October 2010 Highlights

Novels
1. Compass Rose (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) / John Casey
2. Dragon Chica (GemmaMedia, 2010) / May-lee Chai
3. Exley (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010) / Brock Clarke
4. Purple Jesus (Bancroft Press, 2010) / Ron Cooper
5. By Nightfall (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Michael Cunningham
6. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (HarperCollins Publishers, 2010) / Tom Franklin
7. The False Friend (Doubleday, 2010) / Myla Goldberg
8. The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury USA, 2010) / Howard Jacobson
9. World and Town (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) / Gish Jen
10. Great House (W.W. Norton, 2010) / Nicole Krauss

11. Take Me Home (Harper, 2010) / Brian Leung
12. The Stray Sod Country (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Patrick McCabe
13. Driving on the Rim (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) / Thomas McGuane
14. How to Read the Air (Riverhead, 2010) / Dinaw Mengestu
15. Collusion (Soho Press, 2010) / Stuart Neville
16. Nemesis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Philip Roth
17. That Deadman Dance (Picador Australia/Pan Macmillan Australia, 2010) / Kim Scott
18. The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay (St. Martin’s Press, 2010) / Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
19. Take One Candle Light a Room (Pantheon/Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Susan Straight
20. The Marriage Artist (Henry Holt, 2010) / Andrew Winer

21. Habit of a Foreign Sky (Haven Books, 2010) / Xu Xi

Translations
1. Visitation (trans. from the German by Susan Bernofsky) (Portobello, 2010) / Jenny Erpenbeck
2. The Life of an Unknown Man (trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan) (2010) / Andreï Makine
3. Doctor Zhivago (trans. from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) (Harvill Secker, 2010) / Boris Pasternak
4. The Weekend (trans. from the German by Shaun Whiteside) (Pantheon, 2010) / Bernhard Schlink

First Novels
1. Snow Day (FaithWords, 2010) / Billy Coffey
2. Mink River (Oregon State University Press, 2011) / Brian Doyle
3. Mr Chartwell (Fig Tree, 2010) / Rebecca Hunt
4. The Dead Path (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Stephen M. Irwin
5. The Wake of Forgiveness (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Bruce Machart
6. Coconut Unlimited (Quartet Books, 2010) / Nikesh Shukla

Stories
1. Palo Alto (Simon & Schuster, 2010) / James Franco
2. Possum Trot (Ice Cube Press, 2010) / J. Hartley McIlrath
3. The Empty Family (Viking, 2010) / Colm Tóibín
4. Aphrodite’s Hat (Fourth Estate, 2010) / Salley Vickers

Poetry
1. Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers, 2010) / Harold Bloom (ed.)
2. Selected Poems (ed. Mary Jo Salter) (Knopf Doubleday, 2010) / Amy Clampitt
3. Callings (Penguin, 2010) / Carl Dennis
4. The Mirabelles (Picador, 2010) / Annie Freud
5. Maggot (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Paul Muldoon
6. Hodge (Areté Books, 2010) / Oliver Reynolds
7. Songs of the Darkness: Poems for Christmas (Enitharmon Press, 2010) / Lawrence Sail
8. Heavenly Questions (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Gjertrud Schnackenberg
9. Sandgrain and Hourglass (Bloodaxe, 2010) / Penelope Shuttle
10. Master of Disguises (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Charles Simic

11. Phantom Noise (Bloodaxe, 2010) / Brian Turner
12. One With Others (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) / C.D. Wright

Nonfiction
1. The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time (Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Peter Ackroyd
2. Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages That Made the Countryside (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Clive Aslet
3. The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume IV: 1056-1962 (ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton University Press, 2010) / W.H. Auden
4. How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (Other Press, 2010) / Sarah Bakewell
5. Lucile (2010) / Suzanne Berne
6. Washington: A Life (Penguin, 2010) / Ron Chernow
7. Absent Presence (trans. from the Arabic by Mohammad Shaheen) (Hesperus Press, 2010) / Mahmoud Darwish
8. Crimea: The Last Crusade (Allen Lane, 2010) / Orlando Figes
9. Mordecai: The Life & Times (Knopf Canada, 2010) / Charles Foran
10. Travels in Siberia (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Ian Frazier

11. A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction (Oxford University Press USA, 2010) / Ruth Franklin
12. Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt (Yale Un iversity Press, 2010) / Robert Gottlieb
13. The Best of Books and Company (Long Barn Books, 2010) / Susan Hill (ed.)
14. The Classical Tradition (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2010) / Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most and Salvatore Settis (eds.)
15. Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination From Virginia Woolf to John Piper (Thames & Hudson, 2010) / Alexandra Harris
16. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (Simon & Schuster, 2010) / Sam Harris
17. Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life (Yale University Press, 2010) / Nicholas Phillipson
18. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modern Bestiary (Little, Brown, 2010) / David Sedaris
19. The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir (Viking, 2010) / Leslie Marmon Silko
20. Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations (Graywolf Press, 2010) / Mark Slouka

21. Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (Yale University Press, 2010) / Nigel Smith
22. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books, 2010) / Timothy Snyder
23. All a Novelist Needs: Colm Tóibín on Henry James (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) / Colm Tóibín (ed. Susan M. Griffin)