The ABA named Maid by Stephanie Land its No. 1 pick for January. Sample it now in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter, along with Elizabeth McCracken’s Bowlaway and Alex Michaelides’ The Silent Patient, both Indie Next picks for February. The rest of the list:
Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli
Go Ahead in the Rain, by Hanif Abdurraqib
The Collected Schizophrenias, by Esme Weijun Wang
Deep Creek, by Pam Houston
The Last Romantics, by Tara Conklin
The Girls at 17 Swann Street, by Yara Zgheib
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, by Marlon James
The Current, by Tim Johnston
The Age of Light, by Whitney Scharer
Leading Men, by Christopher Castellani
The Only Woman in the Room, by Marie Benedict
The Lost Girls of Paris, by Pam Jenoff
Golden Child, by Claire Adam
When You Read This, by Mary Adkins
The Weight of a Piano, by Chris Cander
You Know You Want This, by Kristen Roupenian
The Falconer, by Dana Czapnik