June 2010 Highlights

Novels
1. The Reconstructionist (Hutchinson, 2010) / Nick Arvin
2. My American Unhappiness (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Dean Bakopoulos
3. A Fierce Radiance (HarperCollins, 2010) / Lauren Belfer
4. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Doubleday, 2010) / Aimee Bender
5. Three Sisters (trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin) (Telegram Books, 2010) / Bi Feiyu
6. New Town Soul (New Island Books, 2010) / Dermot Bolger
7. Leaving Rock Harbor (Scribner, 2010) / Rebecca Chace
8. The Passage (Ballantine, 2010) / Justin Cronin
9. Whatever You Love (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Louise Doughty
10. A Place of Meadows and Tall Trees (Seren, 2010) / Clare Dudman

11. Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore (Virago, 2010) / Stella Duffy
12. A Visit from the Goon Squad (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Jennifer Egan
13. Imperial Bedrooms (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Bret Easton Ellis
14. City of Veils (Little, Brown, 2010) / Zoë Ferraris
15. Spies of the Balkans (Random House, 2010) / Alan Furst
16. The Rebellion of Jane Clarke (William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers, 2010) / Sally Gunning
17. Grace Williams Says It Loud (Sceptre, 2010) / Emma Henderson
18. Beautiful Maria of My Soul (Hyperion, 2010) / Oscar Hijuelos
19. Backseat Saints (Grand Central Publishing, 2010) / Joshilyn Jackson
20. So Cold the River (Little, Brown, 2010) / Michael Koryta

21. The Ask (Old Street, 2010) / Sam Lipsyte
22. The Book of Human Skin (Penguin Canada, 2010) / Michelle Lovric
23. Playing Days (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Benjamin Markovits
24. Beatrice and Virgil (Canongate, 2010) / Yann Martel
25. The Mountain Between Us (Broadway Books, 2010) / Charles Martin
26. The Devil Amongst the Lawyers (Thomas Dunne Books, 2010) / Sharyn McCrumb
27. American Music (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Jane Mendelsohn
28. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Random House, 2010) / David Mitchell
29. The Nobodies Album (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Carolyn Parkhurst
30. Repeat It Today With Tears (Serpent’s Tail, 2010) / Anne Peile

31. Forgetting Zoe (William Heinemann, 2010) / Ray Robinson
32. The Opposite of Falling (Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Jennie Rooney
33. An American Type (W.W. Norton, 2010) / Henry Roth
34. The Forty Rules of Love (Penguin Viking, 2010) / Elif Shafak
35. The Lovers (Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, 2010) / Vendela Vida

First Novels
1. The Art of Devotion (Gallery Press, 2011) / Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
2. Grace Williams Says It Loud (Sceptre, 2010) / Emma Henderson
3. The Quickening (Other Press, 2010) / Michelle Hoover
4. Serious Men (John Murray, 2010) / Manu Joseph
5. The Poison Tree (Hodder & Stoughton, 2010) / Erin Kelly
6. Bitter Leaf (Virago Press, 2010) / Chioma Okereke
7. Repeat It Today With Tears (Serpent’s Tail, 2010) / Anne Peile
8. Galveston (Simon & Scuster, 2010) / Nic Pizzolatto
9. Perfect Reader (Random House, 2010) / Maggie Pouncey
10. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives (William Morrow, 2010) / Lola Shoneyin

11. The Madonnas of Echo Park (Simon & Schuster, 2010) / Brando Skyhorse
12. Ilustrado (Picador, 2010) / Miguel Syjuco

Novellas/Stories
1. Walks with Men (Scribner, 2010) / Ann Beattie
2. If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This (Picador, 2010) / Robin Black
3. The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Joseph Epstein
4. The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay (Viking/Penguin Group USA, 2010) / Beverly Jensen
5. Stories: All-New Tales (William Morrow/Headline Review, 2010) / Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio (eds.)
6. Double Happiness (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic, 2010) / Mary-Beth Hughes
7. Greedy Little Eyes (Random House Canada, 2010) / Billie Livingston
8. The Spot (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Faber & Faber, 2010) / David Means
9. Mud: Stories of Sex and Love (Virago, 2010) / Michèle Roberts

Poetry
1. Cities (Carcanet Press, 2010) / Elaine Feinstein
2. Standard Midland (Bloodaxe, 2010) / Roy Foster
3. You (Seren, 2010) / John Haynes

Nonfiction
1. The Sultan’s Shadow: One Family’s Rule at the Crossroads of East and West (Random House, 2010) / Christiane Bird
2. Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man (Little, Brown, 2010) / Bill Clegg
3. Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-1993 (Sort Of Books, 2010) / Paul Bowles
4. My Life in Pieces: An Alternative Autobiography (Nick Hern Books, 2010) / Simon Callow
5. How Did You Get This Number (Riverhead/Penguin USA, 2010) / Sloane Crosley
6. A Little Book of Language (Yale University Press, 2010) / David Crysta
7. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) / William Dalrymple
8. Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World (William Heinemann, 2010) / Guy Deutscher
9. Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds (Penguin USA, 2010) / Lyndall Gordon
10. Hitch-22: A Memoir (Twelve, 2010) / Christopher Hitchens

11. Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey (Picador, 2010) / Jackie Kay
12. I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives From the Other Side of Silence (Graywolf Press, 2010) / Kim Dana Kupperman
13. Nabokov, Perversely (Cornell University Press, 2010) / Eric Naiman
14. In Rough Country: Essays and Reviews (Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, 2010) / Joyce Carol Oates
15. Fly Away: The Great African American Cultural Migration (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) / Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott
16. Muck: A Memoir (W.W. Norton, 2010) / Craig Sherborne
17. The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope (Atlantic Books, 2010) / Roger Scruton
18. J.M. Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on Literature (Columbia University Press, 2010) / Anton Leist & Peter Singer (eds.)
19. History and the Enlightenment (Yale University Press, 2010) / Hugh Trevor-Roper
20. The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance (Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Edmund De Waal