My most anticipated books coming out in 2024 📚 | 16 book recommendations
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- 2024 publishing schedules are being locked in... which means lots of books to get excited about! Here I talk through 15 books I'm looking forward to slated for 2024, plus a bonus longshot/wish/prayer 😉
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Books mentioned:
📖 Mongrel, by Hanako Footman
📖 The Night Alphabet, by Joelle Taylor
📖 The Dark Side of Skin, by Jeferson Tenório (translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato)
📖 Butter, by Asako Yuzuki (translated by Polly Barton)
📖 Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
📖 The Fruit of the Dead, by Rachel Lyon
📖 The Borrowed Hills, by Scott Preston
📖 James, by Percival Everett
📖 Fast by the Horns, by Moses McKenzie
📖 Great Expectations, by Vinson Cunningham
📖 The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley
📖 Long Island Compromise, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
📖 Toward Eternity, by Anton Hur
📖 Rare Singles, by Benjamin Myers
📖 Playground, by Richard Powers
📖 Our Evening, by Alan Hollinghurst
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Off topic, but just wanted to say today I finished reading your previously mentioned "Still Life" by Sarah Winman. Looooooooooooooooooooooooved it! Such a wonderful cast of characters with such beautifully poetic prose. One of those books that is feel good without being saccharine sweet. Would have never heard of it without watching your vlog, so thanks, Ben!
So pleased you loved it - a truly wonderful book! With any luck we'll get a new Sarah Winman soon as well 🤞
Very excited about the Joel Taylor loved c+unto and othered poems
I have such high hopes for it!
“I’m tentatively perched to jump on…” needs to be added to the official booktube lexicon. This is what I say now. Excellent list, Ben. Thank you for your bookish public service.
I am always tentatively perched 😂 Excitement but also aware I might face crushing disappointment, haha.
Thank you so much for watching! 🙏
Martyr is now on my TBR, I'd never heard of it before this - thanks Ben!
My most anticipated on your list is Anton Hur's Toward Eternity! Sounds right up my street!
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Oooh glad to bring that one to your attention - I will be reading it shortly and will report back!
And YES Toward Eternity sounds so good doesn't it. 100% my cup of tea.
Martyr! and James are both so good!
I absolutely trust your opinion so I am BUZZING to get to them 🙌
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!@@benreadsgood
I thought about it when seeing your ig story, but I think Mongrel and The Night Alphabet sound fascinating - so you might as well get to them right away 😜 But then again, so does the rest tbf…
Happy for you that you’ve got some of these at hand 🙌✨ And Myers and Powers back later this year - what a treat. Hope you enjoy them all! Looking forward to the reviews 🫶
It is a tough life when you've got too many great things to choose between 😅 Myers and Powers dropping one month after the other... I'm excited for autumn!
Have you seen American Fiction (movie)? It's playing in theaters in the US right now. It's based on Percival Everett's novel "Erasure" and it's fantastic!
One of my favorites from 2023, along with Polite Society and Saltburn.
Matt and I have been working our way through the Oscar contenders, and American Fiction is one of the last ones on our list! (Along with The Colour Purple, The Holdovers and The Zone of Interest.)
Super excited but definitely want to read the book first!
Thanks, Ben!🌷I’m looking forward to hearing more about James and The Playground (loved The Overstory and have Bewilderment on my shelves, which I would like to read first). I’m also intrigued by Hollinghurst. I’ve recently read The Sparsholt Affair alternating the book with the audio version narrated by David Dawson. It worked beautifully!
Oooh you must get to Bewilderment. It's such a gem!
And that's super interesting alternating a book between print and audio. I've only ever done one or the other but am considering 'both at the same time' for Tom Lake, but alternating is an interesting idea. Guess it allows you to easily continue with the story in lots of different scenarios.
I'm excited about James by P. Everett. Donna Tartt??? Oh, I hope so!!!!
Praying for Donna! 🙏 It's been so long.
I have Martyr on Netgalley so excited to read it ❤Excited for James too. Great list Ben, thank you for sharing them with us 😊
Thanks Charlie! Hope Martyr! is a win for the both of us ❤️
I want to read Butter so bad!! That cover is so awesome and the synopsis, when I heard about it coming out in the lists last month I have it on my top five list of books I need to get through this year :)
It sounds so good doesn’t it! Definitely could be a WILD ride 🔪
Playground sounds interesting and Ive got Myrter on my TBR! Thanks for sharing.
