If December was a time for various and sundry "best of year" lists, then perhaps January is the time to list the forthcoming releases that intrigue, if not excite, particular readers/reviewers. Below are a list of books, mostly culled from a recent post on The Millions, that I plan to read before the year is done:
Edit: Titles I've since purchased/received will be bold if read, italics if not yet read. Links to reviews provided. Also will add certain titles as applicable.
January:
Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea
Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow
Ben Marcus, Leaving the Sea
Jesse Ball, Silence Once Begun
Okey Ndibe, Foreign Gods, Inc.
Daša Drndić, Trieste (also read the Croatian edition, Sonnenschein)
Simon Ings, Wolves
Dave Hutchinson, Europe in Autumn
Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready
Joyce Carol Oates, Carthage
Richard Powers, Orfeo
J.M. McDermott, Maze
Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
Marco Magini, Come fossi solo (Italian)
February:
Kyle Minor, Praying Drunk
Kofi Awoonor, The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems 1964-2013
Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans
Marcel Theroux, Strange Bodies
Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation
Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
Adam Wilson, What's Important is Feeling
Anna Hope, Wake
Lorrie Moore, Bark
Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Bella Mia (Italian)
Véronique Bizot, Âme qui vive (French)
March:
Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief
David James Poissant, The Heaven of Animals
Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird
Dinaw Mengestu, All Our Names
David Grossman, Falling out of Time
Karen Russell, Sleep Donation
Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (eds.), The Time Traveler's Almanac (US release; UK release was in 2013)
Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted
Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
D. Foy, Made to Break
Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls
Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World
Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts
Linda Bierds, Roget's Illusion
Phil Klay, Redeployment
Elisa Ruotolo, Ovunque, proteggici (Italian)
Dorothy Tse, Snow and Shadow
April:
Emma Donoghue, Frog Music
Hilda Hilst, With My Dog Eyes
Andrés Neuman, Talking to Ourselves (also read in the original Spanish)
Carlos Labbé, Navidad & Matanza
Max Brooks, The Harlem Hellfighters (graphic novel)
Felix Gilman, The Revolutions
Cara Hoffman, Be Safe I Love You
Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor
Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't: Stories
Evie Wyld, All the Birds, Singing
Paul Kingsnorth, The Wake
Elizabeth McCracken, Thunderstruck & Other Stories
May:
Jeff VanderMeer, Authority
Porochista Khakpour, The Last Illusion
Rivka Galchen, American Innovations
J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and a Commentary
Smith Henderson, Fourth of July Creek
Sean Ennis, Catch Us
Mary Rickert, The Memory Garden
Edmundo Paz Soldán, Iris (Spanish)
Cristovão Tezza, O professor (Portuguese)
Roxane Gay, An Untamed State
Richard Thomas (ed.), The New Black: A Neo-Noir Anthology
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Rose Fox and Daniel José Older (eds.), Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History
Paula Bomer, Inside Madeleine
Frances Hardinge, Cuckoo Song
Niall Williams, History of the Rain
Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Gail Giles, Girls Like Us
Antonya Nelson, Funny Once
June:
Cristina Henríquez, The Book of Unknown Americans
Kyung-Sook Shin, I'll be Right There
Jorge Franco, El mundo de afuera (2014 Premio Alfaguara winner) (Spanish)
Lily King, Euphoria
Kalyan Ray, No Country
Thomas Ligotti, The Spectral Link
Johanna Rakoff, My Salinger Year (memoir)
Corinne Duyvis, Otherbound
Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
Tom Rachman, The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others
July:
Edan Lepucki, California
William T. Vollmann, Last Stories and Other Stories
Lucius Shepard, Beautiful Blood
Can Xue, The Last Lover
Scott Cheshire, High as the Horses' Bridles
Catherine Lacey, Nobody is Ever Missing
Christopher Beha, Arts & Entertainment
Rachel Pollack, The Child Eater
Shane Jones, Crystal Eaters
Josh Weil, The Great Glass Sea
Bryan Lee O'Malley, Seconds (graphic novel)
Spencer Reese, The Road to Emmaus
August:
Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (read it first in Spanish translation, then later in English)
Richard House, The Kills (US release; UK release was in 2013 and longlisted for the Booker Prize)
Ian Cameron Esslemont, Assail
Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land
Kameron Hurley, The Mirror Empire
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
Justin Taylor, Flings
Neil Clarke (ed.), Upgraded: A Cyborg Anthology
Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves
Terry Goodkind, Severed Souls
Howard Jacobson, J
Nina Allan, The Race
Adam Roberts, Sibilant Fricative: Essays & Reviews
Pierre Demarty, En face (French)
Claudie Hunzinger, La langue des oiseaux (French)
Hedwige Jeanmart, Blanès (French)
Nathalie Kuperman, La Loi Sauvage (French)
Christine Montalbetti, Plus rien que les vagues et le vent (French)
Antoine Volodine, Terminus radieux (French)
