Another year, another load of amazing books to pre-order / order / purchase and praise and I can’t wait 🙂
January
Elizabeth Ellen, Elizabeth Ellen (January 3, SF/LD Books)
After Women, Chloe Caldwell (Sometime in 2018, SF/LD Books)
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, Denis Johnson (January 16, Random House)
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, Morgan Jerkins (January 30, Harper Perennial)
Bad Anatomy, Hannah Cohen (Sometime in Winter 2018, Glass Poetry Press)
Girl Torpedo, Emari DiGiorgio (Sometime in Winter 2018, Agape Editions)
February
Back Talk, Danielle Lazarin (February 6, Penguin Books)
Feel Free, Zadie Smith (February 6, Penguin Press)
Beautiful Days: Stories, Joyce Carol Oates (February 6, Ecco)
We Are Taking Only What We Need, Stephanie Powell Watts (February 6, Ecco)
Virgin, Analicia Sotelo (February 6, Milkweed Editions)
March
The Barbarous Century, Leah Umansky (March 1, Eyewear Publishing LTD)
Awayland, Ramona Ausubel (March 6, Riverhead Books)
Census, Jesse Ball (March 6, Ecco)
The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo (March 6, HarperTeen)
Whiskey & Ribbons, Leesa Cross-Smith (March 6, Hub City Press)
April
Look Alive Out There, Sloane Crosley (April 3, MCD Books)
The Female Persuasion, Meg Wolitzer (April 3, Riverhead Books)
Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life, Jenny Boully (April 3, Coffee House Press)
Wade in the Water, Tracey K. Smith (April 3, Graywolf Press)
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, Leslie Jamison (April 3, Hachette Book Group)
Black Swans, Eve Babitz (April 10, Counterpoint Press)
Heads of the Colored People, Nafissa Thompson-Spires (April 10, Atria)
Not Here, Hieu Minh Nguyen (April 10, Coffee House Press)
You Think It, I’ll Say It, Curtis Sittenfeld (April 24, Random House)
May
A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley (May 1, Graywolf)
The Pisces, Melissa Broder (May 1, Hogarth Press)
Motherhood: A Novel, Sheila Heti (May 1, Henry Holt)
The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner (May 8, Scribner)
June
Florida, Lauren Groff (June 5, Riverhead Books)
Tonight I’m Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson (June 5, Henry Holt)
Sweet and Low, Nick White (June 5, Penguin Books)
July
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls: Stories, Alissa Nutting (July 3, Ecco)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh (July 10, Penguin Press)
Love War Stories, Ivelisse Rodriguez (July 10, The Feminist Press)
How to Love a Jamaican, Alexia Arthurs (July 24, Ballantine Books)
August
The Third Hotel, Laura van den Berg (August 7, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux)
Nothing Good Can Come From This, Kristi Coulter (August 7, MCD/FSG Originals)
If You Have To Go, Katie Ford (Sometime in August 2018, Graywolf Press)
Everyday People: The Color of Life, edited by Jennifer Baker (August 28, Atria Books)
Other Books to be Published without an exact publishing date…
The Carrying, Ada Limon
Reasons to Wake You, Paige Lewis (Sometime in 2018, Tupelo Press)
Drifts, Kate Zambreno (Harper Perennial)
Tasha Coryell‘s short story collection (Sometime in 2018, Split Lip Press <3)
2-3 yet-unnamed chapbooks from…Split Lip Press, of course!