June 2011 Highlights

Novels
1. Last Man in Tower (Atlantic, 2011) / Aravind Adiga
2. Untold Story (Scribner, 2011) / Monica Ali
3. The Twisted Thread (Voice/Hyperion, 2011) / Charlotte Bacon
4. The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress (Little, Brown, 2011) / Beryl Bainbridge
5. My American Unhappiness (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) / Dean Bakopoulos
6. The Storm at the Door (Random House, 2011) / Stefan Merrill Block
7. A Summer of Drowning (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / John Burnside
8. Daisy Buchanan’s Daughter (Paycock Press, 2011) / Tom Carson
9. The Astral (Doubleday, 2011) / Kate Christensen
10. To the Island (Granta Books, 2011) / Meaghan Delahunt

11. The Absent Sea (trans. from the Spanish by Leland H. Chambers) (McPherson & Company, 2011) / Carlos Franz
12. Blue Monday (Michael Joseph, 2011) / Nicci French
13. River of Smoke (John Murray, 2011) / Amitav Ghosh
14. Chosen (Tindal Street Press, 2011) / Lesley Glaister
15. A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion (Scribner, 2011) / Ron Hansen
16. An Evil Eye (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Jason Goodwin
17. The Stranger’s Child (Picador, 2011) / Alan Hollinghurst
18. Dead Man’s Grip (Macmillan, 2011) / Peter James
19. Everything I Found On the Beach (Parthian Books, 2011) / Cynan Jones
20. The Sick Rose (Hodder & Stoughton, 2011) / Erin Kelly

21. The Possessions of Doctor Forrest (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Richard T. Kelly
22. The Life (Allen & Unwin, 2011) / Michael Knox
23. The Ridge (Little, Brown, 2011) / Michael Koryta
24. The Hidden Child [trans. from the Swedish, Tyskungen (2007), by Tiina Nunnally] (Harper/HarperCollins, 2011) / Camilla Läckberg
25. Afterwards (Piatkus Books, 2011) / Rosamund Lupton
26. Break the Skin (Crown, 2011) / Lee Martin
27. The Girl in the Blue Beret (Random House, 2011) / Bobby Ann Mason
28. To Be Sung Underwater (Little, Brown, 2011) / Tom McNeal
29. Pure (Sceptre, 2011) / Andrew Miller
30. Then (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Julie Myerson

31. It Had to Be You (Harper, 2011) / David Nobbs
32. Mr Fox (Picador, 2011) / Helen Oyeyemi
33. Foreign Bodies (Atlantic Books, 2011) / Cynthia Ozick
34. State of Wonder (Harper/HarperCollins, 2011) / Ann Patchett
35. The Summer of the Bear (Atlantic Monthly/Grove/Atlantic, 2011) / Bella Pollen
36. Waterline (Viking, 2011) / Ross Raisin
37. Tigerlily’s Orchids (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Ruth Rendell
38. The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes (Dutton Adult, 2011) / Marcus Sakey
39. There But For The (Hamish Hamilton, 2011) / Ali Smith
40. The Book Lover’s Tale (Doubleday, 2011) / Ivo Stourton

41. Maine (Knopf Doubleday, 2011) / J. Courtney Sullivan
42. Wish You Were Here (Picador, 2011) / Graham Swift
43. Derby Day (Chatto & Windus, 2011) / D.J. Taylor
44. The Warsaw Anagrams (Overlook, 2011) / Richard Zimler

First Novels
1. The Upright Piano Player (Nan A. Talese, 2011) / David Abbott
2. Leela’s Book (Harvill Secker, 2011) / Alice Albinia
3. Daughters of the Revolution (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Carolyn Cooke
4. Half Blood Blues (Serpent’s Tail, 2011) / Esi Edugyan
5. The American Heiress (St. Martin’s Press, 2011) / Daisy Goodwin
6. Alice Bliss (Penguin USA, 2011) / Laura Harrington
7. Ten Thousand Saints (Ecco Press/HarperCollins Publishers, 2011) / Eleanor Henderson
8. Chinaman (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Shehan Karunatilaka
9. Sister (Crown Publishing, 2011) / Rosamund Lupton
10. Partitions (Metropolitan/Henry Holt, 2011) / Amit Majmudar

11. The Last Hundred Days (Seren, 2011) / Patrick McGuinness
12. A Book for All and None (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011) / Clare Morgan
13. Bright’s Passage (Random House, 2011) / Josh Ritter
14. Conscience (Penguin USA, 2011) / Louisa Thomas
15. Before I Go to Sleep (Harper, 2011) / S.J. Watson
16. Bed (Canongate Books, 2011) / David Whitehouse
17. Down from Cascom Mountain (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Ann Joslin Williams
18. The Beginners (Riverhead, 2011) / Rebecca Wolff

Stories
1. The Meagre Tarmac (Biblioasis, 2011) / Clark Blaise
2. A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories (Penguin Classics, 2011) / Margaret Drabble
3. This Is Not Your City (Sarabande Books, 2011) / Caitlin Horrocks
4. East of the West: A Country in Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Miroslav Penkov
5. American Masculine (Graywolf, 2011) / Shann Ray
6. Ladies and Gentleman (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Adam Ross
7. Naked Summer (Press 53, 2011) / Andrew Scott

Poetry
1. Here and Now (W.W. Norton, 2011) / Stephen Dunn
2. The Last Usable Hour (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) / Deborah Landau
3. Heaven and Earth (Story Line Press, 2011) / Amit Majmudar
4. Southern Barbarians (Giramondo Publishing, 2011) / John Mateer
5. Farmers Cross (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Bernard O’Donoghue

Nonfiction
1. The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights (Verso Books, 2011) / Robin Blackburn
2. Dogfish Memory: A Memoir (Countryman Press, 2011) / Joseph A. Dane
3. The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India (Viking, 2011) / Siddhartha Deb
4. India: A Portrait (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Patrick French
5. Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / John Gimlette
6. Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008 (W.W. Norton, 2011) / Nadine Gordimer
7. Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir (Penguin USA, 2011) / Oscar Hijuelos
8. A Pilgrim in Spain (Continuum, 2011) / Christopher Howse
9. Rome (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011) / Robert Hughes
10. Love: A Secret History (Yale University Press, 2011) / Simon May

11. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Versoo, 2011) / Owen Jones
12. Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11 (New Press, 2011) / Caryl Phillips
13. Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America (W.W. Norton, 2011) / David S. Reynolds
14. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading (Harper, 2011) / Nina Sankovitch
15. Machiavelli: A Biography (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Miles J. Unger
16. Dante in Love (Atlantic Books, 2011) / A.N. Wilson
17. Second Reading: Notable and Neglected Books Revisited (Europa Editions, 2011) / Jonathan Yardley
18. The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness (Allen Lane, 2011) / Lila Azam Zanganeh