Annie Ernaux counts herself as a big Zambreno stan-need I say more? -Sophia M. As she teeters between exhaustion and transcendence, she finds inspiration in everything from her children’s toys to the work of Natalia Ginzburg. Zambreno-whose previous books include To Write as If Already Dead, Screen Tests, Drifts, and Heroines, all strange and mesmerizing and very good-chronicles her life as the mother of two young daughters amid the pandemic in her latest. Without further ado, it’s my privilege and pleasure to present our Great 2023B Book Preview. By some miracle, The Millions has been around for 20 years-we’d like to be around for 20 more (or even just through the end of the year). Last but not least, if you like what we do, and want us to keep doing it sans paywall, consider making a one-time contribution or becoming a sustaining member today. We encourage you to check out our monthly previews for the most up-to-date lists of our most-anticipated fiction and nonfiction titles, and if you’re looking for our most-anticipated poetry collections, be sure to check our our quarterly poetry roundups. In the future, we can also add more specific tags to distinguish, say, novels and story collections, memoirs and essay collections-if this would be helpful, do let us know!Īnd though we do our best to strike a balance between being both curated and comprehensive, we’re bound to miss a few books, not to mention the new titles that are being announced every day. While we’re highly selective about what makes it into our biannual previews, we know the sheer number of books here (171, to be exact) can be overwhelming, so for our 2023B list we’ve added tags for readers to more quickly distinguish fiction and nonfiction titles. Smith, Gay Talese, Jesmyn Ward, Bryan Washington, Colson Whitehead, Diane Williams, Banana Yoshimoto, C Pam Zhang, Babs herself, and many, many more-a quick note. But time flies, and new books wait for no one.īefore we get into it-and by “it” I mean forthcoming titles by Alexandra Chang, Annie Ernaux, Jon Fosse, Ross Gay, Werner Herzog, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Benjamin Labatut, Jhumpa Lahiri, Yiyun Li, John McPhee, Marie NDiaye, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Sigrid Nunez, Joyce Carol Oates, Zadie Smith, Tracy K.

Hello beloved Millions readers! It feels like only yesterday we were mooning over the most exciting reads of 2023A.

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