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Another year, another batch of new books to look forward to. If your plans for this year involve reading more, we’ve got you covered.

Whether you are a ‘bookworm’ or not, this article is for you as it will highlight some of the most popular books to read in the coming months.

It’s 2023 and that means a lot of new everything, including books. But getting your hands on the right book isn’t always easy. With a little digging, Our Today was able to come up with a pretty interesting list, including local and international books that you might want to read if you’ve not already done so.

Fall in love with reading again with this list of interesting and uplifting books we have put together for you.

Below are just a few of the bookings that you may want to check out.

Local books

Lady With Power: Dominate Your Fears to Execute Your Vision by Okema Watson

This book will challenge the mindset that you are not good enough to fulfil your goals. With each chapter, you will begin to clearly see that, without a doubt, you have the potential to become a woman of power, passion and purpose.

As a daughter of God, Watson knows that the key to executing your vision is to unlock the resurrecting power that resides in you and create a spiritual filtration system that will help you to dominate your fears and doubts plus overcome the crippling tendencies created by past failures, mistakes and negative thoughts about the future.

This debut publication encourages that, once you recognise the role of the Holy Spirit in your life as a believer, you will realise that you have access to a Kingdom power that can propel you into a life of abundance, peace, and victory.

The power to dominate your struggles and accomplish your goals already resides in you. It’s time to activate it!

My Brand Compass: The 13Cs To Building Your Personal Brand by Dr Terri-Karelle Reid

My Brand Compass: The 13 Cs to Building Your Personal Brand is the first book for media personality Dr Terri-Karelle Reid and among the latest projects to motivate and inspire.

Drawing on authentic personal reflections from being one of Jamaica’s most loved media personalities, and professional experience working with global brands and events, this book is the essential guide to unlocking your best self now.

The self-written and self-published book shares Reid’s 13-point blueprint that has helped people and brands deliver real influence, build purposeful communities, and demonstrate thought leadership.

Dear Insecurity by Crystal Daye

Are you ready to release self-doubt so you can impact lives with your God-given gifts? Do you believe deep down that you are called for more, but you think you aren’t brave enough to go after the big dreams God has placed on your heart?

Well, Crystal Daye can certainly relate. For many years, she knew she was called to make an impact, but feelings of inadequacy (imposter syndrome) crippled her, until she got a revelation of who God has called her to be.

Dear Insecurity will teach you how to discover your gifts, get unstuck, tap into your God-given potential and start believing that you too can make a difference in the world, regardless of personal or perceived limitations. Say BYE to insecurities and let YOUR Transformation Begin!

Chat ‘Bout! by Shelly Sykes-Coley

Written in patwa, Chat ‘Bout! celebrates all things mundanely Jamaican. The anthologoy is unfiltered, honest and funny, it examines the idiosyncrasies of everyday Jamaican life – the good, the bad and the ugly.

The author takes you on a journey through Jamaica, past and present.

Get lost while reminiscing down memory lane, grab a copy and be thoroughly entertained as you look back on old-time Jamaica.

Struggles of the Mind by Chevonnette Henry

As humans, we all experience struggles of the mind in some form or another.

No matter how mild or severe your mental struggle is, in this book, you are sure to find representation and validation for what you are experiencing as it explores a wide range of mental challenges such as post-traumatic stress disorder, feelings of entrapment, abandonment, loneliness, grief, loss, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, social anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia etc.

You are guaranteed to leave feeling normal and relieved from a sense of being heard, understood, and realising that you’re not alone. It will bring you hope, peace and the courage to cope during your darkest times.

International Books

Unbroken by Trisha Bailey

Bailey plans to use this book to tell all with the hopes of helping others. This riveting story, told cinematically on its pages, will take you through an intense journey of a woman’s triumph.

The true story of Dr Trisha Bailey is a book that will touch those overcoming trauma, searching for an answer or walking on their path to success.

Spare by Prince Harry

Prince Harry’s anticipated memoir Spare has been touted as an “honest and captivating personal portrait” of a person the public has seen grow up but has only recently been getting to know on an intimate level.

For the first time, Prince Harry tells his own story, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. A landmark publication, Spare is full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.

Spare covers the death of his mother, Diana, and why he left the royal life behind with his wife, Megan Markle.

River sing me home by Eleanor Shearer

This debut novel tells the story of one mother’s journey across the Caribbean to find her five stolen children in the aftermath of slavery.

The story follows the woman, Rachel, on her journey, searching for her children from Barbados to British Guiana to Trinidad.

It’s definitely gripping and one of those touching books about family and trying to find family and loved ones through a difficult and uncertain time.

Exiles by Jane Harper

If you are a Jane Harper fan you won’t be disappointed with the new tale which revolves around the mystery of a missing mother deep in Southern Australian wine country.

With her natural skill, Harper braids the past and the present together into a seamless narrative that keeps you turning the pages.  

If you are an avid reader you’ll know that there’s always more seething below the surface than is readily apparent and relationships are more complicated than they seem at first glance.

If you want to find out what happens with this mother, grab a copy of the novel and get lost in this dynamic story.

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

This narrative revolves around a blue-blooded Brooklyn family, following two sisters and their sister-in-law.

The story gives an inside view of the generationally wealthy family alongside an outsider’s perspective from a woman with a middle-class background who joined it by marriage.

While we can’t all relate to having millions of dollars, there’s something completely relatable about the dysfunctionality of the family, which is, for the most part, trying to do their best in the world and figuring out how to figure out their place in the world, their place of privilege, and societal obligation.

The novel is fun, it’s heartwarming, it’s totally enthralling, and chances are it will be a big book this year.

Now that you know some of the books to look forward to for 2023, it’s time to get lost in one of them. Happy reading!