February 2013 Highlights

Novels
1. The Blind Man’s Garden (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Nadeem Aslam
2. Five Star Billionaire (Fourth Estate/Spiegel & Grau, 2013) / Tash Aw
3. American Elsewhere (Orbit, 2013) / Robert Jackson Bennett
4. Ten White Geese (trans. from the Dutch by David Colmer) (Penguin USA, 2013) / Gerbrand Bakker
5. All the Beggars Riding (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Lucy Caldwell
6. All This Talk of Love (Algonquin Books, 2013) / Christopher Castellani
7. Worthless Men (Sceptre, 2013) / Andrew Cowan
8. Harvest (Picador/Nan A. Talese, 2013) / Jim Crace
9. The Sound of Broken Glass (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2013) / Deborah Crombie
10. Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles (Viking, 2013) / Ron Currie, Jr.

11. A Thousand Pardons (Random House, 2013) / Jonathan Dee
12. Little Exiles (HarperCollins, 2013) / Robert Dinsdale
13. A Hologram for the King (Hamish Hamilton, 2013) / Dave Eggers
14. Percival Everett by Virgil Russell (Graywolf Press, 2013) / Percival Everett
14. Mimi (Bloomsbury Circus, 2013) / Lucy Ellmann
15. The Unknown Bridesmaid (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Margaret Forster
16. Schroder (Twelve, 2013) / Amity Gaige
17. As Sweet As Honey (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Indira Ganesan
18. Tirza (trans. from the Dutch by Sam Garrett) (Open Letter, 2013) / Arnon Grunberg
19. The Carrier (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013) / Sophie Hannah
20. The Engagement (Scribner, 2013) / Chloe Hooper

21. Exodus (Melville House, 2013) / Lars Iyer
22. Exposure (published as Second Person Singular in the U.S.) (trans. from the Hebrew by Mitch Ginsberg) (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Sayed Kashua
22. White Masks (trans. from the Arabic by Maia Tabet) (MacLehose Press, 2013) / Elias Khoury
23. See Now Then (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Jamaica Kincaid
24. The Dinner (trans. from the Dutch by Sam Garrett) (Hogarth Press, 2013) / Herman Koch
25. The House of Trembling Leaves (Sandstone Press, 2013) / Julian Lees
26. Farewell, Dorothy Parker (Putnam, 2013) / Ellen Meister
27. The Comfort of Lies (Atria Books, 2013) / Randy Susan Meyers
28. Heartbreak Hotel (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Deborah Moggach
29. The Gospel According to Cane (Telegram Books, 2013) / Courttia Newland
30. Motherland (Quercus, 2013) / William Nicholson

31. Daddy Love (Head of Zeus, 2013) / Joyce Carol Oates
32. Instructions for a Heatwave (Tinder Press, 2013) / Maggie O’Farrell
33. This Magnificent Desolation (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / Thomas O’Malley
34. The Storyteller (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Jodi Picoult
35. Orkney (Granta Books, 2013) / Amy Sackville
36. Out of the Easy (Philomel, 2013) / Ruta Sepetys
37. A Treacherous Likeness (Corsair, 2013) / Lynn Shepherd
38. The Light and the Dark (trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield) (Quercus, 2013) / Mikhail Shishkin
39. Temple of a Thousand Faces (NAL Trade, 2013) / John Shors
40. The City of Devi (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Manil Suri

41. The Scent of Death (HarperCollins, 2013) / Andrew Taylor
42. The Bathing Women (trans. from the Chinese by Hongling Zhang & Jason Sommer) (Blue Door, 2013) / Tie Ning
43. The Love Song of Jonny Valentine (Free Press, 2013) / Teddy Wayne
44. The Fate of Mercy Alban (Hyperion, 2013) / Wendy Webb
45. Lenin’s Kisses (trans. from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas) (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Yan Lianke
46. The Retrospective (trans. from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman) (Halban Publishers, 2013) / A.B. Yehoshua

