May 2008 Highlights

Novels
1. The Secret Scripture (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Sebastian Barry
2. Skeletons at the Feast (Shaye Areheart, 2008) / Chris Bohjalian
3. Glister (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / John Burnside
4. Being Emily (Canongate, 2008) / Anne Donovan
5. Devil May Care (Penguin, 2008) / Sebastian Faulks
6. Bright Shiny Morning (Harper, 2008) / James Frey
7. Sea of Poppies (John Murray, 2008) / Amitav Ghosh
8. A Dangerous Age (Algonquin, 2008) / Ellen Gilchrist
9. The Other (Alfred A. Knopf/Pantheon, 2008) / David Guterson
10. Exiles (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) / Ron Hansen
11. The Lazarus Project (Riverhead, 2008) / Aleksandar Hemon
12. The Sorrows of an American (Henry Holt/Sceptre, 2008) / Siri Hustvedt
13. Beijing Coma (trans. from the Chinese by Flora Drew) (Chatto & Windus, 2008) / Ma Jian
14. Wakening (Portobello, 2008) / Derek Johns
15. The Lost Dog (first published in Australia by Allen and Unwin in November 2007) (Chatto and Windus, 2008) / Michelle de Kretser
16. The House on Fortune Street (HarperCollins, 2008) / Margot Livesey
17. Cairo Modern (trans. from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins) (originally published in 1945) (The American University in Cairo Press, 2008) / Naguib Mahfouz
18. The Lighted Rooms (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2008) / Richard Mason
19. The Good Mayor (Black and White Publishing, 2008) / Andrew Nicoll
20. Deaf Sentence (Harvill Secker, 2008) / David Lodge
21. Steer Toward Rock (Hyperion, 2008) / Fae Myenne Ng
22. Netherland (Fourth Estate/Pantheon, 2008) / Joseph O’Neill
23. The Steel Wave (Ballantine, 2008) / Jeff Shaara
24. Whatever Makes You Happy (Bloomsbury, 2008) / William Sutcliffe
25. The Gift of Rain (Weinstein Books, 2008) / Tan Twan Eng
26. Bleeding Heart Square (Michael Joseph, 2008) / Andrew Taylor
27. The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel (ed. Geraldine Murphy) (Columbia University Press, 2008) / Lionel Trilling
28. Breath (Picador, 2008) / Tim Winton

First Novels
1. The Bahaviour of Moths (published in the U.S. as The Sister) (Virago Press, 2008) / Poppy Adams
2. Blackmoor (Simon & Schuster, 2008) / Edward Hogan
3. A Case of Exploding Mangoes (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House, 2008) / Mohammed Hanif
4. Evening Is the Whole Day (Houghton Mifflin/Fourth Estate, 2008) / Preeta Samarasan

Stories
1. Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review (Ivan R. Dee, 2008) / Paula Deitz (ed.)
2. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 (Anchor, 2008) / Laura Furman (editor)
3. The Garden of Bad Dreams (Atlantic Books, 2008) / Christopher Hope
4. The Boat (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Nam Le
5. The Collected Stories (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Lorrie Moore

Edward Hogan

Poetry
1. Europa (Bloodaxe Books, 2008) / Moniza Alvi
2. The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest (ed. Hadley Haden Guest) (Wesleyan University Press, 2008) / Barbara Guest
3. Song and Dance (Chatto & Windus, 2008) / John Fuller
4. A Draft of Light (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / John Hollander
5. The Lost Leader (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Mick Imlah

Nonfiction
1. Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River (John Murray, 2008) / Alice Albinia
2. The Three of Us: A Memoir (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Julia Blackburn
3. Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands (McSweeneys, 2008) / Michael Chabon
4. Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture (Peter Lang, 2008) / Amit Chaudhuri
5. Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008) / Susan Neiman
6. Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Robyn Scott
7. In Arabian Nights: In Search of Morocco Through Its Stories and Storytellers (Doubleday, 2008) / Tahir Shah