Books To Look Forward To in 2011

Everyone is busy writing or sharing their favorite books of 2010 list, but I’m already thinking about all of the books coming out next year that look interesting, or that I’ve already read and loved. Here is a very incomplete list.

January

• The Diviner’s Tale by Bradford Morrow
• The Still Point by Amy Sackville
• The Melting Season by Jami Attenberg

February

• Swamplandia by Karen Russell
• The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier
• The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein
• The Correspondence Artist by Barbara Browning
• Townie by Andre Dubus III
• The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard
• Other People We Married by Emma Straub
• The Gospel of Anarchy by Justin Taylor
• Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind by Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley, Jr.
• Pacazo by Roy Kesey
• The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale
• We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen
• West of Here by Jonathan Evison

March

• The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
• Volt by Alan Heathcock
• My Ruby Slippers by Tracy Seeley
• When Tito Loved Clara by Jon Michaud
• So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman
• Otherwise Known As the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer
• You Think That’s Bad by Jim Shepard
• The Architect of Flowers by William Lychack
• Galore by Michael Crummey

April

• The Long Goodbye by Meghan O’Rourke
• The Bee-Loud Glade by Steve Himmer
• One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman
• Reading My Father by Alexandra Styron
• If You Knew Then What I Know Now by Ryan Van Meter
• There Is No Year by Blake Butler
• The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert
• Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb by George Rabasa
• The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
• The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories by Joan Aiken
• Fire Season by Philip Connors
• The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure

May:

• The Burning House by Paul Lisicky
• The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson
• The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak
• Giller prize-winning novel The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud will be published in America by W.W. Norton
• The Fires Beneath the Sea by Lydia Millet
• In This Light by Melanie Rae Thon

June:

• The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
• The Astral by Kate Christensen
• My American Unhappiness by Dean Bakopoulos

July:

• I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Steve Earle

August:

• The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson

In addition to the books listed above, here’s a great list Scott Esposito put together over at Conversational Reading.