The Guardian has a good preview here of books to be published (in the UK anyway) in 2019.
Some that particularly interest me are:
Fiction:
- Tessa Hadley’s Late in the Day – a favourite, who writes about lives that I know or want to know, or have lived.
- Spring by Ali Smith – Problem! I have to read Autumn and Winter first! But I’m getting used to playing catch up.
- Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout – Yes, I have read Olive Ketteridge, sono catching up required here!
- Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys – hopefully a worthy follow up to The Underground Railroad
- Siri Hustvedt’s new book – are there ever enough writing lives?
- A first short story collection from Zadie Smith.
- I love Ian McEwan – from the blurb, Machines Like Me is not necessarily what I would read, but love is love so …
- Margaret Atwood – enough said.
Non-fiction:
- Any bookish sort would find The Library Book from Susan Orlean pretty hard to resist.
- I’m interested in the Bauhaus movement on many levels, so the Gropius biography by Fiona MacCarthy is a must.
- Anything Toni Morrison has to say is okay by me – here a collection of essays.
What I do miss is Hilary Mantel’s final Cromwell instalment, The Mirror and the Light. The Guardian doesn’t seem to have comments running on this, so I did a look around, and at least in the summer Mantel seemed certain of a 2019 publication. Given the enormous interest, I am surprised that there is no news available.