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