Saturday, February 01, 2014

February 2014 Highlights

Novels
1. Lost Lake (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) / Sarah Addison Allen
2. An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press/Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014) / Rabih Alameddine
3. The Visitors (Little, Brown, 2014) / Sally Beauman
4. The Voyage (MacLehose Press, 2014) / Murray Bail
5. The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel (Mantle, 2014) / Benjamin Black
6. The Deepest Secret (Bantam, 2014) / Carla Buckley
7. I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War (Liveright, 2014) / Jerome Charyn
8. Prayers for the Stolen (Hogarth, 2014) / Jennifer Clement
9. Reasons She Goes to the Woods (Oneworld Publications, 2014) / Deborah Kay Davies
10. The Tell-Tale Heart (Sceptre, 2014) / Jill Dawson

11. Gingerbread (The Borough Press, 2014) / Robert Dinsdale
12. By Blood We Live (Canongate Books, 2014) / Glen Duncan
13. The Absent Therapist (CB Editions, 2014) / Will Eaves
14. The Unknown Bridesmaid (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Margaret Forster
15. In the Wolf’s Mouth (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Adam Foulds
16. A Life in Men (Algonquin Books, 2014) / Gina Frangello
17. Long Man (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Amy Greene
18. The Headmaster’s Wife (Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Thomas Christopher Greene
19. Every Single Minute (Fourth Estate, 2014) / Hugo Hamilton
20. Storm Still (trans. from the German by Martin Chalmers) (Seagull Books, 2014) / Peter Handke

21. The Gospel of Loki (Gollancz, 2014) / Joanne M. Harris
22. Stillwater (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Nicole Helget
23. In the Orchard, The Swallows (Europa Editions, 2014) / Peter Hobbs
24. Spilt Milk (Penguin Books, 2014) / Amanda Hodgkinson
25. The Museum of Extraordinary Things (Scribner, 2014) / Alice Hoffman
26. A Pleasure and a Calling (Doubleday, 2014) / Phil Hogan
27. The Dead Lake (trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield) (Peirene Press, Feb 2014) / Hamid Ismailov
28. The Following Girls (Bloomsbury Circus, 2014) / Louise Levene
29. Kinder Than Solitude (Random House, 2014) / Yiyun Li
30. The Ghost of the Mary Celeste (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014) / Valerie Martin

31. Bittersweet (Head of Zeus, 2014) / Colleen McCullough
32. The Winter People (Doubleday, 2014) / Jennifer McMahon
33. Somerset (Grand Central Publishing, 2014) / Leila Meacham
34. Talking to Ourselves (trans. from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia) (Pushkin Press, 2014) / Andrés Neuman
35. Pioneer Girl (Viking, 2014) / Bich Minh Nguyen
36. Reckless (Quercus, 2014) / William Nicholson
37. I Always Loved You (Viking, 2014) / Robin Oliveira
38. Boy, Snow, Bird (Picador/Riverhead, 2014) / Helen Oyeyemi
39. The Poets’ Wives (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / David Park
40. The Rest Just Follows (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Glenn Patterson

41. In the Light of Morning (William Heinemann, 2014) / Tim Pears
42. Free Falling As If In a Dream: The Story of a Crime (trans. from the Swedish by Paul Norlen) (Pantheon, 2014) / Leif G.W. Persson
43. Golden State (Bantam/Random House, 2014) / Michelle Richmond
44. Severina (trans. from the Spanish by Chris Andrews) (Yale University Press, 2014) / Rodrigo Rey Rosa
45. The Swan Gondola (Riverhead, 2014) / Timothy Schaffert
46. The End of the Book (Louisiana State University Press, 2014) / Porter Shreve
47. The Farm (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Tom Rob Smith
48. Wonderkid (Overlook, 2014) / Wesley Stace
49. Cold Storage Alaska (Soho Crime, 2014) / John Straley
50. The Scent of Death (HarperCollins, 2014) / Andrew Taylor

51. Strange Bodies (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Marcel Theroux
52. The Illusionists (HarperCollins, 2014) / Rosie Thomas
53. Balancing Act (Doubleday, 2014) / Joanna Trollope
54. The Secret of Raven Point (Scribner, 2014) / Jennifer Vanderbes
55. Quesadillas (trans. from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Juan Pablo Villalobos
56. The Lemon Grove (Tinder Press, 2014) / Helen Walsh
57. Romany and Tom (Bloomsbury Circus, 2014) / Ben Watts
58. Mrs. Hemingway (Picador, 2014) / Naomi Wood

