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. The Flying Man (Headline Review, 2012) / Roopa Farooki
6. Believing the Lie (Hodder & Stoughton, 2012) / Elizabeth George
7. Norumbega Park (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Anthony Giardina
8. All Is Song (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Samantha Harvey
9. Carnival for the Dead (Macmillan, 2012) / David Hewson
10. In the Orchard, the Swallows (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Peter Hobbs

11. A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty (Grand Central Publishing, 2012) / Joshilyn Jackson
12. Little Bones (Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Janette Jenkins
13. The Orphan Master’s Son (Random House, 2012) / Adam Johnson
14. The Translation of the Bones (Scribner, 2012) / Francesca Kay
15. Defending Jacob (Delacorte Press/Random House, 2012) / William Landay
16. Mr g (Pantheon, 2012) / Alan Lightman
17. How It All Began (Penguin USA, 2012) / Penelope Lively
18. The Flight of Gemma Hardy (Harper/HarperCollins, 2012) / Margot Livesey
19. The Flame Alphabet (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Ben Marcus
20. Gathering of Waters (Akashic Books, 2012) / Bernice L. McFadden

21. Heft (W.W. Norton, 2012) / Liz Moore
22. Stolen Souls (Harvill Secker, 2011) / Stuart Neville
23. The Odds (Viking Adult, Jan 20-12) / Stewart O’Nan
24. The Street Sweeper (Riverhead, 2012) / Elliot Perlman
25. Come In and Cover Me (Riverhead, 2012) / Gin Phillips
26. The Man Who Rained (Atlantic Books, 2012) / Ali Shaw
27. An Honourable Man (Virago, 2012) / Gillian Slovo
28. The Winter Palace (Doubleday Canada/Random House Canada, 2012) / Eva Stachniak
29. At Last (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Edward St. Aubyn
30. The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope & Mother’s Milk (Picador USA, 2012) / Edward St. Aubyn

31. The World We Found (Harper, 2012) / Thrity Umrigar
32. The Confession: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysterty (William Morrow, 2012) / Charles Todd
33. The Quality of Mercy (Knopf Doubleday, 2012) / Barry Unsworth
34. Sanctuary Line (MacLehose Press, 2012) / Jane Urquhart
35. A Good Man (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012) / Guy Vanderhaeghe
36. Jack Holmes & His Friend (Bloomsbury/Bloomsbury USA, 2012) / Edmund White
37. An Available Man (Ballantine Books, 2012) / Hilma Wolitzer

First Novels
1. American Dervish (Little, Brown, 2012) / Ayad Akhtar
2. Running the Rift (Algonquin Books, 2012) / Naomi Benaron
3. Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea (Viking Adult, 2012) / Morgan Callan Rogers
4. Summer (Abacus, 2012) / Tom Darling
5. The Report (Portobello Books, 2012) / Jessica Francis Kane
6. Tideline (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Penny Hancock
7. The Art of Fielding (Fourth Estate, 2012) / Chad Harbach
8. The Ruins of Us (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Keija Parssinen
9. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (trans. from the German by Kevin Wiliarty) (Other Press, 2012) / Jan-Philipp Sendker
10. Broadway Baby (Algonquin Books, 2012) / Alan Shapiro

11. 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

Poetry
1. The Death of King Arthur (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Simon Armitage
2. The Complete Poems (ed. Archie Burnett) (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Philip Larkin
3. The Mara Crossing (Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Ruth Padel
4. Collected Poems (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Peter Redgrove
5. 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. Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria (Granta Books, 2012) / Noo Saro-Wiwa
8. 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
9. Memory: Fragments of a Modern History (The University of Chicago Press, 2012) / Alison Winter