November 2010 Highlights

Novels
1. Sunset Park (Faber & Faber/Henry Holt/Macmillan, 2010) / Paul Auster
2. Madame Bovary (trans. from the French by Lydia Davis) (Penguin Classics, 2010) / Gustave Flaubert
3. Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Co., 2010) / Jaimy Gordon
4. Dead Like You (Minotaur, 2010) / Peter James
5. Hand Me Down World (John Murray, 2010) / Lloyd Jones
6. The Silent Land (Gollancz, 2010) / Graham Joyce
7. The Convent (W.W. Norton, 2010) / Panos Karnezis
8. Comedy in a Minor Key (Hesperus Press, 2010) / Han Keilson
9. The Moment (Hutchinson, 2010) / Douglas Kennedy
10. The Wolves of Andover (Reagan Arthur Books, 2010) / Kathleen Kent

11. Moonlight Mile (William Morrow, 2010) / Dennis Lehane
12. Mary Ann in Autumn (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers, 2010) / Armistead Maupin
13. The Final Hour [trans. from the Arabic (1982) by Roger Allen] (The American University of Cairo Press, 2010) / Naguib Mahfouz
14. In the Time of Love [trans. from the Arabic (1980) by Kay Heikkinen] (The American University of Cairo Press, 2010] / Naguib Mahfouz
15. When Colts Ran (Random House Australia, 2010) / Roger McDonald
16. Orchid Blue (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Eoin McNamee
17. The Plantation (Macmillan Australia, 2010) / Di Morrissey
18. The Distant Hours (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2010) / Kate Morton
19. The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (Riverhead, 2010) / Walter Mosley
20. Foreign Bodies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Cynthia Ozick

21. The Passages of H. M.: A Novel of Herman Melville (Doubleday, 2010) / Jay Parini
22. Luka and the Fire of Life (Random House, 2010) / Salman Rushdie
23. Rescue (Little, Brown, 2010) / Anita Shreve

First Novels
1. The Instructions (McSweeney’s, 2010) / Adam Levin
2. The End (Jonathan Cape, 2010) / Salvatore Scibona

Stories
1. Tablet & Pen (W.W. Norton, 2010) / Reza Aslan (ed.)
2. The New Yorker Stories (Scribner/Simon & Scuster, 2010) / Ann Beattie
3. Snow Plain: Selected Stories (trans. from the Chinese by John Crespi) (Zephyr Press, 2010) / Duo Duo
4. The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story (Granta Books, 2010) / Anne Enright (ed.)
5. Life Times: Stories 1952-2007 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Bloomsbury, 2010) / Nadine Gordimer
6. Best European Fiction 2011 (Dalkey Archive, 2010) / Aleksandar Hemon (ed.)
7. Full Dark, No Stars (Simon & Schuster, 2010) / Stephen King
8. While the Women Are Sleeping (trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa) (New Directions/Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Javier Marías
9. Perfect Lives (Virago Press, 2010) / Polly Samson
10. Bummer and Other Stories (Soft Skull Press, 2010) / Janice Shapiro

11. Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010) / Christine Sneed
12. 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) / Deborah Treisman (ed.)
13. Selected Stories (Viking Adult, 2010) / William Trevor

Poetry
1. New and Collected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2011) / Ruth Fainlight
2. Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Mick Imlah
3. Walking Papers (W.W. Norton, 2010) / Thomas Lynch
4. Taller When Prone (Carcanet Press, 2010) / Les Murray
5. God’s Optimism (Main Street Rag, 2010) / Yehoshua November
6. Voices Over Water (CB Editions, 2010) / D. Nurkse
7. The Night Post: A New Selection (Salt Publishing, 2010) / Matthew Sweeney
8. Anterooms: New Poems and Translations (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Richard Wilbur
9. Wait (Bloodaxe, 2010) / C.K. Williams
10. Every Riven Thing (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Christian Wiman

11. Birdhouse (Salt Publishing, 2010) / Anna Woodhouse

Nonfiction
1. Venice: Pure City (Nan A. Talese, 2010) / Peter Ackroyd
2. Tolstoy: A Russian Life (Profile Books, 2010) / Rosamund Bartlett
3. Romain Gary: A Tall Story (Harvill Secker, 2010) / David Bellos
4. Letters (ed. Benjamin Taylor) (Penguin Viking, 2010) / Saul Bellow
5. My Prizes: An Accounting (trans. frrom the German by Carol Janeway) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) / Thomas Bernhard
6. My Reading Life (Nan A. Talese, 2010) / Pat Conroy
7. What I Don’t Know About Animals (Virago Press, 2010) / Jenny Diski
8. Working the Room (Canongate, 2010) / Geoff Dyer
9. Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy (Free Press, 2010) / Carlos Eire
10. I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) / Nora Ephron

11. A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2010) / Ruth Franklin
12. The Box: Tales from the Darkroom (trans. from the German by Krishna Winston) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Günter Grass
13. Shakespeare’s Freedom (University of Chicago Press, 2010) / Stephen Greenblatt
14. The Memory Chalet (William Heinemann, 2010) / Tony Judt
15. Frank: The Voice (Doubleday, 2010) / James Kaplan
16. Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (Harper, 2010) / Michael Korda
17. The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel (Allen Lane, 2010) / Nicholas Ostler
18. The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist (trans. from the Turkish by Nazim Dikbaş) (Harvard University Press, 2010) / Orhan Pamuk
19. Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A New Commentary (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Don Paterson
20. Cleopatra: A Life (Little, Brown/Virgin Books, 2010) / Stacy Schiff

21. Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume I (University of California Press, 2011) / Mark Twain
22. The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time (Sasquatch Books, 2010) / David L. Ulin