March 2010 Highlights

Novels
1. The House of Bilqis (Penguin Group USA, 2010) / Azhar Abidi
2. The Girl Who Chased the Moon (Random House, 2010) / Sarah Addison Allen
3. Blooms of Darkness (trans. from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green) (Schocken, 2010) / Aharon Appelfeld
4. The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag (Random House, 2010) / Alan Bradley
5. 61 Hours (Bantam Press, 2010) / Lee Child
6. Savage Lands (Harvill Secker, 2010) / Clare Clark
7. Caught (Penguin USA, 2010) / Harlan Coben
8. Noir (Overlook, 2010) / Robert Coover
9. The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Patricia Duncker
10. Rat (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Fernanda Eberstadt

11. Salvage (Doubleday, 2010) / Robert Edric
12. Corrag (Fourth Estate, 2010) / Susan Fletcher
13. Inspector Singh Investigates: The Singapore School of Villainy (Piatkus/Little, Brown, 2010) / Shamini Flint
14. Something Red (Simon & Schuster, 2010) / Jennifer Gilmore
15. Seeing Stars (HarperCollins PublisHers, 20100 / Diane Hammond
16. Florence and Giles (Blue Door, 2010) / John Harding
17. The Concert Ticket (published as The Line in the US) (Viking, 2010) / Olga Grushin
18. A Room Swept White (Hodder & Stoughton, 2010) / Sophie Hannah
19. The Heights (Penguin USA, 2010) / Peter Hedges
20. Next (Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown, 2010) / James Hynes

21. The Birth of Love (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Joanna Kavenna
22. In the Company of Angels (Bloomsbury USA, 2010) / Thomas E. Kennedy
23. The Surrendered (Riverhead, 2010) / Chang-rae Lee
24. The Ask (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Sam Lipsyte
25. The Bishop’s Man (Jonathan Cape, 2010) / Linden MacIntyre
26. Solar (Jonathan Cape/Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Ian McEwan
27. Pearl of China (Bloomsbury USA, 2010) / Anchee Min
28. Walking to Gatlinburg (Crown Publishing, 2010) / Howard Frank Mosher
29. Fragile Beasts (Crown Publishing, 2010) / Tawni O’Dell
30. The Changeling (trans. from the Japanese by Deborah Boehm) (Grove/Atlantic, 2010) / Kenzaburo Oe

31. Landed (William Heinemann, 2010) / Tim Pears
32. House Rules (Atria, 2010) / Jodi Picoult
33. So Much for That (Harper/HarperCollins, 2010) / Lionel Shriver
34. Bone Fire (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Mark Spragg
35. Disappear (Virago Press, 2010) / Talitha Stevenson
36. At the Chime of a City Clock (Constable & Robinson, 2010) / D.J. Taylor
37. The Escape (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Adam Thirlwell
38. Curiosity (McClelland & Stewart, 2010) / Joan Thomas
39. Trespass (Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Rose Tremain
40. Naming the Bones (Canongate, 2010) / Louise Welsh

41. Petals from the Sky (Kensington Books, 2010) / Mingmei Yip

First Novels
1. Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto (Graywolf Press, 2010) / Maile Chapman
2. Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen (Hamish Hamilton, 2010) / Marilyn Chin
3. The Serialist (Simon & Schuster, 2010) / David Gordon
4. Secret Daughter (HarperCollins USA, 2010) / Shilpi Somaya Gowda
5. Hazard (St. Martin’s Manotaur, 2010) / Gardiner Harris
6. 31 Bond Street (Harper, 2010) / Ellen Horan
7. This Bleeding City (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Alex Preston
8. Eddie Signwriter (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Adam Schwartzman
9. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (Bloomsbury/Random House, 2010) / Helen Simonson
10. Chef (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Jaspreet Singh

