October 2008 Highlights

Novels
1. The Eleventh Man (Harcourt, 2008) / Ivan Doig
2. I See You Everywhere (Pantheon, October 2008) / Julia Glass
3. Me and Kaminski (Quercus, 2008) / Daniel Kehlmann [trans. from the German, Ich und Kaminski (2003), by Carol Brown Janeway)
4. A Mercy (Chatto & Windus, 2008) / Toni Morrison
5. All the Worldly Goods (trans. from the French by Sandra Smith) (Chatto & Windus, 2008) / Irène Némirovsky
6. Songs for the Missing (Viking, 2008) / Stewart O’Nan
7. Serena (Ecco, 2008) / Ron Rash

8. Testimony (Little, Brown, 2008) / Anita Shreve
9. The Flying Troutmans (Counterpoint, 2008) / Miriam Toews
10. The Widows of Eastwick (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / John Updike

Novella
1. The Scream (McClelland & Stewart, 2008) / Rohinton Mistry (with illustrations by Tony Urquhart)

Stories
1. The Development (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) / John Barth
2. The Best American Short Stories 2008 (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) / Salman Rushdie and Heidi Pitlor (eds.)
3. The First Person and Other Stories (Hamish Hamilton, 2008) / Ali Smith
4. Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories (Bison Books, 2008) / Katherine Vaz

Poetry
1. Taking the Occasion (Ivan R. Dee, 2008) / Daniel Brown
2. Theories and Apparitions (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Mark Doty
3. Hide Now (Picador, October 2008) / Glyn Maxwell
4. An Aquarium (Graywolf Press, 2008) / Jeffrey Yang

Nonfiction
1. AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India (Anchor, 2008) / Negar Akhavi (ed.)
2. Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (Grove Press, 2008) / Tim Butcher
3. Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare (Oxford University Presss, 2008) / Jeremy Butterfield
4. Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor (Princeton University Press, 2008) / Ted Cohen
5. The Irish Americans: A History (Bloomsbury USA, 2008) / Jay P. Dolan
6. Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey (Little, Brown, 2008) / William Least Heat-Moon
7. Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life (Penguin/Viking, 2008) / Paul Mariani
8. The Man Who Invented History: Travels With Herodotus (John Murray, 2008) / Justin Marozzi
9. Gabriel Garcia Márquez: A Life (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Gerald Martin
10. The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / Steven Nadler
11. Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays (Harcourt, 2008) / George Orwell (ed. George Packer)
12. All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays (Harcourt, 2008) / George Orwell (ed. George Packer)
13. Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America (Doubleday, 2008) / Jay Parini