2013 Literary Highlights
Novels
1. Harvard Square (W.W. Norton, 2013) / André Aciman
2. Americanah (Fourth Estate/Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. At Night We Walk in Circles (Riverhead, 2013) / Daniel Alarcón
4. The Friday Gospels (Sceptre, 2013) / Jenn Ashworth
5. The Blind Man’s Garden (Faber & Faber/Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Nadeem Aslam
6. Life After Life (Doubleday/Reagan Arthur Books, 2013) / Kate Atkinson
7. Five Star Billionaire (Fourth Estate/Spiegel & Grau, 2013) / Tash Aw
8. The Voyage (MacLehose Press, 2013) / Murray Bail
9. The Quarry (Little, Brown, 2013) / Iain Banks
10. Never Saw It Coming (Orion, 2013) / Linwood Barclay
11. Lookaway, Lookaway (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) / Wilton Barnhardt
12. Rubbernecker (Bantam Press, 2013) / Belinda Bauer
13. American Elsewhere (Orbit, 2013) / Robert Jackson Bennett
14. The Shining Girls (Mulholland Books, 2013) Lauren Beukes
15. Tapestry of Fortunes (Random House, 2013) / Elizabeth Berg
16. Scent of Darkness (Pantheon, 2013) / Margot Berwin
17. The Light in the Ruins (Doubleday, 2013) / Chris Bohjalian
18. Tumbledown (Graywolf Press, 2013) / Robert Boswell
19. This House is Haunted (Doubleday/Other Press, 2013) / John Boyne
20. Speaking From Among the Bones (Delacorte Press, 2013) / Alan Bradley
21. Grace and Mary (Sceptre, 2013) / Melvyn Bragg
22. Palisades Park (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) / Alan Brennert
23. The Painted Girls (Riverhead, 2013) / Cathy Marie Buchanan
24. All the Beggars Riding (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Lucy Caldwell
25. A Delicate Truth (Viking, 2013) / John le Carré
26. All This Talk of Love (Algonquin Books, 2013) / Christopher Castellani
27. The Last Runaway (Dutton, 2013) / Tracy Chevalier
28. The Last Quarter of the Moon (trans. from the Chinese by Bruce Humes) (Harvill Secker, 2013) / Chi Zijian
29. The Gods of Heavenly Punishment (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Jennifer Cody Epstein
30. The Investigation (trans. from the French by Daniel Hahn) (MacLehose Press, 2013) / Philippe Claudel
31. The Childhood of Jesus (Harvill Secker, 2013) / J.M. Coetzee
32. Paris Was the Place (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Susan Conley
33. The Wrath of Angels (Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2013) / John Connolly
34. This Is the Way (Fourth Estate, 2013) / Gavin Corbett
35. Jack of Diamonds (Viking, 2013) / Bryce Courtenay
36. Worthless Men (Sceptre, 2013) / Andrew Cowan
37. Harvest (Picador/Nan A. Talese, 2013) / Jim Crace
38. Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles (Viking, 2013) / Ron Currie, Jr.
39. The Best of Youth (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Michael Dahlie
40. Clare of the Sea Light (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Edwidge Danticat
41. Home Fires (Bloomsbury, 2013) / Elizabeth Day
42. A Thousand Pardons (Random House, 2013) / Jonathan Dee
43. The Sea of Innocence (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Kishwar Desai
44. Little Exiles (HarperCollins, 2013) / Robert Dinsdale
45. His Wife Leaves Him (Fantagraphics, 2013) / Stephen Dixon
46. Sweet Thunder (Riverhead, 2013) / Ivan Doig
47. Apple Tree Yard (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Louise Doughty
48. Blood and Beauty (Virago, 2013) / Sarah Dunant
49. A Hologram for the King (Hamish Hamilton, 2013) / Dave Eggers
50. Mimi (Bloomsbury Circus, 2013) / Lucy Ellmann
51. It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris (Grove Press, Aug 2013) / Patricia Engel
52. The Five Acts of Diego Leon (Random House, 2013) / Alex Espinoza
53. Fallen Land (Atlantic Books/Riverhead, 2013) / Patrick Flanery
54. Songs of Willow Frost (Ballantine Books, 2013) / Jamie Ford
55. The Hired Man (Bloomsbury, 2013) / Aminatta Forna
56. The Unknown Bridesmaid (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Margaret Forster
57. In the Memorial Room (Counterpoint, 2013) / Janet Frame
57. On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf Press, 2013) / Ru Freeman
58. Adam in Eden (trans. from the Spanish by Ethan Shaskan Bumas) (Dalkey Archive Press, 2013) / Carlos Fuentes
59. The Ocean at the End of the Lane (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2013) / Neil Gaiman
60. Schroder (Twelve/Faber & Faber, 2013) / Amity Gaige
