A list of interesting sounding books — fiction and non-fiction, older and not yet published — that I haven’t read yet but have caught my eye somewhere:
Cyberfeminism Index, Mindy Seu
The Equivalents, Maggie Doherty
The Other Island, Carina del Valle Schorske
The Slow Road North, Rosie Schaap
Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones, Priyanka Mattoo
Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good, Eley Williams
Shopkeeping: stories, advice and observations, Peter Miller
Opacities, Sofia Samatar
Ordinary Disasters, Anne Anlin Cheng
Acts of Resistance: the power of art to create a better world, Amber Massie-Blomfield
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity, Sarah Schulman
The Wilderness, Aysegul Savas
Three Lives A Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, Tove Ditlevesen
Searches: selfhood in the digital age, Vauhini Vara
To Save and To Destroy: writing as an other, Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Work We Need, Hilary Cottam
What We Can Know, Ian McEwan (September 2025)
Book of Lives, Margaret Atwood (November 2025)
The Age of Choice, Sophia Rosenfeld
The Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd
Gertrude Stein, Francesca Wade (late August 2025)
Mood Machine: the rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist, Liz Pelly
The Book of Alchemy, Suleika Jaouad
Dear Writer, Maggie Smith
The Genius Myth, Helen Lewis
Alterations, Cory Winrock
Immemorial, Lauren Markham
Lecture, Mary Cappello
No Straight Road Takes You There, Rebecca Solnit (September 2025)
The Mobius Book, Catherine Lacey
Together, Ece Temelkuran
The Hour of the Predator, Giuliano da Empoli (October 2025)
Liquid Reflections, Liliane Lijn
Notes from an island, Tove Jansson
All The Way To The River, Elizabeth Gilbert (September 2025)
Elizabeth Harrower: the woman in the watch tower, Susan Wyndham (October 2025)
Moderation, Elaine Castillo
Fierceland, Omar Musa (September 2025)
Nova Scotia House, Charlie Porter
History of Sound, Ben Shattuck
Elite Capture, Olufemi o Taiwo
A Great Act of Love, Heather Rose (September 2025)
Dead and Alive, Zadie Smith (October 2025)
Bread of Angels, Patti Smith (November 2025)
Mother Mary Comes To Me, Arundhati Roy (September 2025)
Debatable Land, Rory Stewart (October 2025)
Tomorrow is Yesterday, Hussein Agha & Robert Malley
A Truce That Is Not Peace, Miriam Toews (August 2025)
The Uproar, Karim Dimechkie
Emergent Strategy, Adrienne Maree Brown
The Red House, kate wild
Brawler, Lauren Groff
Bad Friend, Tiffany Watt Smith
Vigil, George Saunders (January 2026)
I Want To Burn This Place Down, Maris Kreizman
Culpability, Bruce Holsinger
Will There Ever Be Another You, Patricia Lockwood
The Means of Prediction, Maximilian Kasy
Endling, Maria Reva
The Salt Stones, Helen Whybrow
Information Age, Cora Lewis