Saturday, January 5, 2013

Mark your literary calendars for the first half of 2013!

Here are some things I am looking forward to in the first half(-ish) of the coming year:


  • The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier (January)
  • The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan (January)
  • American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson (January)
  • The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout (March)
  • Bone and Bread by (Montrealer!) Saleema Nawaz (March)
  • Nocturne by Helen Humphreys (March)
  • A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam (March)
  • Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg (March)
  • Z by Therese Anne Fowler (March)
  • The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (April)
  • The Dark by Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen (April)
  • All That Is by James Salter (April)
  • Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (April)
  • Maya’s Notebook by Isabel Allende (April)
  • The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud (April)
  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (May)
  • And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (May)
  • Big Brother by Lionel Shriver (June)
  • The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes (June)
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (June)
  • Night Film by Marisha Pessl (August)

2 comments:

  1. Definitely some on my list here!
    Have you heard about the new novel by Sidney Poitier? It's called Montaro Caine and is coming out in May. Sounds intriging.

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  2. No! Sounds interesting..... I wonder how to classify it? Sounds part sci-fi, part mystery, but also a bit of a crossover....!

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