Valérie Zenatti, Jacob, Jacob (French)
Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
Lydie Salvayre, Pas pleurer (French; won 2014 Prix Goncourt)
September:
Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance
David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
Hilary Mantel, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories
David Cronenberg, Consumed
John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van
Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
Brian Francis Slattery, The Family Hightower
Robert Jackon Bennett, City of Stairs
Kelly Barnhill, The Witch's Boy
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
Ben Lerner, 10:04
Joseph O'Neill, The Dog
Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night
Haikasoru (Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington) (eds.), Phantasm Japan
Ali Smith, How to be Both
Lin Enger, The High Divide
Dylan Landis, Rainey Royal
Michael Pitre, Fives and Twenty-Fives
Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress
Jay Lake, Last Plane to Heaven
Robert Darnton, Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
October:
Keith Donohue, The Boy Who Drew Monsters
Blake Butler, 300,000,000
Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things
Frankétienne, Ready to Burst
Jac Jemc, A Different Bed Every Time
Nuruddin Farah, Hiding in Plain Sight
Julia Elliott, The Wilds
David Nicholls, Us
Angélica Gorodischer, Palito de naranjo (Spanish)
Marilynne Robinson, Lila
Jane Smiley, Some Luck
Johanna Sinisalo, The Blood of Angels
Fábio Fernandes and Romeu Martins (eds.), Vaporpunk: Novos Documentos de uma Pitoresca Época (Portuguese)
David Soares and André Coelho, Sepulturas dos Pais (Portuguese; graphic novel)
November:
Jenny Erpenbeck, The End of Days
Denis Johnson, The Laughing Monsters
Steven Erikson, Willful Child
Ismail Kadare, Twilight of the Eastern Gods
Ron Rash, Something Rich and Strange
Will Self, Shark
Paul Theroux, Mr. Bones
Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem
Mariano Villarreal (ed.), Terra Nova 3 (Spanish)
December:
S. Yizhar, Khirbet Khizeh
Jennifer Marie Brissett, Elysium
This is the list so far. And before some of you start to complain about a perceived paucity of SF/speculative fiction, look up these titles. You might be surprised. Oh, and I didn't list a few titles that don't yet have a confirmed release date from either the publisher or Amazon, thus no listing of Steven Erikson's Fall of Light, which is indeed a book that I will buy whenever it is available in some part of the world.
Edit: Titles I've since purchased/received will be bold if read, italics if not yet read. Links to reviews provided. Also will add certain titles as applicable.
January:
Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea
Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow
Ben Marcus, Leaving the Sea
Jesse Ball, Silence Once Begun
Okey Ndibe, Foreign Gods, Inc.
Daša Drndić, Trieste (also read the Croatian edition, Sonnenschein)
Simon Ings, Wolves
Dave Hutchinson, Europe in Autumn
Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready
Joyce Carol Oates, Carthage
Richard Powers, Orfeo
J.M. McDermott, Maze
Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
Marco Magini, Come fossi solo (Italian)
February:
Kyle Minor, Praying Drunk
Kofi Awoonor, The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems 1964-2013
Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans
Marcel Theroux, Strange Bodies
Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation
Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
Adam Wilson, What's Important is Feeling
Anna Hope, Wake
Lorrie Moore, Bark
Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Bella Mia (Italian)
Véronique Bizot, Âme qui vive (French)
March:
Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief
David James Poissant, The Heaven of Animals
Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird
Dinaw Mengestu, All Our Names
David Grossman, Falling out of Time
Karen Russell, Sleep Donation
Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (eds.), The Time Traveler's Almanac (US release; UK release was in 2013)
Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted
Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
D. Foy, Made to Break
Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls
Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World
Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts
Linda Bierds, Roget's Illusion
Phil Klay, Redeployment
Elisa Ruotolo, Ovunque, proteggici (Italian)
Dorothy Tse, Snow and Shadow
April:
Emma Donoghue, Frog Music
Hilda Hilst, With My Dog Eyes
Andrés Neuman, Talking to Ourselves (also read in the original Spanish)
Carlos Labbé, Navidad & Matanza
Max Brooks, The Harlem Hellfighters (graphic novel)
Felix Gilman, The Revolutions
Cara Hoffman, Be Safe I Love You
Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor
Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't: Stories
Evie Wyld, All the Birds, Singing
Paul Kingsnorth, The Wake
Elizabeth McCracken, Thunderstruck & Other Stories
May:
Jeff VanderMeer, Authority
Porochista Khakpour, The Last Illusion
Rivka Galchen, American Innovations
J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and a Commentary
Smith Henderson, Fourth of July Creek
Sean Ennis, Catch Us
Mary Rickert, The Memory Garden
Edmundo Paz Soldán, Iris (Spanish)
Cristovão Tezza, O professor (Portuguese)
