The Guardian: Books to read 2019

The Guardian has a good preview here of books to be published (in the UK anyway) in 2019.

Guardian books 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.

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