Tea Obreht has a novel coming out this year as well. She wrote The Tigers Wife amd Inland.
Oh how exciting - someone actually offered me a copy of The Tiger's Wife they didn't need anymore recently, so maybe I'll give that a go first and see if I like Obreht's style!
Reading Martyr right now and amazed by it so far.
Have Netgalley eArc of Martyr & reading it this week
Yay, so glad to hear positive things about it. Can't wait to get to it, just trying to get through some books in the right order for some upcoming videos, and some other ones that I need to read and review before release 😅
I'm trying to read from my shelves...so not sure why I clicked here. Bugger! It's like I've shot myself in the foot, so many excellent looking books! I'm just reading Cuddy now so I'm up for some more Myers. Also, just finished North Woods and already craving some more nature writing so Powers new one is high on my list. Yet to get to The Trees, so might hold back on Everett's but I know I want to read his work sometime soon. Looking forward to hearing about what you think of the others.
Ahhh I apologise! If it helps, I can be a screener for you and let you know if these are worth reading 😅
The Trees is really great so would highly recommend giving it a go!
Butter and The Ministry of Time both sound brilliant, neither I’d heard of so thank you! I’m excited for both David Nicholls and Elif Shafak’s new books 😊
Oooh yes - I haven't read a David Nicholls since Us, but I still fondly remember my experience reading One Day! Glad to put those two on your radar. Thanks for watching 🙏
Clear by Carys Davies is one I am very excited about!
It's so good! I ended up leaving off books I had already read, as they've had (or will shortly have) some airtime on the channel, but Clear is an absolute banger. Carys Davies is also doing an event at my local bookshop soon and I'm considering getting a ticket as I'd love to hear her talk about it.
The Borrowed Hills sounds interesting and is set for a June release here in Canada
Glad it’s not too much of a long wait then - just a couple of months after the UK release!
"Spidey Sense tingling". Not a mental image I needed.
Great titles recommended. Hopefully the library gets a few of them.
I'll be checking them out either way.
Anticipated : The Trials of Empire (Richard Swan), The Book That Broke the World (Mark Lawrence) and A Short Walk Through a Wide World (Douglas Westerbeke).
Haha it's a Spiderman reference, keep your mind out of the gutter 😂
Thanks for sharing your list of anticipated titles. I haven't heard of those ones, but will keep an eye out!
I predict Fruit of the Dead for the Women's Prize Longlist. They seem to like to have at least one book that won't be available to read yet at the time of announcement, and if it's a sort of mythology retelling? Yeah, for sure 😆 Seriously though, I'm looking forward to James, and Butter sounds fab 😄 But my most anticipated book is Gliff by Ali Smith coming in July!
It could well stand a chance! There are also some other interesting retellings like Julia which might edge it out, but I'm so excited to find out... not long to go!
I've struggled with Ali Smith in the past, but I really respect her ambition. And I love that it's going to be part of a duology. We should have more duologies!
@@benreadsgood I'm looking forward to Julia. I'm doing the whole Big Brother trifecta. I'm currently reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, to be followed by a re-read of 1984, and then I'll get to Julia.
I read James via Netgalley & publisher letting me review this pre publication. Am sure it will be on my Top 10 for 2024. I loved it, hope wins the Booker this year.
I'm so thrilled to hear that. There's been such a chorus of love for the book and I am sooooo excited to get to it.
Great list, BEN! I hadn't heard about Toward Eternity. The blurb sounds really intriguing. Anton Hur is a name I keep hearing about. Didn't he translate Counterweight? Have you read that yet? Also have the ARC to Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar, and it's a top priority on my TBR. (The US cover is better than the UK one lol). I have two more suggestions for you. OURS by Phillip B. Williams, and My Friends by Hisham Matar. They're both major titles here. I share your deep anticipation for James by Percival Everett and Playground by Richard Powers. What about the new Elizabeth Strout book, Tell Me Everything?
I haven’t read Counterweight but he did translate it! He seems so prolific in his translation work so it’s very cool that he’s managed to squeeze in writing his own novel. I love the premise so I hope it does it justice.
The less said about the UK cover for Martyr! the better 👀
Ours sounds fab but it’s ENORMOUS so I am not committing until I hear more, and My Friends missed out on this list only because I was so late with it… I didn’t want to include any books already released!
