My Top 10 New and Upcoming Books
It's a new year (a new decade, even!) so there are lists of new and upcoming book releases everywhere. To help narrow it down (or maybe just to add to the noise), here are my top ten:
1. Topics of Conversation (Miranda Popkey, 7 January)
Twenty years in the life of a narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life, composed almost exclusively in conversations between women.
2. Imaginary Museums (Nicolette Polek, 14 January)
A collection of short stories set in a gently unsettling realm.
3. Children of the Land (Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, 28 January)
The true story of the author’s migration from Mexico, a testament to the ways in which US immigration policy fractures lives.
4. Show Them a Good Time (Nicole Flattery, 28 January)
A collection of short stories of pitch-black humour and deep, disquieting sorrow.
5. Interior Chinatown (Charles Yu, 28 January)
A metafictional send-up of Asian American tropes.
6. A Beautiful Crime (Christopher Bollen, 28 January)
A literary thriller which tacks between Venice’s soaring aesthetic beauty and its imminent tourist-riddled collapse.
7. Indelicacy: A Novel (Amina Cain, 11 February)
A cleaning woman at an art museum dreams of a life where she is free to do nothing but write about art - until she gets it, and it turns out to be not exactly what she imagined.
8. Amnesty (Aravind Adiga, 18 February)
Over the course of one day, a young illegal immigrant must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder and thereby risk deportation.
9. Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today (Rachel Vorona Cote, 25 February)
Combines cultural criticism, theory, and storytelling to encourage women to reconsider the beauty of their excesses.
10. Writers & Lovers (Lily King, 3 March)
The pleasure of this novel comes from walking alongside Casey, a waitress clinging to dreams of becoming a writer, in her everyday life.
What are you looking forward to reading this year? Which new and upcoming book releases have caught your eye? If you're looking for even more inspiration, I picked my top ten from this enormous list over at Lit Hub. Happy reading!
1. Topics of Conversation (Miranda Popkey, 7 January)
Twenty years in the life of a narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life, composed almost exclusively in conversations between women.
2. Imaginary Museums (Nicolette Polek, 14 January)
A collection of short stories set in a gently unsettling realm.
3. Children of the Land (Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, 28 January)
The true story of the author’s migration from Mexico, a testament to the ways in which US immigration policy fractures lives.
4. Show Them a Good Time (Nicole Flattery, 28 January)
A collection of short stories of pitch-black humour and deep, disquieting sorrow.
5. Interior Chinatown (Charles Yu, 28 January)
A metafictional send-up of Asian American tropes.
6. A Beautiful Crime (Christopher Bollen, 28 January)
A literary thriller which tacks between Venice’s soaring aesthetic beauty and its imminent tourist-riddled collapse.
7. Indelicacy: A Novel (Amina Cain, 11 February)
A cleaning woman at an art museum dreams of a life where she is free to do nothing but write about art - until she gets it, and it turns out to be not exactly what she imagined.
8. Amnesty (Aravind Adiga, 18 February)
Over the course of one day, a young illegal immigrant must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder and thereby risk deportation.
9. Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today (Rachel Vorona Cote, 25 February)
Combines cultural criticism, theory, and storytelling to encourage women to reconsider the beauty of their excesses.
10. Writers & Lovers (Lily King, 3 March)
The pleasure of this novel comes from walking alongside Casey, a waitress clinging to dreams of becoming a writer, in her everyday life.
What are you looking forward to reading this year? Which new and upcoming book releases have caught your eye? If you're looking for even more inspiration, I picked my top ten from this enormous list over at Lit Hub. Happy reading!
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