Tuesday, June 03, 2008

June 2008 Highlights

“It is the month of June,
The month of leaves and roses
When pleasant sights salute the eyes,
And pleasant scents the noses.”
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867)

Novels
1. The Telling (Portobello Books, 2008) / Jo Baker
2. The Lemur (Picador, 2008) / Benjamin Black
3. America America (Random House, 2008) / Ethan Canin
4. The Garden of Last Days (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Andre Dubus III
5. Prescription for a Superior Existence (Scribner, 2008) / Josh Emmons
6. The Red Scarf (Berkley, 2008) / Kate Furnivall
7. The Impostor (Atlantic, 2008) / Damon Galgut
8. Hope for Newborns (Faber and Faber, 2008) / Rodge Glass
9. The Other (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / David Guterson
10. The Vows of Silence (Chatto and Windus, 2008) / Susan Hill
11. Illuminations (Harvill Secker, 2008) / Eva Hoffman
12. Dead Man’s Footsteps (Macmillan, 2008) / Peter James
13. Human Love (trans. from the Russian by Geoffrey Strachan) (Sceptre, June 2008) / Andreï Makine
14. Sashenka (Bantam Press, 2008) / Simon Montefiore
15. My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike (Ecco, 2008) / Joyce Carol Oates
16. No One You Know (Delacorte, 2008) / Michelle Richmond
17. Cost (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) / Roxana Robinson
18. The Size of the World (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Joan Silber
19. More Than It Hurts You (Dutton, 2008) / Darin Strauss
20. The Standing Pool (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Adam Thorpe

First Novels
1. The Sister (published in the U.K. as The Behaviour of Moths) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Poppy Adams
2. A Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Michael Dahlie
3. Attachment (Chatto & Windus, 2008) / Isabel Fonseca
4. A Case of Exploding Mangoes (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Mohammed Hanif
5. The Gone-Away World (William Heinemann, 2008) / Nick Harkaway
6. An Atlas of Impossible Longing (Quercus, 2008) / Anuradha Roy
7. The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart (West Virginia University Press, 2008) / M. Glenn Taylor
8. Little Hut of Leaping Fishes (Picador, 2008) / Chiew-Siah Tei
9. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Ecco/HarperCollins, 008) / David Wroblewski
10. The Road from Damascus (Penguin/Hamish Hamilton, 2008) / Robin Yassin-Kassab
11. Peach Blossom Pavilion (Kensington Books, 2008) / Mingmei Yip

Stories
1. Say You’re One of Them (Little, Brown, 2008) / Uwem Akpan
2. The Complete Stories (Vintage, 2008) / David Malouf
3. Intercourse (Chronicle, June 2008) / Robert Olen Butler
4. Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love (Pantheon, 2008) / Lara Vapnyar

Poetry
1. Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006 (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Wendy Cope
2. Collected Poems (Fyfield, 2008) / Robert Maslen (ed. Mervyn Peake)
3. Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2008) / Christopher Middleton
4. Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon, 2008) / Brenda Shaughnessy

Nonfiction
1. The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) / Mark Abley
2. Dreaming Up America (Seven Stories Press, 2008) / Russell Banks
3. The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay (Atlas & Co., 2008) / Louis Begley
4. The Book of Dead Philosophers (Granta, 2008) / Simon Critchley
5. Semi Invisible Man: The Life of Norman Lewis (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Julian Evans
6. While They Slept: An Inquiry Into the Murder of a Family (Random House, 2008) / Kathryn Harrison
7. The Atlantic Ocean: Essays on Britain and America (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Andrew O’Hagan
8. The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars (Harmony, 2008) / Andrew X. Pham
9. When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Little, Brown, 2008) / David Sedaris
10. The Great Western Beach: A Memoir of a Cornish Childhood Between the Wars (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Emma Smith
11. The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (ed. Jay Parini) (Bantam/Doubleday, 2008) / Gore Vidal

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