61. As Sweet As Honey (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Indira Ganesan
62. King of Cuba (Scribner, 2013) / Cristina García
63. Last Friends (Little, Brown/Europa Editions, 2013) / Jane Gardam
64. Middle C (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / William H. Gass
65. The Signature of All Things (Viking, 2013) / Elizabeth Gilbert
66. The Mothers (Scribner, 2013) / Jennifer Gilmore
67. Flora (Bloomsbury USA, 2013) / Gail Godwin
68. The End of the Point (Harper, 2013) / Elizabeth Graver
69. The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells (Ecco, 2013) / Andrew Sean Greer
70. Tirza (trans. from the Dutch by Sam Garrett) (Open Letter, 2013) / Arnon Grunberg
71. Clever Girl (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Tessa Hadley
72. Carnival (Penguin, 2013) / Rawi Hage
73. The Humans (Canongate Books, 2013) / Matt Haig
74. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (Hamish Hamilton/Riverhead Books, 2013) / Mohsin Hamid
75. The Carrier (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013) / Sophie Hannah
76. Enon (Random House, 2013) / Paul Harding
77. The River Swimmer (Grove Press, 2013) / Jim Harrison
78. Benediction (Alfred A. Knopf/Picador, 2012) / Kent Haruf
79. Good Bait (Arrow/Pegasus, 2013) / John Harvey
80. The Asylum (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / John Harwood
81. Scenes from Early Life (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Philip Hensher
82. A Dual Inheritance (Ballantine Books, 2013) / Joanna Hershon
83. The Obituary Writer (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Ann Hood
84. The Engagement (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Chloe Hooper
85. And the Mountains Echoed (Riverhead, 2013) / Khaled Hosseini
86. Someone Else’s Love Story (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2013) / Joshilyn Jackson
87. Recipe for a Happy Life (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) / Brenda Janowitz
88. Firefly (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Janette Jenkins
89. The Uninvited (Bloomsbury USA, 2013) / Liz Jensen
90. The Illicit Happiness of Other People (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Manu Joseph
91. The Year of the Ladybird (Orion, 2013) / Graham Joyce
92. Perfect (Doubleday, 2012) / Rachel Joyce
93. The Tell (Harper Perennial, 2013) / Hester Kaplan
94. Fever (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Mary Beth Keane
95. The Burning Air (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013) / Erin Kelly
96. The Outcasts (Little, Brown, 2013) / Kathleen Kent
97. White Masks (trans. from the Arabic by Maia Tabet) (MacLehose Press, 2013) / Elias Khoury
98. See Now Then (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Jamaica Kincaid
99. Doctor Sleep (Scribner, 2013) / Stephen King
100. The Prophet (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013) / Michael Koryta
101. The Hundred Hearts (Thomas Allen Publishers, 2013) / William Kowalski
102. Questions of Travel (Little, Brown, 2013) / Michelle de Kretser
103. Ordinary Grace (Atria Books, 2013) / William Kent Krueger
104. Death of a Dyer (Minotaur Books, 2013) / Eleanor Kuhns
105. The Flamethrowers (Scribner, 2013) / Rachel Kushner
106. The Lowland (Alfred A. Knopf/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / Jhumpa Lahiri
107. We Are Water (Harper, 2013) / Wally Lamb
108. The Thief of Words (Quantuck Lane Press, 2013) / Starling Lawrence
109. The Good House (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) / Ann Leary
110. The House of Trembling Leaves (Sandstone Press, 2013) / Julian Lees

111. The View from Penthouse B (Houghton Mifflin harcourt, 2013) / Elinor Lipman
112. The Sweet Girl (Atlantic Books, 2013) / Annabel Lyon
113. Woke Up Lonely (Graywolf Press, 2013) / Fiona Maazel
114. Unexploded (Hamish Hamilton, 2013) / Alison MacLeod
115. The Dark Road (trans. from the Chinese by Flora Drew) (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Ma Jian
116. The Abundance (Metropolitan Books, 2013) / Amit Majmudar
117. A Marker to Measure Drift (Alfred A. Knopf/John Murray, 2013) / Alexander Maksik
118. Little Wolves (Soho Press, 2013) / Thomas Maltman
119. The Infatuations (trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa) (Hamish Hamilton/Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Javier Marías
120. Unwritten (Center Street, 2013) / Charles Martin
121. The Chess Men (Quercus, 2013) / Peter May
