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And hit the release dates on each slide to make all the pre-orders your heart desires.

And things get weirder from there.

Most Anticipated Books of 2020

Riverhead

The acquisition of this title was seriously competitive.

Ann Patchett says the book “should be required reading.”

Now he returns with a sequel that only builds on what came before it.

Long Bright River by Liz Moore — Riverhead/PRH

Riverhead

But when tragedy strikes, everything changes.

(March 10)

The City We Becameby N.K.

Set in an alternate-version New York and kicking off a new series?

Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey — Knopf/PRH

Knopf

Yeah, we’re there.

(Her words, not ours.)

Lots of noise being made about this one.

The Better Liar by Tanen Jones — Ballantine/PRH

Ballantine

Have tissues handy for this one.

We’ll get to know the man behind all that glitz and iconography, too.

What to make of that?

Oligarchy by Scarlett Thomas — Counterpoint

Counterpoint

We’re not sure, but can’t wait to find out.

So now that the authorisout with a memoir.

Well, expect it to be a must-have for any summertime tote.

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell — FSG

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Except much trippy greatness to come from her new collection.

And praise has already come in around the world for Ferrante’s latest, set in a divided Naples.

Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener — FSG

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Flatiron Books

Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

HarperCollins

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Knopf Doubleday

All the Stars and Teeth

Macmillan

The Big Goodbye by Sam Wasson

Flatiron Books

The Resisters by Gish Jen — Knopf/PRH

Knopf

Seduction by Clement Knox

Pegasus

Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Atria

Weather by Jenny Offill

Knopf

Real Life by Brandon Taylor — Riverhead/PRH

Riverhead

Soot by Dan Vyleta — Doubleday/PRH

Anna K: A Love Story by Jenny Lee CR: Flatiron

Flatiron

Deacon King Kong by James McBride CR: Penguin

Penguin

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich — Harper

HarperCollins

These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card

Simon & Schuster

Writers and Lovers by Lily King

Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman

Ecco

The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

Henry Holt

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

New Waves by Kevin Nguyen

Penguin Random House

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

Orbit

The Everlasting by Katy Simpson-Smith

Harper Collins

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Wow, No Thank You, by Samantha Irby

Penguin Random House

Afterlife by Julia Alvarez

Veronic Roth Chosen Ones

HMH

Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore

Harper Collins

Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould

The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels

Hub City Press

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

Warhol by Blake Gopnik

The Book of V by Anna Solomon

Henry Holt

Memoirs and Misinformation by Jim Carrey

Penguin Random House

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Antkind by Charlie Kaufman

Penguin Random House

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Scholastic

A Burning by Megha Majumdar

Knopf

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayetu Moore

Graywolf

I Hold a Wolf by the Years by Laura van den Berg

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

Europa

The Taste of Sugar by Marisel Vera

Liveright

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

Penguin Random House

Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Simon Pulse

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi