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The 58 Biggest Books of Spring, According to Readers
Spring is a great time to dig into some new books, if for no other reason than those expanded daylight hours. Outdoor reading is one of the simple pleasures and inalienable rights of life on this planet.
To celebrate the season, we’ve compiled our annual Big Books of Spring collection, which previews the most anticipated titles coming between mid-March and the end of May. The new titles below are sorted by genre and largely determined by you, the loyal Goodreads regular. Books are selected by tracking early reviews and finding out which titles are ending up on members’ Want to Read shelves.
Wow, there’s some good stuff on the horizon, including new books from Julia Alvarez, Percival Everett, and Miranda July. Stories in the contemporary and historical fiction aisles range all over the time-space continuum—from today’s Dominican Republic to Mao’s China to the West Virginia Mine Wars. Mystery and thriller fans can look forward to new stories from Sally Hepworth, Stuart Turton, and Alex Finlay—plus a few remarkably buzzy debuts.
On the fantasy front, we’ve got Slavic myths, double-crossing assassins, Scottish sea beasties, and 16th-century alchemists. For sci-fi fans: West African dystopias, low-orbital murder mysteries, and complicated sexbots.
All this plus new releases in horror (queer Gothic intrigue!), romance (sexy Canadians!), young adult (boarding school disappearances!), and some genuinely amazing nonfiction (worldwide shipwrecks!).
Click through the options below, add any interesting leads to your Want to Read shelf, and swap recommendations with fellow Goodreaders in the comments.
Perhaps the spring’s most highly anticipated new book, James is an unambiguously Great Idea. Acclaimed novelist Percival Everett presents a reimagining of Mark Twain’s immortal classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but told from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved runaway who joins Huck on history’s most famous Mississippi adventure. You can read our interview with Everett here as well.
Release date: March 19
Release date: March 19
Ever wondered where untold stories end up? Well, now we know. This literary magical realism novel from author Julia Alvarez (In the Time of the Butterflies) follows writer Alma Cruz, who returns to her Dominican Republic homeland to bury some stories. Quite literally. But Alma’s DIY graveyard is getting a little spooky as her manuscripts and characters come to life…
Release date: April 2
Release date: April 2
Chanel Cleeton, author of The Perez Family series of novels, returns with more atmospheric historical fiction in and around the Miami-Havana corridor. Dual timelines track mysterious goings-on at Marbrisa, a glamorous Florida estate built just after World War I. When 18-year-old Carmen visits in 1940, she finds that treacherous secrets still haunt the ruined manse. Early readers are loving the gothic Daphne du Maurier vibes.
Release date: April 2
Release date: April 2
Real Americans traces three generations of one family on either side of the new millennium. In 1999, Lily Chen, the daughter of scientists who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution, marries into East Coast pharmaceutical money. As the book moves backward and forward through time, elements of speculative technology and magical realism creep into the multigenerational family saga.
Release date: April 30
Release date: April 30
The debut novel from author Melissa Mogollon is a coming-of-age story with several twists. Teenage Luciana is the baby of her Colombian American family—and mostly interested in chasing girls. So she’s reluctant to take in her eccentric grandmother, Abue, who’s deep in denial about pretty much everything. But when life gets lifey, Luciana finds she has a wise guide for impending adulthood.
Release date: May 14
Release date: May 14
Filmmaker, musician, and renaissance woman Miranda July (The First Bad Man) returns with her second novel, the story of a 45-year-old artist who takes a deliberate vacation from her domestic life. Look for themes of reinvention, freedom, transcendence. Early readers are calling the book smart, bawdy, inspiring, and very, very funny.
Release date: May 14
Release date: May 14
Historical fiction with undeniable contemporary resonance, Taylor Brown’s Rednecks is a bold, big-picture novel based on the real-life West Virginia coal wars. A multicultural community of miners and their allies take on the crooked feds and gun thugs paid by the powerful coal companies. Brown’s book features characters both fictional and historical, including the author’s own great-grandfather.
