May 2010 Highlights

Novels
1. Night of the Golden Butterfly (Verso, 2010) / Tariq Ali
2. The Pregnant Widow (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Martin Amis
3. The Song House (Picador, 2010) / Trezza Azzopardi
4. The Map of True Places (HarperCollins, 2010) / Brunonia Barry
5. The Missing Boy (Orion, 2010) / Rachel Billington
6. Truth to Tell (Hutchinson, 2010) / Mavis Cheek
7. 61 Hours (Delacorte Press, 2010) / Lee Child
8. The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim (Viking, 2010) / Jonathan Coe
9. Dark Places (Broadway, 2010) / Gillian Flynn
10. Deceptions (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Rebecca Frayn

11. The Summer We Read Gatsby (Penguin USA, 2010) / Danielle Ganek
12. The Castle in the Pyrenees (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010) / Jostein Gaarder
13. Everything Flows (trans. from the Russian by Robert Chandler) (Harvill Secker, 2010) / Vasily Grossman
14. Chosen (Tindal Street Press, 2010) / Lesley Glaister
15. The Red Thread (W.W. Norton, 2010) / Ann Hood
16. Dead Like You (Macmillan, 2010) / Peter James
17. The Ghost Rider (trans. from the French by Jon Rothschild) (Canongate, 2010) / Ismail Kadare
18. What the Day Owes the Night (William Heinemann, 2010) / Yasmina Khadra
19. Wonders of a Godless World (Blue Door/HarperCollins Publishers, 2010) / Andrew McGahan
20. Pearl of China (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Anchee Min

21. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet (Sceptre, 2010) / David Mitchell
22. The Same River Twice (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) / Ted Mooney
23. The Last Weekend (Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Blake Morrison
24. Ghost Light (Harvill Secker, 2010) / Joseph O’Connor
25. Men From the Boys (HarperCollins, 2010) / Tony Parsons
26. The Scent of Rain and Lightning (Random House, 2010) / Nancy Pickard
27. Private Life (Knopf Doubleday/Faber & Faber, 2010) / Jane Smiley
28. Husband and Wife (HarperCollins Publishers, 2010) / Leah Stewart
29. My Name Is Mary Sutter (Penguin Group USA, 2010) / Robin Oliveira
30. The Marrowbone Marble Company (Ecco, 2010) / M. Glenn Taylor

31. Our Tragic Universe (Canongate, 2010) / Scarlett Thomas
32. Sex & Stravinsky (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Barbara Trapido
33. Innocent (Grand Central, 2o1o) / Scott Turow
34. The Lonely Polygamist (W.W. Norton, 2010) / Brady Udall
35. The Stars in the Bright Sky (Jonathan Cape, 2010) / Alan Warner

First Novels
1. The House on Salt Hay Road (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Carin Clevidence
2. The Pleasure Seekers (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Tishani Doshi
3. Deloume Road (Jonathan Cape, 2010) / Matthew Hooton
4. By Fire, By Water (Other Press, 2010) / Mitchell James Kaplan
5. Girl in Translation (Riverhead, 2010) / Jean Kwok
6. A Vision of Loveliness (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Louise Levene
7. The Invisible Bridge (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Julie Orringer
8. The Death of Lomond Friel (Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Sue Peebles
9. Annabel (House of Anansi Press, 2010) / Kathleen Winter

Stories
1. And Thereby Hangs a Tale (Macmillan, 2010) / Jeffrey Archer
2. Mattaponi Queen (Graywolf Press, 2010) / Belle Boggs
3. This Cake is for the Party (Thomas Allen Publishers, 2010) / Sarah Selecky
4. In-flight Entertainment (Jonathan Cape, 2010) / Helen Simpson

Poetry
1. Dragon Talk (Bloodaxe, 2010) / Fleur Adcock
2. Seeing Stars (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Simon Armitage
3. The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Deborah Digges
4. What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo (Seren, 2010) / Pascale Petit
5. The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems (Picador, 2010) / Peter Porter
6. Rough Music (Carcanet Press, 2010) / Fiona Sampson

Nonfiction
1. About the Author: Inside the Creative Process (Fine Books Press, 2010) / Nicholas Basbanes
2. Ralph Ellison In Progress (Yale University Press, 2010) / Adam Bradley
3. At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Doubleday, 2010) / Bill Bryson
4. Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Emma Donoghue
5. Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character (University of Chicago Press, 2010) / Claude S. Fischer
6. So Much to Tell (Viking, 2010) / Valerie Grove
7. One More Theory About Happiness: A Memoir (Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, 2010) / Paul Guest
8. Wolf: The Lives of Jack London (Basic Books, 2010) / James L. Haley
9. The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography (Random House, 2010) / Selina Hastings
10. Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Daisy Hay

11. Andes (Granta, 2010) / Michael Jacobs
12. Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England (Oxford University Press USA, 2010) / Anthony Julius
13. The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2010) / Melvin Konner
14. Globish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language (Viking, 2010) / Robert McCrum
15. The Colossus of Maroussi (first published in 1941) (New Directions, 2010) / Henry Miller
16. The Life of Irène Némirovsky: Author of Suite Francaise (trans. from the French by Euan Cameron) (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Olivier Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt
17. A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Wendy Moffat
18. Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us (Simon & Schuster, 2010) / Ferdinand Mount
19. Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir (HarperPress, 2010) / Basharat Peer
20. Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography (The Free Press, 2010) / Alexandra Popoff

21. Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (Yale University Press, 2010) / Marilynne Robinson
22. Satisdiction: One Man’s Journey Into All the Words He’ll Ever Need (Penguin, 2010) / Ammon Shea
23. The Last Empty Places: A Past and Present Journey Through the Blank Spots on the American Map (2010) / Peter Stark