2013 Literary Highlights

Novels
1. Harvard Square (W.W. Norton, 2013) / André Aciman
2. Americanah (Fourth Estate, 2013) / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. The Blind Man’s Garden (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Nadeem Aslam
4. Life After Life (Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown, 2013) / Kate Atkinson
5. Orphan Train (William Morrow, 2013) / Christina Baker Kline
6. Tapestry of Fortunes (Random House, 2013) / Elizabeth Berg
7. This House is Haunted (Doubleday, 2013) / John Boyne
8. The House of Special Purpose (Other Press, 2013) / John Boyne
9. Palisades Park (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) / Alan Brennert
10. Six Years (Orion, 2013) / Harlan Coben

11. The Childhood of Jesus (Harvill Secker, 2013) / J.M. Coetzee
12. Paris Was the Place (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Susan Conley
13. The Sea of Innocence (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Kishwar Desai
14. The Story of a Name (trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein) (Europa Editions, 2013) / Elena Ferrante
14. Last Friends (Europa Editions, 2013) / Jane Gardam
15. The Mothers (Scribner, 2013) / Jennifer Gilmore
16. Benediction (Picador, 2013) / Kent Haruf
17. Where You Can Find Me (Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin’s Press, 2013) / Sheri Joseph
18. Fever (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Mary Beth Keane
19. Five Days (Atria Books, 2013) / Douglas Kennedy
20. A Man in Love: My Struggle: Book 2 (trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett) (Harvill Secker, 2013) / Karl Ove Knausgaard

21. Seibo There Below (trans. from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet) (New Directions, 2013) / László Krasznahorkai
22. The Flamethrowers (Scribner, 2013) / Rachel Kushner
23. The View from Penthouse B (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Elinor Lipman
24. Woke Up Lonely (Graywolf Press, 2013) / Fiona Maazel
25. The Dark Road (trans. from the Chinese by Flora Drew) (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Ma Jian
26. The Lost (Headline, 2013) / Claire McGowan
27. Infidelity (Macmillan Australia, 2013) / Hugh Mackay
28. Constance (Bloomsbury USA, 2013) / Patrick McGrath
29. The Woman Upstairs (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Claire Messud
30. A Meal in Winter (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (Portobello Books, 2013) / Hubert Mingarelli

31. Motherland (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / William Nicholson
32. The Storyteller (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster/Hodder & Stoughton, 2013) / Jodi Picoult
33. Odds Against Tomorrow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Nathaniel Rich
34. The Shelter Cycle (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Peter Rock
35. Belomor (Text Publishing, 2013) / Nicolas Rothwell
36. Paris (Doubleday, 2013) / Edward Rutherfurd
37. Orkney (Counterpoint, 2013) / Amy Sackville
38. All That Is (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / James Salter
39. The Edge of the Earth (Atria Books, 2013) / Christina Schwarz
40. The Hungry Ghosts (Doubleday Canada, 2013) / Shyam Selvadurai

41. Love Water Memory (Gallery Books, 2013) / Jennie Shortridge
42. The Wall (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / William Sutcliffe
43. The Accidental Apprentice (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Vikas Swarup
44. My Beautiful Enemy (Text Publishing, 2013) / Cory Taylor
45. Fear in the Sunlight (Harper, 2013) / Nicola Upson
46. Long Live the King (Head of Zeus, 2013) / Fay Weldon
47. The Interestings (Riverhead, 2013) / Meg Wolitzer
48. Sister Sister (Kwela Books, 2013) / Rachel Zadok

First Novels
1. Every Promise (trans. from the Italian by Alastair McEwen) (MacLehose Press, 2013) / Andrea Bajani
2. The Movement of Stars (Riverhead, 2013) / Amy Brill
3. Idiopathy (Fourth Estate, 2013) / Sam Byers
4. Clapham Lights (Silvertail Books, 2013) / Tom Canty
5. Three Souls (HarperCollins Canada, 2013) / Janie Chang
6. The Gamal (Bloomsbury Circus, 2013) / Ciarán Collins
7. The Shock of the Fall (HarperCollins, 2013) / Nathan Filer
8. Ghost Moth (Bellevue Literary Press, 2013) / Michèle Forbes
9. Queen’s Gambit (Michael Joseph/Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Elizabeth Fremantle
10. The Cuckoo’s Calling (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown, 2013) / Robert Galbraith

