February 2010 Highlights

Novels
1. Eight White Nights (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / André Aciman
2. The Room and the Chair (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Lorraine Adams
3. The Poet’s Wife (Black Swan, 2010) / Judith Allnatt
4. The Pregnant Widow (Jonathan Cape, 2010) / Martin Amis
5. The Last Brother (trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan) (MacLehose Press, 2010) / Nathacha Appanah
6. The Infinities (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / John Banville
7. Secrets of Eden (Crown, 2010) / Chris Bohjalian
8. Monsieur Pain (trans. from the Spanish by Chris Andrews) (W.W. Norton, 2010) / Roberto Bolaño
9. Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Peter Carey
10. Savage Lands (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Clare Clark

11. Hearts and Minds (Abacus, 2010) / Amanda Craig
12. Into Suez (Parthian Books, 2010) / Stevie Davies
13. Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show (Random House, 2010) / Frank Delaney
14. One Amazing Thing (Voice, 2010) / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
15. Shadow Tag (Harper, 2010) / Louise Erdrich
16. Isa & May (Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Margaret Forster
17. At the Loch of the Green Corrie (Quercus Publishing, 2010) / Andrew Greig
18. Horns (HarperCollins, 2010) / Joe Hill
19. Desert (trans. From the French by C. Dickson) (Atlantic Books, 2010) / J.M.G. Le Clézio
20. The Long Song (Headline Review, 2010) / Andrea Levy

21. The Man from Beijing (trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson) (Harvill Secker/Knopf Doubleday) / Henning Mankell
22. The Wilding (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Maria McCann
23. Even the Dogs (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Jon McGregor
24. The Information Officer (Random House, 2010) / Mark Mills
25. The Man Who Disappeared (Sceptre, 2010) / Clare Morrall
26. Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest (trans. from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston) (Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Amos Oz
27. The Bell Ringers (published in the U.K. in 2009 as The Dying Lights) (Atlantic Monthly, 2010) / Henry Porter
28. Little Hands Clapping (Canongate, 2010) / Dan Rhodes
29. The Three Weissmanns of Westport (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Cathleen Schine
30. The Forty Rules of Love (Penguin USA, 2010) / Elif Shafak

31. The Abyss of Human Illusion (Coffee House Press, 2010) / Gilbert Sorrentino
32. A Dark Matter (Doubleday, 2010) / Peter Straub
33. The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010) / Paul Torday
34. A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Paul Theroux
35. The Other Family (Doubleday, 2010) / Joanna Trollope
36. The Final Act of Mr Shakespeare (Little, Brown, 2010) / Robert Winder

First Novels
1. Mornings in Jenin (originally published as The Scar of David in 2006) (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Susan Abulhawa
2. Before the Earthquake (Tindall Street Press, 2010) / Maria Allen
3. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010) / Heidi W. Durrow
4. Union Atlantic (Knopf Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 2010) / Adam Haslett
5. This Time Tomorrow (St. Martin’s Press, 2010) / Michael Jaime-Bercerra
6. The Gin Closet (Free Press, 2010) / Leslie Jamison
7. The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Zachary Mason
8. Where the Serpent Lives (Little, Brown, 2010) / Ruth Padel
9. Homecomings (Two Ravens Press, 2010) / Donald Paterson
10. Model Home (Scribner, 2010) / Eric Puchner

11. The Still Point (Portobello Books, 2010) / Amy Sackville

Novellas/Stories
1. Something Is Out There (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Richard Bausch
2. Never Breathe a Word: The Collected Stories of Caroline Blackwood (Counterpoint, 2010) / Caroline Blackwood
3. A Jew Must Die (trans. From the French by W. Donald Wilson) (Bitter Lemon Press, 2010) / Jacques Chessex
4. Point Omega (Simon & Schuster, 2010) / Don DeLillo
5. Ghosts of Wyoming (Graywolf Press, 2010) / Alyson Hagy
6. Apparition & Late Fictions: A Novella and Stories (Jonathan Cape, 2010) / Thomas Lynch
7. Every Thing Here is the Best Thing Ever (Harper Perennial, 2010) / Justin Taylor

Poetry
1. Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Dan Chiasson
2. The Wrecking Light (Picador, 2010) / Robin Robertson

Nonfiction
1. The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Elif Batuman
2. Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents (Princeton University Press, 2010) / Ian Buruma
3. The Thirties: An Intimate History (Harper Press, 2010) / Juliet Gardiner
4. Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds (Virago, 2010) / Lyndall Gordon
5. Yehuda Halevi (Schocken, 2010) / Hillel Halkin
6. The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps (Verso, 2010) / Eric Hazan
7. Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory (Harper/HarperCollins, 2010) / Peter Hessler
8. Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England (Oxford University Press, 2010) / Anthony Julius
9. Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist’s Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland (Scribner, 2010) / Basharat Peer
10. True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (Yale University Press, 2010) / Christopher Ricks

11. The Shape of the Beast (Hamish Hamilton, 2010) / Arundhati Roy
12. The Bread of Angels: A Journey to Love and Faith (Doubleday, 2010) / Stephanie Saldana
13. Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Michael Scammell
14. Guilt About the Past (Beautiful Books, 2010) / Bernhard Schlink
15. The Journal Keeper: A Memoir (Grove/Atlantic, 2010) / Phyllis Theroux
16. History and the Enlightenment (Yale University Press, 2010) / Hugh Trevor-Roper
17. Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern (Picador, 2010) / Simon Winder
18. The Mystery of Lewis Carroll (St. Martin’s Press, 2010) / Jenny Woolf