These are some of the books I am looking forward to in the next few months. I don’t have any ARCs, so my hype is uninformed cheerleading based on marketing and word of mouth. I don’t care; I’m still hyped!

Brother Brontë by Fernando Flores
Fernando has been my bookseller for many years, so I am a biased, but I would have picked this book up anyway after reading the synopsis. It takes place in Texas dystopia and has been compared to Octavia Butler. There are secret books passed around which give me a whiff of Bolaño. This book seems like it’s designed to specifically target me. And maybe it is, in the sense that I’ve enjoyed his previous works and am being given an amped up version of the same mind.

My Heresies – Alina Ştefănescu
Alina’s previous book of poems, Dor, gave me an extremely inflated sense of how good the average poet on Book Twitter is. For many years, I bought chapbooks from good posters, thinking that I would be able to recapture the magic of reading Alina’s work for the first time. I’m just sad that it took 4 years to get another book from her.

Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno, translated by Natasha Lehrer
Sad Tiger won all of the awards in France, and is now appearing in English for the first time in this edition from Seven Stories Press. A young woman explores dealing with traumatic memories by integrating the works of Nabokov, Woolf, Morrison, and more. It’s also blurbed by Annie Ernaux, and one thing this post should make clear to you is that I am susceptible to blurbs.

Casual by Koji A. Dae
I know nothing about this press or this book beyond the blurb, but they both look rad. While pregnant, a woman needs to give up the app she’s addicted to. The publisher website says that it explores issues surrounding bodily autonomy. Addictive apps and the way they control our bodies are always on my mind, so I am excited to read this novel.