Hi, folks,

Here are some forthcoming books that are on my radar for 2021, listed in chronological order by publication date:

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My Most Anticipated Books

January: 

• A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders (nonfiction)
• Let Me Tell You What I Mean, by Joan Didion (nonfiction)
• An I-Novel, by Minae Mizumura, tr. Juliet Winters Carpenter (This is on my Winter TBR)

February:

• In Memory of Memory, by Maria Stepanova, tr. Sasha Dugdale
• Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

March:

• Hot Stew by Fiona Mozley

April:

• Everybody by Olivia Laing (nonfiction)
• Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, by Gail Crowther (nonfiction)
• The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pymby Paula Byrne (nonfiction)
• The High House by Jessie Greengrass
• Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
• Look! It’s a Woman Writer! Irish Literary Feminisms, 1970-2020, ed.Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

May:

• Second Place by Rachel Cusk
• Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Hannah Arendt, by Samantha Rose Hill (nonfiction)
• Real Estate by Deborah Levy (nonfiction)
• Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser, by Susan Bernofsky (nonfiction)

June:

• The Wife of Willesden, by Zadie Smith
• To Write as If Already Dead, by Kate Zambreno (nonfiction)
• Nobody, Somebody, Anybody: A Novel, by Kelly McClorey

July:

• Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann (nonfiction)

August:

• The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
• The Luminous Novel, by Mario Levrero, tr. Annie McDermott)
• Occupation by Julián Fuks, tr. Daniel Hahn

September: 

• Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett
• On Freedom by Maggie Nelson (nonfiction)
• The Magician by Colm Tóibín
• Oh, William! by Elizabeth Strout

October:

• Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
• Another Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse, tr. Damion Searls

November:

• Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
• Brickmakers by Selva Almada, tr. Annie McDermott

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Other books that caught my eye:

January:

• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez, tr. Megan McDowell
• Violeta Among the Stars by Dulce Maria Cardoso, tr. Ángel Gurría Quintan
• Asylum Road, by Olivia Sudjic
• The Death of Francis Bacon, by Max Porter (nonfiction)
• The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin
• Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
• Brief Lives of Idiots, by Ermanno Cavazzoni, tr. Jamie Richards
• Nora by Nuala O’Connor
• The Limits of My Language: Meditations on Depression by Eva Meijer, tr. Antoinette Fawcett (nonfiction)
• Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America by Eddie S Glaude Jr (nonfiction)
• Rein Gold, by Elfriede Jelinek, tr. Gitta Honegger

February:

• Havana Year Zero by Karla Suárez, tr. Christina MacSweeney
• Poetics of Work by Noémi Lefebvre, tr. Sophie Lewis
• Rabbit Island by Elvira Navarro, tr. Christina MacSweeney
• Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay (nonfiction)
• Keats by Lucasta Miller (nonfiction)

March:

• The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández, tr. Natasha Wimmer
• Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal, tr. Jessica Moore
• Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi
• How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
• Inventory of a Life Mislaid by Marina Warner (nonfiction)
• The Gun, the Ship and the Pen by Linda Colley (nonfiction)

April:

• Civilisations by Laurent Binet, tr. Sam Taylor
• My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
• An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures, by Clarice Lispector, tr. Stefan Tobler
• Enchantment of the Virtual, by Gilles Châtelet, various translators (nonfiction)
• Philip Roth by Blake Bailey (nonfiction)
• Fifty Sounds, by Polly Barton (nonfiction)
• Heaven by Mieko Kawakami, tr. Sam Bett and David Boyd
• Antiquities by Cynthia Ozick
• The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner (nonfiction)
• Blot from the Blue, by Jeremy Cooper

May:

• Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell

June: 

• Animal, by Lisa Taddeo

July:

• Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, tr. Frances Riddle
• The Year, by Tomas Espedal, tr. James Anderson

August:

• Dante by Alessandro Barbero (nonfiction)
• Can the Monster Speak?, by Paul B. Preciado (nonfiction)

September:

• Matrix by Lauren Groff
• Greek Myths by Charlotte Higgins (nonfiction)

October: 

• The Thing That Changes Everything by Jennifer Egan
• Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück (poetry)
• This Book Is a Song by Jarvis Cocker (nonfiction)

November:

• Byobu by Ida Vitale, tr. Sean Manning
• Silent Catastrophes: Essays on Literature by WG Sebald, tr. Jo Catling (nonfiction)

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My previous lists: 2020 | 2019 | 2018

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That’s it for now, folks! What are your most anticipated book releases?

Yours truly,

J.

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