July 2010 Highlights

Novels
1. Citrus County (McSweeney’s, 2010) / John Brandon
2. Everything (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2010) / Kevin Canty
3. A Different Sky (Harvill Secker, 2010) / Meira Chand
4. Kings of the Earth (Random House, 2010) / Jon Clinch
5. Work Song (Riverhead, 2010) / Ivan Doig
6. Faithful Place (Viking, 2010) / Tana French
7. The Cookbook Collector (Random House, 2010) / Allegra Goodman
8. At Sea (Quercus Publishing, 2010) / Laurie Graham
9. The Radleys (Canongate, 2010) / Matt Haig
10. The Woodcutter (HarperCollins, 2010) / Reginald Hill

11. Elegies for the Brokenhearted (W.W. Norton, 2010) / Christie Hodgen
12. The Death of the Adversary (trans. from the German by Ivo Jarosy) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Hans Keilson
13. Comedy in a Minor Key (trans. from the German by Damion Searls) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Hans Keilson
14. Father of the Rain (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010) / Lily King
15. The Thieves of Manhattan (Random House/Spiegel & Grau, 2010) / Adam Langer
16. The Four Fingers of Death (Little, Brown, 2010) / Rick Moody
17. Red Rain (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Bruce Murkoff
18. Jezebel (trans. from the French by Sandra Smith) (Vintage, 2010) / Irène Némirovsky
19. What Is Left the Daughter (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Howard Norman
20. The News Where You Are (Viking, 2010) / Catherine O’Flynn

21. I Curse the River of Time (trans. from the Swedish by Charlotte Barslund) (Harvill Secker, 2010) / Per Petterson
22. The Misogynist (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Piers Paul Read
23. Inheritance (Harvill Secker, 2010) / Nicholas Shakespeare
24. Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer (Jonathan Cape, 2010) / Wesley Stace
25. Buddha’s Orphans (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Samrat Upadhyay
26. Two for Sorrow (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Nicola Upson
27. Red Hook Road (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Ayelet Waldman
28. Fauna (Random House Canada, 2010) / Alissa York

First Novels
1. The Quickening (Other Press, 2010) / Michelle Hoover
2. The Seas (Corsair, 2010) / Samantha Hunt
3. Beautiful Malice (Bantam/Random House/Faber & Faber, 2010) / Rebecca James
4. Saraswati Park (Fourth Estate, 2010) / Anjali Joseph
5. Finny (Random House, 2010) / Justin Kramon
6. The Fan Tan Players (Sandstone Press, 2010) / Julian Lees
7. The Doctor and the Diva (Pamela Dorman/Viking, 2010) / Adrienne McDonnell
8. Heartbreak (Atlantic Books, 2010) / Craig Raine
9. The Canal (Melville House, 2010) / Lee Rourke
10. The Language of Trees (HarperCollins Publishers, 2010) / Ilie Ruby

11. The Blind Contessa’s New Machine (Pamela Dorman/Viking, 2010) / Carey Wallace

Stories
1. Memory Wall (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 2010) / Anthony Doerr
2. The Surf Guru (Riverhead Books, 2010) / Doug Dorst
3. The Daylight and the Dust: Selected Short Stories (Virago Press, 2010) / Janet Frame
4. Travelling Light (Sort Of Books, 2010) / Tove Jansson
5. Death Is Not an Option (W.W. Norton, 2010) / Suzanne Rivecca

Poetry
1. Running the Dusk (Peepal Tree Press, 2010) / Christian Campbell
2. In the Flesh (Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Adam O’Riordan
3. Of Mutability (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Jo Shapcott
4. The Floating Man (Picador, 2010) / Katharine Towers

Nonfiction
1. Beauty and Sadness (House of Anansi Press, 2010) / André Alexis
2. A Preparation for Death (Penguin, 2010) / Greg Baxter
3. The Art of Description: World Into Words (Graywolf Press, 2010) / Mark Doty
4. Wish You Were Here: England on Sea (Sceptre, 2010) / Travis Elborough
5. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Allen Lane, 2010) / Andrew Gaham-Dixon
6. In Ishmael’s House: A History of the Jews in Muslim Lands (Yale University Press, 2010) / Martin Gilbert
7. What Ever Happened to Modernism? (Yale University Press, 2010) / Gabriel Josipovici
8. Encounter (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Milan Kundera
9. Hancox: A House and a Family (Viking, 2010) / Charlotte Moore
10. West: A Journey Through the Landscapes of Loss (Atlantic Books, 2010) / Jim Perrin

11. Driving Home: An American Scrapbook (Picador, 2010) / Jonathan Raban
12. Counterpoints: Edward Said’s Legacy / May Telmisanny & Stephanie Tara Schwartz (eds.)
13. Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010) / Adam Sisman
14. The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (Graywolf Press, 2010) / Dean Young