January saw three highly-anticipated new releases crack the top 20,
no doubt thanks to pre-publication hold queues: Laura Dave’s The
First Time I Saw Him (#4, published January 6), Alice Feeney’s My
Husband’s Wife (#17, January 20), and Freida McFadden’s Dear
Debbie (#20, January 27).
Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation (2021) surged back to
#16 after the Netflix film adaptation began streaming on Jan. 9,
2026.
Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl—a 2020 self-published LitRPG
breakout later acquired by Ace Books—returned to prominence with a
2026 reissue.
Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary, published in 2021, continues to
rise ahead of a big-screen adaptation, to be released on March 20.
By our stats, library usage is up 27% from December 2025.
Here’s the full list:
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
The Widow by John Grisham
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About by Mel Robbins
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
The Intruder by Freida McFadden
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Gone Before Goodbye by Harlan Coben
Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Nash Falls by David Baldacci
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden
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