Saturday, January 01, 2011

January 2011 Highlights

Novels
1. Panorama (trans. from the German by Peter Filkins) (Random House, 2011) / H.G. Adler
2. Chapman’s Odyssey (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Paul Bailey
3. Darkside (Bantam Press, 2011) / Belinda Bauer
4. By Nightfall (Fourth Estate, 2011) / Michael Cunningham
5. Being Polite to Hitler (Little, Brown, 2011) / Robb Forman Dew
6. The Lake of Dreams (Viking, 2011) / Kim Edwards
7. The Memory of Love (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011) / Aminatta Forna
8. Destiny and Desire (trans. from the Spanish by Edith Grossman) (Random House, 2011) / Carlos Fuentes
9. We Had It So Good (Virago Press, 2011) / Linda Grant
10. This Glittering World (Kensington, 2011) / T. Greenwood

11. The London Train (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Tessa Hadley
12. Don't Be Afraid (Random House Canada, 2011) / Steven Hayward
13. A Kind Man (Chatto & Windus, 2011) / Susan Hill
14. The Red Garden (Crown, 2011) / Alice Hoffman
15. Mistaken (John Murray, 2011) / Neil Jordan
16. A Special Relationship (Atria, 2011) / Douglas Kennedy
17. The Cypress House (Little, Brown, 2011) / Michael Koryta
18. Pictures of You (Algonquin Books, 2011) / Caroline Leavitt
19. Is Just a Movie (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Earl Lovelace
20. Cedilla (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Adam Mars-Jones

21. The Leopard (trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett) (Harvill Secker, 2011) / Jo Nesbø
22. Sugar Island (John Murray, 2011) / Sanjida O’Connell
23. The Guardians (Doubleday Canada, 2011) / Andrew Pyper
24. The Death Instinct (Riverhead, 2011) / Jeb Rubenfeld
25. The Still Point (Counterpoint, 2011) / Amy Sackville
26. Heartstone (Viking, 2011) / C.J. Sansom
27. The Gordian Knot (trans. from the German by Peter Constantine) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010) / Bernhard Schlink
28. A Man in Uniform (Crown, 2011) / Kate Taylor
29. Clara and Mr. Tiffany (Random House, 2011) / Susan Vreeland
30. Dream of Ding Village (trans. from the Chinese, Ding Zhuang Meng, by Cindy Carter) (Grove Atlantic, 2011) / Yan Lianke

First Novels
1. Rebirth (Penguin Books India, 2011) / Jahnavi Barua
2. The Weird Sisters (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 2011) / Eleanor Brown
3. Stealing Karma (HarperCollins India, 2011) / Aneesha Capur
4. Scissors, Paper, Stone (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Elizabeth Day
6. Merit Badges (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2011) / Kevin Fenton
7. The History of History (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Ida Hattemer-Higgins
8. The Poison Tree (Pamela Dorman Books, 2011) / Erin Kelly
9. The Fates Will Find Their Way (Ecco, 2011) / Hannah Pittard
10. Snowdrops (Atlantic Books, 2011) / A.D. Miller

11. To Algeria, With Love (Virago Press, 2011) / Suzanne Ruta
12. Ours Are the Streets (Picador, 2011) / Sunjeev Sahota
13. King Crow (Bluemoose Books, 2011) / Michael Stewart
14. Caribou Island (Penguin, 2011) / David Vann
15. Annabel (Grove/Black Cat, 2011) / Kathleen Winter

Stories
1. Palo Alto (Faber & Faber, 2011) / James Franco
2. Pulse (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Julian Barnes
3. Gryphon: New and Selected Stories (Pantheon/Knopf Doubleday, 2011) / Charles Baxter
4. The Beggar’s Garden (HarperCollins Canada, 2011) / Michael Christie
5. Quiet Americans (Last Light Studio, 2011) / Erika Dreifus
6. Widow (Bellevue Literary Press, 2011) / Michelle Latiolais
7. Night Soul and Other Stories (Dalkey Archive Press, 2011) / Joseph McElroy
8. Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) / Joyce Carol Oates
9. Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories (Lookout Books/University of North Carolina Press, 2011) / Edith Pearlman
10. The Empty Family (Scribner, 2011) / Colm Tóibín

11. While Mortals Sleep (Delacorte Books, 2011) / Kurt Vonnegut

Poetry
1. Collected Poems (ed. Matt McGuire) (Carcanet Press, 2011) / Iain Crichton Smith
2. Night (Faber & Faber, 2011) / David Harsent
3. Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2011) / Jaan Kaplinski
4. Fiere (Picador, 2011) / Jackie Kay
5. Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems (ed. Leslie Scalapino) (University of California Press, 2011) / Michael McClure
6. Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 (W.W. Norton, 2011) / Adrienne Rich
7. Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Róźewicz (trans. from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak) (W.W. Norton, 2012) / Tadeusz Róźewicz

Nonfiction
1. The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart (Rodale Books, 2011) / Stephen Amidon and Thomas Amidon
2. The Memory Palace: A Memoir (Free Press, 2011) / Mira Bartók
3. The Professor: A Sentimental Education (HarperCollins Publishers, 2011) / Terry Castle
4. Shi’ism: A Religion of Protest (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2011) / Hamid Dabashi
5. Lastingness: The Art of Old Age (Grand Central Publishing, 2011) / Nicholas Delbanco
6. Faulks on Fiction: Great British Characters and the Secret Life of the Novel (BBC Books, 2011) / Sebastian Faulks
7. How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One (Harper, 2011) / Stanley Fish
8. The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime (HarperPress, 2011) / Judith Flanders
9. Your Voice in My Head (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Emma Forrest
10. A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction (Oxford University Press USA, 2011) / Ruth Franklin

11. India: A Portrait (Allen Lane, 2011) / Patrick French
12. The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics (University of Akron Press, 2011) / Mary Biddinger & John Gallaher (eds.)
13. Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / John Gimlette
14. India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking (Times Books, 2011) / Anand Giridharadas
15. The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death (Allen Lane, 2011) / John Gray
16. Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2011) / Conor Grennan
17. All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age (Free Press, 2011) / Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
18. Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life (trans. from the Russian by Jane Ann Miller) (Yale University Press, 2011) / Lev Loseff
19. The Making of a Writer, Volume 2: Journals, 1963-1969 (Random House, 2011) / Gail Godwin (ed. Rob Neufeld)
20. What Do I Know? (Beautiful Books, 2011) / Paul Kent

21. I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Maxine Hong Kingston
22. Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / James Miller
23. Jerusalem: The Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011) / Simon Sebag Montefiore
24. Bird Cloud (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Annie Proulx
25. Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America (Little, Brown, 2011) / Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
26. Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing (Eco, 2011) / Roger Rosenblatt
27. Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York (De Capo Press, 2011) / Ariel Sabar
28. The Stranger in the Mirror (Chatto & Windus, 2011) / Jane Shilling
29. J.D. Salinger: A Life (Random House, 2011) / Kenneth Slawenski

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