122. After Her (Harper/William Morrow, 2013) / Joyce Maynard
123. TransAtlantic (Bloomsbury/Random House, 2013) / Colum McCann
124. The Professor of Poetry (Sceptre, 2013) / Grace McCleen
125. Someone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Alice McDermott
126. The Lost (Headline, 2013) / Claire McGowan
127. Constance (Bloomsbury USA/Bloomsbury Circus, 2013) / Patrick McGrath
128. Farewell, Dorothy Parker (Putnam Adult, 2013) / Ellen Meister
129. Almost English (Mantle, 2013) / Charlotte Mendelson
130. The Woman Upstairs (Alfred A. Knopf/Virago, 2013) / Claire Messud
131. The Son (Ecco, 2013) / Philipp Meyer
132. The Comfort of Lies (Atria Books, 2013) / Randy Susan Meyers
133. Jacob’s Folly (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Rebecca Miller
134. Heartbreak Hotel (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Deborah Moggach
135. White Dog Fell From the Sky (Viking, 2013) / Eleanor Morse
136. The Quickening (Hammer, 2013) / Julie Myerson
137. The Gospel According to Cane (Telegram Books, 2013) / Courttia Newland
138. Motherland (Quercus, 2013) / William Nicholson
139. The Accursed (Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, 2013) / Joyce Carol Oates
140. Daddy Love (Head of Zeus, 2013) / Joyce Carol Oates
141. Instructions for a Heatwave (Tinder Press/Alfred A. Knopf, February 2013) / Maggie O’Farrell
142. This Magnificent Desolation (Bloomsbury USA, 2013) / Thomas O’Malley
143. A Tale for the Time Being (Viking/Canongate Books, 2013) / Ruth Ozeki
144. The Professor of Truth (Hamish Hamilton, 2013) / James Robertson
145. Red Joan (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Jennie Rooney
146. How the Light Gets In (Minotaur Books, 2013) / Louise Penny
147. Night Film (Random House, 2013) / Marisha Pessl
148. Illumination (HarperCollins, 2013) / Matthew Plampin
149. Bleeding Edge (Penguin USA/Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Thomas Pynchon
150. Odds Against Tomorrow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Nathaniel Rich
151. The Emperor of Paris (Portobello Books, 2013) / C.S. Richardson
152. The Shadow Year (Orion, 2013) / Hannah Richell
153. The Mountain Shadow (Abacus/Little, Brown, 2013) / Gregory David Roberts
154. Sparta (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Sarah Crichton Books, 2013) / Roxana Robinson
155. First Novel (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Nicholas Royle
156. Paris (Doubleday, 2013) / Edward Rutherfurd
157. Orkney (Granta Books/Counterpoint, 2013) / Amy Sackville
158. All That Is (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / James Salter
159. The Way of the Dog (Coffee House Press, 2013) / Sam Savage
160. Fin & Lady (Sarah Crichton Books, 2013) / Cathleen Schine
161. The Edge of the Earth (Atria Books, 2013) / Christina Schwarz
162. Umbrella (Grove Press, 2013) / Will Self
163. The Hungry Ghosts (Doubleday Canada, 2013) / Shyam Selvadurai
164. Bellman & Black (Orion/Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2013) / Diane Setterfield
165. Honour (Pebguin/Viking, 2013) / Elif Shafak
166. A Treacherous Likeness (Corsair, 2013) / Lynn Shepherd
167. The Light and the Dark (trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield) (Quercus, 2013) / Mikhail Shishkin
168. Temple of a Thousand Faces (NAL Trade, 2013) / John Shors
169. Big Brother (HarperCollins/Harper, 2013) / Lionel Shriver
170. Mary Coin (Blue Rider Press, 2013) / Marisa Silver
171. Make Me a Soldier (Virago, 2013) / Elizabeth Speller
172. The History of Us (Touchstone, 2013) / Leah Stewart
173. The Silence and the Roar (trans. from the Arabic by Max Weiss) (Pushkin Press/Other Press, 2013) / Nihad Sirees
174. Sisterland (Doubleday, 2013) / Curtis Sittenfeld
175. At Break of Day (Virago, 2013) / Elizabeth Speller
176. The Tin Horse (Random House, 2013) / Janice Steinberg
177. The Burgess Boys (Random House, 2013) / Elizabeth Strout
178. The Mountain of Light (Washington Square Press, 2013) / Indu Sundaresan
179. The City of Devi (W.W. Norton/Bloomsbury, 2013) / Manil Suri
180. The Accidental Apprentice (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Vikas Swarup
181. The Valley of Amazement (Harper/Fourth Estate/Ecco, 2013) / Amy Tan
182. The Goldfinch (Little, Brown, 2013) / Donna Tartt
183. The Scent of Death (HarperCollins, 2013) / Andrew Taylor
184. Secrecy (Granta Books, 2013) / Rupert Thomson
185. Helsinki Blood (Putnam, 2013) / James Thompson
