What's Next? discussion

New in 2021
- The Survivors by Jane Harper (Feb 2)
- The Committed (Mar 2) by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Pulitzer for The Sympathizer)
- How Beautiful We Were (Mar 9) by Imbolo Mbue (Behold the Dreamers)
- First Person Singular: Stories (April) by Haruki Murakami
- Whereabouts by Jumpha Lahiri (May 4th)
- The Maidens (June 1) by Alex Michaelides (The Silent Patient)
- Beautiful World, Where Are you (Sept) by Sally Rooney

See link for previews on a few of these:
https://www.thenewsminute.com/article...

May I add

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (2 Mar)
Second Place by Rachel Cusk (May)


Also a list by Newstatesman

https://www.newstatesman.com/best-boo...

The Nguyen, Mbue, and Ishiguro books are also on my watch list. I’d also like to add “The Night She Disappeared” by Lisa Jewell, due out in July 2021.

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah, Feb 2

Also on my radar - The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth, April 13

More new reads coming this year from two of my favorite authors:

Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness (Sept 21). Her last book was A Tale for Time Being.

Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles (Oct 5). His last book was A Gentleman in Moscow.

The list keeps growing. It will be a busy Fall with new books from Pultzer Prize winners:
- Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Sept 14)
- Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land (Sept 28) NB - author of All the Light We Cannot See
- Louise Erdrich, The Sentence (Nov 9)


Goodreads recently published more comprehensive summary:
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2...

I'm looking forward to Alice Hoffman's new book The Book of Magic from the Practical Magic series out in October.