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Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading & Maybe Reviewing

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Here are some books I’m looking forward to reading and possible reviewing. What upcoming books are you eager to read?

Rawi Hage
Carnival: A novel
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (June 17, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0393072428
ISBN-13: 978-0393072426

Mark Slouka
Brewster: A novel
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (August 5, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0393239756
ISBN-13: 978-0393239751

Robert Pinsky
Singing School : Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (August 5, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0393050688
ISBN-13: 978-0393050684

Alexander Maksik
A Marker To Measure Drift: A novel
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf (July 30, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0307962571
ISBN-13: 978-0307962577

Peter Orner,
Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge: Short stories
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (August 6, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0316224642
ISBN-13: 978-0316224642

Carolyn Cooke
Amor and Psycho: Stories
Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf (August 6, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0307594742
ISBN-13: 978-0307594747

Paul Yoon
Snow Hunters: A novel
Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (August 6, 2013)
ISBN-10: 1476714819
ISBN-13: 978-1476714813

Patricia Engle
It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris: A novel
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Grove Press (August 6, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0802121519
ISBN-13: 978-0802121516

Rick Bass
All the Land to Hold Us: A novel
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (August 13, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0547687125
ISBN-13: 978-0547687124

Steve Yarbrough
The Realm of Last Chances: A novel
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf (August 13, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0385349505
ISBN-13: 978-0385349505

Andrea Barrett
Archangel: Short stories
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (August 19, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0393240002
ISBN-13: 978-0393240009

Larry Watson
Let Him Go: A novel
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Milkweed Editions (September 3, 2013)
ISBN-10: 1571311025
ISBN-13: 978-1571311023

Margaret Atwood
MaddAddam: A novel
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese (September 3, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0385528787
ISBN-13: 978-0385528788

J. M. Coetzee
The Childhood of Jesus: A novel
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Viking Adult (September 3, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0670014656
ISBN-13: 978-0670014651

Daniel Woodrell
The Maid’s Version: A novel
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (September 3, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0316205850
ISBN-13: 978-0316205856

Kathryn Davis
Duplex: A novel
Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Graywolf Press (September 3, 2013)
ISBN-10: 1555976530
ISBN-13: 978-1555976538

Paul Harding
Enon: A novel
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Random House (September 10, 2013)
ISBN-10: 1400069432
ISBN-13: 978-1400069439

Norman Rush
Subtle Bodies: A novel
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf (September 10, 2013)
ISBN-10: 140004250X
ISBN-13: 978-1400042500

Jonathon Lethem
Dissident Gardens: A novel
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Doubleday (September 10, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0385534930
ISBN-13: 978-0385534932

David Vann
Goat Mountain: A novel
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Harper (September 10, 2013)
ISBN-10: 006212109X
ISBN-13: 978-0062121097

Laura Furman
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013: The Best Stories of the Year
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Anchor Books; Original edition (September 10, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0345803256
ISBN-13: 978-0345803252

Robert Bly
Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (September 16, 2013)
ISBN-10: 039324007X
ISBN-13: 978-0393240078

Nicholson Baker
Traveling Sprinkler: A novel
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Blue Rider Press (September 17, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0399160965
ISBN-13: 978-0399160967

Thomas Pynchon
Bleeding Edge: A novel
Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (September 17, 2013)
ISBN-10: 1594204233
ISBN-13: 978-1594204234

Allan Gurganus
Local Souls (Three novellas)
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Liveright (September 23, 2013)
ISBN-10: 087140379X
ISBN-13: 978-0871403797

Jhumpa Lahiri
The Lowland : A novel
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf (September 24, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0307265749
ISBN-13: 978-0307265746

Julian Barnes
Levels of Life –A memoir
Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Knopf (September 24, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0385350775
ISBN-13: 978-0385350778

Kevin Barry
Dark Lies the Island: Short stories
Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Graywolf Press; First Edition (September 24, 2013)
ISBN-10: 1555976514
ISBN-13: 978-1555976514

Bill Bryson
One Summer: America 1927
Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Doubleday (October 1, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0767919408
ISBN-13: 978-0767919401

Margaret Drabble
The Pure Gold Baby
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (October 1, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0544158903
ISBN-13: 978-0544158900

T. C. Boyle
Stories II: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II:
Hardcover: 944 pages
Publisher: Viking Adult (October 3, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0670026255
ISBN-13: 978-0670026258

Andre Dubus
Dirty Love: A novel
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (October 7, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0393064654
ISBN-13: 978-0393064650

John Freeman
How to Read a Novelist
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: FSG Originals (October 8, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0374173265
ISBN-13: 978-0374173265

Cormac McCarthy
The Counselor: A Screenplay
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage (October 8, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0345803590
ISBN-13: 978-0345803597

Chuck Palahniuk
Doomed
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Doubleday (October 8, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0385533039
ISBN-13: 978-0385533034

Elizabeth Strout & Heidi Pitlor
Best American Short Stories 2013
Hardcover: 356 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (October 8, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0547554826
ISBN-13: 978-0547554822

David Leavitt
The Two Hotel Francforts: A novel
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (October 15, 2013)
ISBN-10: 1596910429
ISBN-13: 978-1596910423

Jayne Anne Phillips
Quiet Dell: A novel
Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Scribner (October 15, 2013)
ISBN-10: 1439172536
ISBN-13: 978-1439172537

Lee Smith
Guests on Earth
: A novel
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: A Shannon Ravenel Book (October 15, 2013)
ISBN-10: 161620253X
ISBN-13: 978-1616202538

J. C. Hallman
The Story About the Story Vol. II
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Tin House Books (October 15, 2013)
ISBN-10: 1935639684
ISBN-13: 978-1935639688

Daniel Alarcon
At Night We Walk in Circles: A novel
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (October 31, 2013)
ISBN-10: 1594631719
ISBN-13: 978-1594631719

Bill Henderson
The Pushcart Prize 2014
Hardcover: 600 pages
Publisher: Pushcart Press; 1 edition (November 6, 2013)
ISBN-10: 1888889705
ISBN-13: 978-188888970

Robert Stone
Death of the Black-Haired Girl
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (November 12, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0618386238
ISBN-13: 978-0618386239

Daniel Menaker
My Mistake — A memoir
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (November 19, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0547794231
ISBN-13: 978-0547794235

Tolstoy (Peter Carson, translator)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession
Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Liveright (November 25, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0871404265
ISBN-13: 978-0871404268

Frederick Busch
The Selected Stories of Frederick Busch
Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (December 2, 2013)
ISBN-10: 0393239543
ISBN-13: 978-0393239546

E. L. Doctorow
Andrew’s Brain: A novel
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Random House (January 28, 2014)
ISBN-10: 1400068819
ISBN-13: 978-1400068814

Written by Joe Peschel

June 10th, 2013 at 5:58 pm