After last week’s episode where Jonathan and Gary discussed their favourite books from 2019, this time they talk about books they're looking forward to in 2020 (a few of which, in fairness, they’ve already seen or in Jonathan’s case even edited).

It’s a pretty varied list, and probably incomplete, so feel free to suggest more titles that we might not have known about. Overall, though, 2020 is starting off as a pretty promising year.

Gary's list

Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

William Gibson, Agency

M. John Harrison, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

Hao Jingfang, Vagabonds

Nancy Kress, Eleventh Gate and Sea Change

Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

Ken Liu, The Veiled Throne

Paul J. McCauley, War of the Maps

Tamsin Muir, Harrow the Ninth

Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby

K.M. Szpara, Docile

Lavie Tidhar, By Force Alone

Jo Walton, Or What You Will

Gene Wolfe, Interlibrary Loan

Alexander Irvine, Anthropocene Rag

Greg Egan, Dispersion

Jeffrey Ford, Out of Body

The Best of Elizabeth Bear

Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

The Best of Jeffrey Ford

Jonathan Strahan (ed.), Made to Order: Robots and Revolution

Jonathan Strahan (ed.), The Book of Dragons


Jonathan's list

Agency, William Gibson (Viking)

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, Deepa Anappara (Chatto & Windus)

The City We Became, NK Jemisin (Orbit)

Burn, Patrick Ness (Walker)

Utopia Avenue, David Mitchell (Sceptre)

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)

By Force Alone, Lavie Tidhar (Head of Zeus/Tor)

Vagabonds, Hao Jingfang (Saga)

The Angel of the Crows, Katherine Addison (Tor)

Unconquerable Sun, Kate Elliott (Orbit)

The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, M. John Harrison (Gollancz)

Or What You Will, Jo Walton (Tor)

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin/Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins)

Ghost Species, James Bradley (Penguin)

Comet Weather, Liz Williams (Newcon)