January 2009 Highlights

Novels
1. The Crossroads (trans. from the Italian by Jonathan Hunt) (Canongate, 2009) / Niccolò Ammaniti
2. Burial (Simon & Schuster, 2009) / Neil Cross
3. Once on a Moonless Night [trans. from the French, Par une nuit où la lune ne s’est pas levée (2007), by Adriana Hunter] (Chatto & Windus, 2009) / Dai Sijie
4. The Great Lover (Sceptre, 2009) / Jill Dawson
5. The Sky Below (Houghton Mifflin, 2009) / Stacey D’Erasmo
6. A Day and a Night and a Day (Ecco Books/HarperCollins Publishers, 2009) / Glen Duncan
7. The Associate (Doubleday, 2009) / John Grisham
8. The Book of Negroes (Transworld/Doubleday, 2009) / Lawrence Hill
9. The Hidden (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Tobias Hill
10. Jack London in Paradise (Simon & Schuster, 2009) / Paul Malmont
11. The Glass Room (Little, Brown, 2009) / Simon Mawer
12. The Holy City (Bloomsbury, 2009) / Patrick McCabe
13. The Elephant Keeper (Fourth Estate, 2009) / Christopher Nicholson
14. Byron In Love (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009) / Edna O’Brien
15. Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Jayne Anne Phillips
16. Heliopolis (Harvill Secker, 2009) / James Scudamore
17. The Island at the End of the World (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Sam Taylor
18. Land of Marvels (Hutchinson/Nan A. Talese, 2009) / Barry Unsworth

First Novels
1. The Outlander (Bloomsbury, 2009) / Gil Adamson
2. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County (Grand Central, 2009) / Tiffany Baker
3. The Moon Opera (trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) / Bi Feiyu
4. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Orion, 2009) / Alan Bradley
5. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Ballantine/Random House, 2009) / Jamie Ford
6. Tinkers (Bellevue Literary Press, 2009) / Paul Harding
7. An Equal Stillness (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009) / Francesca Kay
8. The Piano Teacher (Penguin, 2009) / Janice Y.K. Lee
9. The Rescue Man (Jonathan Cape, 2009) / Anthony Quinn
10. The Mayor’s Tongue (Chatto & Windus, 2009) / Nathaniel Rich

11. Water Dogs (Random House, 2009) / Lewis Robinson

Stories
1. The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008 (HarperCollins, 2009) / Louise Erdrich
2. Same Place, Same Things (Picador, 2009) / Tim Gautreaux
3. Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories (Voice, 2009) / Lauren Groff
4. The Last Bachelor (Bloomsbury, 2009) / Jay McInerney
5. Love Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Diana Secker Tesdell (ed.)

Poetry
1. Nine Fathom Deep (Bloodaxe, 2009) / David Constantine
2. What Goes On: New and Selected Poems 1995-2009 (W.W. Norton, 2009) / Stephen Dunn
3. A Scattering (Arete, 2009) / Christopher Reid
4. New Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Mark Strand

Nonfiction
1. Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation (Simon & Schuster, 2009) / David Denby
2. Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Adam Gopnik