May 2011 Highlights

Novels
1. The Good Muslim (Canongate Books, 2011) / Tahmima Anam
2. Only Time Will Tell (Macmillan, 2011) / Jeffrey Archer
3. Cold Light (Sceptre, 2011) / Jenn Ashworth
4. The Absolutist (Doubleday, 2011) / John Boyne
5. Caleb’s Crossing (Viking Adult, 2011) / Geraldine Brooks
6. Jerusalem Maiden (HarperCollins Publishers, 2011) / Talia Carner
7. The Lovers of Pound Hill (Hutchinson, 2011) / Mavis Cheek
8. Centuries of June (Crown Publishing, 2011) / Keith Donohue
9. The Forgotten Waltz (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Anne Enright
10. The White Devil (Harper, 2011) / Justin Evans

11. Kamchatka (trans. from the Spanish by Frank Wynne) (Black Cat/Grove Press, 2011) / Marcelo Figueras
12. Deceptions (Washington Square, 2011) / Rebecca Frayn
13. The White Pearl (Sphere, 2011) / Kate Furnivall
14. The Dead Eight (New Island Books, 2011) / Carlo Gébler
15. The Last Gift (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Abdulrazak Gurnah
16. The Sweetness of Tears (William Morrow, 2011) / Nafisa Haji
17. Faith (Harper, 2011) / Jennifer Haigh
18. Tabloid City (Little Brown, 2011) / Pete Hamill
19. Gillespie and I (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Jane Harris
20. Children and Fire (Scribner, 2011) / Ursula Hegi

21. Shieldwall (Little, Brown, 2011) / Justin Hill
22. The Summer Without Men (Picador, 2011) / Siri Hustvedt
23. Child Wonder (trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw) (Maclehose Press, 2011) / Roy Jacobsen
24. Silver Sparrow (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011) / Tayari Jones
25. The Moment (Atria, 2011) / Douglas Kennedy
26. As Though She Were Sleeping (trans. from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies) (Maclehose Press, 2011) / Elias Khoury
27. Any Human Face (Picador, 2011) / Charles Lambert
28. The Better Mother (Knopf Canada, 2011) / Jen Sookfong Lee
29. The Land at the End of the World [trans. from the Portuguese (1979) by
Margaret Jull Costa] (W.W. Norton, 2011) / António Lobo Antunes
30. New Finnish Grammar (trans. from the Italian by Judith Landry) (Dedalus, 2011) / Diego Marani

31. History of a Pleasure Seeker (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011) / Richard Mason
32. Twice Born (trans. from the Italian by Ann Gagliardi) (Viking Adult, 2011) / Margaret Mazzantini
33. The End of the Wasp Season (Orion, 2011) / Denise Mina
34. A Monster Calls (Walker, 2011) / Patrick Ness
35. The Ritual (Macmillan, 2011) / Adam Nevill
36. Prophecy (Doubleday, 2011) / S.J. Parris
37. Far to Go (Headline Review, 2011) / Alison Pick
38. The Last Rain (Viking Canada, 2011) / Edeet Ravel
39. Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul (Doubleday Canada, 2011) / David Adams Richards
40. Doc (Random House, 2011) / Mary Doria Russell

41. A Moment in the Sun (McSweeney’s, 2011) / John Sayles
42. Dreams of Joy (Random House, 2011) / Lisa See
43. The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton (Virago Press, 2011) / Elizabeth Speller
44. At Last (Picador, 2011) / Edward St. Aubyn
45. Dogs at the Perimeter (McClelland & Stewart, 2011) / Madeleine Thien
46. The Year We Left Home (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Jean Thompson
47. Never Any End to Paris (trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean) (New Directions, 2011) / Enrique Vila-Matas
48. The German Boy (Viking, 2011) / Tricia Wastvedt
49. The Lake (trans. from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich) (Melville House, 2011) / Banana Yoshimoto

First Novels
1. Africa Junction (Harvill Secker, 2011) / Ginny Baily
2. Everything Beautiful Began After (HarperPerennial, 2011) / Simon Van Booy
3. What They Do in the Dark (W.W. Norton, 2011) / Amanda Coe
4. The Sojourn (Bellevue Literary Press, 2011) / Andrew Krivak
5. Any Human Face (Picador, 2011) / Charles Lambert
6. Solace (Scribner, 2011) / Belinda McKeon
7. The Girl in the Garden (Grand Central Publishing, 2011) / Kamala Nair
8. Untouchable (Tyrus Books, 2011) / Scott O’Connor
9. Past the Shallows (Hachette Australia, 2011) / Favel Parrett
10. The Long-Shining Water (Milkweed Editions, 2011) / Danielle Sosin