11. The Marrying of Chani Kaufman (Sandstone Press, 2013) / Eve Harris
12. The Last King of Lydia (Atlantic Books, 2013) / Tim Leach
13. Red Sky in Morning (Quercus, 2013) / Paul Lynch
14. The River of No Return (Dutton, 2013) / Bee Ridgway
15. The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope (Ecco, 2013) / Rhonda Riley
16. In Times of Fading Light (trans. from the German by Anthea Bell) (Graywolf Press/Faber & Faber, 2013) / Eugen Ruge
17. Ghana Must Go (Viking, 2013) / Taiye Selasi
18. The Hope Factory (Tinder Press, 2013) / Lavanya Sankaran
19. The Rosie Project (Michael Joseph/Penguin USA, 2013) / Graeme Simsion
20. Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Jessica Soffer

21. The View on the Way Down (Picador, 2013) / Rebecca Wait
22. The Golem and the Jinni (Harper, 2013) / Helen Wecker
23. The Third Son (Algonquin Books, 2013) / Julie Wu

Stories
1. A History of the Present Illness (Bloomsbury USA, 2013) / Louise Aronson
2. Nothing Cold Can Stay (Canongate Books, 2013) / Ron Rash
3. We’re Flying (trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann) (Granta, 2013) / Peter Stamm
4. Spectacle (Graywolf Press, 2013) / Susan Steinberg
5. Search Party: Stories of Rescue (Counterpoint Press, 2013) / Valerie Trueblood
6. The House at Belle Fontaine (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013) / Lily Tuck

Poetry
1. Speak, Old Parrot (Hutchinson, 2013) / Dannie Abse
2. The Inside of An Apple (Wave Books, 2013) / Joshua Beckman
3. Border (Bloodaxe Books, 2013) / Peter Bennet
4. Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Frank Bidart
5. Collected Poems (ed. Frederick Glaysher) (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2013) / Robert Hayden
6. Elegy Owed (Copper Canyon Press, 2013) / Bob Hicok
7. Pluto (Picador, 2013) / Glyn Maxwell
8. The Mining Road (Bloodaxe, 2013) / Leanne O’Sullivan
9. Collected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2013) / Ron Padgett
10. Silverchest (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Carl Phillips

11. Drysalter (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Michael Symmons Roberts
12. The Living Option: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2013) / Karen Solie
13. Accurate Measurements (Doire Press, 2013) / Adam White

Nonfiction
1. Lawrence in Arabia: Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Doubleday, 2013) / Scott Anderson
2. Levels of Life (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Julian Barnes
3. Maggie & Me (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / Damian Barr
4. Saul Bellow’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir (Bloomsbury USA/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / Greg Bellow
5. She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Emma Brockes
6. The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / David Cannadine
7. The Return of a King: Shah Shuja and the First Battle for Afghanistan (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / William Dalrymple
8. Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt (Yale University Press, 2013) / Saul Friedländer
9. Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Philip F. Gura
10. Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West (Harper Perennial, 2013) / Peter Hessler

11. Pirates and Farmers (Ridinghouse, 2013) / Dave Hickey
12. Prospero’s Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater (University of Chicago Press, 2013) / Seth Lerer
13. I Can’t Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Elinor Lipman
14. Silence: A Christian History (Allen Lane, 2013) / Diarmaid MacCulloch
15. Distant Reading (Verso, 2013) / Franco Moretti
16. Country Girl: A Memoir (Little, Brown, 2013) / Edna O’Brien
17. A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Qais Akbar Omar
18. The Still Point of the Turning World (Two Roads, 2013) / Emily Rapp
19. Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing (Verso Books, 2014) / Lynne Segal
20. The View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret (Oxford University Press, 2013) / R. Jay Wallace