January 2012 Highlights

Novels
1. Hope: A Tragedy (Riverhead, 2012) / Shalom Auslander
2. The Last Nude (Riverhead, 2012) / Ellis Avery
3. Finders Keepers (Bantam Press, 2012) / Belinda Bauer
4. Wild Abandon (Random House, 2012) / Joe Dunthorne
5. These Dreams of You (Europa Editions, 2012) / Steve Erickson
6. The Flying Man (Headline Review, 2012) / Roopa Farooki
7. Between Clay and Dust (Aleph, 2012) / Musharraf Ali Farooqi
8. Believing the Lie (Hodder & Stoughton, 2012) / Elizabeth George
9. Norumbega Park (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Anthony Giardina
10. All Is Song (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Samantha Harvey

11. Carnival for the Dead (Macmillan, 2012) / David Hewson
12. The Mattress House (trans. from the German by Jamie Bulloch) (MacLehose Press, 2012) / Paulus Hochgatterer
13. The Map and the Territory (trans. from the French by Gavin Bowd) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Michel Houellebecq
14. In the Orchard, the Swallows (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Peter Hobbs
15. A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty (Grand Central Publishing, 2012) / Joshilyn Jackson
16. Little Bones (Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Janette Jenkins
17. The Orphan Master’s Son (Random House, 2012) / Adam Johnson
18. The Translation of the Bones (Scribner, 2012) / Francesca Kay
19. Defending Jacob (Delacorte Press/Random House, 2012) / William Landay
20. Mr g (Pantheon, 2012) / Alan Lightman

21. How It All Began (Penguin USA, 2012) / Penelope Lively
22. The Flight of Gemma Hardy (Harper/HarperCollins, 2012) / Margot Livesey
23. The Flame Alphabet (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Ben Marcus
24. Gathering of Waters (Akashic Books, 2012) / Bernice L. McFadden
25. Heft (W.W. Norton, 2012) / Liz Moore
26. Stolen Souls (Harvill Secker, 2011) / Stuart Neville
27. The Odds (Viking Adult, Jan 20-12) / Stewart O’Nan
28. The Street Sweeper (Riverhead, 2012) / Elliot Perlman
29. Come In and Cover Me (Riverhead, 2012) / Gin Phillips
30. The Man Who Rained (Atlantic Books, 2012) / Ali Shaw

31. An Honourable Man (Virago, 2012) / Gillian Slovo
32. The Winter Palace (Doubleday Canada/Random House Canada/Bantam, 2012) / Eva Stachniak
33. At Last (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Edward St. Aubyn
34. The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope & Mother’s Milk (Picador USA, 2012) / Edward St. Aubyn
35. Brooklyn Heights (trans. from the Arabic by Samad Selim) (The American University in Cairo Press, 2012)/ Miral al-Tahawy
36. The World We Found (Harper, 2012) / Thrity Umrigar
37. The Confession: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysterty (William Morrow, 2012) / Charles Todd
38. The Quality of Mercy (Knopf Doubleday, 2012) / Barry Unsworth
39. Sanctuary Line (MacLehose Press, 2012) / Jane Urquhart
40. A Good Man (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012) / Guy Vanderhaeghe

41. Jack Holmes & His Friend (Bloomsbury/Bloomsbury USA, 2012) / Edmund White
42. A Place to Stop (Salt Publishing, 2012) / Susan Wicks
43. An Available Man (Ballantine Books, 2012) / Hilma Wolitzer

First Novels
1. A Walk Across the Sun (SilverOaks, 2012) / Corban Addison
2. American Dervish (Little, Brown, 2012) / Ayad Akhtar
3. Running the Rift (Algonquin Books, 2012) / Naomi Benaron
4. The Doll Princess (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Tom Benn
5. Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea (Viking Adult, 2012) / Morgan Callan Rogers
6. Summer (Abacus, 2012) / Tom Darling
7. The Report (Portobello Books, 2012) / Jessica Francis Kane
8. Tideline (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Penny Hancock
9. The Art of Fielding (Fourth Estate, 2012) / Chad Harbach
10. The Ruins of Us (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Keija Parssinen

11. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (trans. from the German by Kevin Wiliarty) (Other Press, 2012) / Jan-Philipp Sendker
12. Broadway Baby (Algonquin Books, 2012) / Alan Shapiro
13. Ru (trans. from the French by Sheila Fischman) (Random House Canada, 2012) / Kim Thúy
14. The Pleasures of Men (Michael Joseph, 2012) / Kate Williams

Stories
1. Married Love (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Tessa Hadley
2. Drifting House (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Krys Lee
3. Monstress (Ecco, 2012) / Lysley Tenorio
4. Diving Belles (Bloomsbury UK, 2012) / Lucy Wood

Poetry
1. The Death of King Arthur (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Simon Armitage
2. Odi Barbare (Clutag Press, 2012) / Geoffrey Hill
3. The Complete Poems (ed. Archie Burnett) (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Philip Larkin
4. The Mara Crossing (Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Ruth Padel
5. Collected Poems (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Peter Redgrove
6. You Do Not Need Another Self-Help Book (Pindrop Press, 2012) / Sarah Salway
7. Night of the Republic (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) / Alan Shapiro
8. Almost Invisible (Knopf, 2012) / Mark Strand

Nonfiction
1. Ben Jonson: A Life (Oxford University Press USA, 2012) / Ian Donaldson
2. Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts (Knopf, 2012) / William H. Gass
3. Distrust That Particular Flavor (Putnam Adult, 2012) / William Gibson
4. The Man Within My Head (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Pico Iyer
5. No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems (Belnap Press/Harvard University Press, 2012) / Liu Xiaobo
6. The Lives of Margaret Fuller (W.W. Norton, 2012) / John Matteson
7. A Lucid Dreamer: The Life of Peter Redgrove (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Neil Roberts
8. Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria (Granta Books, 2012) / Noo Saro-Wiwa
9. The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the ’50s, New York in the ’60s: A Memoir of Publishing’s Golden Age (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Richard Seaver
10. Cairo: My City, Our Revolution (Bloomsbury, 2012) / Ahdaf Soueif

11. The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan (New Directions, 2012) / George Steiner
12. Memory: Fragments of a Modern History (The University of Chicago Press, 2012) / Alison Winter