First Novels
1. Frances and Bernard (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Carlene Bauer
2. The People of Forever Are Not Afraid (Hogarth, 2013) / Shani Boianjiu
3. Byron Easy (William Heinemann, 2013) / Jude Cook
4. Indiscretion (William Morrow, 2013) / Charles Dubow
5. The Rainbow Troops (trans. from the Indonesian by Angie Kilbane) (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Andrea Hirata
6. The Night Rainbow (Bloomsbury, 2013) / Claire King
7. The Specimen (Canongate Books, 2013) / Martha Lea
8. The First Book of Calamity Leek (Hutchinson, 2013) / Paula Lichtarowicz
9. The Fields (Little, Brown, 2013) / Kevin Maher
10. Three Graves Full (Gallery Books, 2013) / Jamie Mason

11. Wise Men (Reagan Arthur Books, 2013) / Stuart Nadler
12. The Spiral House (Umuzi, 2013) / Claire Robertson
13. With or Without You (Spiegel & Grau, 2013) / Domenica Ruta
14. Autobiography of Us (Henry Holt, 2013) / Aria Beth Sloss
15. Little Known Facts (Bloomsbury USA, 2013) / Christine Sneed
16. The Mussel Feast (trans. from the German by Jamie Bulloch) (Peirene Press, 2013) / Birgit Vanderbeke
17. The House on the Cliff (Macmillan, 2013) / Charlotte Williams
18. Wash (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013) / Margaret Wrinkle

Stories
1. The Scattering (Seren, 2013) / Jaki McCarrick
2. Middle Men (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Jim Gavin
3. Black Vodka (And Other Stories, 2013) / Deborah Levy
4. Revenge (trans. from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder) (Harvill Secker, 2013) / Yoko Ogawa
5. Binocular Vision (Pushkin Press, 2013) / Edith Pearlman
6. Nothing Gold Can Stay (Ecco, 2013) / Ron Rash
7. Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Karen Russell
8. Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry (Bloomsbury USA, Nov 2010) / Christine Sneed
9. We Live in Water (Harper Perennial, 2013) / Jess Walter

Poetry
1. Just Saying (Wesleyan, 2013) / Rae Armantrout
2. The Children’s War and Other Poems (Salt Publishing, 2013) / Shaindel Beers
3. Blowout (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013) / Denise Duhamel
4. Oswald’s Book of Hours (Smokestack Books, 2013) / Steve Ely
5. Poems 1962-2012 (Carcanet Press, 2013) / Louise Glück
6. The Oldest Word for Dawn: New and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Brad Leithauser
7. Hill of Doors (Picador, 2013) / Robin Robertson
8. Incarnadine (Graywolf Press, 2013) / Mary Szybist

Nonfiction
1. Tennessee Williams: A Literary Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) / John Bak
2. Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, An Autobiography (Liveright, 2013) / J.G. Ballard
3. Calcutta: Two Years in the City (Union Books/Aurum Press, 2013) / Amit Chaudhuri
4. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / William Dalrymple
5. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / John Darwin
6. The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet (Columbia University Press, 2013) / Lawrence J. Friedman (with assistance from Anke M. Schreiber)
7. The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (Allen Lane, 2013) / John Gray
8. Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking (Hatchette Books Ireland, 2013) / Michael Harding
9. Making Love: A Memoir (New Island Books, 2013) / Tom Inglis
10. The Pity of Partition: Manto’s Life, Times, and Work Across the India-Pakistan Divide (Princeton University Press, 2013) / Ayesha Jalal

11. Is God Happy?: Selected Essays (Basic Books, 2013) / Leszek Kolakowski
12. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination (trans. from the Hebrew by Ralph Mandel) (Belknap Press, 2013) / Otto Dov Kulka
13. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked (published in the UK as Give Me Everything You Have: Notes On a Crisis) (Jonathan Cape/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / James Lasdun
14. To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (Free Press, 2013) / Phillip Lopate
15. Portrait Inside My Head (Free Press, 2013) / Phillip Lopate
16. C.S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (Tyndale Press, 2013) / Alister McGrath
17. This Is Running for Your Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Michelle Orange
18. With or Without You (Spiegel & Grau, 2013) / Domenica Ruta
19. How Literature Saved My Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / David Shields
20. Graven With Diamonds: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt: Poet, Lover, Statesman, and Spy in the Court of Henry VIII (Steerforth Press, 2013) / Nicola Shulman

21. Far From The Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Andrew Solomon
22. R.S. Thomas: Serial Obsessive (University of Wales Press, 2013) / M. Wynn Thomas
23. The Fun Stuff & Other Essays (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / James Wood