January 2010 Highlights

Novels
1. The House of the Mosque [trans. from the Dutch, Et huis van de moskee (2005), by Susan Massotty] (Canongate, 2010) / Kader Abdolah
2. The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God (Everyman’s Library/Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Chinua Achebe
3. Map of the Invisible World (Random House, 2010) / Tash Aw
4. Monsieur Pain (trans. from the Spanish by Chris Andrews) (New Directions, 2010) / Roberto Bolaño
5. Captured (Simon & Schuster, 2010) / Neil Cross
6. The Privileges (Random House, 2010) / Jonathan Dee
7. Three Days Before the Shooting ... (eds. John F. Callahan and Adam Bradley) (Modern Library, 2010) / Ralph Ellison
8. The Blasphemer (Doubleday, 2010) / Nigel Farndale
8. The Unnamed (Little, Brown, 2010) / Joshua Ferris
9. Long Time Coming (Bantam Press, 2010) / Robert Goddard
10. Unfinished Desires (Random House, 2009) / Gail Godwin

11. The Lock Artist (St. Martin’s Press, 2010) / Steve Hamilton
12. Union Atlantic (Doubleday/Talese, 2010) / Adam Haslett
13. The Swan Thieves (Little, Brown, 2010) / Elizabeth Kostova
14. The Amazing Absorbing Boy (Knopf Canada, 2010) / Rabindranath Maharaj
15. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze (W.W. Norton, 2010) / Maaza Mengiste
16. February (Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Lisa Moore
17. The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (Random House, 2010) / Thomas Mullen
18. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God (Pantheon, 2010) / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
19. A Fair Maiden (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Joyce Carol Oates
20. Generosity (Atlantic Books, 2010) / Richard Powers

21. The Patience Stone (trans. from the French by Polly McLean) (Other Press/Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Atiq Rahimi
22. The Coral Thief (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010) / Rebecca Stott
23. The Boat to Redemption (trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt) (Doubleday, 2010) / Su Tong
24. An Irish Country Girl (Forge, 2010) / Patrick Taylor
25. Truth (Quercus Publishing, 2010) / Peter Temple
26. Noah’s Compass (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) / Anne Tyler
27. The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai (trans. from the Chinese by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan) (Columbia University Press, 2010) / Wang Anyi
28. The Bed I Made (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Lucie Whitehouse
29. Safe from the Neighbors (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Steve Yarbrough

First Novels
1. Blacklands (Simon & Schuster/Bantam/Corgi, 2010) / Belinda Bauer
2. Mr Shivers (Orbit, 2010) / Robert Jackson Bennett
3. Bloodroot (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Amy Greene
4. Rupture (Picador, 2010) / Simon Lelic
5. A Life Apart (Constable & Robinson, 2010) / Neel Mukherjee
6. Black Mamba Boy (HarperCollins, 2010) / Nadifa Mohamed
7. Wench (HarperCollins USA, 2010) / Dolen Perkins-Valdez
8. Catch (Jonathan Cape, 2010) / Simon Robson
9. The J-Word (Snowbooks, 2010) / Andrew Sanger
10. The Girl with Glass Feet (first published in the U.K. in May 2009) (Henry Holt, 2010) / Ali Shaw

11. The Blue Orchid (Simon & Schuster, 2010) / Jackson Taylor
12. Snow Angels (Putnam, 2010) / James Thompson

Novellas/Stories
1. Where the God of Love Hangs Out (Random House, 2010) / Amy Bloom
2. Wild Child and Other Stories (Viking, 2010) / T.C. Boyle
3. In Envy Country (The University of Notre Dame Press, 2010) / Joan Frank
4. The Unspoken Truth (Chatto & Windus/Random House, 2010) / Angelica Garnett
5. The Farmer’s Daughter (Grove, 2010) / Jim Harrison
6. Day Out of Days (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Sam Shepard
7. Fun with Problems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Robert Stone

Poetry
1. Love Poems (Picador, 2010) / Carol Ann Duffy
2. A Hospital Odyssey (Bloodaxe, 2010) / Gwyneth Lewis
3. At the End of the Day: Selected Poems and an Introductory Essay (Marsh Hawk Press, 2010) / Phillip Lopate
4. Small Hours (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Lachlan Mackinnon
5. A Curious Shipwreck (Shearsman Books, 2010) / Steve Spence

Nonfiction
1. The Education of a British-protected Child (Allen Lane, 2010) / Chinua Achebe
2. How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Sarah Bakewell
3. Imagination in Place (Counterpoint, 2010) / Wendell Berry
4. For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Frederick Brown
5. Waking Up in Boytown (Jonathan Cape, 2010) / John Burnside
6. Blood & Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614 (C. Hurst & Co., 2010) / Matthew Carr
7. After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell and Purgatory (Oxford University Press USA, 2010) / John Casey
8. The Professor and Other Writings (Harper, 2010) / Terry Castle
9. Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010) / Antonia Fraser
10. Americans in Paris: Life & Death Under Nazi Occupation (Penguin USA, 2010) / Charles Glass

11. A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2010) / Elena Gorokhova
12. Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years (Random House, 2010) / Michael Shelden
13. Devotion: A Memoir (HarperCollins, 2010) / Dani Shapiro
14. The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Random house, 2010) / Alison Weir
15. A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (Random House, 2010) / Robert S. Wistrich