20 Most Anticipated Books for 2024 & 2025! 👀📚

20 new books I'm very excited about (including two of my own!). Pull up a seat and join me. xx

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MY BOOKS:

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Things mentioned:

Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson
The Echoes by Evie Wyld*
My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss*
In Universes by Emet North*
Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa
Time of the Flies by Claudia Pineiro
Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus*
She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark
Gliff/Glyph by Ali Smith
Mystery Lights by Lena Valencia
All Of This Unreal Time by Max Porter
Hum by Helen Phillips
Slow Boat by Hideo Furukawa
The End of the Moment We Heard by Toshiki Okada
The Bear and the Paving Stone by Toshiyuki Horie
Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
Hellions by Julia Elliott
The Strange Case of Jane O by Karen Thompson Walker
We Do Not Part by Han Kang
Gunk by Saba Sams

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WHO I AM

Hello, I'm Jen Campbell. I'm an award-winning poet and bestselling author of twelve books, spanning short stories, poetry, picture books, and nonfiction.

My books for adults include Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit, The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night, The Girl Aquarium, The Bookshop Book, and The Sunday Times bestselling Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series. My picture book trilogy Franklin and Luna, and my middle-grade book The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers, are published by Thames & Hudson. I've won both an Eric Gregory Award and the Jane Martin Poetry Prize, and my books have been translated into twenty languages.

I've worked in the publishing industry for over fifteen years, initially as a bookseller, and now as a freelance editor, content creator and disability advocate. I review books online, in print and on the radio. I run a Youtube channel where I talk about books, the history of fairy tales, and the representation of disability and disfigurement. I also offer online writing workshops and editorial services, give talks at schools, publishing companies, universities and book festivals on a variety of topics, and I run a book club for TOAST clothing.

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Where to find me:

This contains no sponsored content. Any books marked with * were kindly sent to me for review.

#Booktube #NewReleases

[nymeria]

Honestly, I hadn’t heard of any of these! A bunch of my most anticipated releases this year turned out to be duds, so here’s hoping fall and winter books are better.

[grrrumpypanda]

Hey, just wanted to flag that the Sarah Moss book is very much about her life-long struggle with anorexia, in case there are any other people with past history of eating disorders who are not in the right frame of mind to read about that topic!

[siobhanreilly]

Really excited for Stag Dance by Torrey Peters in March, and I've already ordered The Sapling Cage, which will be my first Margaret Killjoy! :) Also, I'm *obsessed* with the idea behind the Gliff/Glyff books by Ali Smith!

[bookishbgg]

I'm absolutely excited for your new books!

[RahulSingh-books]

Loved Sally Rooney’s INTERMEZZO and Garth Greenwell’s SMALL RAIN. Currently reading, Strout’s TELL ME EVERYTHING. I am excited about Evie Wyld’s book.

[lisamadler]

Congratulations on your new releases! Always look forward to your videos.

[GaggingLit]

Read My Good Bright Wolf all in one sitting just yesterday. Have been on a Sarah Moss kick recently after reading Ghost Wall a couple of weeks ago and being blown away. I'm also excited for Gunk by Saba Sams!

[sarafan]

Oooh I had no idea Ali Smith was coming out with new books, and a two-piece at that! It sounds wonderful. Also many other very intriguing books I'd not heard of, thank you for the lovely video!

[mradcaqbdb]

I’ve got the Wyld, the Phillips, the Moss, the Ogawa, and the Pineiro here waiting to be read. I am about halfway through The Echoes but haven’t picked it up for quite some time. I was finding the time spent in Australia to be very dull. I will go back and finish it at some point. I was surprised how much longer the new Pineiro book is too. And the font is not the most comfortable for tired eyes. But I am looking forward to reading it. Hum is probably the next one in this group that I’ll get to. Just picked up Rumaan Alam’s new one yesterday. Not sure if it will be anything like Leave the World Behind (which I loved), but I’m going to give it a go! I will take a look at the new Max Porter.

[paper_ann]

Hi Jen, I have a request, can you make a playlist with all the videos? It will make watching much easier, because YouTube has removed the "play all" button. Greetings from Poland ⭐💜.
- Ania

[jillschroeder]

Definitely up for: The Echoes by Evie Wyld, Gliff/Glyph by Ali Smith, My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss,
And have now added :Time of the Flies by Claudia Pineiro, She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark, Hum by Helen Phillips
Thank you!

[lomazowr]

So many books to add to my tbr.👏👏👏📚 loved hearing your daughter’s little voice.

[joelharris]

Haven't missed this instance of disability solidarity and support with the mention of Raymond Antrobus's "Signs, Music" ☑ 🙏☺

[juditkovacse]

The book I am most looking forward to next year is the new Torrey Peters.
And second to that is the new book by Omar El Akkad. I loved What Strange Paradise, so am looking forward to a new book by him. But there is still one backlist book of his I haven't read.

[ianp]

Always here for an Ali Smith - I’ve read everything I think, so having or reread until a new one arrives! My favourite Evie Wyld so far is After the Fire but I haven’t got to the new one yet. And great to have a new Claudia Pineiro - Elena Knows was my favourite book that year too, such an interesting discussion of female body autonomy from the perspective of someone who has virtually lost all autonomy through her health.

[drzempf]

Always here for Sarah Moss. One of the brilliant writers in English.

[franciscaneumann]

read times of the flies in spanish, totaly recommend!

[HelenSchneider-tlyh]

I just finished Time of the Flies today and it's a stand alone novel. Loved it! But not as much as Elena Knows.

[fleurmeneve]

Honestly Jen, you're costing me a lot of money 😅 If you mention a book, it will go straight on my wishlist. I'm so glad to see you back on youtube and love the little squeals on the background ❤

[inkylabyrinth]

The Max Porter/Cillian Murphy film sounds amazing, and with LIVE music by Jon Hopkins?! Will be having serious FOMO about this, but thank you for making me aware!