Before the 2020 wrap-up posts are even a week old (or in some cases – such as mine – not even completed yet) it’s time to talk about all the shiny new books that we want to get our hands on in the first half of 2021.
There are plenty of lists that will list the top-name authors whose 2021 books already have the highest number of holds at the library (Four Winds by Kristin Hannah, anyone?) but my list contains mostly books by favorite authors whose books I try mightily to keep up with. (It helps if they don’t publish at a Pattersonion pace.)
Yellow Wife I read as an advance copy, and it also made my Favorite Books of 2020 list.
My Top Ten Tuesday list is in order of release date, January to June:
The Liar’s Dictionary (Doubleday, 1/5/21) by Eley Williams
Deep Into the Dark (St. Martin’s, 1/12/21) by P.J. Tracy
Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson (Simon & Schuster, 1/12/21)
Burnt Sugar (US ed. – Overlook, 1/26/21) by Avni Doshi
How Beautiful We Were (Penguin Random, 3/9/21) by Imbolo Mbue
All the Children Are Home (Harper Perennial, 4/13/21) by Patry Francis
Early Morning Riser (Penguin Random, 4/13/21) by Katherine Heiny
The Hour of the Witch (Penguin Random, 4/20/21) by Chris Bohjalian
Whereabouts (Knopf, 4/27/21) by Jhumpa Lahiri
One Two Three (Henry Holt, 6/8/21) by Laurie Frankel
Are any of these on your list? I’m sharing this for Top Ten Tuesday, so you’ll find many other upcoming releases listed there!
Hour of the Witch sounds so good.
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I’ve really been looking forward to reading Yellow Wife. It sounds like it’s going to be pretty amazing.
Omg, Yellow Wife looks/sounds amazing. Adding that one to my TBR!
I love the look of deep Into The Dark- looks mysterious. 🙂
It’s funny that I went off on my own tangent today but we both mentioned Imbole Mbue.
I didn’t realize that Chris Bohjalian has a new book coming out. I’ve generally really enjoyed his books that I’ve read.
I hope you get to read these soon!
The Hour of the Witch is on my list. I am going to try and do as many nonfiction and historical fiction books this year as I joined challenges.
I rarely know about upcoming books! Bohjalian has another? I can’t keep up.
Me neither! Especially with the authors that write a book a year!
No challenges for me this year again, probably, but I’m easily tempted!
Yes, it was excellent! I read it as an ARC, so I might look for it on audio for a second read of it this year.
Yes, the events in the book are painful to read about, all the more so knowing how historically accurate and realistic the descriptions are, but I would call it a must-read for 2021!
Now I’m off to look for Liar’s Dictionary.
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