Release date: May 14
Release date: May 14
Cryptocurrency! Organized crime! Celebrity impersonators! The latest thriller from author Chris Bohjalian (Midwives) spotlights the wild ride of “Princess” Crissy Dowling, who makes a surprisingly good living pretending to be the late, great Princess Diana. But when a crooked casino mogul is enthusiastically murdered, Crissy gets crossed up with the deadly weirdos of Sin City’s criminal underground.
Release date: March 19
Release date: March 19
The title of this debut cozy from Kristen Perrin conjures interesting questions, doesn’t it? It seems our young heroine, Annie Adams, has wandered into a peculiar situation involving a quaint English village, a fortune teller’s prophecy, and a murder victim who seems to have not only predicted her own murder but sleuthed out the killer, too. Early readers are digging this one.
Release date: March 26
Release date: March 26
Another debut making serious waves this spring, You Know What You Did blends elements of the classic whodunit with serious explorations of mental illness and the immigrant experience. The gist: Vietnamese American artist Annie Shaw just awoke in a hotel room, naked, next to a recently but decidedly dead body. Then it gets really weird.
Release date: April 16
Release date: April 16
Jessica, Norah, and Alicia are sisters in all the ways that matter. Rescued from family tragedies as kids, they were raised by the magnanimous Miss Fairchild on an idyllic farmstead. Years later, when a body is found under that farm, the past comes calling. Author Sally Hepworth (The Good Sister) continues her exploration of the darker side of family dynamics.
Release date: April 23
Release date: April 23
Breanna’s romantic weekend getaway to New York City takes a turn when her new boyfriend disappears and a dead body shows up in their rental place. The decedent, alas, is the latest missing woman that all of America is obsessed with. Kellye Garrett (Like a Sister) inverts several crime fiction tropes and asks some pretty good questions about race, media, and Traveling While Black.
Release date: April 30
Release date: April 30
In the aftermath of their mother's death, three siblings return to their childhood home and begin to relive memories. But when they stumble upon an old videotape that features their father covered in blood...and perhaps a literal skeleton in the closet, the siblings must decide whether to uncover their family's dark past.
Release date: April 30
Release date: April 30
Crime writer Alex Finlay (The Night Shift) has earned a loyal readership with complex mysteries stitched from multiple interweaving threads. His latest puzzler features a five-year-old cold case that warms up again when two dead bodies are found in a submerged car. In the hunt: a law school student in Tuscany, a mob boss in Philadelphia, and a rookie sheriff’s deputy in Kansas.
Release date: May 7
Release date: May 7
London author Stuart Turton (The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle) specializes in high-concept murder mysteries spiked with sci-fi twists and lateral thinking. His new book features a bizarre death on an isolated island with exactly 125 citizens. Well, 124. Meanwhile, the island’s glitchy security system is fending off the deadly fog that’s swept the rest of the planet. Everybody’s pretty tense.
Release date: May 21
Release date: May 21
A new mystery from Ruth Ware (The Woman in Cabin 10, In a Dark, Dark Wood) is always cause for celebration among the genre's fans. This one looks like good, page-turning fun: Five couples vying to win a reality show set on a desolate, storm-swept island are being hunted by a killer. That's probably not how you want to be voted off the island!
Release date: May 21
Release date: May 21
Fantasy Novels
For those who believe the journey is the destination, this debut novel offers an interesting premise: Aubry Tourvel must keep moving or die a painful death. She can only stay in one place for a few days, and she can never return to the same place twice. Aubry’s journey begins in Paris, 1885, and continues around the world. Several times. Think Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi.
Release date: April 2
Release date: April 2
Genre veteran Leigh Bardugo (Ninth House) turns her attention to historical fantasy with this imaginative novel set in 16th-century Spain. Scullery maid Luzia Cotado fights back against lethal bigotry when her knack for magic attracts the attention of royal spies, mad alchemists, and the Spanish Inquisition. Didn’t expect that.
Release date: April 9
Release date: April 9
Author Rose Sutherland makes a splashy debut with this historical fantasy novel, a queer reimagining of the Scottish folk tale The Selkie Wife. Village midwife Jean finds a woman in labor during the crescendo of a ravaging tempest. When the woman’s husband comes searching, Jean realizes that something is very wrong. As her concern blossoms into deeper feelings, Jean steps through to a world of myths and dangerous fables.
