October 2007 Highlights

Novels
1. The Air We Breathe (W.W. Norton, 2007) / Andrea Barrett
2. World Without End (Dutton/Macmillan, 2007) / Ken Follett
3. Name to a Face (Bantam, 2007) / Robert Goddard
4. Old Men in Love (Bloomsbury, 2007) / Alasdair Gray
5. A Free Life (Pantheon, 2007) / Ha Jin
6. The Ghost (Hutchinson, 2007) / Robert Harris
7. The Worst Thing I’ve Done (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2007) / Ursula Hegi
8. Matrimony (Knopf Doubleday, 2007) / Joshua Henkin
9. The Man in the Picture (Profile, 2007) / Susan Hill
10. Foolish Mortals (Headline Review, 2007) / Jennifer Johnston

11. Ghost (Pantheon, 2007) / Alan Lightman
12. Morning and Evening Talk: A Modern Arabic Novel [trans. from the Arabic, Hadith al-sabah wa-I-masa’ (1987)] by Christina Phillips) (American University in Cairo Press, October 2007) / Naguib Mahfouz
13. Sepulchre (Orion, 2007) / Kate Mosse
14. Run (Bloomsbury/Harper, 2007) / Ann Patchett
15. The Painter of Battles (trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers-Peden) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007) / Arturo Pérez-Reverte
16. Exit Ghost (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) / Philip Roth
17. The Almost Moon (Little, Brown, 2007) / Alice Sebold
18. The Bad Girl [trans. from the Spanish, Travesuras de la Niña Mala (2006), by Edith Grossman] (2007) / Mario Vargas Llosa
19. A Pigeon and a Boy (trans. from the Hebrew by Evan Fallenberg) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007) / Meir Shalev
20. War and Peace (a new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) (Knopf, 2007) / Leo Tolstoy
21. Cham (Serpent’s Tail, 2007) / Jonathan Trigell

Stories
1. Flying to America: 45 More Stories (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007) / Donald Barthelme
2. 20th Century Ghosts (William Morrow, 2007) / Joe Hill
3. The Frozen Thames (McClelland & Stewart, 2007) / Helen Humphreys
4. Christmas Stories (Everyman’s Library, 2007) / Diana Secker Tesdell (ed.)

Poetry
1. The Laughter of Mothers (Harvill Secker, 2007) / Paul Durcan
2. Modern Life (Graywolf Press, 2007) / Matthea Harvey
3. Darling: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2007) / Jackie Kay
4. On the Edge: Collected Long Poems (Knopf, 2007) / Kenneth Koch
5. In the Pines (Penguin, 2007) / Alice Notley
6. Gulf Music (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007) / Robert Pinsky
7. Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006 (W.W. Norton, 2007) / Adrienne Rich
8. Foiled Again (Ivan R. Dee, 2007) / J. Allyn Rosser
9. Lip (Smith/Doorstop, 2007) / Catherine Smith
10. Tilt (Jonathan Cape, 2007) / Jean Sprackland

Nonfiction
1. Foreskin’s Lament (Riverhead, 2007) / Shalom Auslander
2. City Lights: Stories About New York (St. Martin’s Press, 2007) / Dan Barry
3. Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Alfed A. Knopf, 2007) / Laurence Bergreen
4. Fallen Angels (Yale University Press, 2007) / Harold Bloom
5. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997 (Jonathan Cape, 2007) / Piers Brendon
6. Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote (Random House, 2007) / Truman Capote
7. The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia (Allen Lane, 2007) / Orlando Figes
8. Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys (Duckworth/Overlook, 2007) / Morine Krissdóttir
9. On God: An Uncommon Conversation (Random House, 2007) / Norman Mailer (with Michael Lennon)
10. Ezra Pound: Poet: A Portrait of the Man & His Work: Volume I: The Young Genius, 1885-1920 (Oxford University Press, 2007) / A. David Moody
11. The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 1973-1982 (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2007) / Joyce Carol Oates (ed. Greg Johnson
12. Gadfly in Russia (JR Books, 2007) / Alan Sillitoe
13. Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place (Bloomsbury, 2007) / Will Self (with illustrations by Ralph Steadman
14. Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism (Knopf, 2007) / John Updike