September 2009 Highlights

Novels
1. The Year of the Flood (Bloomsbury/Nan A. Talese, 2009) / Margaret Atwood
2. The Anthologist (Simon & Schuster, 2009) / Nicholson Baker
3. The Infinities (Picador, 2009) / John Banville
4. The Last Woman (McClelland & Stewart, 2009) / John Bemrose
5. Hell (Grove Atlantic, 2009) / Robert Olen Butler
6. Summertime (Harvill Secker, 2009) / J.M. Coetzee
7. The Bradshaw Variations (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Rachel Cusk
8. Spooner (Grand Central, 2009) / Pete Dexter
9. Homer & Langley (Random House, 2009) / E.L. Doctorow
10. A Week in December (Hutchinson, 2009) / Sebastian Faulks

11. Inspector Singh Investigates: A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul (Piatkus/Little, Brown, 2009) / Shamini Flint
12. The Love Children (Feminist Press, 2009) / Marilyn French
13. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Chatto & Windus, 2009) / Jane Gardam
14. How to Paint a Dead Man (HarperCollins, 2009) / Sarah Hall
15. Eating Air (Telegram Books, 2009) / Pauline Melville
16. No Time to Wave Goodbye (Random House, 2009) / Jacqueline Mitchard
17. A Gate at the Stairs (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Lorrie Moore
18. Her Fearful Symmetry (Simon & Schuster, 2009) / Audrey Niffenegger
19. Anna In-Between (Akashic Books, 2009) / Elizabeth Nunez
20. Little Bird of Heaven (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2009) / Joyce Carol Oates

21. The Museum of Innocence (trans. from the Turkish by Maureen Freely) (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Orhan Pamuk
22. Generosity: An Enhancement (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) / Richard Power
23. The Complaints (Orion, 2009) / Ian Rankin
24. New York (Century, 2009) / Edward Rutherfurd
25. The Shrimp People (first published by Times Books International in 1991: Marshall Cavendish, 2009) / Rex Shelley
26. Dragon House (Penguin USA, 2009) / John Shors
27. A Change in Altitude (Little, Brown, 2009) / Anita Shreve
28. The Coral Thief (Random House, 2009) / Rebecca Stott
29. Sunset Oasis (trans. from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies) (Sceptre, 2009) / Bahaa Taher
30. Truth (Text Publishing, 2009) / Peter Temple

31. The Promised World (Simon & Schuster, 2009) / Lisa Tucker
32. The Financial Lives of the Poets (HarperCollins USA, 2009) / Jess Walter

First Novels
1. Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen (W.W. Norton, 2009) / Marilyn Chin
2. Mathilda Savitch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Fourth Estate, 2009) / Victor Lodato
3. Under Fishbone Clouds (Polygon/Birlinn, 2009) / Sam Meekings
4. Under This Unbroken Sky (HarperCollins, 2009) / Shandi Mitchell
5. Picking Bones from Ash (Graywolf Press, 2009) / Marie Mutsuki Mockett
6. The Boy Next Door (Little, Brown, 2009) / Irene Sabatini
7. Beauty (Tindal Street Press, 2009) / Raphael Selbourne

Stories
1. The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard (W.W. Norton, 2009) / J.G. Ballard
2. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) / Lydia Davis
3. The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories (New York Review Books, 2009) / Mavis Gallant
4. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Kazuo Ishiguro
5. All That Work and Still No Boys (University of Iowa Press, 2009) / Kathryn Ma
6. Nude (Salt Publishing, 2009) / Nuala Ní Chonchúir

Poetry
1. The Bride of E (Graywolf, 2009) / Mary Jo Bang
2. Apocalyptic Swing (Persea Books, 2009) / Gabrielle Calvocoressi
3. Leaving Fingerprints (Bloodaxe, 2009) / Imtiaz Dharker
4. A Village Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) / Louise Glück
5. Evidence (Bloodaxe, 2009) / Mary Oliver
6. Rain (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Don Patterson
7. The Burning of the Books and Other Poems (Bloodaxe, 2009) / George Szirtes
8. Wheeling Motel (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Franz Wright

Nonfiction
1. Venice: Pure City (Chatto & Windus, 2009) / Peter Ackroyd
2. The Case for God (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Karen Armstrong
3. The Oxford Companion to English Literature (Oxford University Press, 2009) / Dinah Birch (ed.)
4. The Wonder of Whiffling and Other Extraordinary Words in the English Language (Particular Books/Penguin, 2009) / Adam Jacot de Boinod
5. Burmese Lessons: A Love Story (Random House Canada, 2009) / Karen Connelly
6. Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (W.W. Norton, 2009) / Morris Dickstein
7. A Writer’s Britain (Thames & Hudson, 2009) / Margaret Drabble
8. William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies (Faber & Faber, 2009) / John Carey
9. The Music Room: A Memoir (W.W. Norton, 2009) / William Fiennes
10. Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life (Other Press, 2009) / Michael Greenberg

11. Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage (Yale University Press, 2009) / Peter Forbes
12. The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham (John Murray, 2009) / Selina Hastings
13. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Allen Lane, 2009) / Diarmaid MacCulloch
14. Delight (first published in 1949) (Great Northern Books, 2009) / J.B. Priestley
15. Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife (HarperCollins, 2009) / Francine Prose
16. The Idea of Justice (Harvard University Press, 2009) / Amartya Sen
17. Charles Dickens (Yale University Press, 2009) / Michael Slater
18. Letters to My Father (ed. James L.W. West III) (Louisiana State University Press, 2009) / William Styron
19. Jolly Wicked, Actually: The 100 Words That Make Us English (Little, Brown, 2009) / Tony Thorne
20. Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia (Fourth Estate, 2009) / Francis Wheen