Release date: April 9
Release date: April 9
Five killers band together to murder the ruthless god king Joon in this new high-stakes fantasy, but only one will take the crown. So who will it be? The poison maiden with the deadly kisses, the exiled prince, the thief who can steal almost anything, the assassin, or the hired hit man? Each has their own agenda, and more than one is definitely lying...
Release date: May 7
Release date: May 7
Superstar author Veronica Roth (the Divergent series) is back on shelves with this urban fantasy novella that brings ancient Slavic myths to contemporary Chicago. Two unlikely heroes try to break from their painful past by tracking down the legendary witch known as Baba Yaga. Early readers are praising the book’s complex characters and detailed world-building.
Release date: May 14
Release date: May 14
Boston attorney by day, powerful medium for a secret society by night, David Aristarkhov leads a life that is far from conventional. When the Devil comes calling to collect on an ancestral debt, David turns to his longtime rival (and ex-boyfriend) Rhys for help. Better the devil you know, right? Early readers are praising the book's gothic dark academia vibes.
Release date: May 28
Release date: May 28
Just in time to resonate with our current AI worries, this extremely buzzy debut from author Sierra Greer tackles some tough questions about autonomy, intimacy, and artificial personhood. As a companion machine, Annie Bot is programmed to be the perfect girlfriend for her owner, attending to all his emotional and physical needs. Unsurprisingly, things get complicated.
Release date: March 19
Release date: March 19
The Floating Hotel is just that, a mobile cosmic waystation that moves from planet to planet across the Milky Way—“the last word in suborbital luxury.” This debut sci-fi cozy blends old-school SF physics with classic mystery concerns. Strange forces have descended upon the Grand Abeona. Now the fate of the grand old space hotel is up to caretaker Carl and his found family of misfit staffers.
Release date: March 19
Release date: March 19
From the author of Peace Like a River, this literary speculative novel set in the near future features a musician who sets sail on Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. After a strange odyssey through fierce storms (and floating corpses), he eventually lands to find an increasingly illiterate people and a billionaire ruling class.
Release date: April 2
Release date: April 2
How can a 21st-century millennial fall in love with a 19th-century polar explorer? Through the intrigues of the government’s new Ministry of Time, which gathers time-space expats from across the vast panorama of history. This lively debut novel from London author Kaliane Bradley gleefully straddles several genres, including science fiction, espionage thriller, romance, and workplace comedy.
Release date: May 7
Release date: May 7
Victor Manibo’s Escape Velocity presents a class-conscious murder mystery—several, potentially—aboard Space Habitat Altaire, the premier luxury resort in low-Earth orbit. The prestigious Rochford Institute is hosting its big reunion, attracting Earth’s most powerful magnates, scions, and bigwigs. Early readers are citing elements of Knives Out, Parasite, and Altered Carbon.
Release date: May 21
Release date: May 21
Set in a post-climate-crisis dystopia, the novella Lost Ark Dreaming imagines a set of skyscraper-size, partially submerged arcologies off the coast of West Africa. With the wealthy on top and the poor below sea level, tensions are about what you’d expect. Meanwhile, an ancient power beneath the waves is waking up the dead. Uh-oh.
Release date: May 21
Release date: May 21
Horror Novels
Picking up four years after the events in last year’s thriller Don’t Fear the Reaper, the new book from Blackfoot author Stephen Graham Jones concludes his acclaimed Indian Lake trilogy. Jones, author of The Only Good Indians, continues his career-long investigation of the links between generational trauma, American mythology, and contemporary horror. Serial killer cultists, for instance.
Release date: March 26
Release date: March 26
On an ancient and eerie planet, a group of pioneer settlers explore the ruins of an abandoned outpost. What happened to the first colony? Why is the crew acting all secretive? And what’s this about a psychopathic space virus? Connoisseurs of spec-fic microgenres may want to get acquainted with author S.A. Barnes (Dead Silence), who has staked out a nice little specialty in wigged-out space horror.
Release date: April 9
Release date: April 9
Chicago author Nick Medina (Sisters of the Lost Nation) specializes in supernatural horror steeped in Native American mythology. His latest follows the fate of Noemi Broussard, a young woman investigating the highly suspicious “suicide” of her boyfriend. With the help of her Uncle Louie—back from a mysterious 10-year absence—Noemi discovers that something wicked is loose on reservation lands.
