Books You're Looking Forward To In 2016

[Kylie]

It's time for one of my favourite threads of the year...finding out about all the new releases to look forward to in the next year!

 

I just found out that the fourth book in MRC Kasasian's Gower Street Detective series is coming out in June. It's called The Secrets of Gaslight Lane.

 

Various newspapers will soon be publishing lists of upcoming books. If you find them before me, please post the link! I can't wait to find out what our favourite authors have in store for us.

[Kylie]

The next book in Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant series will also be published in June. It's called The Hanging Tree.

[Onion Budgie]

I have two so far -- although neither of them are novels.  

 

The first is the trade paperback of Midnighter, which is a new superhero comic series.  I don't usually enjoy superhero stuff, but this one appealed to me.  It's coming out in March.

 

The second is Allie Brosh's new collection of cartoons and thoughts, Solutions and Other Problems.  The publication date keeps getting pushed back, so I'm not sure when it will emerge -- but hopefully at some point next year.

[Kylie]

I enjoyed Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half. Thanks for letting me know about the (hopefully) new book!

[Onion Budgie]

I enjoyed Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half. Thanks for letting me know about the (hopefully) new book!

 

I loved Hyperbole and a Half so much that I've bought a copy for my father as one of his Christmas presents this year.  I hope he likes it.  

[Anna Begins]

Brandon Sanderson will complete The Reckoners trilogy with Calamity February 15th.

[Peacefield]

I love this thread too, Kylie!

 

I'm very much looking forward to Alan Bradley's new one, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd.  I'm not sure when it's out in the US, but I have a feeling the info might be over in the Flavia thread...​

 

I'm also anxiously awaiting Tracy Chevalier's new book, At the Edge of the Orchard, which is due out in March.  She is easily one of my favorite authors .

[Anna Begins]

 

I'm also anxiously awaiting Tracy Chevalier's new book, At the Edge of the Orchard, which is due out in March.  She is easily one of my favorite authors .

I plan on The Last Runaway in 2016

[BookShelfy91]

In may next year, the 15th book in the Women's murder Club series - 15th affair now that I am up to date with the series, I am really looking forward to it

 

Shelfy

[bobblybear]

I'm looking forward to The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes who wrote I Am Pilgrim. If it's even half as good as I Am Pilgrim, then we are in for a treat!

[Kylie]

Jonathan Safran Foer has a new fiction book coming out in September. It's called Here I Am. I loved Everything is Illuminated but still have to read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

[Kylie]

Here's an article mentioning some new releases in 2016. I've summarised some of the new books below, but please be sure to check out the link, as there are many I haven't mentioned below.
 
Julian Barnes The Noise of Time (January)
'Set in 1930s Russia, The Noise of Time is about the life of the composer Shostakovich.'
 
Yann Martel The High Mountains of Portugal (February)
'It is about a quest for a lost relic which takes the reader from Africa in the 1600s to contemporary North America.'
 
Jessie Burton The Muse (July)
'The Muse is set during the Spanish Civil War and 30 years later in London. It tells the story of a young Caribbean immigrant and a bohemian artist.'

Stella Gibbons Pure Juliet (January)
A lost novel! 'It tells the story of a teenager who runs away from the life her parents have planned for her.'
 
Philip Norman Macca: The Life of Paul McCartney
'The first full biography written with Paul McCartney's approval and with access to his close family and friends.'
(Kylie says: Wasn't Barry Miles' Many Years from Now authorised by Paul?)

[Anna Begins]

I simply can not wait for a new series by Alison Weir, 6 Tudor Wives, the first is about Katherine of Aragon and comes out May 31st.

In the meantime she will be out with The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Margret Douglas January 12th. 

[Kylie]

The Huffington Post has published a list of 32 great new books being published in 2016. To be honest, I haven't heard of most of the authors, but I was happy to see that China Mieville has a book coming out on 12 January called This Census-Taker.

[Raven]

These are the books currently on my radar:

 

The Silver Tide, by Jen Williams (February/July, depending on which edition I go for!)

Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell (May) - Though need to read The Severed Streets first!

The Hanging Tree, by Ben Aaronovitch (June)

Stiletto, by Daniel O'Malley (also, June)

[chaliepud]

I am looking forward to Ballroom by Anna Hope (Feb), her debut 'Wake' was excellent.

'Half Lost', the third and final book in the Half Bad trilogy is being published at the end of March, I've not enjoyed much YA fiction in the last couple of years but these have been an exception.

 

Another book I am looking forward to is 'Rooms for Lost Souls' by Lezanne Clannachan but the date for publication kept shifting and now Amazon says it doesn't know when it will become available. I need to do some digging as her debut, 'Jellybird' was excellent.

[Talisman]

The two I am most looking forward to are:

 

Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it all: Jonas Jonasson

and of course Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley

 

There are some also on my wish sit that I have been patiently waiting for in paperback that will be out in the first half of the year:

 

Man I Became: Peter Verhelst

The Undesired: Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Quicksand: Steve Toltz

The Mirror World of Melody Black: Gavin Extence

The Heart of Man: Jón Kalman Stefansson (really looking forward to this one)

[Kylie]

Yay! The Guardian has put up its wonderfully long article of new releases by calendar month. Check it out here.

[Kylie]

Ooh, and the Sydney Morning Herald has published its long list as well. There's a bit more of a focus on Australian writing, but also a lot of international stuff.

[chesilbeach]

I'm looking forward to a couple of books coming out in paperback, as they're only in hardback at the moment.  They are Public Library and other stories by Ali Smith (May) and also At Hawthorne Time by Melissa Harrison (April).
 
There are also some new children's books I'm looking forward to ... Perijee and Me by Ross Montgomery and Beetle Boy by M. G. Leonard both due out in March and Strange Star by Emma Carroll due in July.

[chesilbeach]

Yay! The Guardian has put up its wonderfully long article of new releases by calendar month. Check it out here.

 

Just had a look through this one ... Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld jumps out at me!  Not only because it's part of the series of modern retellings of Jane Austen stories which I'm reading, but also I love Sittenfeld's books, so this is a no-brainer for me!

 

Later in the year, I'm extremely pleased to see another Ali Smith novel due in August too.

[chesilbeach]

Here's the list of must reads for 2016 from The Independent

 

EDIT: The page is not accessible at the moment - will check back on website later to see if it becomes available again.

[Athena]

Here's the list of must reads for 2016 from The Independent 

Maybe it's just my computer, but that link doesn't work for me. It tells me "The page isn't redirecting properly".

[chesilbeach]

I think it's a problem at the Independent's website.  I've just gone to their book pages and clicked on the article again and it fails to load now.  I've deleted the link and will check back later on the site to see if it gets sorted out.

[chesilbeach]

Just came across this article on The Pool website - I love how the writer has split the books into various categories, and some interesting books to look out for in there.  I particularly like the look of some of the debut books, and on top of the ones I've already mentioned in this thread, I was reminded that Tracy Chevalier has a new book out next year called At The Edge of the Orchard and I've seen it praised elsewhere too, so I'm definitely going to be reading that one.