2016 - What I'm Looking Forward to Reading

Nine days into 2016 and I've received some galleys, seen many lists, and began to take notes for books that I really hope to get to during the upcoming year (while also trying to catch up on the books from similar lists in 2013, 2014, and 2015 that I've still not read)!

 

January

Rachel Cantor              Good on Paper (Melville House)                    Novel

Garth Greenwell           What Belongs to You (Sarabande)                 Novel

Amber Sparks                The Unfinished World (Liveright)                  Short Story Collection

 

February

Amy Gustine                 You Should Pity Us Instead (Sarabande)        Short Story Collection

Brian Evenson                A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House)            Short Story Collection

Allison Joseph               Mercurial (Mayapple Press)                        Poetry Collection

 

March

Desiree Cooper            Know the Mother (Wayne State University)    Short Story Collection

Brian Oliu                    I/O: A Memoir (CCM)                                   Non-Fiction

Chris Bacheldor            The Throwback Special (Norton)                  Novel

Danielle Dutton            Margaret the First (Catapult)                        Novel

C. Dale Young               The Halo (Four Way Books)                          Poetry Collection

 

April

Stephen Dixon             Letter to Kevin (Fantagraphics)                    Novel

Tyehimba Jess            Olio (Wave Books)                                        Poetry Collection

Francine J. Harris        Play Dead                                                    Poetry Collection

Jamaal May                 The Big Book of Exit Strategies (Alice James)    Poetry Collection

 

May

Lydia Millet                 Sweet Lamb of Heaven (Norton)                    Novel

Pamela Erens               Eleven Hours (Tin House)                             Novel

Stephen Graham Jones    Mongrels (William Morrow)                        Novel

Jensen Beach              Swallowed by the Cold (Graywolf)                Short Story Collection

 

July

Donald Ray Pollock        The Heavenly Table (Doubleday)                  Novel

 

August

Rosa Likson                    Compartment No. 9 (Graywolf)                   Novel (in translation)

 

September

Matt Bell                        A Tree or a Person or a Wall (Soho)            Short Story Collection

Anne Raeff                     The Jungle Around Us (Georgia Press)         Short Story Collection

Colson Whitehead            The Underground Railroad (Doubleday)        Novel

 

October

Anne Valente                    Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down (Harper)       Novel

 

Now, I'm positive I've missed MANY titles--I don't see Two Dollar Radio, or Unbridled, or Dorothy, or Hobart, or Tyrant, or Engine Books, or The Cupboard, or many other publishers that I love. I also don't see names like Percival Everett (who generally publishes something every year) or the new novels by Richard Russo or Don Delillo on here either though I'm sure I'll want to read them. And there will be dozens of books that I'll stumble onto in stores, or on Facebook or via David Abrahms or other reviewer/readers that I trust. And this says nothing of the Dzanc Books list that I know is forthcoming and is amazing. It should be a great year ahead for reading.

Comments

[John Domini]

Good list but you're missing a June title.