186. The Bathing Women (trans. from the Chinese by Hongling Zhang & Jason Sommer) (Blue Door, 2013) / Tie Ning
187. Light Shining in the Forest (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013) / Paul Torday
188. Angelopolis (Viking, 2013) / Danielle Trussoni
189. Fear in the Sunlight (Harper, 2013) / Nicola Upson
190. Goat Mountain (Harper, 2013) / David Vann
191. The Magic of Saida (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / M.G. Vassanji
192. The Silver Star (Scribner, 2013) / Jeannette Walls
193. The Love Song of Jonny Valentine (Free Press, 2013) / Teddy Wayne
194. The Fate of Mercy Alban (Hyperion, 2013) / Wendy Webb
195. Habits of the House (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) / Fay Weldon
196. The Start of Everything (Delacorte Press, 2013) / Emily Winslow
197. The Interestings (Riverhead, 2013) / Meg Wolitzer
198. All the Birds, Singing (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Evie Wyld
199. The Realm of Last Chances (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Steve Yarbrough
200. The Retrospective (trans. from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman) (Halban Publishers/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / A.B. Yehoshua
201. Sister Sister (Kwela Books, 2013) / Rachel Zadok
First Novels1. Hikikomori and the Rental Sister (Algonquin Books, 2013) / Jeff Backhaus
2. Frances and Bernard (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Carlene Bauer
3. In the House Upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods (Soho Press, 2013) / Matt Bell
4. The Drowning House (Nan A. Talese, 2013) / Elizabeth Black
5. The People of Forever Are Not Afraid (Hogarth, 2013) / Shani Boianjiu
6. The Herbalist (Penguin, 2013) / Niamh Boyce
7. The Movement of Stars (Riverhead, 2013) / Amy Brill
8. We Need New Names (Reagan Arthur Books, 2013) / NoViolet Bulawayo
9. Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love (Picador, 2013) / Sarah Butler
10. Idiopathy (Fourth Estate, 2013) / Sam Byers
11. Clapham Lights (Silvertail Books, 2013) / Tom Canty
12. How to be a Good Wife (Picador, 2013) / Emma Chapman
13. Southern Cross the Dog (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2013) / Bill Cheng
14. The Ghost Bride (William Morrow, 2013) / Yangsze Choo
15. Meeting the English (Picador, 2013) / Kate Clanchy
16. The Rathbones (Doubleday, 2013) / Janice Clark
17. The Gamal (Bloomsbury Circus, 2013) / Ciarán Collins
18. Byron Easy (William Heinemann, 2013) / Jude Cook
19. The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls (Riverhead, 2013) / Anton DiSciafani
20. Indiscretion (William Morrow, 2013) / Charles Dubow
21. The Universe Versus Alex Woods (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013) / Gavin Extence
22. Ghost Moth (Bellevue Literary Press/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013) / Michèle Forbes
23. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) / Therese Anne Fowler
24. The Palace of Curiosities (HarperCollins, 2013) / Rosie Garland
25. The Taste of Apple Seeds (Atlantic Books, 2013) / Katharina Hagena
26. Penelope (Virago, 2013) / Rebecca Harrington
27. Clay (Bloomsbury, 2013) / Melissa Harrison
28. Telling the Bees (Putnam, 2013) / Peggy Hesketh
29. You Are One of Them (Penguin Press, 2013) / Elliott Holt
30. The Engagement (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Chloe Hooper
31. The Hive (Little, Brown, 2013) / Gill Hornby
32. Burial Rites (Picador/Little, Brown, 2013) / Hannah Kent
33. The Night Rainbow (Bloomsbury, 2013) / Claire King
34. Gone to the Forest (Clerkenwell Press, 2013) / Katie Kitamura
35. Elysian Fields (Mid-City, 2013) / Mark LaFlaur
36. Coming in from the Sea (Headline Review, 2013) / Johanna Lane
37. The Specimen (Canongate Books, 2013) / Martha Lea
38. The First Book of Calamity Leek (Hutchinson, 2013) / Paula Lichtarowicz
39. Red Sky in Morning (Quercus/Little, Brown, 2013) / Paul Lynch
40. A Map of Tulsa (Penguin, 2013) / Benjamin Lytal
41. The Fields (Little, Brown, 2013) / Kevin Maher
42. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (Hogarth, 2013) / Anthony Marra
43. Rage Against the Dying (Minotaur Books, 2013) / Becky Masterman
44. Intermission (William Heinemann, 2013) / Owen Martell
45. Three Graves Full (Gallery Books, 2013) / Jamie Mason
46. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Alfred A. Knopf/Hutchinson, 2013) / Ayana Mathis
47. Elders (Hogarth, 2013) / Ryan McIlvain
