2016 Books

Here are the books being released in 2016 (that I know about) I am most excited and interested about. Which titles are you most looking forward to?

Fiction
Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson (PM Press, January 1)
Age of Blight by Kristine Ong Muslim (Unnamed Press, January)
Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser (Ecco, February 2)
Square Wave by Mark de Silva (Two Dollar Radio, February 9)
Hide by Matthew Griffin (Bloomsbury, February 16)
Movie Stars by Jack Pendaruis (Dzanc Books, April 12)
Amateurs by Dylan Hicks (Coffee House Press, May 3)
Worthy by Lisa Birnbaum (Dzanc Books, May 10)
Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman (Harper, May 17)
Brightfellow by Rikki Ducornet (Coffee House Press, July 5)
How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball (Pantheon, July 5)
Bye Bye Blondie by Virginie Despentes (Feminist Press, July 12)

Nonfiction
Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 by Laura Horak (Rutgers Press, January 29)
How Will Capitalism End? by Wolfgang Streeck (Verso, March 15)
Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film by Casey Ryan Kelly (Rutgers Press, March)
Suburban Gospel by Mark Beaver (John F. Blair Publisher, April 1)
Conversations with Classic Film Stars by Ron Miller and James Bawden (Kentucky University Press, April)
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay (HarperCollins, June 14)
Thicker Than Blood: Adoptive Parenting in the Modern World by Marion Crook (Arsenal Pulp, June 14)
Eight-Wheeled Freedom: The Derby Nerd’s Short History of Flat Track Roller Derby by D. D. Miller (Wolsak and Wynn, June)
Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here by Angela Palm (Graywolf, August 16)

Poetry
Burn Book by Felix Bernstein (Nightboat Books, January)
Window Left Open by Jennifer Grotz (Graywolf, February 2)
Divorce Procedures for the Hairdressers of a Metallic and Inconstant Goddess by Justin Isis (Snuggly Books, February 14)
Galvanized by Leland Kinsey (Green Writers Press, March 18)
The Woman Who Married a Bear by Tiffany Midge (University of New Mexico Press, March)
The Waiting Room Jennifer Zilm (Book Thug, April 5)
play dead by francine j. harris (Alice James Books, April 12)
The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay (BOA Editions, April 12)
Heaven’s Thieves by Sue Sinclair (Brick Books, May)
Witch Hunt by Juliet Escoria (Lazy Fascist, May)
Look by Solmaz Sharif (Graywolf, July 5)
There Now by Eamon Grennan (Graywolf, October)
Bestiary by Donika Kelly (Graywolf, November)

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