/lit/ - Literature

>>17609592
In 2021 I would like to read:
The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
Third volume of In Search of Lost Time by Proust
The Ambassadors by Henry James
The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec

New releases? Or just want I want to read?

>>17609592
Reading Proclus, then probably Damascius

>>17609632
I meant new releases in 2021.

F Gardner’s new books.

ishiguru's new one and saunder's book about short story writing

>>17609592
What am I looking forward to? Go back.

>>17609625
oh wait did you mean new shit? the ishiguro then i guess.

>>17609733
Yeah sorry, meant new stuff in 2021.

>>17609677
Some new Evola translations

>>17609592
Eurotrash by Kracht. I love Faserland, dont ever see Kracht mentionend on lit

OP here, I just thought i'd see if /lit/ was looking forward to any new books coming out in 2021, as I never see anyone talk about new literature (with good reason as most of it is shite).

my main trouble with keeping up with recent stuff is i fucking hate hardbacks. they're more expensive and heavy and awkward to carry around and i do a lot of reading on trains and stuff. so i like paperbacks which are slim and cheap but it takes fucking years and years for new stuff to come to paperback which kills my excitement for new literature
it's a possibly shallow reason but it's real

>>17609592
>reading new books

>>17609592
Winds of winter at most but I doubt it will come out. Other than that perhaps some good books about geopolitics since those can date quite quickly but nothing in particular. Perhaps something about economic effects and handeling of the coronavirus might be interesting but that might take a few years. Just reading some old books besides that.

>>17610460
exactly the other way around for me. If there is a hardback available anywhere I buy it over the paperback even if it costs quite a bit more. They feel better in the hand to read and if I want to read somewhere else carry them with me I don't have to worry about them getting damaged in any way. Plus they just look better and I am a sucker for style

>>17609592
A new illustrated edition of The Silmarillion.

I don't know of any new books that are slated to be released in 2021. I've also got a huge backlog of shit to read already. I suppose if Hart releases something in 2021 then I'll probably add that to the log, or if more of the Popular Patristics series comes to digital formats I'll get those (if those can be considered "new"), otherwise I'm primarily focused on what's already been released, just due to the sheer size of my backlog.

>>17609592
Jordan Peterson's 12 more rules for life

In my country they're going to re-release some stuff from a defunct publishing house and translate older books stuff. I'm really interested in Platonov and the first part of Gorky's trilogy.

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro looks really good. I'm excited to read it.

Hopefully Ted gets another book out before he dies

book of dust volume 3, tho I don't know if it will actually come out

Buddenbrooks
Finnegans Wake
and a bunch of comfy Edwardian era adventure/mystery novels

>>17609592
I'm looking forward to the new release by Gojira and not much else

I only read books >20 years old so I don't waste my time.

>t. antifragile

>>17609592
That new Krasznahorkai novel.

Gonna re-read paradise lost, this time with a bigger commentary, gonna try to write poems in pastiche of it more or less daily to try to integrate a bit of Milton’s mastery.

Got a bunch of Nathaniel Hawthorne, particularly interested in the great carbuncle and the stone face.

I plan on reading a bunch on systems biology, especially robert Rosen’s work.

Probably gonna re-read Ovid again, not sure which translation.

If I feel like I have the time and will, I might do a coin flip and read either Proust in full or Cao Xueqin.

The third volume to Evola's Introduction to Magic
The reprint of The Eye of the Heart by Frithjof Schuon

I don't read much in the way of new books. The writing is just atrocious.

Example: Christopher Bollen's The Destroyers. This bit is from the prologue.
>After Raina’s two subsequent sex-a-thons on days five and seven, Elise had watched her friend change in their hotel room, her own stomach queasy, fearing allegations. Raina tugged off her bikini top, her breasts two fried eggs runny with grease. Her nipples were blistered, as if the island’s mosquitoes had gotten to them. “He’s a little rough,” Raina said, squinting down in assessment, “but also gentle,” and reported nothing further.

>>17613635
That truly is terrible writing, but I thought this thread might help identify some new books that are worth reading.

Over a million books are published each year worldwide, there must be at least one or two worth reading by /lit/ standards?