September 2012 Highlights

Novels
1. A Land Without Jasmine (trans. from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins) (Garnet Publishing, 2012) / Wajdi al-Ahdal
2. The Voyage (Text Publishing, 2012) / Murray Bail
3. Trust Your Eyes (New American Library, 2012) / Linwood Barclay
4. The Age of Hope (Phyllis Bruce Books, 2012) / David Bergen
5. The Tinsmith (Brindle & Glass, 2012) / Tim Bowling
6. San Miguel (Viking, 2012) / T.C. Boyle
7. Philida (Harvill Secker, 2012) / André Brink
8. Telegraph Avenue (Harper/Fourth Estate, 2012) / Michael Chabon
9. A Wanted Man (Bantam Press, 2012) / Lee Child
10. Beautiful Lies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) / Clare Clark

11. 1356 (HarperCollins, 2012) / Bernard Cornwell
12. The Unpierced Heart (Penguin, 2012) / Kim Darby
13. Lightning Rods (And Other Stories, 2012) / Helen DeWitt
14. A Possible Life (Hutchinson, 2012) / Sebastian Faulks
15. The Midwife’s Daughter (Penguin, 2012) / Patricia Ferguson
16. Where I Left My Soul (trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan) (MacLehose Press, 2012) / Jérôme Ferrari
17. Winter of the World (Duttton/Hutchinson, 2012) / Ken Follett
18. Carnival (House of Anansi Press, 2012) / Rawi Hage
19. The Elephant Keepers’ Children (trans. from the Danish by Martin Aitken) (Harvill Secker, 2012) / Peter Høeg
20. May We Be Forgiven (Viking, 2012) / A.M. Homes

21. Kind One (Coffee House Press, 2012) / Laird Hunt
22. Zoo Time (Bloomsbury, 2012) / Howard Jacobson
23. Train Dreams (Granta Books, 2012) / Denis Johnson
24. Big Ray (Bloomsbury USA, 2012) / Michael Kimball
25. The Cutting Season (Harper/Serpent’s Tail, 2012) / Attica Locke
26. The Sweet Girl (Random House Canada, 2012) / Annabel Lyon
27. The Life of Objects (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Susanna Moore
28. Citadel (Orion, 2012) / Kate Mosse
29. John Saturnall’s Feast (Bloomsbury, 2012) / Lawrence Norfolk
30. The Forgiven (Hogarth, 2012) / Lawrence Osborne

31. The Salt God’s Daughter (Soft Skull Press, 2012) / Ilie Ruby
32. Light Falling on Bamboo (Tindal Street Press, 2012) / Lawrence Scott
33. The Selector of Souls (Knopf Canada/Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Shauna Singh Baldwin
34. NW (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Press, 2012) / Zadie Smith
35. The Purchase (McClelland & Stewart, 2012) / Linda Spalding
36. Between Heaven and Here (McSweeney’s, 2012) / Susan Straight
37. Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures (Riverhead, 2012) / Emma Straub
38. The Forgetting Tree (St. Martin’s Press, 2012) / Tatjana Soli
39. The Western Light (Cormorant Books, 2012) / Susan Swan
40. Merivel: A Man of His Time (Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Rose Tremain

41. The Story of My Assassins (Melville House, 2012) / Tarun J. Tejpal
42. Fear in the Sunlight (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Nicola Upson
43. The Magic of Saida (Doubleday Canada, 2012) / M.G. Vassanji
44. The Potter’s Hand (Atlantic Books, 2012) / A.N. Wilson
45. Alif the Unseen (Corvus Books, 2012) / G. Willow Wilson

First Novels
1. Fobbit (Black Cat/Grove Press, 2012) / David Abrams
2. The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (Other Press, 2012) / Kathleen Alcott
3. The People of Forever Are Not Afraid (Hogarth, 2012) / Shani Boianjiu
4. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (Hyperion Books, 2012) / Jonas Jonasson
5. The White Forest (Touchstone Books, 2012) / Adam McOmber
6. Sutton (Hyperion, 2012) / J.R. Moehringer
7. Breed (Mulholland Books, 2012) / Chase Novak (Scott Spencer)
8. In Between Days (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Andrew Porter
9. The Yellow Birds (Little, Brown/Sceptre, 2012) / Kevin Powers
10. The Casual Vacancy (Little, Brown, 2012) / J.K. Rowling

11. Wilderness (Bloomsbury US, 2012) / Lance Weller
12. Those We Love Most (Voice, 2012) / Lee Woodruff

Stories
1. The Source of Life and Other Stories (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012) / Beth Bosworth
2. This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead Books, 2012) / Junot Diaz
3. The World (Hamish Hamilton Canada, 2012) / Bill Gaston
4. Sleeping Funny (Doubleday Canada, 2012) / Miranda Hill
5. At the Mouth of the River of Bees (Small Beer Press, 2012) / Kij Johnson
6. Like a House on Fire (Scribe Publications, 2012) / Cate Kennedy
7. Psychotic Episodes (Arlen House, 2012) / Alan McMonagle
8. Black Dahlia & White Rose (Ecco, 2012) / Joyce Carol Oates
9. Grimm Tales (Penguin Classics, 2012) / Philip Pullman
10. Summer Lies (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012) / Bernhard Schlink

11. The Book of Mischief: New & Selected Stories (Graywolf Press, 2012) / Steve Stern

Poetry
1. Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press, 2012) / David Ferry
2. Between Two Windows (Carcanet Press, 2012) / Oli Hazzard
3. People Who Like Meatballs (Bloodaxe Books, 2012) / Selima Hill
4. Water Sessions (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / James Lasdun
5. Stag’s Leap (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Sharon Olds
6. Burying the Wren (Seren, 2012) / Deryn Rees-Jones
7. Nonsense (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Christopher Reid
8. Nice Weather (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Frederick Seidel
9. Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) / Brenda Shaughnessy
10. Unsent New and Selected Poems 1980-2012 (Bloodaxe Books, 2012) / Penelope Shuttle

11. The Reasoner (Carcanet Press, 2012) / Jeffrey Wainwright

Nonfiction
1. There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra (Allen Lane, 2012) / Chinua Achebe
2. The History of England: Volume II: Tudors (Macmillan, 2012) / Peter Ackroyd
3. Winter Journal (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Paul Auster
4. Call Mother a Lonely Field (Seren, 2012) / Liam Carson
5. Island of Bones: Essays (University of Nebraska Press, 2012) / Joy Castro
6. Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life (trans. from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (Verso Books, 2012) / Artur Domosławski
7. Winter: Five Windows on the Season (House of Anansi Press, 2012) / Adam Gopnik
8. The Crocodile by the Door (Penguin Ireland, 2012) / Selina Guinness
9. Mortality (Atlantic Books, 2012) / Christopher Hitchens
10. The Story of America: Essays on Origin (Princeton University Press, 2012) / Jill Lepore

11. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (Granta, 2012) / D.T. Max
12. Museum Without Walls (Unbound, 2012) / Jonathan Meades
13. Country Girl: A Memoir (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Edna O’Brien
14. The City of Abraham: History, Myth and Memory: A Journey through Hebron (Picador, 2012) / Edward Platt
15. John Keats: A New Life (Yale University Press, 2012) / Nicholas Roe
16. In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays (The Dial Press, 2012) / Katie Roiphe
17. My Heart Is An Idiot: Essays (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Davy Rothbart
18. Joseph Anton: A Memoir (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Salman Rushdie
19. I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen (Ecco, 2012) / Sylvie Simmons
20. Unapologetic (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Francis Spufford