Release date: April 16
Release date: April 16
A classic Gothic tale wrapped around a unique queer love story, My Darling Dreadful Thing introduces spirit medium Roos Beckman and her long-dead ghostly companion, Ruth. When Roos starts to fall for the still-living young widow Agnes Coop, events lead to a murder in a crumbling and haunted estate. Debut author Johanna van Veen is clearly having fun with the manor-on-the-moors template while subtly tweaking old genre tropes.
Release date: May 14
Release date: May 14
The undisputed heavyweight champion of horror, Stephen King made his bones in the publishing business as a novelist. But he’s a master of the short story form, too, and this latest collection features 12 tales said to be even darker than usual for Maine’s resident gentleman maniac. Bonus trivia: The new collection includes a sequel story to Cujo.
Release date: May 21
Release date: May 21
American born and Oxford educated, debut author Justinian Huang is swinging for the fences with his first novel. The Emperor and the Endless Palace combines elements of queer romance, historical fiction, and sweeping fantasy as two men fall in love, over and over, in various historical settings. Can true love finally prevail this one last time, in present-day Los Angeles? Let’s find out!
Release date: March 26
Release date: March 26
Invariably unlucky in love, online acquaintances Justin and Emma have agreed to a quick summer fling. It’s an idea borne of pure desperation: Maybe if they combine their terrible luck, their individual curses will cancel each other out. It’s worth a shot! But first, Emma and Justin must purify themselves in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. No, really.
Release date: April 2
Release date: April 2
This gets a little meta, but here goes: This debut romance novel from filmmaker Yulin Kuang introduces fictional romance author Helen Zhang, who has just been hired as a writer on the TV adaptation of her novel series. Kuang, our real-world author, is the screenwriter of the forthcoming film adaptation of Beach Read, by fellow author Emily Henry, who is also real. Oh, and there’s a guy named Grant involved, but he’s fictional.
Release date: April 9
Release date: April 9
Lottery winner Opal Devlin has just spent all her winnings to buy a sprawling flower farm in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina. But her plans for a quiet retirement are scuttled when she meets Pepper Smith, who claims she’s the real owner of the farm. An uneasy cohabitation blossoms into something waaaay better in this sapphic odd-couple romance from fan-favorite Mazey Eddings.
Release date: April 16
Release date: April 16
Speaking of author Emily Henry, the A-list genre ace is back on shelves in April with this mischievous riff on the old opposites-attract template. Daphne is feeling rather adrift since her ex-fiancé bailed. Her new roommate Miles has an interesting connection to all that, actually. Is Daphne really falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex? Funny story…
Release date: April 23
Release date: April 23
Canadian superstar author Carley Fortune (Every Summer After) is back with another tricky situation: Each summer, Lucy takes her vacation in a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Each summer, Lucy ends up in the bed of handsome local Felix, who knows all the best spots, as it were. The tricky part: Felix’s big sister is Lucy’s best friend. And this summer, things are going to be different.
Release date: May 7
Release date: May 7
The inheritance plot meets the classic marriage-of-convenience trope in this latest novel from veteran author Christina Lauren. The gist: Liam Weston stands to inherit $100 million if he and feisty ex Anna can convince Liam’s filthy-rich family that they’re happily married forever. Bonus trivia: Author Lauren is actually two people. Neat trick, that.
Release date: May 14
Release date: May 14
Kevin Kwan (Crazy Rich Asians) turns his scathingly satirical eye back on the world of the elite in this outrageous comedy of manners. Rufus Leung Gresham, future Duke of Greshambury, longs for the literal girl next door. But his scheming mother, eager to refill the family's dwindling coffers, has her eyes set on a loftier (e.g. wealthier) bride for her son. It's giving us Edith Wharton for the 21st century.
Release date: May 21
Release date: May 21
Young Adult Novels
Sinister secrets abound in this YA mystery from author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, a Goodreads Choice Award nominee for 2021’s Ace of Spades. The setup: Sade Hussein is the new girl at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy boarding school. This brings the usual complications, but when her roommate mysteriously disappears, Sade discovers that something is rotten in the Academy.
