Start the new year off right with fresh listening. We’re excited about these January releases that include expansive sci-fi from Tochi Onyebuchi, a new novel from Hanya Yanagihara, and essential nonfiction from Zora Neale Hurston, Imani Perry, and more.

CHASING HISTORY: A Kid in the Newsroom
by Carl Bernstein, read by Robert Petkoff
Macmillan Audio
Release date: January 11

Reporter Bernstein (ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN) chronicles how he got his start in the news business.

TO PARADISE
by Hanya Yanagihara, read by Edoardo Ballerini, Catherine Ho, BD Wong, Feodor Chin, Kurt Kanazawa
Random House Audio
Release date: January 11

A new novel from the author of A LITTLE LIFE is a literary event. The epic story spans the years from 1893 to 2093.

I CAME ALL THIS WAY TO MEET YOU: Writing Myself Home
by Jamie Attenberg, read by Xe Sands
Harper Audio
Release date: January 11

A memoir from the author of THE MIDDLESTEINS and ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS. Attenberg crosses the country on book tours (remember those?) and reflects on choosing a life as an artist.

HONOR
by Thrity Umrigar, read by Sneha Mathan
Workman Audio
Release date: January 11

Covering a story, an Indian American journalist returns to India and stumbles into her own love story.

YOU DON’T KNOW US NEGROES AND OTHER ESSAYS
by Zora Neale Hurston, read by Robin Miles
Harper Audio
Release date: January 18

Robin Miles will be an expert guide to these newly collected writings, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Genevieve West.

JOAN IS OKAY
by Weike Wang, read by Catherine Ho
Random House Audio
Release date: January 18

Joan is a Chinese American doctor living and working in New York City when events both personal and global throw her world into upheaval in Wang’s timely novel.

PUTTING THE RABBIT IN THE HAT
by Brian Cox, read by Brian Cox
Hachette Audio
Release date: January 18

Scottish actor Brian Cox, recognizable from many, many films and series, narrates his own memoir.

SOUTH TO AMERICA: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
by Imani Perry, read by Imani Perry
Harper Audo
Release date: January 25

The author of LOOKING FOR LORRAINE offers a very personal story, revisiting her Alabama roots and looking at the state of the South today.

GOLIATH
by Tochi Onyebuchi, read by Adam Lazarre-White, JD Jackson, Kevin R. Free, Shayna Small, Stephanie Willis, Tim Campbell
Macmillan Audio
Release date: January 25

A sci-fi epic set in the Connecticut city of New Haven in the 2050s—when wealthy people are leaving Earth to live in space colonies.

VIOLETA
by Isabel Allende, read Yareli Arizmendi
Random House Audio
Release date: January 25

Violeta Del Valle’s life spans the twentieth century and beyond in this new family saga from Allende.

AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World
by Patrisse Cullors, read by Ariel Blake
Macmillan Audio
Release date: January 25

An essential guidebook for activists from a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement.