Friday, January 21, 2011

Upcoming releases 2011







Looking for some goods reads in 2011? The Millions has released its list of new books to look out for this year: The Great 2011 Book Preview. There are 76 recommendations so you should find something of interest among them.
I'm thinking I might venture into Geoff Dyer's Otherwise Known as the Human Condition. I wasn't a huge fan of his much vaunted novel Jeff in Venice Death in Varanasi but perhaps this compilation of essays and reviews will restore him in my favour.
Have been wanting to read some David Foster Wallace so his novel The Pale King, to be released posthumously in April, is on my list. After Wallace died in 2008, the fragmented manuscript he'd been working on was pulled together by his editor Michael Pietsch and may go someway towards satisfying the insatiable appetite of Wallace's widespread fan base for previously unseen work. Nice cover art too.
And having devoured Bel Canto when it was first published in 2001, I can't go past Ann Patchett's upcoming novel State of Wonder, set in the heart of the South American jungle and centred around 'an inspiring student-teacher relationship similar to the bond she had with her own writing teachers, Allan Gurganas and the late Grace Paley.'
What are you thinking? 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

2011 reads from South African authors...
Tasha is reading & recommends to other moms :Future-Proof Your Child by Nikki Bush & Graeme Codrington.
Joshua is reading & recommends to other boys : SPUD by John van de Ruit

Rubyfire Writes said...

Thanks T&S, great choices! Good luck with the future-proofing...let me know how you go with that ;)