Definitely interested in the new Elizabeth Strout, but we’re not getting it in the UK until 2025 😢
Great selection, thanks! I don’t think I’m capable of really choosing 😅
Some other new releases I’m excited about (I’m certain there are typos so pls ignore!) that I jotted down from Rainier Books:
She and Her Cat (stories) by Makoto Shinkai and Amariki Nagakawa
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer
Come & Get It by Kiley Reid
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida
The summer We Crossed Europe in Rain by Kazuo Ishiguro
Thanks for sharing!
Goodnight Tokyo is one I'm super interested in, but I don't think Europa have announced a UK release yet (assuming they have the rights to it over here as well). Hopefully an announcement will come soon!
I didn't realise there was a new Ishiguro on the way 😱 Is it a novel or something else?
Martyr! is out here on Tuesday. I think I might go to Barnes & Noble later to see if I can snag it early. Other than that, one of my most anticipated is Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez. Her first novel, Olga Dies Dreaming, was one of my favorites of 2022.
Ooh that's a good pick - I still haven't read Olga Dies Dreaming, but saw Xochitl Gonzalez pop up on the Pultizer finalists for (I think) some journalism this year, and it made me wonder about her future Pulitzer fiction prospects.
@@benreadsgood Olga is good on audio. That's how I read it.
I was just thinking the same about Tarte recently. I am hoping for her return!
Prayer circle for Donna to save 2024! 🙏
A new book from Alan Hollingsworth !!!! I’ve read all his books. I’m a big fan.
I have The Storm We Made on pre order. I also want to read Greta and Valdin.
I haven’t read any and I need to catch up!
Listened to The Storm We Made the other week so will be sharing a review in my next wrap-up! Hearing good things about Greta & Valdin but really can’t tell what sort of book it is supposed to be from the marketing. Interested to hear more when more people have read it.
prayer circle in the comments, ahahaha amazing ♥️ manifesting a new Donna Tartt and Sarah Waters novel every damn day!
Great Expectations sounds so good! LOVE a good state of the nation novel, thanks so much!!
All we can do is hope and pray and pray and hope 🙏
Great Expectations sounds great doesn't it!!! I'm also loving the cover art, which is giving my Prophet Song vibes so it feels like it could be angling for the Booker 👀
Thus far I’m most excited about Playground , but James is up there too. Also not of your list Private Rites , but I vaguely remember you not loving Our Wives Under The Sea ? I’m a booktube junkie though, so highly possible I’m mixing up my tubers 😵💫😳📖🪱💚
Yeah if Playground lives up to its promise, it may well be top of the list for me!
I did enjoy Our Wives, and there was a version of this list that included Private Rites, but it was getting too long and ended up getting the chop 😅
I loved The Overstory but Bewilderment did not work for me. I am keen to read the upcoming book to break the impasse. There were Donna Tartt rumours around a year or two ago and no result, but I'd be straight on the bandwagon if a new book appeared.
Oh no, that’s a shame about Bewilderment! It’s an all-time fave for me. Hope Playground can tip the scales.
Fingers crossed for Donna 🤞🏻
You have James already?! I'm jealous. I can't wait for that one. The Night Alphabet, Butter and Martyr all sound so good. I'm also waiting for the 2024 new releases of Kate Atkinson, Morgan Talty and Elizabeth Strout. Fingers crossed for Donna Tartt and Sarah Waters!
I did have to do some begging 😂 But super grateful and can't wait to get to it!
Only just heard about the new Strout, and sounds so exciting that she's bringing all the characters into one book. Don't think we're getting it in the UK until 2025 though, sadly!
Oooh interesting selection. Mongrel I have on preorder, the finished cover is a stunner. Fruit of the Dead sounds amazing. Snap on The Night Alphabet, Butter, Martyr.
Gorgeous isn't it! I'm also loving the Fruit of the Dead cover... not only for the painting, but also being able to get away with some cheeky nip on display 😂
Love Percival Everett. I am Not Sidney Poitier is soooooo good.
That’s one of his people don’t talk about so much, so I’m glad to hear it’s good! It’s great that there is so much backlog to discover.
Why does Alan Hollinghurst look like Paul Hollywood?
Hahahah Matt actually said the same thing when I was editing 😂
Wonder what you have to do to get a Hollinghurst handshake...
@@benreadsgood glad it wasn't just me 😂