This week we set our sites on 2024! We share our reading plans, hopes, and dreams for the New Year and highlight some of the new releases we can’t wait to add to our shelves. What books are you most excited to read and buy this year?
Giveaway!
We wanted to kick off the New Year with a giveaway! Both of us have read this on and highly recommend it: January, by Sara Gallardo, translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle and Maureen Shaugnessy! Archipelago Books recently released a lovely edition of this.
Enter for a chance to win by sending us an email a DM or in some way letting us know you want to enter! We will put all names in a hat and draw the winner during our morning recording on Saturday, January 20. Good luck!
Shownotes
January, by Sara Gallardo, translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle and Maureen Shaugnessy
A Horse at Night: On Writing, by Amina Cain
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstroy, translated by Anthony Briggs
Can You Forgive Her?, by Anthony Trollope
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West
The Fortune of the Rougons, by Émile Zola, translated by Brian Nelson
Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy
The Orchard Keeper, by Cormac McCarthy
The Outer Dark, by Cormac McCarthy
Child of God, by Cormac McCarthy
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
Metamorphosis, by Ovid
Miss Mackintosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young
The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark
Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence, by Avril Horner
The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History, by Manjula Martin
The Book of Love, by Kelly Link
Your Utopia, by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
James, by Percival Everett
Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, by Leslie Jamison
Clear, by Carys Davies
The Children of the Dead, by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Gitta Honegger
The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Traces of Enayat, by Iman Mersal, translated by Robin Moger
Blue Lard, by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton
Red Pyramid and Other Stories, by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton
Lesser Ruins, by Mark Haber
The Unforgivable: And Other Writings, by Cristina Campo, translated by Alex Andriesse
Carson McCullers: A Life, by Mary V. Dearborn
Love Novel, by Ivan Sajko, translated by Mima Simić
The Brush, by Eliana Hernández-Pachón, translated by Robin Meyers
American Abductions, by Mauro Javier Cárdenas
Knife, by Salman Rushdie
Parade, by Rachel Cusk
Gliff, by Ali Smith
Rhine Journey, by Anne Schlee
Wind and Truth, by Brandon Sanderson
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, by Beth Brower
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