The responses to this thread are cheering me right up. Thank you from a rainy night in NYC that is turning out to be inspiring and cozy rather than bleak.
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton, Medicine River by Mary Annette Pember, and of course, the previously mentioned Trauma Plot and Dream Hotel. Pantheon’s spring list is an embarrassment of riches ✨
Oh yes, thank you so much for sending me Medicine River, which I am looking forward to starting into very soon. It is so necessary. Putting the link here for anyone who's following along (and will investigate the Hare as well).
Ahem, mine, but also Kyle Paoletta’s AMERICAN OASIS, Sarah Chihaya’s BIBLIOPHOBIA, and Eve L. Ewing’s ORIGINAL SINS for a few other winter 2025 titles!
Your book is going to fill such a need. Putting the link here to remind myself to preorder and for anyone else who's interested in the history of orphans in this country. And thanks for the other recs!!
Effie Calvin just announced that she's working on another Tales of Inthya book, and those are so incredibly my jam; fluffy but at the same time serious sapphic fantasy with romance and adventure!
Thank you! I didn't realize a new Kitamura is on the way—exciting. Putting this link here so I remember to preorder Audition, and will look up Sinner (relevant to my interests!!!) shortly.
I loved THE OTHER AMERICANS and THE MOOR'S ACCOUNT is one of the books I looked to while starting work on my own historical novel, so this was a no-brainer, really.
New true crime as societal analysis titles from @leahsottile.bsky.social and @elongreen.bsky.social and the Mark Hoppus memoir co-authored by @danozzi.bsky.social, all coming March/April!
I've been waiting THREE YEARS for this one, and it's finally coming next month... I'm absolutely ECSTATIC!!!
Heavenly Tyrant, sequel of Iron Widow, by @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social
Yesss so looking forward—I have an arc of Elon's amazing looking book here in my short stack (and got to hear a tiny bit about it while it was in progress)!
(Love UT Press—The Ancient Roman Afterlife was published truly right in time for me and my book research. I had been delving for years in search of something so comprehensive on the subject.)
Oh that’s so great to hear, Maud! I always love the stories of how a book like that—very small print run, very significant scholarship—finds its way and makes such a significant impact on different people in ways we as the publisher could never account or plan for.
I definitely couldn't have written my book in the way that I did if it hadn't been for university press books like that one! (As my copious endnotes attest! 😂)
Can't pick, here are three in order of pub date:
Jane Pek's THE RIVALS (out! next! week!)
Erika Swyler's WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON
Hache Pueyo's BUT NOT TOO BOLD
The second book in Joseph O'Connor's Rome Escape Line trilogy (coming in Feb). I just really loved My Father's House and I'm looking forward to the character that the sequel will center.
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Katabasis by RF Kuang
Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
Goddess Complex by Sanjena Sathian — I loved her novel Gold Diggers
A/S/L
by Jeanne Thornton
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This thread is giving me something to look forward to next year, which I dearly needed.
Heavenly Tyrant, sequel of Iron Widow, by @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social
One that I’m not: Fernando Flores’ new novel BROTHER BRONTË.
Jane Pek's THE RIVALS (out! next! week!)
Erika Swyler's WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON
Hache Pueyo's BUT NOT TOO BOLD
The Dry Season by @melissafebos.bsky.social
Audition by
@katiekitamura.bsky.social
V13 by Emmanuel Carrere
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735986/submersed-by-matthew-gavin-frank/
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Ghosts-of-Rome-by-Joseph-OConnor/9798889660620