From drama to sci-fi to essays to biographies, readers have plenty of books to look forward to in 2021.
Here's a look at five fiction and five nonfiction books frequently mentioned as among the most anticipated for the first half of the year, with information from their publishers.
FICTION
"The Four Winds"
by Kristin Hannah
Feb. 2, St. Martin's Press
Hannah, the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of "The Nightingale" and "The Great Alone," delivers an epic novel set in the Texas of 1934.
One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. Elsa Martinelli must make an agonizing choice: Fight for the land she loves or go to California in search of a better life.
St. Martin's Press calls the novel "an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation."
"The Echo Wife"
by Sarah Gailey
Feb. 16, Tor Books
Gailey, a Hugo Award-winning and bestselling author, spins a sci-fi love triangle tale with a vengeance.
Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwell's award-winning research. She's patient and gentle and obedient. She's everything Evelyn swore she'd never be. And she's been having an affair with Evelyn's husband. Now, the cheating bastard is dead, and both Caldwell wives have a mess to clean up. Good thing Evelyn is used to getting her hands dirty.
"Klara and the Sun"
by Kazuo Ishiguro
March 2, Alfred A. Knopf
"Klara and the Sun" is Ishiguro's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize for literature in recognition of work such as "Never Let Me Go" and the Booker Prize-winning "The Remains of the Day."
Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully from her place in the store the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her.
"'Klara and the Sun' is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?" according to Knopf.
"Project Hail Mary"
by Andy Weir
May 4, Ballantine Books
A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this new science-based thriller from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of "The Martian."
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission — and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it's up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery — and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
"Malibu Rising"
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
May 25, Ballantine Books
From the New York Times bestselling author of "Daisy Jones & The Six" comes a drama about four famous siblings who throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of 24 hours, their lives will change forever.
By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family's generations will all come rising to the surface.
NONFICTION
"How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" by Bill Gates
Feb. 16, Knopf
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal.
Gates argues that achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
"The Soul of a Woman"
by Isabel Allende
March 2, Ballantine Books
From the New York Times bestselling author of "A Long Petal of the Sea" comes a passionate meditation on what it means to be a woman.
Allende asks what feeds the soul of feminists — and all women — today? Her answers: to be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved. This book, Allende hopes, will "light the torches of our daughters and granddaughters with mine. They will have to live for us, as we lived for our mothers, and carry on with the work still left to be finished."
"The Code Breaker"
by Walter Isaacson
March 9, Simon and Schuster
The bestselling author of "Leonardo da Vinci" and "Steve Jobs" returns with an account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses and have healthier babies.
Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, Doudna helped to make what has been called the most important biological advance since the discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.
"Lady Bird Johnson:
Hiding in Plain Sight"
by Julia Sweig
March 16, Penguin Random House
While no presidential biographer has understood the full impact of Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson's work in the White House, journalist Julia Sweig is the first to draw substantially on Lady Bird's own voice in her White House diaries to place her center stage and to reveal a woman ahead of her time — and an accomplished politician in her own right.
Perhaps the most underestimated First Lady of the 20th century, Lady Bird Johnson was also one of the most accomplished and often her husband's secret weapon. Managing the White House in years of national upheaval, through the civil rights movement and the escalation of the Vietnam War, Lady Bird projected a sense of calm and, following the glamorous and modern Jackie Kennedy, an old-fashioned image of a First Lady.
In truth, she was anything but. As the first First Lady to run the East Wing like a professional office, she took on her own policy initiatives, including the most ambitious national environmental effort since Teddy Roosevelt. Occupying the White House during the beginning of the women's liberation movement, she hosted professional women from all walks of life, encouraging women everywhere to pursue their own careers, even if her own style of leadership and official role was to lead by supporting others.
"The Personal Librarian"
by Marie Benedict
June 1, Berkley Books
From New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray comes the remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J.P. Morgan's personal librarian — who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true.
In her 20s, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J.P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. Belle's complexion isn't dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white — her complexion is dark because she is African American.
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