48. Cover of Snow (Ballantine Books, 2013) / Jenny Milchman
49. Kiss Me First (Picador, 2013) / Lottie Moggach
50. Wise Men (Reagan Arthur Books, 2013) / Stuart Nadler
51. A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea (Riverhead, 2013) / Dina Nayeri
52. The Death of Bees (Harper, 2013) / Lisa O’Donnell
53. Apology (Milkweed, 2013) / Jon Pineda
54. The Man from Primrose Lane (Corsair, 2013) / James Renner
55. The House of Tides (published in the UK as Secrets of the Tides in 2012) (Grand Central Publishing, 2013) / Hannah Richell
56. The River of No Return (Dutton, 2013) / Bee Ridgway
57. The Son (Tinder Press, 2013) / Michel Rostain
58. With or Without You (Spiegel & Grau, 2013) / Domenica Ruta
59. The Spinning Heart (Doubleday Ireland, 2013) / Donal Ryan
60. Marriage Material (William Heinemann, 2013) / Sathnam Sanghera
61. The Hope Factory (Tinder Press, 2013) / Lavanya Sankaran
62. Ghana Must Go (Viking, 2013) / Taiye Selasi
63. The Bone Season (Bloomsbury, 2013) / Samantha Shannon
64. If I Close My Eyes Now (trans. from the Spanish by Nick Caistor) (Doubleday, 2013) / Edney Sylvester
65. The Rosie Project (Text Publishing/Michael Joseph/Penguin USA, 2013) / Graeme Simsion
66. Autobiography of Us (Henry Holt, 2013) / Aria Beth Sloss
67. Little Known Facts (Bloomsbury, 2013) / Christine Sneed
68. Falling to Earth (Europa Editions, 2013) / Kate Southwood
69. The Story of Before (Corvus, 2013) / Susan Stairs
70. The Midwife’s Tale (Minotaur Books, 2013) / Sam Thomas
71. The View on the Way Down (Picador, 2013) / Rebecca Wait
72. The Blood of Heaven (Grove, 2013) / Kent Wascom
73. The Golem and the Jinni (Harper, 2013) / Helen Wecker
74. The House on the Cliff (Macmillan, 2013) / Charlotte Williams
75. Ballistics (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / D.W. Wilson
76. The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Jack Wolf
77. Wash (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013) / Margaret Wrinkle
78. The Third Son (Algonquin Books, 2013) / Julie Wu
79. The People in the Trees (Doubleday, 2013) / Hanya Yanagihara
80. Snow Hunters (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Paul Yoon
Stories
1. A Guide to Being Born (Riverhead, 2013) / Ramona Ausubel
2. Stay Up With Me (Ecco, 2013) / Tom Barbash
3. Archangel (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Andrea Barrett
4. Something Like Happy (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / John Burnside
5. Damage Control (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) / Amber Dermont
6. Dirty Love (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Andre Dubus III
7. Between My Father and the King: New and Uncollected Stories (Counterpoint, 2013) / Janet Frame
8. Middle Men (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Jim Gavin
9. What You Are Now Enjoying (Autumn House Press, 2013) / Sarah Gerkensmeyer
10. The Miniature Wife and Other Stories (Riverhead, 2013) / Manuel Gonzales
11. This Close (Graywolf Press, 2013) / Jessica Francis Kane
12. News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories (Harper, 2013) / Jennifer Haigh
13. Any Deadly Thing (Dzanc Books, 2013) / Roy Kesey
14. Black Vodka (And Other Stories, 2013) / Deborah Levy
15. The Fun Parts (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Sam Lipsyte
16. National Treasures (Vintage, 2013) / Charles McLeod
17. The Pre-War House and Other Stories (Salt Publishing, 2013) / Alison Moore
18. Revenge (trans. from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder) (Picador USA/Harvill Secker, 2013) / Yoko Ogawa
19. Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge (Little, Brown, 2013) / Peter Orner
20. Between Friends (trans. from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverstein) (Chatoo & Windus, 2013) / Amos Oz
21. The Gurkha’s Daughter (Quertcus, 2013) / Prajwal Parajuly
22. Nine Inches (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) / Tom Perrotta
23. There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself (trans. from the Russian by Anna Summers) (Penguin Books, 2013) / Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
24. I Want To Show You More (Grove Press, 2013) / Jamie Quatro
25. Nothing Gold Can Stay (Ecco/Canongate Books, 2013) / Ron Rash
26. Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Karen Russell
27. Collected Stories (Picador, 2013) / James Salter
