Books

Clear some space on your bookshelf the first quarter of the year is stacked with must-reads.

What will come in 2023is as unknown as ever.

But will there be new books?

A selection of the most anticipated books coming out in January, February, and March 2023.

And many are coming out in the first three months of the year.

Will there be new memoirs, essay collections, short stories, juicy novels, and knife-sharp satires?

We are a lucky bunch of readers.

‘Age of Vice’ by Deepti Kapoor

All those and more.

Below, you’re able to find your favorites.

It unspools from there, pulling together the complexities of power, attraction, complicity, and desire.

‘The Survivalists’ by Kashana Cauley.

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Spareby Prince Harry

When shall the appetite for tales from the ex-pat royals be satisfied?

Certainly not until theres a version of Prince Harry and Meghan Markles saga in every media format!

and the fickle, sweet impulses that drive us.

Spare

Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West!

This book reads as if its skipping: full of movement, lightness, and whimsical defiance.

Its a true gift to step inside the protagonists unusual, playful mind.

‘The Shards’ by Bret Easton Ellis.

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Love, Pamelaby Pamela Anderson

Jan. 31

Pamela Anderson hasemphasized repeatedlythat this isherproject.

If you still arent sold:Love, Pamelaalso features her original poetry!

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Central Placesby Delia Cai

A meet-the-parents comedy of manners!

‘Black and Female’ by Tsitsi Dangarembga.

A well-observed study of a provincial Manhattanite!Central Placeshas it all.

In addition to this twisty premise,Big Swissis also a superb skewering of Hudson.

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Brutesby Dizz Tate

Brutesbegins with a missing girl and sprawls out into a narrative of obsession.

‘Vintage Contemporaries’ by Dan Kois.

An agent from the Psychopigment Enforcement bureau becomes obsessed with an ambitious case.

Naturally, Sahara chooses to protest through her thesis.

Damani is an unsteady guide on the books ride through the activist scene and the precarious gig economy.

‘After Sappho’ by Selby Wynn Schwartz.

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Pineapple Streetby Jenny Jackson

Mar.

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A novel about inheritance and the cultural inanities of the American WASP, set in a maximalist mansion?

This novel has a sea glass quality time-worn, beautiful, worth holding onto.

‘The Guest Lecture’ by Martin Riker.

The creative pair travels up and down the California coast, mixing and talking and dancing.

She asks provocative, trippy questions (a chapter titled Can There Be Leisure?

Reading Odells books feels like living up to their lessons.

‘Love, Pamela’ by Pamela Anderson.

They spend the next decades developing increasingly high-stakes scams and an increasingly twisty queer romance.

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Brother & Sister Enter the Forest: A Novelby Richard Mirabella

Mar.

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Told with an incredibly steady hand, this novel dissects a tense sibling relationship.

‘Central Places’ by Delia Cai.

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In Search of a Beautiful Freedomby Farah Jasmine Griffin

Mar.

Amid this tumult, a young Ah Boon discovers a powerful insight about the land he was born on.

‘I Have Some Questions for You’ by Rebecca Makkai.

‘Big Swiss’ by Jen Beagin.

‘Brutes’ by Dizz Tate.

‘The Applicant’ by Nazli Koca.

‘The Shamshine Blind’ by Paz Pardo.

‘Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation’ by Camonghne Felix.

‘Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear’ by Erica Berry.

‘The Unfortunates’ by J. K. Chukwu.

‘Your Driver Is Waiting’ by Priya Guns.

‘Pineapple Street’ by Jenny Jackson.

Thirst for Salt

‘Francisco’ by Alison Mills Newman.

‘What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez’ by Claire Jimenez.

‘Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock’ by Jenny Odell.

‘Confidence’ by Rafael Frumkin.

Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

‘In Search of a Beautiful Freedom’ by Farah Jasmine Griffin.

‘White Cat, Black Dog’ by Kelly Link.

‘Evil Eye’ by Etaf Rum.

‘The Great Reclamation’ by Rachel Heng.