July 2014 Highlights

“They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in JULY.” BILL BRYSON, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (2006)

Novels
1. The Tightrope Walkers (Penguin, 2014) / David Almond
2. Mr. Gwyn (trans. From the Italian by Ann Goldstein) (McSweeney’s, 2014) / Alessandro Baricco
3. The Incarnations (Doubleday, 2014) / Susan Barker
4. The Disappearance Boy (Bloomsbury Circus, 2014) / Neil Bartlett
5. The Symmetry Teacher (trans. from the Russian by Polly Gannon) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Andrei Bitov
6. Arts & Entertainments (Ecco, 2014) / Christopher Beha
7. Broken Monsters (HarperCollins, 2014) / Lauren Beukes
8. Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands (Random House, 2014) / Chris Bohjalian
9. Touched (Hammer, 2014) / Joanna Briscoe
10. Wayfaring Strangers (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / James Lee Burke

11. The Last Lover (trans. from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen) (Yale University Press, 2014) / Can Xue
12. The Dead Will Tell (Minotaur Books, 2014) / Linda Castillo
13. Half a Lifelong Romance (trans. from the Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury) (Penguin Classics, 2014) / Eileen Chang
14. Iron Gustav: A Berlin Family Chronicle (trans. from the German by Philip Owens) (Penguin Classics, 2014) / Hans Fallada
15. Aren’t We Sisters? (Fig Tree/Penguin, 2014) / Patricia Ferguson
16. The Narrow Path to the Deep North (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Richard Flanagan
17. John the Pupil (Fourth Estate, 2014) / David Flusfeder
18. Sisters of Treason (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Elizabeth Fremantle
19. Vixen (The Borough Press/HarperCollins, 2014) / Rosie Garland
20. The Fortune Hunter (St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Daisy Goodwin

21. Upstairs at the Party (Virago, 2014) / Linda Grant
22. The Confessions of Frances Godwin (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / Robert Hellenga
23. The Emperor Waltz (Fourth Estate, 2014) / Philip Hensher
24. Thirst (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Kerry Hudson
25. We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm (trans. from the French by David Ball & Nicole Ball) (Seagull Books, 2014) / Lola Lafon
26. The Eye of the Sheep (Allen & Unwin, 2014) / Sofie Laguna
27. The Sea Garden (Orion, 2014) / Deborah Lawrenson
28. Road Ends (The Dial Press, 2014) / Mary Lawson
29. Little Lies (published as Big Little Lies in the U.S.) (Penguin/Putnam, 2014) / Liane Moriarty
30. While the Gods Were Sleeping (trans. from the Dutch by Paul Vincent) (Pushkin Press, 2014) / Erwin Mortier

31. The House of Small Shadows (St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Adam Nevill
32. The Final Silence (Harvill Secker, 2014) / Stuart Neville
33. American Blonde (Plume, 2014) / Jennifer Niven
34. Painting Death (Harvill Secker, 2014) / Tim Parks
35. Breakfast with the Borgias (Hammer Books, 2014) / DBC Pierre
36. In Love and War (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Alex Preston
37. Evergreen (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Rebecca Rasmussen
38. Happy Are the Happy (trans. from the French by Sarah Ardizzone) (Harvill Secker, 2014) / Yasmina Reza
39. House of Ashes (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Monique Roffey
40. Red Joan (Europa Editions, 2014) / Jennie Rooney

41. Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Complete Novels (Liveright, 2014) / Henry Roth
42. Skylight (trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa) (Harvill Secker, 2014) / José Saramago
43. The Dark Meadow (trans. from the German by Anthea Bell) (Quercus, 2014) / Andrea Maria Schenkel
44. Nest (Hatchette, 2014) / Inga Simpson
45. The Girls at the Kingfisher Club (Atria Books, 2014) / Genevieve Valentine
46. The Storms of War (Orion, 2014) / Kate Williams
47. The Care and Management of Lies (Harper/Allison & Busby, 2014) / Jacqueline Winspear

