November 2009 Highlights

Novels
1. Invisible (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Paul Auster
2. The Story of Danny Dunn (Viking/Penguin Australia, 2009) / Bryce Courtenay
3. Truth or Fiction (Headline Review, 2009) / Jennifer Johnston
4. The Journey of Little Gandhi (trans. from the Arabic by Paula Haydar) (Picador USA, 2009) / Elias Khoury
5. The Lacuna (Faber & Faber/HarperCollins USA, 2009) / Barbara Kingsolver
6. The Art Student’s War (Knopf Doubleday, 2009) / Brad Leithauser
7. Lovesong (Allen & Unwin, 2009) / Alex Miller
8. The Original of Laura (Penguin, 2009) / Vladmir Nabokov
9. The Humbling (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) / Philip Roth
10. New York (Knopf Doubleday, 2009) / Edward Rutherfurd
11. A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta (Hamish Hamilton, 2009) / Paul Theroux
12. The Book of the Alchemist (Hodder & Stoughton, 2009) / Adam Williams

Stories
1. The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories (Bloomsbury, 2009) / Mavis Gallant
2. Ford County (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / John Grisham
3. A Good Fall (Pantheon/Knopf Doubleday, 2009) / Ha Jin
4. Irish Girls (University of North Texas Press, 2009) / Tim Johnston
5. The Mango War and Other Stories (New Island, 2009) / Martin Malone
6. Too Much Happiness (Knopf Doubleday, 2009) / Alice Munro
7. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (trans. from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) (Alfred A, Knopf, 2009) / Leo Tolstoy
8. The Collected Stories (Penguin, 2009) / William Trevor
9. Look at the Birdie (Delacorte Press, 2009) / Kurt Vonnegut

Poetry
1. Leavings (Counterpoint, 2009) / Wendell Berry
2. Watering Can (Carcanet Press, 2009) / Caroline Bird
3. Grain (Picador, 2009) / John Glenday
4. The Water Table (Bloodaxe Books, 2009) / Philip Gross
5. Looking Out, Looking in: New and Selected Poems (Anvil, 2009) /
E.A. Markham
6. Through the Square Window (Carcanet Press, 2009) / Sinéad Morrissey

Nonfiction
1. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill (Granta Books, 2009) / Diana Athill
2. Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Story (Salt Publishing, 2009) / Vanessa Gebbie
3. Lit: A Memoir (HarperCollins, 2009) / Mar Karr
4. Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Columbia University Press, 2009) / Richard Kearney
5. Concerning E.M. Forster (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009) / Frank Kermode
6. Bury Place Papers: Essays form the London Review of Books (London Review of Books, 2009) / Frank Kermode
7. The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Eleswhere (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) / Tabish Khair
8. Family Britain, 1951-1957 (Bloomsbury, 2009) / David Kynaston
9. Yours Ever: People and Their Letters (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Thomas Mallon
10. The Skeptical Romancer: Selected Travel Writing (Everyman’s Library, 2009) / W. Somerset Maugham (ed. Pico Iyer)

11. Contact! (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Jan Morris
12. The English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009) / Robert Morrison
13. The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World (Allen Lane, 2009) / David Priestland
14. The Arabs: A History (Allen Lane, 2009) / Eugene Rogan
15. Small Memories (trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa) (Harvill Secker, 2009) / José Saramago
16. Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life (Simon & Schuster, 2009) / Carol Sklenicka
17. Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing (Yale University Press, 2009) / Michael Slater
18. Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (Penguin/Hamish Hamilton, 2009) / Zadie Smith
19. Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner (Oxford University Press US, 2009) / Philip Weinstein
20. Memoir: A History (Penguin Group USA, 2009) / Ben Yagoda