Release date: March 19
Release date: March 19
Meanwhile, the latest mystery from U.K. author Holly Jackson (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series) flips the script to investigate a mysterious reappearance. Teenage Bel doesn’t know what to think when her long-missing mother suddenly returns with a frankly unbelievable story. Now Bel has to figure out what’s really going on, with a true-crime documentary crew tagging along.
Release date: April 2
Release date: April 2
If you think your love life is complicated, consider this: Mara and Rory were best friends who just shared their first kiss when the world came to a violent end. Now stuck in one of the few remote survivor communities, Rory is shattered when Mara returns, infected with the virus that almost wiped out humanity. Recommended for fans of Krystal Sutherland and The Last of Us.
Release date: April 2
Release date: April 2
Ella Moore was a typical high school queen bee—feared, resented, yet somehow extremely popular. So when Ella winds up dead at her own party, the list of potential suspects is a long one. Everyone seems suspiciously content to pin the crime on Dawn Foster, the new girl. But as author Cindy R.X. He reveals, Dawn is entirely capable of defending herself—and finding the real killer.
Release date: May 7
Release date: May 7
Taking the vampire story into new territory is a tricky maneuver after all these years. But author Lauren Blackwood pulls it off with The Dangerous Ones, which imagines an alternate U.S. Civil War pitting vampire slavers against the Union Army’s regiment of superpowered soldiers. Young Jerusalem, formerly enslaved herself, uses her enhanced strength and reflexes to free her people—and maybe get a little sweet revenge.
Release date: May 14
Release date: May 14
Based on an actual story from Korean history, the latest from Edgar Award–winning author June Hur (The Red Palace) takes readers back to the year 1506. The evil King Yeonsan is terrorizing the land by kidnapping young peasant girls. Seventeen-year-old Iseul sets out to rescue her little sister and, with the help of the king’s brother, overthrow a tyrant.
Release date: May 14
Release date: May 14
Author of 2021’s celebrated history of Black performing art, A Little Devil in America, writer and poet Hanif Abdurraqib turns his attention to the cultural resonance of sports—basketball, in particular. His lifelong love of the game fuels passionate essays on excellence and expectation, rules and role models, and the 1990s golden era of hoops.
Release date: March 26
Release date: March 26
Arranged chronologically, Like Love presents a career-spanning collection of essays from genre-defying author and cultural critic Maggie Nelson. The new book features profiles, reviews, tributes, and critical essays, plus extended conversations with artists including Prince and Matthew Barney. Bonus trivia: Nelson won the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award for her 2015 memoir, The Argonauts.
Release date: April 2
Release date: April 2
This fascinating memoir from Patric Gagne explores the author’s lifelong struggle with a mental health disorder that’s famously feared and often misunderstood: sociopathy. Gagne details with remarkable candor what it’s like to live a life when emotions like guilt and empathy don’t come naturally—or at all. When love comes knocking, Gagne provides an unexpected happy ending, too.
Release date: April 2
Release date: April 2
From Viking warships to Nazi U-boats, Canadian scientist David Gibbins provides a unique narrative of world history by way of underwater archaeology. Drawing on decades of hands-on experience with shipwrecks across the globe, Gibbins shows how cold water and darkness can unlock brand-new secrets for the historical record.
Release date: April 2
Release date: April 2
When Simone Gorrindo’s husband was selected for an elite army unit, she found herself moving from New York City to small-town Georgia—and spending a lot of time with the other military wives. Gorrindo’s insightful memoir is a portrait of a tricky marriage combined with some front-line reportage on the divisions threatening to pull America apart.
Release date: April 9
Release date: April 9
With 2021’s surprise hit Cultish, author and linguist Amanda Montell connected some useful dots between cognitive biases and our current brand of delusion and fanaticism. Montell expands her vision with this new book on the larger trend of anti-rational “magical” thinking—staving off cancer with positive vibes, for instance—as a reaction to 21st-century information overload.