First Novels
1. Panic in a Suitcase (Riverhead, 2014) / Yelena Akhtiorskaya
2. A Man Called Ove (trans. from the Swedish by Henning Koch) (Atria Books/Sceptre, 2014) / Fredrik Backman
3. Life Drawing (Random House, 2014) / Robin Black
4. Dry Bones in the Valley (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Tom Bouman
5. The Miniaturist (Picador, 2014) / Jessie Burton
6. High as the Horses’ Bridles (Henry Holt, 2014) / Scott Cheshire
7. The Angel of Losses (Ecco, 2014) / Stephanie Feldman
8. The Spring of Kasper Meier (Little, Brown, 2014) / Ben Fergusson
9. In the Beginning Was the Sea (trans. from the Spanish by Frank Wynne) (Pushkin Press, 2014) / Tomás González
10. Friendship (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Emily Gould

11. Ishmael’s Oranges (Oneworld Publications, 2014) / Claire Hajaj
12. Love, Love Me Do (Piatkus, 2014) / Mark Haysom
13. Nobody Is Ever Missing (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Catherine Lacey
14. The Home Place (William Morrow, 2014) / Carrier La Seur
15. California (Little, Brown, 2014) / Edan Lepucki
16. Lay It On My Heart (Mariner Books, 2014) / Angela Pneuman
17. Last Night at the Blue Angel (William Morrow, 2014) / Rebecca Rotert
18. Mating for Life (Washington Square Press, 2014) / Marissa Stapley
19. The Girls from Corona del Mar (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Rufi Thorpe
20. Drifting (Akashic Books, 2014) / Katia D. Ulysse

21. The Great Glass Sea (Grove Press, 2014) / Josh Weil
22. Land of Love and Drowning (Riverhead, 2014) / Tiphanie Yanique

Stories
1. Through the Woods (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Emily Carroll
2. Noontide Toll (Granta Books, 2014) / Romesh Gunesekera
3. Elegy on Kinderklavier (Sarabande Books, 2014) / Arna Bontemps Hemenway
4. The Best British Short Stories 2014 (Salt Publishing, 2014) / Nicholas Royle (ed.)
5. Animals in Motion (Roundabout Press, 2014) / David Ryan
6. England and Other Stories (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Graham Swift
7. Last Stories and Other Stories (Viking, 2014) / William T. Vollmann

Poetry
1. Testament (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Robert Crawford
2. The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2014) / B.H. Fairchild
3. The Orchid Boat (Enitharmon Press, 2014) / Lee Harwood
4. Second Childhood (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Fanny Howe
5. Accepting the Disaster (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Joshua Mehigan
6. Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Ruth Padel
7. Compass Rose (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) / Arthur Sze

Nonfiction
1. Pericles of Athens (trans. from the French by Janet Lloyd) (Princeton University Press, 2014) / Vincent Azoulay
2. Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word (W.W. Norton, 2015) / Matthew Battles
3. The Iceberg: A Memoir (Atlantic Books, 2014) / Marion Coutts
4. The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle (Grove Press, 2014) / Francisco Goldman
5. Watching Them Be: Star Presence on the Screen from Garbo to Balthazar (Faber & Faber, 2014) / James Harvey
6. The Critic in the Modern World: Public Criticism from Samuel Johnson to James Wood (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / James Ley
7. My Two Italies (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Joseph Luzzi
8. H is for Hawk (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Helen Macdonald
9. The Removers: A Memoir (Scribner, 2014) / Andrew Meredith
10. The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee (Penguin Press, 2014) / Marja Mills

11. Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France (Shatto & Windus, 2014) / Caroline Moorehead
12. This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War (Penguin Books India, 2014) / Samanth Subramanian
13. World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II (Allen Lane, 2014) / Hugh Thomas
14. Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do (Little, Brown, 2014) / Wallace J. Nichols
15. Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Miles J. Unger
16. More Curious (McSweeney’s, 2014) / Sean Wilsey
17. A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War (Hutchinson, 2014) / Sebastian Faulks & Hope Wolf (eds.)