Teetering on the precipice of a brand-new season, our staff share what’s on their TBR piles – including some exciting forthcoming books to look out for in early 2020…

Kim Gruschow, book buyer and children’s book buyer at Readings St Kilda

• Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah (translated by Deborah Smith) (available February 2020)
• Hattie by Frida Nilsson & Stina Wirsén (translated by Julia Marshall) (available March 2020)
• The Drifting Classroom: Perfect Edition, Vol. 1 by Kazuo Umezz
• Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
• K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) edited by Mark Fisher

Marie Matteson, buyer at Readings Carlton

• Letters from Iceland by W.H. Auden & Louis MacNeice
• A Void by Georges Perec
• Essentials of Swedish Grammar by Ake Viberg, Kerstin Ballardini & Sune Stjarnlof
• Redemption and Utopia by Michael Lowy
• Lost Time: Lectures On Proust In A Soviet Prison Camp by Jozef Czapski (translated by Eric Karpeles)
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
• Reading the Rocks by Brenda Maddox
• The Eighth Life (For Brilka) by Nino Haratischvili (translated by Ruth Martin & Charlotte Collins)

Leanne Hall, online children specialist

• The Strangeworlds Travel Agency by L.D. Lapinski (available May 2020)
• Meet Me at Lennon’s by Melanie Myers
• The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
• Know My Name by Chanel Miller
• Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe (available April 2020)

Ellen Cregan, marketing and events coordinator

• Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride (available February 2020)
• New Australian Fiction 2019 edited by Rebecca Starford
• Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
• Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
• Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan (available April 2020)
• Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

Ele Jenkins, bookseller at Readings Carlton

• We Who Are About To… by Joanna Russ
• By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
• Migraine by Oliver Sacks
• The Offing by Benjamin Myers
• Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (available January 2020)