5 New Books That Are So Good, You Won't Even Realize It's Winter Outside

The stand-up comedian and star of Girls Trip gets candid about her rough childhood as a foster kid in South Central Los Angeles, her stint as the school mascot, and dealing with misogynistic men (including a cheating ex-boyfriend) in a brutally honest and hilarious collection of essays. 

The author and EVP of Time Warner returns with a new novel about a New York neurologist named Magnus and the three women who defined his life: his pianist mother, his fiancé, and his comatose patient. 

Maude Julien's chilling memoir describes the horrifying abuse she suffered as a child at the hands of her controlling father, who believed that punishing experiences like swimming in freezing cold water and sitting still in a dark basement filled with rats would turn her into a "superior being" in post-World War II France. 

Set in the titular village of North Yorkshire, England, and told from the POV of a teenage boy named Daniel, Elmet follows his bare-knuckle fighting father, gutsy sister, and their complicated life in a remote area of the woods where their mother grew up.

Fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train will no doubt enjoy this fast-paced thriller, which centers on a reclusive 38-year-old child psychologist who suffers from agoraphobia and spends her days drinking and pill-popping in her New York City townhouse until she witnesses a stabbing in her neighbor's living room.