Roxane Gay, An Untamed State
Richard Thomas (ed.), The New Black: A Neo-Noir Anthology
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Rose Fox and Daniel José Older (eds.), Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History
Paula Bomer, Inside Madeleine
Frances Hardinge, Cuckoo Song
Niall Williams, History of the Rain
Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Gail Giles, Girls Like Us
Antonya Nelson, Funny Once
June:
Cristina Henríquez, The Book of Unknown Americans
Kyung-Sook Shin, I'll be Right There
Jorge Franco, El mundo de afuera (2014 Premio Alfaguara winner) (Spanish)
Lily King, Euphoria
Kalyan Ray, No Country
Thomas Ligotti, The Spectral Link
Johanna Rakoff, My Salinger Year (memoir)
Corinne Duyvis, Otherbound
Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
Tom Rachman, The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others
July:
Edan Lepucki, California
William T. Vollmann, Last Stories and Other Stories
Lucius Shepard, Beautiful Blood
Can Xue, The Last Lover
Scott Cheshire, High as the Horses' Bridles
Catherine Lacey, Nobody is Ever Missing
Christopher Beha, Arts & Entertainment
Rachel Pollack, The Child Eater
Shane Jones, Crystal Eaters
Josh Weil, The Great Glass Sea
Bryan Lee O'Malley, Seconds (graphic novel)
Spencer Reese, The Road to Emmaus
August:
Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (read it first in Spanish translation, then later in English)
Richard House, The Kills (US release; UK release was in 2013 and longlisted for the Booker Prize)
Ian Cameron Esslemont, Assail
Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land
Kameron Hurley, The Mirror Empire
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
Justin Taylor, Flings
Neil Clarke (ed.), Upgraded: A Cyborg Anthology
Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves
Terry Goodkind, Severed Souls
Howard Jacobson, J
Nina Allan, The Race
Adam Roberts, Sibilant Fricative: Essays & Reviews
Pierre Demarty, En face (French)
Claudie Hunzinger, La langue des oiseaux (French)
Hedwige Jeanmart, Blanès (French)
Nathalie Kuperman, La Loi Sauvage (French)
Christine Montalbetti, Plus rien que les vagues et le vent (French)
Antoine Volodine, Terminus radieux (French)
Valérie Zenatti, Jacob, Jacob (French)
Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
Lydie Salvayre, Pas pleurer (French; won 2014 Prix Goncourt)
September:
Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance
David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
Hilary Mantel, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories
David Cronenberg, Consumed
John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van
Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
Brian Francis Slattery, The Family Hightower
Robert Jackon Bennett, City of Stairs
Kelly Barnhill, The Witch's Boy
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
Ben Lerner, 10:04
Joseph O'Neill, The Dog
Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night
Haikasoru (Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington) (eds.), Phantasm Japan
Ali Smith, How to be Both
Lin Enger, The High Divide
Dylan Landis, Rainey Royal
Michael Pitre, Fives and Twenty-Fives
Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress
Jay Lake, Last Plane to Heaven
Robert Darnton, Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
October:
Keith Donohue, The Boy Who Drew Monsters
Blake Butler, 300,000,000
Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things
Frankétienne, Ready to Burst
Jac Jemc, A Different Bed Every Time
Nuruddin Farah, Hiding in Plain Sight
Julia Elliott, The Wilds
David Nicholls, Us
Angélica Gorodischer, Palito de naranjo (Spanish)
Marilynne Robinson, Lila
Jane Smiley, Some Luck
Johanna Sinisalo, The Blood of Angels
Fábio Fernandes and Romeu Martins (eds.), Vaporpunk: Novos Documentos de uma Pitoresca Época (Portuguese)
David Soares and André Coelho, Sepulturas dos Pais (Portuguese; graphic novel)
November:
Jenny Erpenbeck, The End of Days
Denis Johnson, The Laughing Monsters
Steven Erikson, Willful Child
Ismail Kadare, Twilight of the Eastern Gods
Ron Rash, Something Rich and Strange
Will Self, Shark
Paul Theroux, Mr. Bones
Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem
Mariano Villarreal (ed.), Terra Nova 3 (Spanish)
December:
S. Yizhar, Khirbet Khizeh
Jennifer Marie Brissett, Elysium
This is the list so far. And before some of you start to complain about a perceived paucity of SF/speculative fiction, look up these titles. You might be surprised. Oh, and I didn't list a few titles that don't yet have a confirmed release date from either the publisher or Amazon, thus no listing of Steven Erikson's Fall of Light, which is indeed a book that I will buy whenever it is available in some part of the world.
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Silence Once Begun is amazing. Praying Drunk is also quite excellent. Im excited about Boy, Snow, Bird and, of course, the Murakami.
Great to hear, as I enjoyed his previous work. Only read one of Minor's short stories, but it was good enough to get me to want to read Praying Drunk as well. Lots to look forward to this year, no? :D
You might want to add The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton - an atmospheric work set in 1686 Amsterdam. Amazing writing, great imagery, and a slightly surreal aspect made for an incredible read.
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