Cindy Orr talks big books to look forward to this year in her monthly column:

What better way to start a new year than to take a look at some of the books we can anticipate with pleasure in the next few months? While the Fall Announcements are not out quite yet, we have a pretty good list of upcoming titles that should be available in digital form:

Fiction

JANUARY

• Margot Livesey – The Flight of Gemma Hardy (HarperCollins) Jan 24
• Robert Harris – Fear Index (Knopf) Jan 31

FEBRUARY

• Dan Chaon – Stay Awake (short stories) (Ballantine) Feb 7
• Deborah Crombie – No Mark Upon Her (Morrow) Feb 7
• Frank Delaney – The Last Storyteller (Random) Feb 7
• Robin Hobb – City of Dragons (HarperVoyager) Feb 7
• Lisa Unger – Twice (Broadway) Feb 7
• Elizabeth Moon – Echoes of Betrayal (Del Rey) Feb 21

MARCH

• Kathryn Harrison – Enchantments (Random) Mar 6
• Hari Kunzru – Gods Without Men (Knopf) Mar 6
• Naomi Novik - Crucible of Gold (Del Rey) Mar 6
• Thomas Perry – Poison Flower (Jane Whitefield) Mar 6
• Lauren Groff – Arcadia (Voice/HarperCollins) Mar 13
• Suzanne Brockmann – Born to Darkness (Ballantine) Mar 20
• Lionel Shriver – The New Republic (HarperCollins) Mar 27
• Danielle Steel – Betrayal (Delacorte) Mar 27

APRIL

• Alexander McCall Smith - The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (Pantheon) Apr 3
• Phillip Margolin – Capitol Murder – (HarperCollins) Apr 3
• Christopher Moore – Sacre Bleu: a Comedy of Art (Morrow) Apr 3
• Sidney Sheldon & Tillie Bagshawe – Angel of the Dark (Morrow) Apr 3
• Anne Tyler – The Beginner’s Goodbye (Knopf) Apr 3
• Ron Rash – The Cove (Ecco) Apr 10
• Roberto Bolano – The Secret of Evil (New Directions) Apr 17
• William Boyd – Waiting for Sunrise (HarperCollins) Apr 17
• Anne Perry – Dorchester Terrace (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt) (Ballantine) Apr 17

MAY

• Alison Bechdel – Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama (Houghton) May 1
• Nell Freudenberger – The Newlyweds (Knopf) May 1
• Toni Morrison – Home (Knopf) May 8
• Peter Carey – The Chemistry of Fear (Knopf) May 15
• China Mieville – Railsea (Del Rey) May 15
• Richard Ford – Canada (Ecco) May 22
• Paul Theroux – The Lower River (Houghton) May 22

JUNE

• Lincoln Child – The Third Gate  (Doubleday) Jun 12
• Mark Haddon – The Red House (Doubleday) Jun 12
• Jess Walter – Beautiful Ruins (HarperCollins) Jun 12
• Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan – The Night Eternal (HarperCollins) Jun 26

AUGUST

• Martin Amis – Lionel Asbo: the State of England (Knopf) Aug 21
• Justin Cronin – The Twelve (sequel to The Passage) (Ballantine) Aug 28

Nonfiction

JANUARY

• Michel Houellebecq – The Map and the Territory (Knopf) Jan 3
• William Gass – Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts (Knopf) Jan 17

FEBRUARY

• Katherine Boo – Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Random) Feb 7

MARCH

• Alain de Botton – Religion for Atheists: a Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion (Pantheon) Mar 6

MAY

• Robert Caro – The Passage of Power: the Years of Lyndon Johnson (Knopf) May 1
• Anna Quindlen – Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (Random) May 1

Fall:

• John Banville – Ancient Light (Knopf)
• Michael Chabon – Telegraph Avenue (Harper Perennial)
• Barbara Kingsolver – Flight Behavior (HarperCollins)
• Philipp Meyer – The Son (Random)