There will be more of these, but to whet your appetite:
- Arabic Literature (in English) lists 15+ Books to Look for in 2013 (translated from the Arabic). I'm looking forward to the Gamal al-Ghitani and Yousef al-Mohaimeed titles, in particular
- Bookmunch has 50 Books We're Looking Forward To in 2013 -- from a UK perspective, and unfortunately annoyingly spread out over several pages (hence I didn't get very far with this one) .....
- At his Conversational Reading weblog Scott Esposito has begun collecting Interesting New Books - 2013; for now, it's still pretty rudimentary, but the page will certainly be worth revisiting as it fills out. (Several of the listed titles are already under review at the complete review: A Hunt for Optimism by Viktor Shklovsky, Adam in Eden by Carlos Fuentes, and the classic Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau -- though the new edition he means does indeed sound worth getting (see the New Directions publicity page), even if you have the old one.)
I haven't really looked ahead yet to what's coming out, but among the obvious highlights to look forward to are:
- Arabic Literature (in English) lists 15+ Books to Look for in 2013 (translated from the Arabic). I'm looking forward to the Gamal al-Ghitani and Yousef al-Mohaimeed titles, in particular
- Bookmunch has 50 Books We're Looking Forward To in 2013 -- from a UK perspective, and unfortunately annoyingly spread out over several pages (hence I didn't get very far with this one) .....
- At his Conversational Reading weblog Scott Esposito has begun collecting Interesting New Books - 2013; for now, it's still pretty rudimentary, but the page will certainly be worth revisiting as it fills out. (Several of the listed titles are already under review at the complete review: A Hunt for Optimism by Viktor Shklovsky, Adam in Eden by Carlos Fuentes, and the classic Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau -- though the new edition he means does indeed sound worth getting (see the New Directions publicity page), even if you have the old one.)
I haven't really looked ahead yet to what's coming out, but among the obvious highlights to look forward to are:
- Tirza by Arnon Grunberg -- my book of the year in 2009, and finally coming out in English
- Seiobo There Below by Krasznahorkai László (pre-order your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk)
- Volume two of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle (to be published as A Man in Love in the UK); see the complete review review of the first volume, and the Archipelago publicity page for volume two (pre-order your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk)