April 2013 Highlights

Novels
1. Harvard Square (W.W. Norton, 2013) / André Aciman
2. Americanah (Fourth Estate, 2013) / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. Maya’s Notebook (Harper, 2013) / Isabel Allende
4. The Blind Man’s Garden (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Nadeem Aslam
5. 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. Horses of God (trans. from the French by Lulu Forman) (Granta Books, 2013) / Mahi Binebine
8. This House is Haunted (Doubleday, 2013) / John Boyne
9. The House of Special Purpose (Other Press, 2013) / John Boyne
10. Palisades Park (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) / Alan Brennert

11. A World of Other People (4th Estate/HarperCollins Australia, 2013) / Steven Carroll
12. Six Years (Orion, 2013) / Harlan Coben
13. The Childhood of Jesus (Harvill Secker, 2013) / J.M. Coetzee
14. Paris Was the Place (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Susan Conley
15. The Sea of Innocence (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Kishwar Desai
16. Last Friends (Europa Editions, 2013) / Jane Gardam
17. The Mothers (Scribner, 2013) / Jennifer Gilmore
18. Benediction (Picador, 2013) / Kent Haruf
19. The Railwayman’s Wife (Allen & Unwin, 2013) / Ashley Hay
20. Where You Can Find Me (Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin’s Press, 2013) / Sheri Joseph

21. Fever (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Mary Beth Keane
22. Five Days (Atria Books, 2013) / Douglas Kennedy
23. A Man in Love: My Struggle: Book 2 (trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett) (Harvill Secker, 2013) / Karl Ove Knausgaard
24. The Flamethrowers (Scribner, 2013) / Rachel Kushner
25. The View from Penthouse B (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Elinor Lipman
26. Woke Up Lonely (Graywolf Press, 2013) / Fiona Maazel
27. The Dark Road (trans. from the Chinese by Flora Drew) (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Ma Jian
28. The Lost (Headline, 2013) / Claire McGowan
29. Constance (Bloomsbury USA, 2013) / Patrick McGrath
30. The Woman Upstairs (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Claire Messud

31. Motherland (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / William Nicholson
32. The Forgiven (Hogarth, 2013) / Lawrence Osborne
33. Odds Against Tomorrow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Nathaniel Rich
34. The Shelter Cycle (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Peter Rock
35. Paris (Doubleday, 2013) / Edward Rutherfurd
36. Orkney (Counterpoint, 2013) / Amy Sackville
37. All That Is (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / James Salter
38. The Edge of the Earth (Atria Books, 2013) / Christina Schwarz
39. The Hungry Ghosts (Doubleday Canada, 2013) / Shyam Selvadurai
40. Love Water Memory (Gallery Books, 2013) / Jennie Shortridge

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

First Novels
1. The Movement of Stars (Riverhead, 2013) / Amy Brill
2. Idiopathy (Fourth Estate, 2013) / Sam Byers
3. Clapham Lights (Silvertail Books, 2013) / Tom Canty
4. The Gamal (Bloomsbury Circus, 2013) / Ciarán Collins
5. The Shock of the Fall (HarperCollins, 2013) / Nathan Filer
6. Ghost Moth (Bellevue Literary Press, 2013) / Michèle Forbes
7. The Cuckoo’s Calling: A Cormoran Strike Novel (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown, 2013) / Robert Galbraith
8. The Last King of Lydia (Atlantic Books, 2013) / Tim Leach
9. Red Sky in Morning (Quercus, 2013) / Paul Lynch
10. The River of No Return (Dutton, 2013) / Bee Ridgway

11. The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope (Ecco, 2013) / Rhonda Riley
12. Ghana Must Go (Viking, 2013) / Taiye Selasi
13. The Hope Factory (Tinder Press, 2013) / Lavanya Sankaran
14. The Rosie Project (Michael Joseph/Penguin USA, 2013) / Graeme Simsion
15. Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Jessica Soffer
16. Homecoming (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Susie Steiner
17. The View on the Way Down (Picador, 2013) / Rebecca Wait
18. The Golem and the Jinni (Harper, 2013) / Helen Wecker
19. The Third Son (Algonquin Books, 2013) / Julie Wu

Stories
1. The Secret Lives of Men (Scribe Publications, 2013) / Georgia Blain
2. Strange Pilgrimages (Picador Africa, 2013) / Achmat Dangor

3. Nothing Cold Can Stay (Canongate Books, 2013) / Ron Rash
4. We’re Flying (trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann) (Granta, 2013) / Peter Stamm
5. The House at Belle Fontaine (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013) / Lily Tuck

Poetry
1. Speak, Old Parrot (Hutchinson, 2013) / Dannie Abse
2. Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Frank Bidart
3. Collected Poems (ed. Frederick Glaysher) (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2013) / Robert Hayden
4. Elegy Owed (Copper Canyon Press, 2013) / Bob Hicok
5. Pluto (Picador, 2013) / Glyn Maxwell
6. The Mining Road (Bloodaxe, 2013) / Leanne O’Sullivan
7. Silverchest (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Carl Phillips
8. Drysalter (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Michael Symmons Roberts
9. Accurate Measurements (Doire Press, 2013) / Adam White

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

11. I Can’t Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Elinor Lipman
12. Silence: A Christian History (Allen Lane, 2013) / Diarmaid MacCulloch
13. Country Girl: A Memoir (Little, Brown, 2013) / Edna O’Brien
14. A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Qais Akbar Omar
15. The Still Point of the Turning World (Two Roads, 2013) / Emily Rapp
16. The View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret (Oxford University Press, 2013) / R. Jay Wallace