11. The Dubious Salvation of Jack V. (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Jacques Strauss
12. Tides of War (Chatto & Windus, 2011) / Stella Tillyard
13. Tiny Sunbirds Far Away (Other Press, 2011) / Christie Watson
14. The Echo Chamber (Hamish Hamilton, 2011) / Luke Williams
15. The Roving Party (Allen & Unwin, 2011) / Rohan Wilson
16. When God Was a Rabbit (Bloomsbury USA, 2011) / Sarah Winman
17. My Dear I Wanted to Tell You (Harper, 2011) / Louisa Young

Stories
1. The Wandering Falcon (Hamish Hamilton, 2011) / Jamil Ahmad
2. Strangers in Paris: New Writing Inspired by the City of Light (Tightrope, 2011) / Megan Fernandes & David Barnes (eds.)
3. Pulse (Alfred A. Knopf/Doubleday, 2011) / Julian Barnes
4. A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) / Margaret Drabble
5. Last Fling (Salt Publishing, 2011) / Sue Gee
6. An Empty Room (trans. from the Chinese by Toming Jun Liu) (New Directions, 2011) / Mu Xin
7. The Doll: Short Stories (Virago Press, 2011) / Daphne du Maurier
8. Saints and Sinners (Little, Brown/Back Bay Books, 2011) / Edna O’Brien
9. Orientation and Other Stories (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Daniel Orozco
10. The Best British Short Stories (Salt Publishing, 2011) / Nicholas Royle (ed.)

Poetry
1. Talking into the Ears of the Donkey (W.W. Norton, 2011) / Robert Bly
2. Sidereal (Picador, 2011) / Rachel Boast
3. Flies (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) / Michael Dickman
4. A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (ed. David Trinidad) (Nightboat Books, 2011) / Tim Dlugos
5. Six Children (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Mark Ford
6. A Hundred Doors (Wake Forest University Press, 2011) / Michael Longley
7. Twin Cities (Penguin, 2011) / Carol Muske-Dukes
8. Thread (New Directions, 2011) / Michael Palmer
9. Emporium (Carcanet Press, 2011) / Ian Pindar
10. Changeling (Bloodaxe Books, 2011) / Clare Pollard

11. Illuminations (trans. from the French by John Ashbery) (W.W. Norton, 2011) / Arthur Rimbaud
12. Life on Mars (Graywolf Press, 2012) / Tracy K. Smith
13. Occasionals (Reality Street, 2011) / Carol Watts

Nonfiction
1. The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (Allen Lane, 2011) / David Abulafia
2. The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty (Basic Books, 2011)/ Simon Baron-Cohen
3. The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris (HarperCollins Publishers, 2011) / John Baxter
4. Bento’s Sketchbook (Verso Books, 2011) / John Berger
5. The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life (Yale University Press, 2011) / Harold Bloom
6. Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998-2003 (New Directions, 2011) / Roberto Bolaño
7. James Joyce: A Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011)/ Gordon Bowker
8. The Children of Lovers (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Judy Carver
9. The Professor and Other Writings (Tuskar Rock, 2011) / Terry Castle
10. Mr Briggs’ Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain’s First Railway Murder (Sphere, 2011) / Kate Colquhoun

11. Irish Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2011) / Denis Donoghue
12. Your Voice in My Head (Other Press, 2011) / Emma Forrest
13. The Stroke of a Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011) / Samuel Hazo
14. House of Exile: War, Love and Literature, from Berlin to Los Angeles (Allen Lane, 2011) / Evelyn Juers
15. To The River: A Journey Beneath the Surface (Canongate, 2011) / Olivia Laing
16. In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust (Columbia University Press, 2011)/ Barry McCrea
17. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / David McCullough
18. Ox Travels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers (Profile, 2011) / Michael Palin (intro.)
19. On What Matters: Volumes I and II (Oxford University Press, 2011) / Derek Parfit
20. Thinking With Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life (The University of Chicago Press, 2011) / Julia Reinhard Lupton

21. On What Matters Vols. 1 & 2 (Oxford University Press, 2011) / Derek Parfit
22. The Long Journey Home: A Memoir (Spiegel & Grau, 2011) / Margaret Robison
23. The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (Princeton University Press, 2011) / Emma Rothschild
24. Small Memories: A Memoir (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) / José Saramago
25. Immigrant Nations (Polity Press, 2011) / Paul Scheffer
26. Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany (Bloomsbury US, 2011)/ Frederick Taylor
27. The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Hamish Hamilton, 2011)/ Paul Theroux