Last year in this space I looked ahead to 16 anticipated books being published in 2016. This year I’ll list 17. Pray for me that I’m not writing this column in 2055.

The Korean author Han Kang made our 10 Best Books of 2016 list with “The Vegetarian,” her first novel to be translated into English. “Human Acts,” the next, will be published in January. Also that month, Ottessa Moshfegh, whose debut novel, “Eileen,” met with critical acclaim in 2015, returns with a collection of stories, “Homesick for Another World.” And Emily Ruskovich publishes her debut novel, “Idaho,” about a woman investigating the mystery of her husband’s first marriage.

February brings the short story master George Saunders’s first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” as well as Katie Kitamura’s “A Separation,” in which a wife and husband agree to split and the husband soon after disappears. The experimental novelist Steve Erickson returns with “Shadowbahn,” which imagines the twin towers suddenly reappearing in South Dakota.

Notable nonfiction in March includes Joan Didion’s “South and West,” two extended essays from her notebooks, and Ariel Levy’s “The Rules Do Not Apply,” a memoir that builds on her powerful 2013 essay in The New Yorker about a miscarriage she suffered during a reporting trip to Mongolia. Mohsin Hamid’s fourth novel, “Exit West,” is a story of love and migration set against a civil war in an unnamed country. Elif Batuman’s debut novel, “The Idiot,” is about a young woman navigating her first year at Harvard.