11. The Lotus Eaters (St. Martin’s Press, 2010) / Tatjana Soli
12. The Return of Captain John Emmett (Virago, 2010) / Elizabeth Speller
13. The Temple-goers (Viking, 2010) / Atish Taseer
14. Angelology (Viking, 2010) / Danielle Trussoni
15. Cool Water (Phyllis Bruce Books, 2010) / Dianne Warren
16. If You Follow Me (Harper Perennial/HarperCollins, 2010) / Malena Watrous
17. As the Earth Turns Silver (Picador, 2010) / Alison Wong

Novellas/Stories
1. A Taste of Honey (Broadway, 2010) / Jabari Asim
2. If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This (Random House, 2010) / Robin Black
3. Point Omega (Picador, 2010) / Don DeLillo
4. The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg (Picador USA, 2010) / Deborah Eisenberg
5. Waiting for the Evening News: Stories of the South (Sceptre, 2010) / Tim Gautreaux
6. Collected Stories (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Hanif Kureishi
7. Call It What You Want (Tin House Books, 2010) / Keith Lee Morris
8. Burning Bright (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2010) / Ron Rash
9. Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (W.W. Norton, 2010) / Brad Watson
10. How to Escape from a Leper Colony: A Novella and Stories (Graywolf Press, 2010) / Tiphanie Yanique

Poetry
1. Ossuaries (McClelland & Stewart, 2010) / Dionee Brand
2. Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Henri Cole
3. Clamor (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2010) / Elyse Fenton
4. The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2010) / Robert Hass
5. Lighthead (Penguin Books, 2010) / Terrance Hayes
6. The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Edward Hirsch
7. Far District: Poems (Peepal Tress Press, 2010) / Ishion Hutchinson

8. An Autumn Wind (The Gallery Press, 2010) / Derek Mahon
9. Jilted City (Carcanet Press, 2010) / Patrick McGuiness
10. Silent Letters of the Alphabet (Bloodaxe, 2010) / Ruth Padel

11. The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Grove/Atlantic, 2010) / Kay Ryan
12. Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems (eds. James Meetze and Simon Pettet) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / James Schuyler
13. The Reinvention of the Human Hand (McClelland & Stewart, March 2010) / Paul Vermeersch
14. White Egrets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) / Derek Walcott

Nonfiction
1. Gandhi: Naked Ambition (Quercus, 2010) / Jad Adams
2. Restless Cities (Versoo, 2010) / Matthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart (eds.)
3. Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town (Penguin USA, 2010) / Christopher de Bellaigue
4. Imperfect Endings: A Daughter’s Tale of Life and Death (Simon & Schuster, 2010) / Zoe FitzGerald Carter
5. Shouting Down the Silence: A Biography of Stanley Elkin (University of Illinois Press, 2010) / David C. Dougherty
6. My Animal Life (Telegram Books, 2010) / Maggie Gee
7. The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps (trans. from the French by David Fernbach) (Verso, 2010) / Eric Hazan
8. The Life of Irene Nemirovsky (Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Olivier Lienhardt and Patrick Philipponnat (trans. from the French by Euan Cameron)
9. My First New York: Early Adventures in the Big City (As Remembered by Actors, Artists, Athletes, Chefs, Comedians, Filmmakers, Mayors, Models, Moguls, Porn Stars, Rockers, Writers, and Others) (HarperCollins, March 2010) / David Haskell & Adam Moss (eds.)
10. Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Penguin USA/Viking, 2010) / Diarmaid MacCulloch

11. A Reader on Reading (Yale University Press, 2010) / Alberto Manguel
12. Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life (Broadway, 2010) / Frances Mayes
13. Silk Parachute (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / John McPhee
14. London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945 (Atlantic Books, 2010) / Barry Miles
15. Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife (HarperCollins, 2010) / Lisa Miller
16. Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir (Harvill Secker/Pantheon, 2010) / Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
17. Molotov’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Rachel Polonsky
18. True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (Yale University Press, 2010) / Christopher Ricks
19. Guilt About the Past (House of Anansi Press, 2010) / Bernhard Schlink
20. JD Salinger: A Life Raised High (Pomona, 2010) / Kenneth Slawenski

21. Pearl Buck in China (Profile, 2010) / Hilary Spurling
22. Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Simon Winder
23. Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2010) / Julian Young