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What Debut Novels Have You Read In 2024? (6/2/24)
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I didn't think I read a lot of novels (debut or not) this year, but turns out there were quite a few.Aina Hunter, Charlotte and the Chickenman. Flawed but interesting: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Justin Torres, Blackouts. Some nice writing vaguely reminiscent of Sebald and Puig, though it could be tighter.
I'll leave out the ones that I can't recommend, except for Kelly Link's The Book of Love, a disappointment.
This year I've read debut novels from:Clyo Mendoza Fury: A Novel)
Kaveh Akbar (Martyr!)
Elizabeth O'Connor (Whale Fall)
Lottie Hazell (Piglet)
I'd read from all of them again but Mendoza is probably the only one I would actively seek out.
Title - Author (whether I'll be actively pursuing their next novel(s))Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar (maybe)
Landscapes - Christine Lai (no)
Greenland - David Santos Donaldson (no)
A Sweet Sting of Salt - Rose Sutherland (maybe)
Cinema Love - Jiaming Tang (maybe)
Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe - Really enjoyed this. Baba by Mohamed Maalel (Italian original) - Nice autofiction book, but it needed a more polished writing.
I've read quite a few this year already, including the very clever América del Norte and The Ministry of Time......but the one I keep telling people about is Bad Habit - although with a 4.54 rating it probably doesn't need my endorsement :)
I think I've read 5 debut novels (though I am no doubt forgetting some). It's been quite successful. In four cases I would definitely read the next novel the author writes:Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
Pity by Andrew MacMillan
Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe.
The other debut was The Ministry of Time which was a limp disappointment.
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