Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld Sittenfeld is one of my favourite contemporary novelists. … A gripping psychological thriller … Shakespearean in its wit, drama, and immersion in character.” (NetGalley download) … Robert Lemoine, the enigmatic American billionaire, has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker. “Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group … Natural disaster has created an opportunity, a sizable farm seemingly abandoned. … when she’s invited back to Granby, the elite New England boarding school where she spent four largely miserable years, to teach a course, Bodie finds herself inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws.” (Proof copy)īirnam Wood by Eleanor Catton I was lukewarm on The Luminaries (my most popular Goodreads review ever) but fancy trying Catton again – though this sounds like Atwood’s Year of the Flood, redux. “A fortysomething podcaster and mother of two, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past the murder of one of her high school classmates, Thalia Keith. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai Makkai has written a couple of stellar novels this sounds quite different from her usual lit fic but promises Secret History vibes. Nick will be getting ready to go off to university, so I guess we’ll see how he leaves things with Charlie and whether their relationship will survive a separation. Will this finally be the year? I devoured the first four volumes of this teen comic in 2021. Heartstopper, Volume 5 by Alice Oseman A repeat from my 2022 Most Anticipated post.
“A richly atmospheric saga that charts the repercussions of a scandalous nineteenth century love affair between a young Sámi reindeer herder in the Arctic Circle and the daughter of the renegade Lutheran minister whose teachings are upending the Sámi way of life.” (Edelweiss download) This sounds like a winning combination of The Bell in the Lake and The Mercies. The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen I loved Pylväinen’s 2012 debut, We Sinners. Quotes are excerpts from the publisher blurbs, e.g., from Goodreads. The following are in (UK) release date order, within sections by genre. I’ve already read 14 releases from 2023 (written up here), and I’m also looking forward to new work from Margaret Atwood, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Angie Cruz, Patrick deWitt, Naoise Dolan, Tessa Hadley, Louisa Hall, Leah Hazard, Christian Kiefer, Max Porter, Tom Rachman, Gretchen Rubin, Will Schwalbe, Jenn Shapland, Abraham Verghese, Bryan Washington, Anne Youngson and more, as well as to trying out various debut authors. This list of my 20 most anticipated titles covers a bit more than the first half of the year, with the latest publication dates falling in August.
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