December 2013 Highlights

Novels
1. The Dogs of Littlefield (Fig Tree, 2013) / Suzanne Berne
2. The Foundling Boy (trans. from the French by Julian Evans) (Gallic Books, 2013) / Michel Déon
3. The Goddess and the Thief (Orion, 2013) / Essie Fox
4. In the Memorial Room (Counterpoint, 2013) / Janet Frame
5. The Far Side of the Sun (Sphere/Hatchette Australia, 2013) / Kate Furnivall
6. The Spectre of Alexander Wolf (trans. from the Russian by Bryan Karetnyk) (Pushkin Press, 2013) / Gaito Gazdanov
7. Lettice & Victoria (Arcadia, 2013) / Susanna Johnston
8. The Spectre of Alexander Wolf (trans. from the Russian by Bryan Karetnyk) (Pushkin Press, 2013) / Gaito Gazdanov
9. Infidelity (Macmillan Australia, 2013) / Hugh Mackay
10. In the Night of Time (trans. from the Spanish by Edith Grossman) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Antonio Muñoz Molina

11. The Language of Dying (Jo Fletcher Books, 2013) / Sarah Pinborough
12. What She Left Behind (Kensington, 2013) / Ellen Marie Wiseman
13. The New Countess (St Martin’s Press, 2013) / Fay Weldon

First Novels
1. Ghost Moth (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013) / Michèle Forbes

Stories
1. The Best of McSweeney’s (McSweeney’s, 2013) / Dave Eggers & Jordan Bass (eds.)
2. The Stories of Frederick Busch (ed. Elizabeth Strout) (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Frederick Busch
3. Brown Dog: Novellas (Grove Press, 2013) / Jim Harrison
4. The Bread We Eat in Dreams (Subterranean Press, 2013) / Catherynne M. Valente
5. The Empty Chair: Two Novellas (Blue Rider Press, 2013) / Bruce Wagner

Poetry
1. The Hotel Oneira (Faber & Faber, 2013) / August Kleinzahler

Nonfiction
1. The Last Interview and Other Conversations (Melville House, 2013) / Hannah Arendt
2. If Only You People Could Follow Directions: A Memoir (Counterpoint, 2013) / Jessica Hendry Nelson
3. The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking (Picador USA, 2013) / Olivia Laing
4. My Venice and Other Essays (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013) / Donna Leon
5. Twelve Years a Slave (Engage Books, 2013) / Solomon Northup
6. The Outnumbered Poet: Critical and Autobiographical Essays (The Gallery Books, 2013) / Dennis O’Driscoll
7. More Dynamite: Collected Essays (Allen & Unwin, 2013) / Craig Raine
8. Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Sherrill Tippins
9. Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World (Ballantine Books, 2013) / Alison Weir