March 2011 Highlights

Novels
1. Started Early, Took the Dog (Reagan Arthur Books, 2011) / Kate Atkinson
2. Untold Story (Transworld, 2011) / Monica Ali
3. The Land of Painted Caves (Crown, 2011) / Jean M. Auel
4. Monsieur Linh and His Child (trans. from the French by Euan Campbell) (MacLehose Press, 2011) / Philippe Claudel
5. The Death of Eli Gold (Fourth Estate, 2011) / David Baddiel
6. The School of Night (Henry Holt, 2011) / Louis Bayard
7. Other People’s Money (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Justin Cartwright
8. Song of Slaves in the Desert (Sourcebooks, 2011) / Alan Cheuse
9. Galore (Other Press, 2011) / Michael Crummey
10. Butterfly’s Child (The Dial Press, 2011) / Angela Davis-Gardner

11. Three Stages of Amazement (Scribner, 2011) / Carol Edgarian
12. The Beauty of Humanity Movement (Penguin, 2011) / Camilla Gibb
13. Blood Count (Bantam Press, 2011) / Robert Goddard
14. King of the Badgers (Fourth Estate, 2011) / Philip Hensher
15. The Hunger Trace (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Edward Hogan
16. Witches on the Road Tonight (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011) / Sheri Holman
17. Into the Heart of the Country (HarperCollins Canada, 2011) Pauline Holdstock
18. The Cloud Messenger (Telegram Books, 2011) / Aamer Hussein
19. The Summer Without Men (Picador/Sceptre, 2011) / Siri Hustvedt
20. Child Wonder (trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartless and Don Shaw) (Maclehose Press, 2011) / Roy Jacobsen

21. A Palace in the Old Village (trans. from the French by Linda Coverdale) (Arcadia Books, 2011) / Tahar Ben Jelloun
22. Pym (St. Martin’s Press, 2011) / Mat Johnson
23. Five Bells (Harvill Secker, 2011) / Gail Jones
24. The Silent Land (Doubleday, 2011) / Graham Joyce
25. Custody (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Manju Kapur
26. The Troubled Man (trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson) (Harvill Secker, 2011) / Henning Mankell
27. Anatomy of a Disappearance (Viking, 2011) / Hisham Matar
28. When the Thrill’s Gone (Riverhead, 2011) / Walter Mosley
29. Emily, Alone (Viking, 2011) / Stewart O’Nan
30. Prophecy (HarperCollins, 2011) / S.J. Parris

31. Disputed Land (William Heinemann, 2011) / Tim Pears
32. Seven Years (trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann) (Other Press, 2011) / Peter Stamm
33. The Sparrows of Edward Street (University of Queensland Press, 2011) / Elizabeth Stead
34. Spring (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / David Szalay
35. Lucifer’s Tears (Putnam, 2011) / James Thompson
36. Daughters-in-Law (Doubleday, 2011) / Joanna Trollope
37. The Unseen (Orion, 2011) / Katherine Webb

First Novels
1. The Upright Piano Player (Quercus, 2011) / David Abbott
2. Island of Wings (Quercus, 2011) / Karin Altenberg
3. The Afterparty (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Leo Benedictus
4. The Free World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / David Bezmozgis
5. Cleaning Nabokov’s House (Touchstone, 2011) / Leslie Daniels
6. The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead (Putnam/Amy Einhorn Books, 2011) / Paul Elwork
7. Correspondence: An Adventure in Letters (David R. Godine, 2011) / N. John Hall
8. So Much Pretty (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Cara Hoffmann
9. The Book of Lies (Canongate Books, 2011) / Mary Horlock
10. Pigeon English (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Stephen Kelman

11. Tiger Hills (Grand Central Publishing, 2011) / Sarita Mandanna
12. The Dry Grass of August (Kensington Publishing, 2011) / Anna Jean Mayhew
13. Today (Atlantic Books, 2011) / David Miller
14. What You See in the Dark (Algonquin, 2011) / Manuel Muñoz
15. The Tiger’s Wife (Random House/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011) / Téa Obreht
16. This Vacant Paradise (Counterpoint, 2011) / Victoria Patterson
17. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece (Orion, 2011) / Annabel Pitcher
18. Into That Darkness (Thomas Allen, 2011) / Steven Price
19. Someone Else’s Garden (Harper Press/HarperCollins Publishers, 2011) / Dipika Rai
20. Bent Road (Dutton, 2011) / Lori Roy

