Proving that I don’t actually care about my never-really-shrinking-TBR-list is this list of new releases that are on my radar for 2024.
From authors I’ve read (and loved) before:
Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
The Work by Bri Lee
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
Table for Two by Amor Towles
Fourteen Days edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston
You Are Here by David Nicholls
One Another by Gail Jones
Hurdy Gurdy by Jenny Ackland
For the superb covers alone…
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour
Thanks For Having Me by Emma Darragh
Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski
There’s Going to Be Trouble by Jen Silverman
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
Thunderhead by Miranda Darling
For something light/ funny/ thrilling:
The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
All Fours by Miranda July
The Divorcées by Rowan Beaird
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
Not my usual thing but I’m curious:
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
Liquid, Fragile, Perishable by Carolyn Kuebler
Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
Nonfiction/ Memoir:
Splinters by Leslie Jamison
Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
The Manicurist’s Daughter: A Memoir by Susan Lieu
Just Friends by Gyan Yankovich
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Did I Ever Tell You? by Genevieve Kingston
Dead Weight by Emmeline Clein
The Pulling by Adele Dumont
Deep Water by James Bradley
What’s on your radar? What have I missed?
I’m waiting to hear from Transit Lounge who provided so many of my top reads from last year, but also Stephen Orr’s Shining Like The Sun because I love his stuff.
I’ll be interested to see what you make of Helen Oyeyemi’s new one. Not a lot of authors defeat me, and she gets lots of good PR, but I had no idea what she was on about in Gingerbread…
What an interesting and varied collection.Intriqued by Fourteen Days..short stories?and You Are Here.Is that David Nichols of Starter for Ten fame?
Just because we will never finish all the books on our TBR doesn’t mean we shouldn’t add to it!
I liked the book Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid but I am more eager to read Long Island by Colm Tóibín. The Amor Towles book is short stories which I don’t usually like, although I am curious. I am sure he is now busy considering what classic author will be his next muse!
I suppose it is inevitable that Salman Rushdie would write about being attacked. I don’t think I would read it but I will be interested to see what others think.
I am reading a book about a 17th century widow who falls in love with a Jewish doctor from Portugal, much to the distress of both families. It has a lovely cover which doesn’t have anything to do with the plot (as yet) but would certainly make me pick it up. When I worked in publishing we met weekly and had nonstop arguments about covers. My boss would say contemptuously to the poor art director, “I told you I wanted a big book look!” and he would say miserably that he had tried to design one.
Wishing you a Happy New Year!
Constance
No!!!!!!! I do not need you to act as my enabler 🤣🤣🤣 I already have an apartment full of unread books… it’s like living in a shop. lol. However, I am most excited about the new Toibin, especially as it is a follow up to Brooklyn, which I adored and which helped me come to terms with my own dislocation at the time…
Last year I was waiting for Praiseworthy, the year before for Jane Rawson and Claire Coleman; this year, nothing, I haven’t been paying attention, though I am sure books will continue to leap out at me – why else read blogs.
I’ll join you in the queue for the Toibin, Towles and Nicholls. I’ve read the Oyeyemi which is very idiosyncratic but I enjoyed it.
Not really waiting for anything… too much to read from my pins, but I’m sure I’ll end up reading some of these.
Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour has such a fun cover. I’ll wait for your review. A couple of these are on my TBR, too. Happy New Year!
I plan to read the Reid and Fourteen Days. I’m reading The Paris Novel for an early review and it’s enjoyable so far.