December 2011 Highlights

Novels
1. 1222 (trans. from the Norwegian by Marlaine Delargy) (Scribner, 2011) / Anne Holt
2. Mistaken (Soft Skull Press, 2012) / Neil Jordan
3. The House at Tyneford (published in the UK as The Novel in the Viola) (Plume, 2011) / Natasha Solomons
4. Murder in Mount Holly (Mysterious Press, 2011) / Paul Theroux

First Novels
1. One Hundred and One Nights (Back Bay Books, 2011) / Benjamin Buchholz
2. Out Of It (Bloomsbury UK, 2011) / Selma Dabbagh
3. Jubilee (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011) / Shelley Harris
4. The Origin of Violence (trans. from the German by Frank Wynne, 2011) (Serpent’s Tale, 2011) / Fabrice Humbert
5. All the Flowers in Shanghai (William Morrow, 2011) / Duncan Jepson

Stories
1. The Artist of Disappearance (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) / Anita Desai
2. It Chooses You (Canongate, 2011) / Miranda July
3. The Uninnocent (Pegasus Books, 2011) / Bradford Morrow




Nonfiction
1. Memoir: An Introduction (Oxford University Press USA, 2011) / G. Thomas Couser
2. George F. Kennan: An American Life (Allen Lane, 2011) / John Lewis Gaddis
3. The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World (Chatto & Windus, 2011) / David Malouf
4. Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations (Allen Lane, 2011) / Charles Nicholl
5. Ehere the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism (Oxford University Press, 2011) / Alvin Plantinga
6. An Honourable Englishman: The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper (Random House, 2011) / Adam Sisman
7. The Poet’s Freedom (The University of Chicago Press, 2011) / Susan Stewart