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)

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