March 2012 Highlights

Novels
1. Carry the One (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Carol Anshaw
2. The Sins of the Father (Macmillan, 2012) / Jeffrey Archer
3. The Reconstructionist (Harper Perennial, 2012) / Nick Arvin
4. The Gilly Salt Sisters (Grand Central Publishing, 2012) / Tiffany Baker
5. Lost Memory of Skin (Clerkenwell Press, 2012) / Russell Banks
6. Schmidt Steps Back (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Louis Begley
7. The O’Briens (Pantheon, 2012) / Peter Behrens
8. Waiting for Sunrise (Bloomsbury, 2011) / William Boyd
9. On the Floor (Serpent’s Tail, 2012) / Aifric Campbell
10. Stay Close (Dutton/Orion, 2012) / Harlan Coben

11. A Foreign Country (HarperCollins, 2012) / Charles Cumming
12. Perla (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Carolina De Robertis
13. The Devil’s Beat (Doubleday, 2012) / Robert Edric
14. The Missing Shade of Blue (Abacus, 2012) / Jennie Erdal
15. 419 (Viking Canada, 2012) / Will Ferguson
16. Make It Stay (The Permanent Press, 2012) / Joan Frank
17. A Perfectly Good Man (Fourth Estate, 2012) / Patrick Gale
18. Fault Line (Bantam Press, 2012) / Robert Goddard
19. No Time Like the Present (Bloomsbury, 2012) / Nadine Gordimer
20. Arcadia (Voice/Hyperion, 2012) / Lauren Groff

21. Angelmaker (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Nick Harkaway
22. Enchantments (Random House/Fourth Estate, 2012) / Kathryn Harrison
23. The Good Father (Doubleday, 2012) / Noah Hawley
24. The Uninvited Guests (Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Sadie Jones
25. Where Nights Were Cold (Mantle, 2012) / Susanna Jones
26. The Vanishers (Doubleday, 2012) / Heidi Julavits
27. A Death in the Family: My Struggle: Book 1 (trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett) (Harvill Secker, March 2012) / Karl Ove Knausgaard
28. The Devil in Silver (Spiegel & Grau, 2012) / Victor LaValle
29. Various Pets Alive and Dead (Fig Tree, 2012) / Marina Lewycka
30. The Sugar-Frosted Nutsack (Little, Brown, 2012) / Mark Leyner

31. Under the Same Stars (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Tim Lott
32. Why Men Lie (Random House Canada, 2012) / Linden MacIntyre
33. Silver: Return to Treasure Island (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Andrew Motion
34. Traveller of the Century (trans. from the Spanish, El Viajero Del Siglo, by Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia) (Pushkin Press, 2012) / Andrés Neuman
35. Mudwoman (Ecco, 2012) / Joyce Carol Oates
36. The Light of Amsterdam (Bloomsbury, 2012) / David Park
37. The Mill for Grinding Old People Young (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Glenn Patterson
38. Hide Me Among the Graves (William Morrow, 2012) / Tim Powers
39. True (trans. from the Finnish by Lola M. Rogers) (Other Press, 2012) / Riikka Pulkkinen
40. The Cove (Canongate Books, 2012) / Ron Rash

41. The Imposter Bride (HarperCollins Publishers, 2012) / Nancy Richler
42. This Is Life (Canongate, 2012) / Dan Rhodes
43. The Book of Lost Fragrances (Atria Books, 2012) / M.J. Rose
44. The New Republic (Harper, 2012) / Lionel Shriver
45. Secondhand Daylight (Corsair, 2012) / D.J. Taylor
46. Helsinki White (Putnam Adult, 2012) / James Thompson
47. Elegy for Eddie (HarperCollins Publishers, 2012) / Jacqueline Winspear

First Novels
1. Goblin Secrets (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2012) / William Alexander
2. Floundering (Text Publishing, 2012) / Romy Ash
3. City of Bohane (Graywolf Press, 2012) / Kevin Barry
4. Hinterland (Bloomsbury USA, 2012) / Caroline Brothers
5. A Land More Kind Than Home (Transworld/Doubleday, 2012) / Wiley Cash
6. Forgotten Country (Riverhead, 2012) / Catherine Chung
7. What They Do in the Dark (W.W. Norton, 2012) / Amanda Coe
8. The Book of Jonas (Penguin USA, 2012) / Stephen Dau
9. A Partial History of Lost Causes (The Dial Press, 2012) / Jennifer duBois
10. The Missing Shade of Blue (Abacus, 2012) / Jennie Erdal

