The best new books to read in February 2024 feature new books by bestselling and award-winning authors including a collaborative novel, literary fiction and historical fiction, memoirs, and a must-read how-to on super communicators. Curl up with a good book this February with these 10 new highly anticipated February books. Available to purchase now or preorder, these are the most anticipated books of February 2024.

The Best New Books To Read In February 2024

1. Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel

Release Date: February 6

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice—from Margaret Atwood and Celeste Ng to Tommy Orange and John Grisham.

2. The Women by Kristin Hannah

Release Date: February 7

From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah’s The Women―at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.

3. Normal Women by Philippa Gregory

Release Date: February 13

A landmark work of scholarship and storytelling, Normal Women chronicles centuries of social and cultural change–from 1066 to modern times–powered by the determination, persistence, and effectiveness of women.

4. The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang

Release Date: February 13

From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles.

5. The Book of Love by Kelly Link

Release Date: February 14

In the long-awaited debut novel from bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.

6. Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story by Leslie Jamison

Release Date: February 20

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.

7. Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg

Release Date: February 20

From the bestselling author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life.

8. Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

Release Date: February 27

Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.

9. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher

Release Date: February 27

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.

10. Grief Is For People by Sloane Crosley

Release Date: February 27

Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley’s memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend.

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