The 50 most anticipated books of 2019

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Here we present our comprehensive guide to the 50 most anticipated books of the next 12 months.

Read on, and go for the release dates (where applicable) to get your 2019 pre-orders going!

Little, Brown and Company; Henry Holt and Co.; Knopf; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Penguin Press; Hogarth; Riverhead Books (2); Random House;

but resounding book unlike any you’ve ever read.

Fingers crossed that first-time novelist James can put his own quirky stamp on the subgenre.

What could go wrong?

Little, Brown and Company

It’s a new, humanistic kind of mystery novel.

Margaret Atwood said its events “could be right out ofThe Handmaid’s Tale.”

(April 23)

Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic

Think the nextEducatedorWild.

Algonquin Books

Will it live up to the hype?

It’s another period novel, this time set at a reform school in the Jim Crow South.

Grove Press

Scout Press

Algonquin

Little, Brown and Company

Riverhead Books

Ecco

Graywolf Press

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Simon + Schuster

Balzer + Bray

Viking

Knopf

Ballantine Books

Riverhead Books

Bloomsbury Publishing

Graywolf Press

Scribner

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Riverhead Books

Atria Books

Berkley

Pantheon

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Knopf

Bloomsbury Publishing

Henry Holt and Co.

Hogarth

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Catapult

Random House

Knopf

Henry Holt and Co.

Penguin Press

Liveright

Knopf

Crown

Ecco

Euan Myles

Del Rey

Doubleday

Top Shelf Productions

Random House

Simon + Schuster

Leonardo Cendamo

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Beowulf Sheehan

Allan Amato

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