11. Absolution (Atlantic Books, 2012) / Patrick Flanery
12. The Book of Summers (Headline Review, 2012) / Emylia Hall
13. The Good Father (Hodder & Stoughton, 2012) / Noah Hawley
14. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Doubleday, 2012) / Rachel Joyce
15. India Becoming (Riverhead, 2012) / Akash Kapur
16. The Land of Decoration (Henry Holt/Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Grace McCleen
17. The Fever Tree (Viking, 2012) / Jennifer McVeigh
18. The Song of Achilles (Ecco, 2012) / Madeline Miller
19. When All the Lights Are Stripped Away (Marshall Cavendish, 2012) / Sunil Nair
20. The Spider King’s Daughter (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Chibundu Onuzo

21. The Expats (Faber & Faber/Crown, 2012) / Chris Pavone
22. The Lifeboat (Virago, 2012) / Charlotte Rogan
23. The English Monster (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Lloyd Shepherd
24. The Iguana Tree (Hub City Press, 2012) / Michel Stone
25. The House on Paradise Street (Short Books, 2012) / Sofka Zinovieff

Stories
1. Birds of a Lesser Paradise (Scribner, 2012) / Megan Mayhew Bergman
2. Suddenly, a Knock on the Door (trans. from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston, Miriam Shlensinger & Nathan Englander) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Etgar Keret
3. Hot Pink (McSweeney’s, 2012) / Adam Levin
4. This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You (Bloomsbury USA, 2012) / Jon McGregor
5. This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories (William Heinemann, 2012) / Johanna Skibsrud

Poetry
1. Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have My Being (Harvill Secker, 2012) / Paul Durcan
2. Left-Handed (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Jonathan Galassi
3. Collected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Jack Gilbert
4. The Complete Poems (ed. Archie Burnett) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Philip Larkin
5. Almost Invisible (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Mark Strand
6. Voluntary (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Adam Thorpe

Nonfiction
1. Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time (University of Iowa Press, 2012) / Carl H. Klaus & Ned Stuckey-French (eds.)
2. Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival (Penguin Press, 2012) / Christopher Benfey
3. By the Iowa Sea (Scribner, 2012) / Joe Blair
4. The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard (ed. Ron Padgett) (Library of America, 2012) / Joe Brainard
5. The Life of Slang (Oxford University Press, 2012) / Julie Coleman
6. Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Rachel Cusk
7. The Event of Literature (Yale University Press, 2012) / Terry Eagleton
8. India: A Sacred Geography (Harmony, 2012) / Diana L. Eck
9. Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy (Oxford University Press, 2012) / Simon Goldhill
10. The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Viking, 2012) / David George Haskell

11. Blood on the Altar: In Search of a Serial Killer (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Tobias Jones
12. India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India (Riverhead, 2012) / Akash Kapur
13. Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 (ed. Sue Leonard) (Viking, 2012) / John Leonard
14. Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces (Da Capo Press, 2012) / Cory MacLauchlin
15. Such a Life (University of Nebraska Press, 2012) / Lee Martin
16. The Great Northern Express: A Writer’s Journey Home (Crown, 2012) / Howard Frank Mosher
17. The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain (Hodder & Stoughton, 2012) / Paul Preston
18. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Crown, 2012) / Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
19. When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Marilynne Robinson
20. The Face of God (Continuum, 2012) / Roger Scruton

21. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Knopf, 2012) / Cheryl Strayed
22. Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights (The Belnap Press/Harvard University Press, 2012) / Marina Warner
23. London in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing (Bodley Head, 2012) / Jerry White
24. Hitler (Basic Books/HarperPress, 2012) / A.N. Wilson
25. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Grove/Atlantic, 2012) / Jeanette Winterson
26. Land’s Edge: A Coastal Memoir (Picador, 2012) / Tim Winton