February 2011 Highlights

Novels
1. The Last Brother (trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan) (Graywolf Press, 2011) / Nathacha Appanah
2. Jubilate (Arcadia Books, 2011) / Michael Arditti
3. Haunting Jasmine (Berkley, 2011) / Anjali Banerjee
4. Open City (Random House, 2011) / Teju Cole
5. A Palace in the Old Village (trans. from the French by Linda Coverdale) (Penguin, 2011) / Tahar Ben Jelloun
6. The Champion (Picador, 2011) / Tim Binding
7. The Meeting Point (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Lucy Caldwell
8. Jamrach’s Menagerie (Canongate, 2011) / Carol Birch
9. When the Killing’s Done (Viking Adult, 2011) / T.C. Boyle
10. A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Mystery (Delacorte Press, 2011) / Alan Bradley

11. The Illumination (Pantheon, 2011) / Kevin Brockmeier
12. The Emperor’s Body (W.W. Norton, 2011) / Peter Brooks
13. Georgia Bottoms (Little, Brown, 2011) / Mark Childress
14. Silent Voices (Macmillan, 2011) / Ann Cleeves
15. Solo (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) / Rana Dasgupta
16. The Old Romantic (Riverhead, 2011) / Louise Dean
17. Bleakly Hall (Chatto & Windus, 2011) / Elaine di Rollo
18. West of Here (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011) / Jonathan Evison
19. The Cookbook Collector (Atlantic Books, 2011) / Allegra Goodman
20. Lasting Damage (Hodder & Stoughton, 2011) / Sophie Hannah

21. Great House (Viking, 2011) / Nicole Krauss
22. Portraits of a Marriage (trans. from the Hungarian by George Szirtes) (Knopf, 2011) / Sándor Márai
23. Invisible River (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Helena McEwen
24. The Paris Wife (Ballantine Books, 2011) / Paula McLain
25. Night Waking (Granta, 2011) / Sarah Moss
26. Ghost Light (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) / Joseph O’Connor
27. The Guardians (Orion, 2011) / Andrew Pyper
28. Half of the Human Race (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Anthony Quinn
29. The Folded Earth (Maclehose Press, 2011) / Anuradha Roy
30. Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer (Picador USA, 2011) / Wesley Stace

31. Enough About Love (trans. from the French by Adriana Hunter) (Other Press, 2011) / Hervé Le Tellier
32. More Than You Can Say (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011) / Paul Torday
33. The Quiet Twin (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Dan Vyleta
34. Last Dance with Valentino (HarperCollins, 2011) / Daisy Waugh
35. Or the Bull Kills You (Chatto & Windus, 2011) / Jason Webster
36. The Warsaw Anagrams (Corsair, 2011) / Richard Zimler

First Novels
1. The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (W.W. Norton, 2011) / Sarah Braunstein
2. The Cry of the Go-Away Bird (Harvill Secker, 2011) / Andrea Eames
3. The Adults (Scriber, 2011) / Alison Espach
4. Hate: A Romance (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Tristan Garcia
5. A Discovery of Witches (Headline, 2011) / Deborah Harkness
6. The Oracle of Stamboul (HarperCollins, 2011) / Michael David Lukas
7. The View From Here (Soho Press, 2011) / Deborah McKinlay
8. Snowdrops (Doubleday, 2011) / A.D. Miller
9. Between Summer’s Longing and Winter’s End (trans. from the Swedish by Paul Norlen) (Doubleday, 2011) / Leif G.W. Persson

11. The Fates Will Find Their Way (William Heinemann, 2011) / Hannah Pittard
12. Someone Else’s Garden (Harper Perennial, 2011) / Dipika Rai
13. Swamplandia! (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Karen Russell
14. The Intimates (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Ralph Sassone
15. Pub Walks in Underhill Country (Penguin/Fig Tree, 2011) / Nat Segnit
16. The Gospel of Anarchy (Harper Perennial, 2011) / Justin Taylor
17. The Collaborator (Viking, 2011) / Mirza Waheed
18. The Terror of Living (Little, Brown/Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Urban Waite

Stories
1. Lying Together (Tindal Street Press, 2011) / Gaynor Arnold
2. The Mother Who Stayed (Free Press, 2011) / Laura Furman
3. Saints and Sinners (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Edna O’Brien
4. Nobody Ever Gets Lost (FiveChapters Books, 2011) / Jess Row

Poetry
1. Money Shot (Wesleyan University Press, 2011) / Rae Armantrout
2. Lovely Asunder (University of Arkansas Press, 2011) / Danielle Cadena Deulen
3. Head Off & Split (Triquarterly, 2011) / Nikkey Finney
4. Tokaido Road (CB Editions, 2011) / Nancy Gaffield
5. Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Elizabeth Gilbert
6. Morning Knowledge (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011) / Kevin Hart
7. Dreamlife of a Philanthropist: Prose Poems and Sonnets (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011) / Janet Kaplan
8. Talking About Movies with Jesus (Louisiana State University Press, 2011) / David Kirkby
9. Sleeping it off in Rapid City: New and Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2011) / August Kleinzahler
10. News of the World (Knopf, 2011) / Philip Levine

11. One Thousand Nights and Counting: Selected Poems (Picador, 2011) / Glyn Maxwell
12. Torchlight (Carcanet Press, 2011) / Peter McDonald
13. Complete Poetry, Translations and Selected Prose (ed. Peter Robinson) (Bloodaxe, 2011) / Bernard Spencer
14. Tropicalia (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011) / Emma Trelles
15. The Book of Ten (University of Pittsburg Press, 2011) / Susan Wood

Nonfiction
1. Prose (ed. Lloyd Schwartz) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Elizabeth Bishop
2. The Anatomy of a Moment (trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean) (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Javier Cercas
3. The Foremost Good Fortune (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Susan Conley
4. Townie: A Memoir (W.W. Norton, 2011) / Andre Dubus III
5. My Father’s Fortune: A Life (Metropolitan Books, 2011) / Michael Frayn
6. The Language Wars: A History of Proper English (John Murray, 2011) / Henry Hitchings
7. Sex and the River Styx (Chelsea Green, 2011) / Edward Hoagland
8. The Two Kinds of Decay (Granta Books, 2011) / Sarah Manguso
9. A Widow’s Story: A Memoir (Ecco, 2011) / Joyce Carol Oates
10. Bird Cloud (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Annie Proulx

11. The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011)/ Ben Shephard
12. Edgelands: Journey Into England’s True Wilderness (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Paul Farkey & Michael Symmons Roberts
13. The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death (W.W. Norton, 2011) / David Shields & Bradford Morrow (eds.)
14. Bismarck: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2011) / Jonathan Steinberg
15. A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family (Voice, 2011) / Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
16. To a Mountain in Tibet (Chatto & Windus, 2011) / Colin Thubron
17. Morning, Noon, and Night: Finding the Meaning of Life’s Stages Through Books (Random House, 2011) / Arnold Weinstein
18. The Magnetic North: Notes from the Article Circle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) / Sara Wheeler