Read the First Chapter of N. K. Jemisin's Next Novel

Author N. K. Jemisin is the first person to win the Hugo Award for best novel three years in a row. She did this for the three books of her Broken Earth trilogy. I can't comment much on the books, as I have not read them yet (they're in the queue on my Kindle), but I think that's a good enough recommendation.

She has a new book coming out later this month, The City We Became, which is the first book in an urban fantasy trilogy set in New York. You can read the first chapter for free online.

He forgets his own name somewhere in the tunnel to Penn Station.

He doesn’t notice, at first. Too busy with all the stuff people usually do when they’re about to reach their train stop: cleaning up the pretzel bags and plastic bottles of breakfast, stuffing his loose laptop power cord into a pocket of his messenger bag, making sure he’s gotten his suitcase down from the rack, then having a momentary panic attack before remembering that he’s only got one suitcase. The other was shipped ahead and will be waiting for him at his apartment up in Inwood, where his roommate already is, having arrived a few weeks before. They’re both going to be grad students at—

—at, uh—

—huh. He’s forgotten his school’s name. Anyway, orientation is on Thursday, which gives him five days to get settled into his new life in New York.

I'm already hooked.