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Get Lost in the Pages of 2021’s Most Highly Anticipated New Books

THERE IS MUCH TO ANTICIPATE in the new year, and the thought of getting out and about is not the least of them. But until social distancing is a distant memory, you can still snuggle up with a good read. Enjoy the rare pleasure of turning the crisp pages of some of these intriguing books coming out in the first half of the year. Newsweek has chosen some of the best new fiction and nonfiction for your reading pleasure.

FICTION

People We Meet on Vacation

By Emily Henry

MAY | BERKLEY | $16

The author of the widely praised is back with a witty and satisfying trip of a book, where two best friends take a final vacation together and try to determine whether they’re really just friends. Henry manages to make the age-old story of friends-to-lovers entirely surprising and exciting.

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