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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