Monday, January 05, 2015

Top 10 most anticipated novels of 2015

Washington Post -  January 3

Chances are my favorite book in 2015 will be by somebody I haven’t heard of yet. (In 2014, it was “Fourth of July Creek,” by debut novelist Smith Henderson.) But still, it's hard not to get excited by the prospect of reading these upcoming books by some of the most celebrated writers in the world. So, with all the usual caveats about unhatched chickens, here’s a list of the 10 most eagerly anticipated novels of 2015:


February: Nick Hornby’s Funny Girl . This one’s not “About a Boy;” it’s about a young woman who becomes a BBC sitcom star in the 1960s.

February: Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread . Baltimore’s beloved Pulitzer Prize winner has been publishing novels for 50 years. This one traces a family over four generations.

March: T.C. Boyle’s The Harder They Come . Boyle has long been one of the most exciting and intelligent storytellers in the United States. His upcoming novel describes a mentally ill young man involved with a group of violent anarchists.

1 comment:

The Phantom Paragrapher said...

Some good titles here, I really should read some more NZ fiction. I tend to find the majority of NZ books a bit blaise for my liking. I run the book review blog The Phantom Paragrapher @ www.thephantomparagrapher.blogspot.com and am a fellow New Zealander hailing from Tauranga where I work as a librarian also.