Episode 363: Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2020

After last week’s episode where Jonathan and Gary discussed their favourite books from 2019, this time they talk about books they're looking forward to in 2020 (a few of which, in fairness, they’ve already seen or in Jonathan’s case even edited).

It’s a pretty varied list, and probably incomplete, so feel free to suggest more titles that we might not have known about. Overall, though, 2020 is starting off as a pretty promising year.

Gary's list

• Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
• William Gibson, Agency
• M. John Harrison, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
• N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became
• Hao Jingfang, Vagabonds
• Nancy Kress, Eleventh Gate and Sea Change
• Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant
• Ken Liu, The Veiled Throne
• Paul J. McCauley, War of the Maps
• Tamsin Muir, Harrow the Ninth
• Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby
• K.M. Szpara, Docile
• Lavie Tidhar, By Force Alone
• Jo Walton, Or What You Will
• Gene Wolfe, Interlibrary Loan
• Alexander Irvine, Anthropocene Rag
• Greg Egan, Dispersion
• Jeffrey Ford, Out of Body
• The Best of Elizabeth Bear
• Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
• The Best of Jeffrey Ford
• Jonathan Strahan (ed.), Made to Order: Robots and Revolution
• Jonathan Strahan (ed.), The Book of Dragons

Jonathan's list

• Agency, William Gibson (Viking)
• Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, Deepa Anappara (Chatto & Windus)
• The City We Became, NK Jemisin (Orbit)
• Burn, Patrick Ness (Walker)
• Utopia Avenue, David Mitchell (Sceptre)
• Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
• By Force Alone, Lavie Tidhar (Head of Zeus/Tor)
• Vagabonds, Hao Jingfang (Saga)
• The Angel of the Crows, Katherine Addison (Tor)
• Unconquerable Sun, Kate Elliott (Orbit)
• The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, M. John Harrison (Gollancz)
• Or What You Will, Jo Walton (Tor)
• The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin/Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins)
• Ghost Species, James Bradley (Penguin)
• Comet Weather, Liz Williams (Newcon)