April 2011 Highlights

Novels
1. The Great Night (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Chris Adrian
2. The Peach Keeper (Bantam, 2011) / Sarah Addison Allen
3. The Color of Money (Vintage, 2011) / Madison Smartt Bell
4. Once Upon a Time, There Was You (Random House, 2011) / Elizabeth Berg
5. The Water Children (Blue Door/HarperCollins, 2011) / Anne Berry
6. Beggar’s Feast (Viking Canada/Penguin Canada, 2011) / Randy Boyagoda
7. Caleb’s Crossing (Fourth Estate, 2011) / Geraldine Brooks
8. Other People’s Money (Bloomsbury USA, 2011) / Justin Cartwright
9. The Sisters Brothers (HarperCollins Publishers, 2011) / Patrick deWitt
10. The Devil’s Garden (Picador, 2011) / Edward Docx

11. The Last Werewolf (Canongate, 2001) / Glen Duncan
12. On Loving Josiah (Maia Books, 2011) / Olivia Fane
13. Inspector Singh Investigates: A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree (Pitakus Books, 2011) / Shamimi Flint
14. Lucky Break (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Esther Freud
15. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible (John Murray, 2011) / James Frey
16. Elizabeth I (Viking Adult, 2011) / Margaret George
17. Say Her Name (Grove Press, 2011) / Francisco Goldman
18. The Love of My Youth (Pantheon, 2011) / Mary Gordon
19. We Had It So Good (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Linda Grant
20. Toxicology (Viking, 2011) / Jessica Hagedorn

21. Hanging Hill (Bantam Press, 2011) / Mo Hayder
22. The Proof of Love (Portobello Books, 2011) / Catherine Hall
23. Alone in the Classroom (McClelland & Stewart, 2011) / Elizabeth Hay
24. Long Time, No See (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Dermot Healy
25. Blossoms and Shadows (Quercus Books, 2011) / Lian Hearn
26. The Betrayal of Trust (Chatto & Windus, 2011) / Susan Hill
27. A Man of Parts (Harvill Secker, 2011) / David Lodge
28. The Love and Death of Caterina (Quercus, 2011) / Andrew Nicoll
29. The Tragedy of Arthur (Random House, 2011) / Arthur Phillips
30. My New American Life (Harper, 2011) / Francine Prose

31. The Coffins of Little Hope (Unbridled Books, 2011) / Timothy Schaffert
32. Please Look After Mom (UK title: Please Look After Mother) (trans. from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim) (Knopf/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011) / Kyung-sook Shin
33. The Novel in the Viola (Sceptre, 2011) / Natasha Solomons
34. The Pink Hotel (Alma Books, 2011) / Anna Stothard
35. The Pale King (Hamish Hamilton, 2011) / David Foster Wallace
36. The Visiting Angel (Tindal Street Press, 2011) / Paul Wilson
37. The Uncoupling (Riverhead, 2011) / Meg Wolitzer
38. Dream of Ding Village (trans. from the Chinese, Ding Zhuang Meng, by Cindy Carter) (Corsair/Constable & Robinson, 2011) / Yan Lianke
39. Song of the Silk Road (Kensington Books, 2011) / Mingmei Yip

First Novels
1. City of Bohane (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Kevin Barry
2. In Zanesville (Little, Brown, 2011) / Jo Ann Beard
3. The Sly Company of People Who Care (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Rahul Bhattacharya
4. A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld, 2011) /Yvvette Edwards
5. The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead (Putnam/Amy Einhorn Books, 2011) / Paul Elwork
6. Hill Farm (Chatto & Windus, 2011) / Miranda France
7. 22 Britannia Road (Fig Tree, 2011) / Amanda Hodgkinson
8. The Guardian Angel’s Journal (Little, Brown/Piatkus, 2011) / Carolyn Jess-Cooke
9. The Sojourn (Bellevue Literary Press, 2011) / Andrew Krivak
10. The Coincidence Engine (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Sam Leith

11. An Atlas of Impossible Longing (Free Press, 2011) / Anuradha Roy
12. Out of Shadows (Holiday House, 2011) / Jason Wallace
13. Before I Go to Sleep (Doubleday, 2011) / S.J. Watson
14. The Godless Boys (Picador, 2011) / Naomi Wood

Stories
1. Smut: Two Unseemly Stories (Profile Books, 2011) / Alan Bennett
2. Bullfighting (Jonathan Cape/Penguin USA, 2011) / Roddy Doyle
3. The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 (Anchor Books/Random House, 2011) / Laura Furman (ed.)
4. Swim Back to Me (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Ann Packer
5. Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work (Harper Perennial, 2011) / Richard Ford (ed.)
6. News from the World: Stories & Essays (W.W. Norton, 2011) / Paula Fox
7. Someday This Will be Funny (Cursor/Red Lemonade, 2011) / Lynne Tillman

Poetry
1. Carnations (Princeton University Press, 2011) / Anthony Carelli
2. Horoscopes for the Dead (Random House, 2011) / Billy Collins
3. Family Values (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Wendy Cope
4. Clavics (Enitharmon, 2011) / Geoffrey Hill
5. At Lake Scugog (Princeton University Press, 2011) / Troy Jollimore
6. Sparrow Tree (Bloodaxe Books, 2011) / Gwyneth Lewis
7. New Collected Poems (Gallery Books, 2011) / Derek Mahon
8. The Frost Fairs (Salt Publishing, 2011) / John McCullough
9. November (Picador, 2011) / Sean O’Brien
10. Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Robert Pinsky

11. Ghost Estate (Salmon Poetry, 2011) / William Wall
12. Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Charles Wright
13. Fall Higher (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) / Dean Young

Nonfiction
1. London Under (Chatto & Windus, 2011) / Peter Ackroyd
2. Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills (Hamish Hamilton, 2011) / Neil Ansell
3. All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion (Virago Press, 2011) / Lisa Appignanesi
4. The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Granta Books, 2011) / Elif Batuman
5. Why Marx Was Right (Yale University Press, 2011) / Terry Eagleton
6. Confessions of a Young Novelist (Harvard University Press, 2011) / Umberto Eco
7. The Crimean War: A History (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company, 2011) / Orlando Figes
8. The Horseman’s Word (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Roger Garfitt
9. Lives and Letters (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Robert Gottlieb
10. The Good of the Novel (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Liam McIlvanney & Ray Ryan (eds.)

11. Confessions of a Young Novelist (Harvard University Press, 2011) / Umberto Eco
12. Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the the Twenty-First Century (Basic Books, 2011) / Howard Gardner
13. G.K. Chesterton: A Biography (Oxford University Press, 2011) / Ian Kerr
14. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking/Penguin USA, 2011) / Manning Marable
15. Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers, 2011) / David Orr
16. Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within (trans. from the Turkish by Hande Zapsu) (Viking, 2011) / Elif Shafak
17. Reading My Father: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Alexandra Styron
18. The Essential Tagore (Harvard University Press, 2011) / Rabindranath Tagore (eds. Fakrul Alam & Radha Chakravarty)