May 2013 Highlights

Novels
1. Americanah (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. Asunder (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Chloe Aridjis
3. Grace and Mary (Scepter, 2013) / Melvyn Bragg
4. The Aftermath (Viking, 2013) / Rhidian Brook
5. The Writing Master (White River Press, 2013) / Kitty Burns Florey
6. A Delicate Truth (Viking, 2013) / John le Carré
7. Awakening (Parthian Books, 2013) / Stevie Davies
8. A Thousand Pardons (Corsair, 2013) / Jonathan Dee
9. Pacific (Grove Press, 2013) / Tom Drury
10. Blood and Beauty (Virago, 2013) / Sarah Dunant

11. The Round House (Corsair, 2013) / Louise Erdrich
12. Fallen Land (Atlantic Books, 2013) / Patrick Flanery
13. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (A Marian Wood Book/Putnam, 2013) / Karen Joy Fowler
14. On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf Press, 2013) / Ru Freeman
15. King of Cuba (Scribner, 2013) / Cristina García
16. Flora (Bloomsbury USA, 2013) / Gail Godwin
17. Clever Girl (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Tessa Hadley
18. The Humans (Canongate, 2013) / Matt Haig
19. Under the Radar (Faber & Faber, 2013) / James Hamilton-Paterson
20. The Asylum (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / John Harwood

21. A Dual Inheritance (Ballantine Books, 2013) / Joanna Hershon
22. And the Mountains Echoed (Riverhead, 2013) / Khaled Hosseini
23. The Hundred Hearts (Thomas Allen Publishers, 2013) / William Kowalski
24. Questions of Travel (Little, Brown, 2013) / Michelle de Kretser
25. Is This Tomorrow (Algonquin Books, 2013) / Caroline Leavitt
26. Unwritten (Center Street, 2013) / Charles Martin
27. TransAtlantic (Bloomsbury, 2013) / Colum McCann
28. Constance (Bloomsbury Circus, 2013) / Patrick McGrath
29. The Woman Upstairs (Virago. 2013) / Claire Messud
30. The Son (Grove, 2013) / Philipp Meyer

31. The Mountain (Vintage Australia/Random House Australia, 2013) / Drusilla Modjeska
32. The Dark (Doubleday Canada, 2013) / Claire Mulligan
33. From the Fatherland, With Love (trans. from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy, Charles De Wolf & Ginny Tapley Takemori) (Pushkin Press, 2013) / Ryu Murakami
34. The Master’s Muse (Scribner, 2013) / Varley O’Connor
35. The Girl with the Golden Parasol (trans. from the Hindi by Jason Grunebaum) (Yale University Press, 2013) / Uday Prakash
36. All is Silence (trans. from the Galician by Jonathan Dunne) (Harvill Secker, 2013) / Manuel Rivas
37. Big Brother (HarperCollins, 2013) / Lionel Shriver
38. Strange Bodies (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Marcel Theroux
39. Burnt Island (Salt Publishing, 2013) / Alice Thompson
40. Angelopolis (Viking, 2013) / Danielle Trussoni

41. Long Live the King (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) / Fay Weldon
42. The Hanging Garden (Picador USA, 2013) / Patrick White

First Novels
1. We Need New Names (Reagan Arthur Books, 2013) / NoViolet Bulawayo
2. Southern Cross the Dog (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2013) / Bill Cheng
3. Meeting the English (Picador, 2013) / Kate Clanchy
4. Every Contact Leaves a Trace (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Elanor Dymott
5. The Shock of the Fall (published in the US as Where The Moon Isn’t) (HarperCollins, 2013) / Nathan Filer
6. The Hive (Little, Brown, 2013) / Gill Hornby
7. You Are One of Them (Penguin Press, 2013) / Elliott Holt
8. Coming in from the Sea (Headline Review, 2013) / Johanna Lane
9. The Bookman’s Tale: A Novel of Obsession (Viking, 2013) / Charlie Lovett
10. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (Hogarth, 2013) / Anthony Marra

11. Good Kings, Bad Kings (Algonquib Books of Chapel Hill, 2013) / Susan Nussbaum
12. Apology (Milkweed, 2013) / Jon Pineda
13. River of Dust (Unbridled Books, 2013) / Virginia Pye
14. The Other Typist (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam/Fig Tree, 2013) / Suzanne Rindell
15. The Son (Tinder Press, 2013) / Michel Rostain
16. If I Close My Eyes Now (trans. from the Spanish by Nick Caistor) (Doubleday, 2013) / Edney Silvestre

Stories
1. A Guide to Being Born (Riverhead, 2013) / Ramona Ausubel
2. Between My Father and the King: New and Uncollected Stories (Counterpoint, 2013) / Janet Frame
3. The Pre-War House and Other Stories (Salt Publishing, 2013) / Alison Moore
4. Between Friends (trans. from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston) (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Amos Oz
5. The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2013) / Ethan Rutherford
6. Collected Stories (Picador, 2013) / James Salter
7. Fools (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Joan Silber
8. Cosmic Latte (Parthian Books, 2013) / Rachel Tresize
9. Life Without Death and Other Stories (Cormorant Books, 2013) / Peter Unwin

Poetry
1. Maggie & Me (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / Damian Barr
2. She Inserts the Key (Seren, 2013) / Marianne Burton
3. The Taken-down God (Carcanet Press, 2013) / Jorie Graham
4. Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2013) / Tom Hennen
5. Alight (Copper Canyon Press, 2013) / Fady Joudah
6. The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013) / Adrian Matejka
7. Necessities (White Pine Press, 2013) / Christopher Merrill
8. Black Aperture (Louisiana State University, 2013) / Matt Rasmussen

Nonfiction
1. Deer Island (Little Toller Books, 2013) / Neil Ansell
2. Travelling Light (House of Anansi Press, 2013) / Peter Behrens
3. Chasing Alaska: A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now (Lyons Press, 2013) / C.B. Bernard
4. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Allen Lane, 2013) / Daniel C. Dennett
5. How to Read Literature (Yale University Press, 2013) / Terry Eagleton
6. Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West (Harper Perennial, 2013) / Peter Hessler
7. The Serpent’s Promise: The Bible Retold as Science (Little, Brown, 2013) / Steve Jones
8. Things I Don’t Want to Know (Notting Hill Editions, 2013) / Deborah Levy
9. Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Janet Malcolm
10. The Cooked Seed (Bloomsbury USA, 2013) / Anchee Min

11. Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002-2012 (Counterpoint, 2013) / Geoffrey O’Brien
12. A Fort of Nine Towers (Picador, 2013) / Qais Akbar Omar
13. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / George Packer
14. The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters (Oxford University Press, 2013) / Anthony Pagden
15. Holloway (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood & Dan Richards
16. For the Republic: Political Essays (Pressed Wafer, 2013) / George Scialabba
17. A Place in the Country (trans. from the German by Jo Catling) (Hamish Hamilton, 2013) / W.G. Sebald
18. Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Jonathan Sperber
19. Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga (trans. from the French by Linda Coverdale) (Allen Lane, 2013) / Sylvain Tesson
20. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Hamish Hamilton, 2013) / Paul Theroux