As of: February 18, 2024, 3:30 p.m
By: Sven Trautwein
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The literary year 2024 has interesting books in store.
Not only does a new feel-good crime novel appear, but also other titles that are fun to read.
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Publishers present their new releases for the next few months almost every week.
The literary landscape is as diverse as the tastes.
For great reading moments in your favorite place, one or two novels or crime novels are currently available to immerse yourself in a little.
We would like to introduce you to three promising titles here.
The abundance of new releases hides novels worth reading for the spring.
We present three titles to you.
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Books for spring: “Animals to be afraid of” by Alina Herbing
Alina Herbing made a wonderful debut with “Nobody is with the Calves”.
Seven years later, her new novel “Animals to Be Afraid” appears.
After the fall of the Wall, a family moves to a village in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Little by little the father and sons leave.
Only the mother and daughter remain behind.
As the process progresses, more and more animals settle in the house.
Influences from her own biography can also be felt in this book.
Great literature about the role reversal between parents and children and the question of what makes a good life.
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Alina Herbing “Animals to be afraid of”
2024 Ark, ISBN-13 978-3-716-02818-6
Price: can be pre-ordered, hardcover €23, 256 pages
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Books that are fun: “The Seriousness of Life” by Ulrich Peltzer
In almost all of his books, Ulrich Peltzer pursues the question: Who and where am I in the world?
The seriousness of life needs to be discovered.
The novel, which will be published shortly, follows the life of the main character as he changes his center of life from the Lower Rhine to Berlin.
Even in the capital, the seriousness of life cannot be avoided.
If you would like to look at life with a little more humor, you should take a closer look at Axel Hacke's “On the cheerfulness in difficult times and the question of how important the seriousness of life should be to us”.
Bruno van Gelderen grew up on a farm on the Lower Rhine and ended up in Berlin in the late 1990s.
Instead of studying, he works for a concert agency and gambles away his money on slot machines.
Alcohol and amphetamines do the rest, and after robbing a cinema box office and making a late-night purchase, he spends two years in prison.
Bruno then writes for a small specialist magazine about Berlin amateur football and suddenly has a job at an investment company.
For the first time in his life he makes money.
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Ulrich Peltzer “The seriousness of life”
2024 S. Fischer, ISBN-13 978-3-100-02467-1
Price: can be pre-ordered, hardcover €24, 304 pages
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Humorous crime novel: “If you read longer, you’ll die later” by Auerbach & Auerbach
Anyone who knows one of the other eight Bolle novels knows that crime novels can also be told in a humorous way.
Whether “There is peace under all the beds” or “Bitten in the dust”, the author duo ensures a good mood.
For fans of light crime novels who also like feel-good crime novels by Richard Osman (“The Thursday Murder Club”), this is the right place for you.
Pippa looks after a lonely book house on the English south coast, where cozy reading weeks are held.
But the romance novel author Julia Timmings booked for the job is seriously injured in a hit-and-run car accident and barely survives.
Her ex-husband and thriller author Jem, who is classified as violent due to his hard-boiled books, steps in for her.
Blurb/Ullstein
Auerbach & Auerbach “If you read longer, you’ll die later”
2024 Ullstein, ISBN-13 978-3-548-06723-0
Price: can be pre-ordered, paperback €11.99, 448 pages
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Crime fans of Klaus-Peter-Wolf can look forward to his new novel.
A new title is being released for his 70th birthday.
Other book titles in January also promise good entertainment.