October 2009 Highlights

Novels
1. Invisible (Henry Holt & Co., 2009) / Paul Auster
2. Too Many Magpies (Salt Publishing, 2009) / Elizabeth Baines
3. The Children’s Book (Knopf/Doubleday, 2009) / A.S. Byatt
4. Crossers (Knopf Doubleday, 2009) / Philip Caputo
5. Parrot and Olivier in America (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Australia, 2009) / Peter Carey
6. Dancing with Butterflies (Washington Square/Simon & Schuster, 2009) / Reyna Grande
7. The True Deceiver (trans. from the Swedish by Thomas Teal) (Sort Of Books, 2010) / Tove Jansson
8. Last Night in Twisted River (Random House/Bloomsbury, 2009) / John Irving
9. Chronic City (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Jonathan Lethem
10. Wolf Hall (Henry Holt, 2009) / Hilary Mantel
11. Wonders of a Godless World (Allen & Unwin, 2009) / Andrew McGahan
12. A Gate at the Stairs (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Lorrie Moore
13. The Winter Ghosts (Orion, 2009) / Kate Mosse
14. The Dogs and the Wolves (trans. from the French by Sandra Smith) (Chatto & Windus, 2009) / Irene Nemirovsky
15. Her Fearful Symmetry (Scribner/Jonathan Cape, 2009) / Audrey Niffenegger
16. The Museum of Innocence (trans. from the Turkish by Maureen Freely) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Orhan Pamuk
17. The Interrogative Mood (Ecco, 2009) / Padgett Powell
18. Season of Ash [trans. from the Spanish, No sera la Tierra (2006), by Alfred MacAdam] (Open Letter, 2009) / Jorge Volpi

First Novel
1. The Ghosts of Belfast (Soho Press, 2009) / Stuart Neville
2. Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 2009) / Jeanette Walls

Stories
1. What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009) / Laura van den Berg
2. Notwithstanding (Harvill Secker, 2009) / Louis de Bernières
3. Beginners (Jonathan Cape, 2009) / Raymond Carver
4. Ancestors and Others: New and Selected Stories (St. Martin’s Press, 2009) / Fred Chappell
5. Gentleman’s Relish (Fourth Estate, 2009) / Patrick Gale
6. Singularity (Jonathan Cape, 2009) / Charlotte Grimshaw
7. Presence: Collected Stories (first published by Penguin Group in the US in 2007) (Bloomsbury, 2009) / Arthur Miller
8. Love in Infant Monkeys (Soft Skull Press, 2009) / Lydia Millet
9. The Ghosts of Belfast (Soho Press, 2009) / Stuart Neville
10. The Bigness of the World (University of Georgia Press, 2009) / Lori Ostlund

11. Wax Boats (Caitlin Press, 2009) / Sarah Roberts
12. The Best American Short Stories 2009 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) / Alice Sebold & Heidi Pitlor (eds.)
13. War Dances (Grove/Atlantic, 2009) / Alexie Sherman
14. The Suicide Run (Random House, 2009) / William Styron

Poetry
1. The Sun-Fish (The Gallery Press, 2009) / Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
2. If I Were Another (trans. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) / Mahmoud Darwish
3. The Certainty Dream (Coach House Books, 2009) / Kate Hall
4. News of the World (Knopf Doubleday, 2009) / Philip Levine
5. Hide Now (Picador, 2009) / Glyn Maxwell
6. Berg (Seren Books, 2009) / Hilary Menos
7. Easy (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Marie Ponsot

Nonfiction
1. The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Chinua Achebe
2. Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son (HarperCollins, 2009) / Michael Chabon
3. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (Bloomsbury, 2009) / William Dalrymple
4. Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan (HarperCollins, 2009) / Ali Eteraz
5. In His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries (Cork University Press, 2009) / J.G. Farrell (ed. Lavinia Greacen)
6. Ayn Rand and the World She Made (Knopf Doubleday, 2009) / Anne C. Heller
7. Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home (Profile Books, 2009) / Susan Hill
8. The Blaze of Obscurity: Unreliable Memoirs V (Picador, 2009) / Clive James
9. Talking About Detective Fiction (The Bodleian Library, 2009) / P.D. James
10. Knut Hamsun: Dreamer and Dissenter (trans. from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik) (Yale University Press, 2009) / Ingar Sletten Kolloen

11. The Lexicographer’s Dilemma: The Evolution of ‘Proper’ English, from Shakespeare to South Park (Walker, 2009) / Jack Lynch
12. Love of the World: Essays (Faber & Faber, 2009) / John McGahern
13. Samuel Johnson: A Life (Henry Holt, 2009) / David Nokes
14. The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars (published by Allen Lane in the U.K. as The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars) (Penguin USA, 2009) / Richard Overy
15. Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (Henry Holt, 2009) / Harriet Reisen
16. The Invention of the Jewish People (trans. from the Hebrew by Yael Lotan) (Verson, 2009) / Shlomo Sand
17. The Gambling Man: Charles II and the People of The Restoration (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Jenny Uglow
18. The Magnetic North: Notes from the Artic Circle (Jonathan Cape, 2009) / Sara Wheeler