Get ready for your leading moment, Capricorn. But then again, you’re always ready, prepared, dependable. With your signature determination combined with good old-fashioned hard work, success seems to naturally follow you.

Born between December 22 to January 19, you're the most ambitious in the zodiac, making for a natural leader who demands the best from everyone. You can be cautious, reserved, and sometimes set in your ways, but your tender side reveals sensitivity and patience. The last Earth sign in the zodiac is associated with the sea goat, a resilient creature with a tough exterior.

As a Capricorn, you have a taste for stories that reflect your grounded nature. Books that are rooted in reality will appeal to your practicality and desire to knowledge. As a traditionalist who values loyalty and family, you’ll eagerly soak up stories that explore deep emotional bonds and the complexities of family dynamics. With your strategic mind, you thrive on problem-solving, so mysteries and thrillers will be your perfect companion.

Find a book horoscope below for Capricorn, and subscribe to stay up to date on predictions for next month’s star sign.

Creation Lake by Rachel Cushner
🎧 Audiobook

Capricorns will appreciate this propulsive page-turner for its calculated protagonist, a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France.

By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
🎧 Audiobook

Reading about determined, ambitious, resilient characters will resonate with goats who are exactly that.

An inspiring novel about two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—who are both forced to hide behind another name.

The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez
🎧 Audiobook

This powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal will be a win with Capricorns who’ll celebrate the grit, determination, and quiet strength of those who built greatness from the ground up—values that mirror their own steadfast climb toward success.

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
🎧 Audiobook

Another famous Capricorn, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
🎧 Audiobook

This goal-oriented sign will be drawn to Newport’s thoughtful, strategic approach to work and his groundbreaking philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload.

Colored Television by Danzy Senna
🎧 Audiobook

Capricorns will love any story that will challenge them or provoke thought, like this brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial complex.

The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
🎧 Audiobook

An "evocative read and a powerful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism" (People) set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran will appeal to this sign that values the pursuit of justice against formidable odds.

Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
🎧 Audiobook

This fresh take on a classic story will make Capricorns question the tales they’ve been told, and root for girls to break down the constructs of the world around them.

You Are Here by Dave Nicholls
🎧 Audiobook

The sea goat’s desire for purposeful, well-considered choices are reflected in this a bittersweet and hopeful love story of first encounters, second chances, and finding the way home.

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

In this story, much to a Capricorn’s delight, precision and control define success. A young man named Tom Ripley is hired to retrieve a wealthy playboy from Italy, but his growing obsession with the man's lifestyle leads him down a dark path of deception and murder.

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