Episode 84: Our Most Anticipated Releases from the Last Half of 2024

This week we look ahead to the second half of 2024 and each share the five forthcoming books we’re most excited about . . . along with a few honorable mentions, of course.

Which upcoming books are you most looking forward to?

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Summer Book Club

The book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault. You can start reading it whenever you want to! We have lined up a guest to join us to discuss the book in Episode 86, coming out on August 8. That’s really soon!

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Shownotes

Books

• The Warden, by Anthony Trollope

• Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo, translated by Douglas J. Weatherford

• The Heart in Winter, by Kevin Barry

• Nightboat to Tangier, by Kevin Barry

• Beatlebone, by Kevin Barry

• The City of Bohane, by Kevin Barry

• James, by Percival Everett

• Clear, by Carys Davies

• Canoes, by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Jessica Moore

• There Are Rivers in the Sky, by Elif Shafak

• The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak

• Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr

• The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak

• Marshland, by Otohiko Kaga, translated by Albert Novick

• The Mighty Red, by Louise Erdrich

• The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich

• The Round House, by Louise Erdrich

• The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich

• Plague of Doves, by Louise Erdrich

• LaRose, by Louise Erdrich

• Shadow Tag, by Louise Erdrich

• The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich

• The Painted Drum, by Louise Erdrich

• Herscht 07769, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet

• Satantago, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes

• The Melancholy of Resistance, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes

• War & War, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes

• Seiobo There Below, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet

• The World Goes On, by László Krasznahorkai, translated byGeorge Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet and John Batki

• Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet

• Colored Television, by Danzy Senna

• New People, by Danzy Senna

• Symptomatic, by Danzy Senna

• Caucasia, by Danzy Senna

• Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young

• Seeing Further, by Esther Kinsky, translated by Caroline Schmidt

• Rombo, by Esther Kinsky, translated by Caroline Schmidt

• Grove, by Esther Kinsky, translated by Caroline Schmidt

• River, by Esther Kinsky, translated by Iain Galbraith

• Sister Deborah, by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mark Polizzotti

• The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

• The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods

• The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft

• Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft

• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

• Waiting for the Fear, by Oguz Atay, translated by Ralph Hubbell

• The Pornographer, by John McGahern

• Command Performance, by Jean Echenoz, translated by Mark Polizzotti

• The Stone Door, by Leonora Carrington

• The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant

• Sun City, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal

• We Solve Murders, by Richard Osman

• The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman

• The Plains, by Federico Falco, translated by Jennifer Croft

• A Perfect Cemetery, by Federico Falco, translated by Jennifer Croft

• Children of the Ghetto: Star of the Sea, by Elias Khoury, translated by Humphrey Davies

• Fog at Noon, by Tomás González, translated by Andrea Rosenberg

• The Suicides, by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated by Esther Allen

• The Besieged City, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Johnny Lorenz

• The Voyage Home, by Pat Barker

• A Philosophy of Translation, by Damion Searls

• The City and Its Uncertain Walls, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel

• Tell Me Everything, by Elizabeth Strout

• Every Arc Bends Its Radius, by Sergio de la Pava

• A Naked Singularity, by Sergio de la Pava

• Question 7, by Richard Flanagan

• Is Mother Dead, by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund

• If Only, by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund

• Slave Road, by John Edgar Wideman

• Anima: A Wild Pastoral, by Kapka Kassabova

• Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, by Kapka Kassabova

• Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time, by Kapka Kassabova

• Our Evenings, by Alan Hollinghurst

• Lazarus Man, by Richard Price

• Playground, by Richard Powers

• Clockers, by Richard Price

• Lush Life, by Richard Price

• The Overstory, by Richard Powers

• Bewilderment, by Richard Powers

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