28. Tenth of December (Random House/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / George Saunders
29. Brief Encounters wit the Enemy (The Dial Press, 2013) / Said Sayrafiezadeh
30. Fools (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Joan Silber
31. Spectacle (Graywolf Press, 2013) / Susan Steinberg
32. Byzantium (Graywolf Press, 2013) / Ben Stroud
33. We Live in Water (Harper Perennial, 2013) / Jess Walter
34. Ashenden (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Elizabeth Wilhide
35. The House at Belle Fontaine (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013) / Lily Tuck
Poetry
1. Just Saying (Wesleyan, 2013) / Rae Armantrout
2. Quick Question (Carcanet Press, 2013) / John Ashbery
3. The Children’s War and Other Poems (Salt Publishing, 2013) / Shaindel Beers
4. Recalculating (University of Chicago Press, 2013) / Charles Bernstein
5. Dear Boy (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Emily Berry
6. Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Frank Bidart
7. Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013) / Billy Collins
8. The Last Parade (Liveright, 2013) / Adam Fitzgerald
9. Poems 1962-2012 (Carcanet Press, 2013) / Louise Glück
10. The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Dana Goodyear
11. Her Birth (Carcanet Press/Northern House, 2013) / Rebecca Goss
12. The Taken-down God (Carcanet Press, 2013) / Jorie Graham
13. Collected Poems (ed. Frederick Glaysher) (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2013) / Robert Hayden
14. Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (2nd Edition) (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Paul Hoover (ed.)
15. Go Giants (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Nick Laird
16. The Oldest Word for Dawn (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Brad Leithauser
17. Pluto (Picador, 2013) / Glyn Maxwell
18. Necessities (White Pine Press, 2013) / Christopher Merrill
19. The Word on the Street (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Paul Muldoon
20. The Mining Road (Bloodaxe, 2013) / Leanne O’Sullivan
21. A Raft of Grief (Autumn House Press, 2013) / Chelsea Rathburn
22. Drysalter (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Micheal Symmons Roberts
23. Hill of Doors (Picador, 2013) / Robin Robertson
24. Selected and New Poems: 1962-2012 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Charles Simic
25. Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems (Penguin Books, 2013) / Robert Wrigley
Nonfiction
1. Deer Island (Little Toller Books, 2013) / Neil Ansell
2. Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography (Liveright, 2013) / J.G. Ballard
3. Levels of Life (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Julian Barnes
4. Maggie & Me (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / Damian Barr
5. Confronting the Classics (Profile Books, 2013) / Mary Beard
6. The Last Days of Detroit (Bodley Head, 2013) / Mark Binelli
7. The Time by the Sea: Aldeburgh 1956-1958 (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Ronald Blythe
8. She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Emma Brockes
9. The Undivided Past (Allen Lane/Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / David Cannadine
10. Calcutta: Two Years in the City (Union Books/Aurum Press, 2013) / Amit Chaudhuri
11. Careless People: Murder, Mayhem & the Invention of The Great Gatsby (Virago, 2013) / Sarah Churchwell
12. Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011) (Viking, 2013) / Paul Auster & J.M. Coetzee
13. Family Secrets: Living With Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day (Viking, 2013) / Deborah Cohen
14. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (published in the US as The Return of a King: Shah Shuja and the First Battle for Afghanistan) (Bloomsbury/Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / William Dalrymple
15. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / John Darwin
16. Olivia Manning: A Woman at War (Oxford Univerty Press, 2013) / Deirdre David
17. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Allen Lane, 2013) / Daniel C. Dennett
18. How to Read Literature (Yale University Press, 2013) / Terry Eagleton
19. Alone in America: The Stories That Matter (Harvard University Press, 2013) / Robert A. Ferguson
20. The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (Allen Lane, 2013) / John Gray
21. The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / A.C. Grayling
