November 2011 Highlights

Novels
1. What the Family Needed (Sleepers, 2011) / Steven Amsterdam
2. The Night Strangers (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Chris Bohjalian
3. The Prague Cemetery (trans. from the Italian by Richard Dixon) (Harvill Secker/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) / Umberto Eco
4. Lost December (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Richard Paul Evans
5. The Boy in the Suitcase (trans. from the Danish by Lene Kaaberbol) (Soho Press, 2011) / Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis
6. The Printmaker’s Daughter (HarperPerennial, 2011) / Katherine Govier
7. Death Comes to Pemberley (Faber & Faber, 2011) / P.D. James
8. White Truffles in Winter (W.W. Norton, 2011) / N.M. Kelby
9. 11.22.63 (Scribner/Hodder & Stoughton, 2011) / Stephen King
10. How It All Began (Fig Tree, 2011) / Penelope Lively

11. Foal’s Bread (Allen & Unwin, 2011) / Gillian Mears
12. Cold Light (Vintage Australia, 2011) / Frank Moorhouse
13. Love and Shame and Love (Little, Brown, 2011) / Peter Orner
14. It’s Fine By Me (trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett) (Harvill Secker, 2011) / Per Petterson
15. You & I (published as You & Me in the US) (Serpent’s Tail, 2011) / Padgett Powell
16. Lunch Bucket Paradise: A True-Life Novel (Heyday Books, 2011) / Fred Setterberg
17. Forecast: Turbulence (HarperCollins Australia, 2011) / Janette Turner Hospital
18. Where Tigers Are At Home (trans. from the French by Mike Mitchell) (Dedalus, 2011) / Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès
19. Queen of America (Little, Brown, 2011) / Luis Alberto Urrea

First Novels
1. The Coward’s Tale (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Vanessa Gebbie
2. The House of Silk: The New Sherlock Holmes Novel (Orion, 2011) / Anthony Horowitz
3. The Sisters (St. Martin’s Press, 2011) / Nancy Jensen
4. The Devil All the Time (Harvill Secker, 2011) / Donald Ray Pollock

Stories
1. Somewhere Else, Or Even Here (Salt Publishing, 2011) / A.J. Ashworth
2. The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories (Scribner, 2011) / Don DeLillo
3. Before the End, After the Beginning (Grove Press, 2011) / Dagoberto Gilb
4. The Beautiful Indifference (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Sarah Hall
5. It Chooses You (McSweeney’s, 2011) / Miranda July
6. The Doll: The Lost Short Stories (William Morrow, 2011) / Daphne du Maurier
7. Tales of the New World (Black Cat/Grove Press, 2011) / Sabina Murray
8. The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (Mysterious Press, 2011) / Joyce Carol Oates

Poetry
1. The Angel of Salonika (Salt Publishing, 2011) / Vesna Goldsworthy
2. Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud (Shearsman Books, 2011) / Barry Hill
3. Armour (Picador, 2011) / John Kinsella
4. Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Christopher Reid
5. Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001 (trans. from the German by Iain Gabraith) (Hamish Hamilton, 2011) / W.G. Sebald
6. The Rivered Earth (Hamish Hamilton, 2011) / Vikram Seth
7. Things to Say to a Dead Man: Poems at the End of a Marriage and After (Holy Cow! Press, 2011) / Jane Yolen

Nonfiction
1. London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets (Nan A. Talese, 2011) / Peter Ackroyd
2. Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life (Scribner, 2011) / Ann Beattie
3. Stalking Nabokov (Columbia University Press, 2011) / Brian Boyd
4. Martin Amis: The Biography (Constable, 2011) / Richard Bradford
5. Blue Nights (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Joan Didion
6. The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War (trans. from the Swedish by Peter Graves) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Peter Englund
7. Civilization: The West and the Rest (Penguin, 2011) / Niall Ferguson
8. George F. Kennan: An American Life (Allen Lane, 2011) / John Lewis Gaddis
90. Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
10. Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Robert Hughes

11. A Point of View (Picador, 2011) / Clive James
12. Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (Yale University Press, 2011) / Tim Jeals
13. A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism (Facing History and Ourselves, 2011) / Phyllis Goldstein
14. The New Granta Book of Travel (Granta Books, 2011) / Liz Jobey (ed.)
15. “Something Urgent I Have to Say to You”: The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Herbert Leibowitz
16. The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. (Doubleday, 2011) / Jonathan Lethem
17. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Random House, 2011) / Robert K. Massie
18. Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind (Frederic C. Beil, 2011) / Michael Murray
19. On Rereading (Belnap Press/Harvard University Press, 2011) / Patricia Meyer Spacks
20. The Genius of Dickens (Gerald Duckworth, 2011) / Michael Slater

21. Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism (ed. Christopher Carduff) (Knopf, 2011) / John Updike
22. The Least Cricket of Evening (University of Nebraska Press, 2011) / Robert Vivian
23. Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights (Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Marina Warner
24. J.G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) / Jeanette Baxter and Rowland Wymer (eds.)