August 2007 Highlights

Novels
1. Away (Random House, 2007) / Amy Bloom
2. The Great Man (Doubleday, 2007) / Kate Christensen

3. Natural History (Simon & Schuster, 2007) / Neil Cross

4. The Solitude of Emperors (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007) / David Davidar
5. The Water Cure (Graywolf Press, 2007) / Percival Everett

6. Spook Country (Viking, 2007) / William Gibson
7. The Carhullan Army (Faber & Faber, 2007) / Sarah Hall
8. Remembering the Bones (HarperCollins Canada, 2007) Frances Itani

9. My Revolutions (Hamish Hamilton, 2007) / Hari Kunzru
10. A Peculiar Grace (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007) / Jeffrey Lent

11. Shining at the Bottom of the Sea (Riverhead, 2007) / Stephen Marche
12. Letter from Point Clear (Henry Holt, 2007) / Dennis McFarland
13. Starbook (Rider, 2007) / Ben Okri
14. Run (Bloomsbury, 2007) / Ann Patchett
15. Clara’s Story (trans. from the French by Euan Cameron) (Harvill Secker, 2007) / Pierre Peju
16. Not in the Flesh (Hutchinson, 2007) / Ruth Rendell
17. Delirium [trans. from the Spanish, Delirio (2004), by Natasha Wimmer] (Harvill Secker, 2007) / Laura Restrepo
18. Secrets of the Sea (Harvill Secker, 2007) / Nicholas Shakespeare
19. By George (Jonathan Cape/Little, Brown, 2007) / Wesley Stace
20. The Assassin’s Song (Knopf, 2007) / M.G. Vassanji

21. Hotel de Dream (Bloomsbury, 2007) / Edmund White
22. Winnie and Wolf (Hutchinson, 2007) / A.N. Wilson

First Novels
1. Bearing the Body (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007) / Ehud Havazelet
2. Loving Frank (Ballantine, 2007) / Nancy Horan
3. The Night Birds (Soho Press, 2007) / Thomas Maltman

Novellas/Stories
1. The Blue Door (Harvill Secker, 2007) / André Brink
2. Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin (trans. from the Russian by Graham Hettlinger) (Ivan R. Dee, 2007) / Ivan Bunin

3. New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2007 (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007) / Edward P. Jones and Kathy Pories (eds.)

4. What You Call Winter (Knopf, 2007) / Nalini Jones
5. The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (Harcourt, 2007) / Joyce Carol Oates
6. The End of the Alphabet (Doubleday, 2007) / C.S. Richardson
7. The Elephanta Suite (McClelland & Stewart/Houghton Mifflin, 2007) / Paul Theroux
8. The Loudest Sound and Nothing (Faber & Faber, 2007) / Clare Wigfall

Poetry
1. The Door (Virago/McClelland & Stewart, 2007) / Margaret Atwood
2. A Treatise of Civil Power (Penguin, 2007) / Geoffrey Hill
3. On Purpose (Faber and Faber, 2007) / Nick Laird
4. Visibility: New and Selected Poems (Seren Books, 2007) / Graham Mort

Nonfiction
1. Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America (2007) / Felipe Fernández-Armesto
2. Circling My Mother (Pantheon, 2007) / Mary Gordon
3. The Boyhood Memoirs of A.E. Hotchner [King of the Hill (1972) and Looking for Miracles (1975)] (Missouri Historical Society Press, 2007) / A.E. Hotchner
4. On Brick Lane (Hamish Hamilton, 2007) / Rachel Lichtenstein
5. The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (Ecco, 2007) / Lucette Lagnado
6. Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005 (Yeti/Verse Chorus Press, 2007) / Luc Sante
7. Learning to Fly: A Writer’s Memoir (ed. Anne Hobson Freeman) (W.W. Norton, 2007) / Mary Lee Settle
8. The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad (William Heinemann, 2007) / John Stape