February 2012 Highlights

Novels
1. Pure (Grand Central Publishing, 2012) / Julianna Baggott
2. The Detour (trans. from the Dutch by David Colmer) (Harvill Secker, 2012) / Gerbrand Bakker
3. The O’Briens (Pantheon, 2012) / Peter Behrens
4. Coral Glynn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Peter Cameron
5. The Greatcoat (Hammer, 2012) / Helen Dunmore
6. This Is Paradise (Picador, 2012) / Will Eaves
7. The Little Shadows (Hutchinson/Allen & Unwin, 2012) / Marina Endicott
8. A Small Circus (trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann) (Penguin Classics, 2012) / Hans Fallada
9. The White Pearl (Sphere, 2012) / Kate Furnivall
10. Sarah Thornhill (Canongate, 2012) / Kate Grenville

11. The Prisoner of Paradise (Bloomsbury, 2012) / Romesh Gunesekara
12. Kind of Cruel (Hodder & Stoughton, 2012) / Sophie Hannah
13. Angelmaker (William Heinemann, 2012) / Nick Harkaway
14. Watergate (Pantheon, 2012) / Thomas Mallon
15. History of a Pleasure Seeker (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Richard Mason
16. The Roundabout Man (Sceptre, 2012) / Clare Morrall
17. The Healing (Knopf Doubleday, 2012) / Jonathan Odell
18. Restoration (Ecco, 2012) / Olaf Olafsson
19. The Technologists (Random House, 2012) / Matthew Pearl
20. The Revelations (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Alex Preston

21. The Divine Comedy (Atlantic Books, 2012) / Craig Raine
22. The Wolf Gift (Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Anne Rice
23. Before the Poison (HarperCollins, 2012) / Peter Robinson
24. The Detour (Soho Press, 2012) / Andromeda Romano-Lax
25. The House I Loved (St. Martin’s Press, 2012) / Tatiana de Rosnay
26. Mrs. God (Pegasus, 2012) / Peter Straub
27. The Garden of Evening Mists (Myrmidon Books, 2012) / Tan Twan Eng
28. Dogs at the Perimeter (Granta Books, 2012) / Madeleine Thien

First Novels
1. The Darlings (Pamela Dorman Books, 2012) / Cristina Alger
2. No One Is Here Except All of Us (Riverhead, 2012) / Ramona Ausubel
3. Rocks in the Belly (Serpent’s Tail, 2012) / Jon Bauer
4. The Whores’ Asylum (Fig Tree, 2012) / Kate Darby
5. The Starboard Sea (St. Martin’s Press, 2012) / Amber Dermont
6. The Variations (Henry Holt, 2012) / John Donatich
7. The Lost Saints of Tennessee (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012) / Amy Franklin-Willis
8. A Good American (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 2012) / Alex George
9. Shelter (Virago, 2012) / Frances Greenslade
10. The White Lie (Short Books, 2012) / Andrea Gillies

11. Girlchild (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Tupelo Hassman
12. The Whipping Club (T.S. Poetry Press, 2012) / Deborah Henry
13. Mountains of the Moon (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / I.J. Kay
14. Alys, Always (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012) / Harriet Lane
15. Noughties (Hamish Hamilton, 2012) / Ben Masters
16. The Fall (Headline, 2012) / Claire McGowan
17. The Little Russian (Counterpoint, 2012) / Susan Sherman
18. Nacropolis (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Jeet Thayil
19. Care of Wooden Floors (HarperPress, 2012) / Will Wiles
20. The Bellwether Revivals (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Benjamin Wood

21. The Golden Hour (NAL Trade, 2012) / Margaret Wurtele

Stories
1. Stay Awake (Ballantine Books, 2012) / Dan Chaon
2. What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Nathan Englander
3. Suddenly, a Knock on the Door (trans. from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston, Miriam Shlensinger & Nathan Englander) (Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Etgar Keret
4. Drifting House (Viking Adult, 2012) / Krys Lee
5. The White People and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics, 2012) / Arthur Machen
6. Light Lifting (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Alexander MacLeod
7. This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You (Bloomsbury, 2012) / Jon McGregor
8. Furnace (Freight Books, 2012) / Wayne Price
9. Other People We Married (Riverhead, 2012) / Emma Straub
10. Sweet Talk (Other Press, 2012) / Stephanie Vaughn

Poetry
1. Sky Thick With Fireflies (Salmon Publishing, 2012) / Ethna McKiernan
2. The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford (Counterpoint, 2012) / Wendell Berry
3. Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf Press, 2012) / D.A. Powell

Nonfiction
1. Wilkie Collins (Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Peter Ackroyd
2. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Random House, 2012) / Katherine Boo
3. Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World (HarperPress, 2012) / Simon Callow
4. A Card from Angela Carter (Bloomsbury, 2012) / Susannah Clapp
5. The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution (Allen Lane, 2012) / Faramerz Dabhoiwala
6. Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It (Bloomsbury USA, 2012) / Howard Jacobson
7. Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison (Cell 7 Media, 2012) / Deborah Jiang Stein
8. The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination (Harvard University Press, 2012) / Fiona MacCarthy
9. You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Tim Moore
10. Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters (trans. from the German and ed. by Michael Hofmann) (Granta Books, 2012) / Joseph Roth

11. Thinking the Twentieth Century (William Heinemann/Penguin Press, 2012) / Tony Judt (with Timothy Snyder)
12. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Stephen R. Platt
13. That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (St. Martin’s Press, 2012) / Anne Sebba
14. New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families (Viking, 2012) / Colm Tóibín
15. Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life (Grove/Atlantic, 2012) / David Treuer
16. Gypsy Boy: My Life in the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies (St. Martin’s Press, 2012) / Mikey Walsh