MY HAPPY LIFE Lydia Millet (Holt, $20, on sale Jan. 9) Despite a lifetime of neglect and physical abuse, the simple heroine of Millet's third novel sees joy and possibility in the darkest of corners. She'd flip for the gushy Rick Moody blurb.

THE FACTS OF LIFE AND OTHER DIRTY JOKES Willie Nelson (Random House, $21.95, on sale Jan. 8) The country singer gets behind the music, sharing stories from the road and his early days in small-town Abbott, Texas.

MORE, NOW, AGAIN Elizabeth Wurtzel (Simon & Schuster, $25, on sale Jan. 17) From the best-selling author of Prozac Nation and Bitch comes another memoir of dysfunction, this time about her battle with drug addiction. atom rich The Mighty Mite hits the big time in a new collection