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30(+) Pubs I Am Excited For In 2026
It’s this time of the year. The year is still fresh (though in this world of hundreds of ongoing horrors it feels already like ten months have passed), and all the lists of most anticipated books are getting published. So here is mine. Or at least a version of it. My personal overview list by now includes already 186 titles, and it will grow as the year goes on and more books are announced. Of course, these are not all books I will pick up in the end, but they are all books which habe piqued my interest in one way or another (and as always I hope my library…
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Guide: Queer African Reads
Let’s start with the obvious: Neither “African literature” nor “queer literature” are stable, precise, unproblematic categories. Here I collect books by African and African‑diasporic authors. The books are either written by openly queer writers and/or and feature queerness in some prominent way. As of now, there is a regional bias in this list which partially reflects the publishing realities but also my own reading biases. Furthermore, the guide is obviously not a complete representation but limited not only by what I have read so far but also by what I have access to (language, availability etc). The descriptions below are partially reviews I have written over the time and some…
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30 New Publications in 2025 I Am Excited For
Over the past years my preview lists have become more and more extensive and putting together these kind of posts incredibly time consuming (so I never even did my list for the second half of 2024). So this year I decided to rein it in a little. There will be only one list – and I limit myself to 30 titles. That’s it. And it’s hard! My publication calendar for 2025 has got already 168 titles I am very interested in on it. But I widdled it down and I love this list I came up with. I will try though to once again post monthly upcoming publication posts on…
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Best 2024 Albums and EPs
2024 wasn’t a great year on many metrics, but it did bring a lot of fantastic music. Of course, I did not solely listen to music released this year (The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess was still on heavy rotation). I found a lot of joy though not just jumping from playlist to playlist but instead intensely listening to full new records. Here you can now find a list of my highlights released in 2024. And, obviously, if you are more of a playlist fan, I have you also covered: The Last Dinner Party: Prelude to Ecstasy (02.02.)I love the theatrics and drama. This album is so over…
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50 (+ more) Books 2024 (January – June)
This is my incredibly extensive list of books I am excited about or highly interested in which will be published in the first half of 2024. As always, the publications date might be a bit all over the place because I use dates from all places where I can access the books from. Also the publications dates, especially of the books scheduled for later in the year might still change anyway. But these technicality asides: 2024 (otherwise a hell year so far) seems to be another great year for books. There are so many highly fascinating titles – on this list and, for sure, elsewhere. I am especially excited for…
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Guide: Books on Disability/ Chronic Illnesses/ Neurodiversity/ etc.
This is a living list with works which deal with disability and/ or chronical illness and/or Deafness and/or neurodiversity and/or mental illness and more. It’s about disability rights and movements, about ableism, about survival and solidarity, about pain and grief, and about joy and care. A lot of the descriptions here are taken from reviews I have shared on Instagram and thus vary in style, length and approach. Obviously, this list is not complete as it only reflects my reading (and only what I remember I have read). Nonetheless, I hope this list ist helpful. “Disability is adaptive, interconnected, tenacious, voracious, slutty, silent,raging, life giving” ‑ Leah Lakshmi Piepzna‑Samarasinha “You…
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50+ Books 2023 (July-Dec)
The first half of 2023 is already over and while there are many unvertainities always, there is one thing we can be sure about: There will be incredible books published between July and December 2023. And below you find some of the books which are on my radar. Fiction J. Vanessa Lyon: Lush Lives Another queer book published through the still new-ish Roxane Gay imprint – count me in! “For Glory Hopkins, inheriting her Aunt Lucille’s Harlem brownstone feels more like a curse than a blessing. As a restless artist struggling to find gallery representation, Glory doesn’t have the money, time, or patience to look after the aging house of…
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50 (+ more) Books 2023 (January – June)
One week into the new year and I am happy to know that despite everything there is one thing we can be sure about in 2023: Some fantastic books will be published. Like every year I have my little calender in which I write down whenever I come across a title a find personally interesting – be it because I have read and loved books by these authors before, the book’s synopsis speaks to me, I trust the specific publisher, or may be because I read a good interview with the author. I only included books published in English (including several translations) in my Top 50 – but in the…
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50 Highly Anticipated Books 2022 (July-December)
We are already deep into the second half of 2022. So it’s time for another fifty books I am excited for this year. The book descriptions are mostly taken directly from the respecitive publishers’ websites. For monthly updates on new releases, follow me on Instagram where I share new publications in my stories (and save in a highlight over the year). Julian Aguon: No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon’s No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming-of-age story and a call for justice—for everyone, but in particular, for Indigenous peoples. In bracing poetry and compelling prose, Aguon weaves together stories from his childhood in the villages of…
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50 Highly Anticipated Books 2022 (January-June)
No matter what 2022 will bring, there will be art, there will be books. And these are fifty of the books I am seeing forward to in the first half of the year! For monthly updates on new releases, follow me on Instagram where I share new publications in my stories (and save in a highlight over the year). Jokha Alharthi (transl. by Marilyn Booth): Bitter Orange Tree Zuhour, an Omani student at a British university, is caught between the past and the present. As she attempts to form friendships and assimilate in Britain, she can’t help but ruminate on the relationships that have been central to her life. Most…
