy, but she also meets herself and falls in love with who she really is too. Cue my heart strings.
Hot British Boyfriend by Kristy Boyce—February 9, 2021—Public humiliation and heartbreak lead Ellie to flee across the Atlantic to England on a study abroad trip. She soon discovers that the “perfect boyfriend” may not be so perfect for her.
Love is for Losers by Wibke Brueggerman—February 23, 2021—The main character’s name is Phoebe, so I think I NEED to read this book, right? It’s a queer romance that sounds DELIGHTFUL.
A Shot at Normal by Melissa Reichardt—February 14, 2021—Alright, this book might be a miss. I can’t tell if will a good read or not, but I am definitely intrigued by the concept of a girl raised by anti-vaxers who educates herself and makes the choice to vaccinate herself and claim autonomy over her own body.
Any books you can’t wait for this month? I’m loving all the romance and escapism at the moment so I cannot wait to get my hands on these!