August 2011 Highlights

Novels
1. The Good Muslim (Harper, 2011) / Tahmima Anam
2. The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress (Europa Editions, 2011) / Beryl Bainbridge
3. I Gave My Heart to Know This (Random House, 2011) / Ellen Baker
4. The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape/Random House, 2011) / Julian Barnes
5. On Canaan’s Side (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Sebastian Barry
6. Lazarus Is Dead (Harvill Secker, 2011) / Richard Beard
7. Drowning Rose (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Marika Cobbold
8. The Year After (Hodder & Stoughton, 2011) / Martin Davies
9. Lucky Bunny (Sceptre, 2011) / Jill Dawson
10. Sherbrookes (Dalkey Archive Press, 2011) / Nicholas Delbanco

11. The Artist of Disappearance (Chatto & Windus, 2011) / Anita Desai
12. Wild Abandon (Hamish Hamilton, 2011) / Joe Dunthorne
13. In the Sea There Are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari (trans. from the Italian by Howard Curtis) (Doubleday, 2011) / Fabio Geda
14. Say Her Name (Grove Press/Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011) / Francisco Goldman
15. The Magician King (Viking Adult, 2011) / Lev Grossman
16. Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Mohammed Hanif
17. Lasting Damage (Hodder & Stoughton, 2011) / Sophie Hannah
18. Shooting Angels (Atlantic Books, 2011) / Christopher Hope
19. Season of Darkness (McClelland & Stewart, 2011) / Maureen Jennings
20. Train Dreams (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Denis Johnson

21. A World Elsewhere (Knopf Canada/Random House Canada, 2011) / Wayne Johnston
22. The Translation of the Bones (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011) / Francesca Kay
23. The Blue Book (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / A.L. Kennedy
24. A Murder in Tuscany (Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press, 2011) / Christobel Kent
25. The Most Dangerous Thing (Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers, 2011) / Laura Lipton
26. The Twelfth Enchantment (Random House, 2011) / David Liss
27. Childish Loves (Faber & Faber/W.W. Norton, 2011) / Benjamin Markovits
28. Anatomy of a Disappearance (The Dial Press/Random House, 2011) / Hisham Matar
29. Far From My Father’s House (Blue Door/HarperCollins, 2011) / Jill McGivering
30. The Call (Harper Perennial, 2011) / Yannick Murphy

31. The Cat’s Table (McClelland & Stewart/Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Michael Ondaatje
32. The Buddha in the Attic (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Julie Otsuka
33. The Cut (Reagan Arthur Books, 2011) / George Pelecanos
34. The Invisible Ones (Quercus, 2011) / Stef Penney
35. A Trick of the Light (Minotaur Press/St. Martin’s Press, 2011) / Louise Penny
36. The Leftovers (St. Martin’s Press, 2011) / Tom Perrotta
37. The Summer of the Bear (Mantle, 2011) / Bella Pollen
38. The Vault (Hutchinson, 2011) / Ruth Rendell
39. Before the Poison (Hodder & Stoughton, 2011) / Peter Robinson
40. The Emperor of Lies (trans. from the Swedish by Sarah Death) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Steve Sem-Sandberg

41. Luminarium (SoHo Press, 2011) / Alex Shakar
42. Blow on a Dead Man’s Embers (Canongate Books, 2011) / Mari Strachan
43. Two for Sorrow (HarperCollins Publishers, 2011) / Nicola Upson
44. The Submission (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Amy Waldman
45. Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA, 2011) / Jesmyn Ward
46. The Gentleman’s Hour (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Don Winslow
47. Show Up, Look Good (Gival Press, 2011) / Mark Wisniewski
48. Obedience (Atlantic Books, 2011) / Jacqueline Yallop

First Novels
1. My Former Heart (Fourth Estate, 2011) / Cressida Connolly
2. The Language of Flowers (Ballantine Books/Macmillan, 2011) / Vanessa Diffenbaugh
3. Shelter (Random House Canada, 2011) / Frances Greenslade
4. Leaving the Atocha Station (Coffee House Press, 2011) / Ben Lerner
5. You Deserve Nothing (Tonga Books/Europa Editions, 2011) / Alexander Maksik
6. Solace (Picador, 2011) / Belinda McKeon
7. We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) / Justin Torres
8. The Submission (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/William Heinemann, 2011) / Amy Waldman
9. The Echo Chamber (Viking, 2011) / Luke Williams

Stories
1. One Thousand and One Nights (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011) / Hanan Al-Shaykh
2. Alice (trans. from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo) (The Clerkenwell Press, 2011) / Judith Hermann
3. We Others: New and Selected Stories (Knopf Doubleday, 2011) / Steven Millhauser
4. Apricot Jam and Other Stories (trans. from the Russian by Kenneth Lantz) (Counterpoint, 2011) / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5. The Complete Short Stories (Canongate, 2011) / Muriel Spark

Poetry
1. Black Cat Bone (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / John Burnside
2. Come, Thief (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Jane Hirshfield
3. The Wrecking Light (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) / Robin Robertson
4. Odd Blocks: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2011) / Kay Ryan
5. Selected Poems (ed. Matthew Hollis) (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Edward Thomas

Nonfiction
1. Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-1993 (Ecco, 2011) / Paul Bowles
2. Just One Catch: The Passionate Life of Joseph Heller (St. Martin’s Press, 2011) / Tracy Daugherty
3. George Mackay Brown: The Wound and the Gift (Saint Andrew Press, 2011) / Ron Ferguson
4. City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Roger Crowley
5. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness (Penguin USA, 2011) / Alexandra Fuller
6. All Made Up (Granta Books, 2011) / Janice Galloway
7. Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Matthew Hollis
8. A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Michael Holroyd
9. Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life (Holt Paperbacks, 2011) / Evan Hughes
10. The End: Hitler’s Germany, 1944-45 (Allen Lane, 2011) / Ian Kershaw

11. Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Kwasi Kwarteng
12. The Friar of Carcossonne: Revolt Against the Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars (Profile Books, 2011) / Stephen O’Shea
13. Colour Me English (Harvill Secker/New Press, 2011) / Caryl Phillips
14. Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America (Granta Books, 2011) / Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
15. Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother (Bodley Head, 2011) / Simon Schama
16. That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011) / Anne Sebba
17. Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Thant Myint-U
18. India: The Road Ahead (Rider, 2011) / Mark Tully