First Novels
1. Queen Sugar (Pamela Dorman Books, 2014) / Natalie Baszile
2. Three Souls (HarperCollins, 2014) / Janie Chang
3. Prayers for the Stolen (Hogarth, 2014) / Jennifer Clement
4. The Book of Jonah (Henry Holt, 2014) / Joshua Max Feldman
5. Terms & Conditions (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Robert Glancy
6. The Taste of Apple Seeds (trans. from the German by Jamie Bulloch) (William Morrow, 2014) / Katharina Hagena
7. A Burnable Book (William Morrow, 2014) / Bruce Holsinger
8. Wake (Random House, 2014) / Anna Hope
9. The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards (Penguin Books, 2014) / Kristopher Jansma
10. Girl on the Golden Coin: A Novel of Frances Stuart (Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Marci Jefferson

11. The Good Life Elsewhere (trans. from the Russian by Ross Ufberg) (New Vessel Press, 2014) / Vladimir Lorchenkov
12. The Undertaking (Atlantic Books, 2014) / Audrey Magee
13. The Lost Child (Text Publishing, 2014) / Suzanne McCourt
14. The Madness of July (Head of Zeus, 2014) / James Naughtie
15. The Wives of Los Alamos (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / TaraShea Nesbit
16. Pioneer Girl (Viking Adult, 2014) / Bich Minh Nguyen
17. Land Where I Flee (Quercus, 2014) / Prajwal Parajuly
18. The Spinning Heart (Steerforth, 2014) / Donal Ryan
19. The Kept (Hutchinson, 2014) / James Scott
20. The Girl With a Clock for a Heart (William Morrow, 2014) / Peter Swanson

21. Saint Monkey (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Jacinda Townsend
22. The Visionist (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Rachel Urquhart
23. Mrs Sinclair’s Suitcase (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) / Louise Walters
24. The Roving Party (Soho Press, 2014) / Rohan Wilson

Stories
1. The UnAmericans (W.W. Norton/Fourth Estate, 2014) / Molly Antopol
2. The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq (trans. from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright) (Penguin Books, 2014) / Hassan Blasim
3. Praying Drunk (Sarabande Books, 2014) / Kyle Minor
4. Bark (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Lorrie Moore
5. One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / B.J. Novak
6. What A Life!: Selected Short Stories (Turnpike Books, 2014) / J.B. Priestley
7. Hum (University of Alabama Press, 2014) / Michelle Richmond
8. Death & Texas (Halban Publishers, 2014) / Clive Sinclair
9. Things to Make and Break (CB Editions, 2014) / May-Lan Tan
10. What’s Important Is Feeling (Harper Perennial, 2014) / Adam Wilson

Poetry
1. All One Breath (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / John Burnside
2. The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2014 (Bloodaxe Books/Wake Forest University Press, 2014) / Harry Clifton
3. My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014) / Jonathan Edwards
4. Selected Poems (Picador, 2014) / Paul Farley
5. Carnival Masks (The Gallery Press, 2014) / Seán Lysaght
6. The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Derek Walcott
7. The Earth Avails (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Mark Wunderlich
Nonfiction
1. The Dream of the Great American Novel (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2014) / Lawrence Buell
2. Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (Princeton University Press, 2014) / Barbara Cassin et al. (eds.)
3. E.E. Cummings: A Life (Pantheon, 2014) / Susan Cheever
4. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / David Brion Davis
5. Culture and the Death of God (Yale University Press, 2014) / Terry Eagleton
6. Falling Out of Time (trans. from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen) (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / David Grossman
7. The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld: A Memoir (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Justin Hocking
8. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Bloomsbury Publishing/Henry Holt, 2014) / Elizabeth Kolbert
9. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination (trans. from the Hebrew by Ralph Mandel) (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2014) / Otto Dov Kulka
10. Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir (Viking Adult, 2014) / Penelope Lively

11. Lives in Writing (Harvill Secker, 2014) / David Lodge
12. Berlin: Imagine a City (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014) / Rory MacLean
13. William Burroughs: A Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014) / Barry Miles
14. The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge (Verso Books, 2014) / Ilan Pappe
15. A Place in the Country (trans. from the German by Jo Catling) (Random House, 2014) / W.G. Sebald
16. My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel (Scribe, 2014) / Ari Shavit
17. The Age of Nothing: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God (published in the US as The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Peter Watson
18. Romany and Tom: A Memoir (Bloomsbury Circus, 2014) / Ben Watt
19. Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris (Bloomsbury USA/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Edmund White
20. The Nile: Downriver Through Egypt’s Past and Present (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Toby Wilkinson