New Fiction Releases in 2016

The beginning of a new year always has readers wondering about the books that will be published

and will make their way to their “To Read” piles.  Here are my baker's dozen titles which I will definitely be checking out in the first six months of 2016:

My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (January 12)

The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel (February 2)

Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson (February 9)

At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier (March 15)
The Naturalist by Alissa York (April 12)

Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift (April 19)
Nightfall by Richard B. Wright (May 3)

The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes (May 10)

LaRose by Louise Erdrich (May 10)

The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon (May 10)
Principles to Live By by David Adams Richards (May 17)

Barkskins by Annie Proulx (June 14)

                                      Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler (June 21)

And in the second half of the year, there are at least these four releases to anticipate:

Autumn by Ali Smith (August)

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (September)

Margaret Atwood’s retelling of The Tempest in a yet-unnamed novel (October)

The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble (November)

Several newspapers have recently had articles about the new releases of 2016.  Here are some British, American and Canadian sites to check out for titles coming to your book store.

Canada:

http://www.cbc.ca/books/springbooks2016/index.html
http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/the-books-well-read-in-2016/

http://49thshelf.com/Blog/2016/01/07/Most-Anticipated-Our-Spring-2016-Fiction-Preview

Britain:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/03/new-fiction-highlights-2016-don-delillo-julian-barnes-geoff-dyer-nicola-barker

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/01/books-literary-calendar-2016

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-best-books-to-read-in-2016-from-everyone-brave-is-forgiven-to-the-gustav-sonata-a6793116.html

United States:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-book-releases-2016_5684607ae4b0b958f65b3a65?n

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http://www.themillions.com/2016/01/most-anticipated-the-great-2016-book-preview.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-20-novels-we-cant-wait-to-read-in-2016-and-this-list-only-gets-us-to-june/2015/12/29/ae212d1a-ae62-11e5-9ab0-884d1cc4b33e_story.html
http://lithub.com/the-buzz-books-springsummer-preview/