Release date: April 9
Release date: April 9
In August 2022, world-renowned author Salman Rushdie was brutally attacked onstage as he prepared to give a public lecture in New York. Rushdie lost the use of one eye and one hand. Refusing to stand down, Rushdie addresses the attack in his new book on life, love, the power of art, and the toughness it takes to live for 30 years under a deadly fatwa.
Release date: April 16
Release date: April 16
New York author Erik Larson has made a career out of narrative nonfiction accounts that chronicle dramatic moments in world history—Berlin circa 1933, say, or the worst natural disaster in American history. His latest details the dark days leading up to the American Civil War, centered on President Lincoln’s most desperate hours.
Release date: April 30
Release date: April 30
Following up on the groundbreaking 2020 anthology Disability Visibility, this new collection from activist and editor Alice Wong features 25 new essays from writers around the world. Disability Intimacy addresses issues of love, friendship, caregiving, and sex from a wide variety of perspectives. In fact, the book invites readers to “free your thinking, invigorate your spirit, and delight your desires.” Can’t argue with that.
Release date: April 30
Release date: April 30
Longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, never one to shy away from a challenge, takes aim at America’s current crisis of division and rancor. With clear-eyed insight and some science to back it up, Bruni argues that outrage itself is the problem behind the problem—on both the right and the left.
Release date: April 30
Release date: April 30
Kathleen Hanna may very well be the coolest single person on the planet. Touring with the 1990s punk band Bikini Kill, Hanna pioneered the Riot Grrrl movement with DIY energy and determination. Her highly anticipated memoir also covers her tireless activist work, terrifying struggle with Lyme disease, and eventual happy ending with, of all things, a Beastie Boy.
Release date: May 14
Release date: May 14
Which books are you most excited to read this spring? Let us know in the comments!
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I can’t wait to read “Playing With Fire!” When does your book come out Rachel? Will you eventually have an audio version of it?
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I am excited to read Paula Brackston's new novel, The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish. I love her writing style and storytelling.
I am really excited about of few of these! I can't wait to get my hands on the new Erik Larson book.
Sean wrote: "Once again Goodreads catering for one part of the world - it is not Spring it is Autumn"So true!When I try to log a book in the morning it still shows yesterday's date because Goodreads is based on American time
Christopher Ruocchio has his next book in the Sun Eater series coming out 4/2 - Disquiet Gods. I can’t recommend this series enough for Sci-Fi and/or Fantasy fans. Very well written
I would like to readThe Princess of Las Vegas.
Anna wrote: "so excited to read most of these releases!"good.
I’m literally so excited for crane among wolves. The cover is just so cute so I know it’ll be good 🙏
Luna wrote: "I’m literally so excited for crane among wolves. The cover is just so cute so I know it’ll be good 🙏"I WOULD LIKE TO READ TOO.
Art wrote: "Looking forward to City in Ruins, the final installment in the Danny Ryan trilogy."Oh they didn't miss them — they skipped them because they were either 'too white', 'too male', or 'not diverse enough'. In other words, purposefully excluded for largely racist reasons.
ღ『ℂℂ』ও (SEMI HIATUS) wrote: "not me just skipping past the nonfiction.."realist thing ever, i did that too
pam wrote: "I am excited to read Paula Brackston's new novel, The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish. I love her writing style and storytelling."That is right.
Laura wrote: "I am really excited about of few of these! I can't wait to get my hands on the new Erik Larson book."Maybe it is good.
The only book (audiobook actually) I have on pre-order as of this moment is "The Instruments of Darkness" by John Connolly.
Loved the tongue twister of funny story… I mean could Daphne really fall in love with her ex-fiancés fiancés ex-fiancé?Yes the extra fiancé makes it funnier. I think we can guess who the love birds are…
Lest GR members forget, GR is owned by Amazon. Books pushed by GR often have little to do with anything but generating sales for Amazon. At times a decent book makes these lists, but GR cares little for quality and much more for quantity. Quantity of sales, that is.
So many good books!! I found myself adding at least every other book on this list to my to read shelf. I love wheb I have so many new books to look forward to - especially when their release dates are right around the corner!
Perla wrote: "This wasn’t on the list but I’m excited for The Outlaw Noble Salt by Amy Harmon. Her new book comes out next month in April! She’s one of my favorite authors <3"Amy Harmon books are the best, such a prolific author
The House on Biscayne Bay, The Familiar and The Demon of Unrest are my go-to’s.