21. Between Shades of Gray (Philomel, 2011) / Ruta Sepetys
22. Invisibles (Myriad Editions, 2011) / Ed Siegle
23. The Sentimentalists (William Heinemann, 2011) / Johanna Skibsrud
24. When God Was a Rabbit (Headline Review, 2011) / Sarah Winman
25. My Dear I Wanted to Tell You (HarperCollins, 2011) / Louisa Young

Stories
1. All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories (Random House, 2011) / E.L. Doctorow
2. Ten Stories About Smoking (Picador, 2011) / Stuart Evers
3. Volt (Graywolf Press, 2011) / Alan Heathcock
4. The Architect of Flowers (Mariner Books, 2011) / William Lychack
5. Touch (Seren, 2011) / Graham Mort
6. A Book of Blues (Flambard Press, 2011) / Courttia Newland
7. New Irish Short Stories (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Joseph O’Connor (ed.)
8. You Think That’s Bad (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Jim Shepard

Poetry
1. Horoscopes for the Dead (Random House, 2011) / Billy Collins
2. Selected Poems (ed. J.D. McClatchy) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Anthony Hecht
3. The Chameleon Couch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Yusef Koumnyakaa
4. A Hundred Doors (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Michael Longley
5. Becoming Weather (Coffee House Press, 2011) / Chris Martin
6. The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991-2008 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011) / Orlando Ricardo Menes (ed.)
7. Folk (McClelland & Stewart, 2011) / Jacob McArthur Mooney
8. Taller When Prone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Les Murray
9. The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010 (Knopf, 2012) / Marge Piercy
10. Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Carl Phillips

11. Poems Under Saturn (trans. from the French by Karl Kirchwey) (Princeton University Press, 2011) / Paul Verlaine
12. Ghost in a Red Hat (W.W. Norton, 2011) / Rosanna Warren
13. Sound Archive (Seren, 2011) / Nerys Williams
14. Torn (Four Way, 2011) / C. Dale Young

Nonfiction
1. Radical Coherency: Selected Essays on Art and literature, 1966 to 2005 (The University of Chicago Press, 2011) / David Antin
2. Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight (Hamish Hamilton, 2011) / James Attlee
3. Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews: Selected Essays and Reviews (Graywolf Press, 2011) / Geoff Dyer
4. Civilization: The West and the Rest (Allen Lane, 2011) / Niall Ferguson
5. Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe (Yale University Press, 2011) / Charles Freeman
6. I Found It at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile (Carcanet Press, 2011) / Philip French
7. The Use and Abuse of Literature (Pantheon, 2011) / Marjorie Garber
8. Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius (Virago Press, 2011) / Richard Greene
9. A History of the Irish Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2011) / Derek Hand
10. Collected Essays (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Hanif Kureishi

12. The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live (Princeton University Press, 2011) / George Levine (ed.)
13. Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Les Murray
14. Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag (Atlas, 2011) / Sigrid Nunez
15. A Widow’s Story (Fourth Estate, 2011) / Joyce Carol Oates
16. A Radiant Life: The Selected Journalism of Nuala O’Faolain (Abrams Image, March 2011) / Nuala O’Faolain
17. The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Orhan Pamuk
18. The Fetish Room: The Education of a Naturalist (Profile, 2011) / Redmond O’Hanlon & Rudi Rotthier
19. The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death (W.W. Norton, 2011) / David Shields & Bradford Morrow (eds.)
20. The Smell of Summer Grass: Pursuing Happiness: Perch Hill 1994-2011 (HarperPress, 2011) / Adam Nicolson

21. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays (Penguin Classics, 2011) / Gay Talese
22. Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany (Bloomsbury UK, 2011)/ Frederick Taylor
23. Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose (2nd edition) (Princeton University Press, 1994/2011) / Francis-Noël Thomas & Mark Turner
24. To a Mountain in Tibet (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers, 2011) / Colin Thubron
25. Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011) / Eamonn Wall
26. Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2011 (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Sara Wheeler
27. The Essays of Virginia Woolf: Volume 6: 1933 to 1941 (ed. Stuart N. Clarke) (Chatto & Windus, 2011) / Virginia Woolf