22. The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Stephen Grosz
23. The Book of My Lives (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Aleksandar Hemon
24. Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West (Harper Perennial, 2013) / Peter Hessler
25. Sorry!: The English and Their Manners (John Murray, 2013) / Henry Hitchings
26. Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century (Little, Brown, 2013) / Eric Hobsbawn
27. Making Love: A Memoir (New Island Books, 2013) / Tom Inglis
28. Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self (Harvard University Press, 2013) / Gish Jen
29. The Serpent’s Promise: The Bible Retold as Science (Little, Brown, 2013) / Steve Jones
30. The Science of Monsters (Constable, 2013) / Matt Kaplan
31. On Writing (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / A.L. Kennedy
32. Georgette Heyer (Sourcebooks, 2013) / Jennifer Kloester
33. Is God Happy?: Selected Essays (Basic Books, 2013) / Leszek Kolakowski/
34. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination (trans. by Ralph Mandel) (Allen Lane/Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2013) / Otto Dov Kulka
35. Modernity Britain: 1957-63 (Bloomsbury, 2013) / David Kynaston
36. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked (published in the US as Give Me Everything You Have: Notes On a Crisis) (Jonathan Cape/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / James Lasdun
37. I Can’t Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Elinor Lipman
38. Portrait Inside My Head (Free Press, 2013) / Phillip Lopate
39. Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Janet Malcolm
40. Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Megan Marshall
41. Silence: A Christian History (Allen Lane, 2013) / Diarmaid MacCulloch
42. C.S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (Tyndale House, 2013) / Alister McGrath
43. The Cooked Seed (Bloomsbury USA, 2013) / Anchee Min
44. A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza (Eland Publishing, 2013) / Dervla Murphy
45. Country Girl (Little, Brown, 2013) / Edna O’Brien
46. Trespassers (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Julia O’Faolain
47. The Atlantic Ocean: Reports from Britain and America (Mariner Books, 2013) / Andrew O’Hagan
48. A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Picador, 2013) / Qais Akbar Omar
49. This Is Running for Your Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Michelle Orange
50. Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo (W.W. Norton/Harvill Secker, 2013) / Tim Parks
51. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Adam Phillips
52. The Still Point of the Turning World (Penguin USA/Two Roads, 2013) / Emily Rapp
53. American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) / Carl Rollyson
54. With or Without You (Spiegel & Grau, 2013) / Domenica Ruta
55. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland (Verso Books, 2013) / Shlomo Sand
56. A Place in the Country (trans. from the German by Jo Catling) (Hamish Hamilton, 2013) / W.G. Sebald
57. How Literature Saved My Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / David Shields
58. Far From The Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Andrew Solomon
59. Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Andrea Stuart
60. R.S. Thomas: Serial Obsessive (University of Wales Press, 2013) / M. Wynn Thomas
61. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Hamish Hamilton, 2013) / Paul Theroux
62. Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction (Random House, 2013) / Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd
63. Men We Reaped: A Memoir (Bloomsbury USA, 2013) / Jesmyn Ward
64. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead (Bodley Head, 2013) / Carl Watkins
65. O My America!: Second Acts in a New World (Jonathan Cape/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Sara Wheeler
66. The Fun Stuff and Other Essays (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / James Wood

























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Hello Mr Forbes: You kindly listed my upcoming Rage Against the Dying on your blog which is how I find you. I hope you are aware of Sunil Nair's Malaysian novel When All the Lights Are Stripped Away. If not, he deserves your attention. Thank you for your generosity. Becky
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