How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon by Lyn Slater is a non-fiction book that belongs on the list. College social work professor becomes a successful fashion blogger and Instagram influencer in her 60s. Her goal is to be a writer. She writes this book to meet the goal and prepare for what comes next.
I'm very excited about Older by Jennifer Hartmann, soon to be released. And Beautiful Villain by Rebecca Kenney.
I know that it’s not something for everyone but on Booktok it’s really anticipated :)
Sean wrote: "Once again Goodreads catering for one part of the world - it is not Spring it is Autumn"Literally everything is US based. Don't like it? Make a monopoly and make your own!
Annie Bot was delightful. It's very thoughtful without being heavy handed. It's not a perfect book by any means, but well worth reading.
Exactly who are the "readers" who chose these books as most anticipated? Maybe one or two books on this list look like I might like them. But it's a stretch.
Sue wrote: "Exactly who are the "readers" who chose these books as most anticipated? Maybe one or two books on this list look like I might like them. But it's a stretch."I have been wondering that too.
Girls to the Front. Can't wait to read Kathleen Hanna's bio. And then go see THE riot grrls themselves, bikini kill.
Mary wrote: "Looking forward to the new Stephen King book Some like it darker."Susan wrote: "Looking forward to reading You Like it Darker."
Me too. I love King's short stories and novels.
What about Hampton Sides' new book "The Wide, Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook"? This one is at the top of my list!
Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne is one of my favorite spring releases of this year! It's spooky, scary, and strangely hopeful at the same time!
Sean wrote: "Once again Goodreads catering for one part of the world - it is not Spring it is Autumn"There's always one *eye roll*
Megan wrote: "Sean wrote: "Once again Goodreads catering for one part of the world - it is not Spring it is Autumn"There's always one *eye roll*"
Oh. I suspect there are considerably more than one, and those multitudes probably have a beef with such lists for more than a few valid reasons.
Jester wrote: "No middle grade books, or graphic novels?"Goodreads rarely features those, but I remember seeing an article from Goodreads on that.
Michael wrote: "Art wrote: "Looking forward to City in Ruins, the final installment in the Danny Ryan trilogy."Oh they didn't miss them — they skipped them because they were either 'too white', 'too male', or 'n..."
Is this another list based on race and not the quality of books?
Mary wrote: "Looking forward to the new Stephen King book Some like it darker."whats it about I don't understand. i read cujo. but it don't seem alike. somewhere it said tat it was a sequal
Whitney wrote: "Sean wrote: "Once again Goodreads catering for one part of the world - it is not Spring it is Autumn"most of their users are in a hemisphere where it is spring. They're also based in the US. That..."
I would have thought a large proportion of their users live in the Southern Hemisphere? I think it would at least be courteous of them to mention that it isn't spring for everyone.
Louisiana HydraLouisiana Hydra is certainly getting a lot of favourable press. Maybe this is a good addition to the Thriller list...
The Colorado KidThis book is so good! I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good mystery novel that they can finish in one or two sittings
Looking forward to Demon of Unrest and Cemetery of Untold Stories.A book not on this list that I'm also looking forward to is Clear by Carys Davies:
Minister dispatched to a remote island off of Scotland to “clear” the last remaining inhabitant, who has no intention of leaving
Roman wrote: "The Colorado KidThis book is so good! I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good mystery novel that they can finish in one or two sittings"
That's been out 18 years. You do realize that...right?
Whitney wrote: "Sean wrote: "Once again Goodreads catering for one part of the world - it is not Spring it is Autumn"most of their users are in a hemisphere where it is spring. They're also based in the US. That..."
That logic is outdated. The world has no barriers - it's the internet, it's everywhere. It's more likely that the writer has no idea that the entire world isn't centred around the US or that the entire world isn't on the same season as the US.
Until August, Gabriel Garcia MarquezHow to Read a Book, Monica Wood
Sharon wrote: "Whitney wrote: "Sean wrote: "Once again Goodreads catering for one part of the world - it is not Spring it is Autumn"most of their users are in a hemisphere where it is spring. They're also based..."
Good take.
