May 2014 Highlights

Novels
1. The Garden of Burning Sand (Quercus, 2014) / Corban Addison
2. Suddenly, Love (trans. from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green) (Schocken Books, 2014) / Aharon Appelfeld
3. From a Distance (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Raffaella Barker
4. Darkling (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Laura Beatty
5. Bittersweet (Crown, 2014) / Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
6. Above the East China Sea (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Sarah Bird
7. The Snow Queen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Michael Cunningham
8. Wonderland (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Stacey D’Erasmo
9. All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner/Fourth Estate, 2014) / Anthony Doerr
10. The Unwitting (Spiegel & Grau/Picador, 2014) / Ellen Feldman

11. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour (Viking/Little Brown, 2014) / Joshua Ferris
12. The Orphans of Race Point (Harper Perennial, 2014) / Patry Francis
13. Sisters of Treason (Michael Joseph, 2014) / Elizabeth Fremantle
14. The Confabulist (Riverhead, 2014) / Steven Galloway
15. Tigerman (William Heinemann, 2014) / Nick Harkaway
16. In Certain Circles (Text Publishing, 2014) / Elizabeth Harrower
17. The Possibilities (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Kaui Hart Hemmings
18. The Painter (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Peter Heller
19. The Book of Unknown Americans (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Cristina Henríquez
20. Ludwig’s Room (trans. from the German by Tess Lewis) (Seagull Books, 2014) / Alois Hotschnig

21. Stealth (trans. from the Arabic by Hosam Aboul-Ela) (New Directions, 2014) / Sonalah Ibrahim
22. Remember Me Like This (Random House, 2014) / Bret Anthony Johnston
23. Fallout (Chatto & Windus/Random House, 2014) / Sadie Jones
24. The Blessings (Grand Central Publishing, 2014) / Elise Juska
25. The Last Illusion (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / Porochista Khakpour
26. My Struggle: Book Three (trans. from the Norwegian by Donald Bartlett) (Archipelago, 2014) / Karl Ove Knausgaard
27. The River’s Song (Aurora Metro Press, 2014) / Suchen Christine Lim
28. We Were Liars (Delacorte Press, 2014) / E. Lockhart
29. The Last Kind Words Saloon (Liveright, 2014) / Larry McMurtry
30. Sugar Hall (Seren, 2014) / Tiffany Murray

31. The Lives of Others (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Neel Mukherjee
32. Next Life Might Be Kinder (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Howard Norman
33. The Thrill of It All (Harvill Secker, 2014) / Joseph O’Connor
34. The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (Quercus, 2014) / Heather O’Neill
35. The Interview (New Island Books, 2014) / Patricia O’Reilly
36. Catching Air (Washington Square Press, 2014) / Sarah Pekkanen
37. Landing Gear (Touchstone Books, 2014) / Kate Pullinger
38. Bellweather Rhapsody (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Kate Racculia
39. The Rise & Fall of Great Powers (Sceptre, 2014) / Tom Rachman
40. Crimes Against My Brother (Doubleday Canada, 2014) / David Adams Richards

41. Family Life (Faber & Faber/W.W. Norton, 2014) / Akhil Sharma
42. Astonish Me (Blue Door, 2014) / Maggie Shipstead
43. Lost for Words (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Picador, 2014) / Edward St Aubyn
44. The Vacationers (Riverhead, 2014) / Emma Straub
45. A Southern Girl (University of South Carolina Press, 2014) / John Warley
46. The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Irvine Welsh
47. History of the Rain (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / Niall Williams
48. Eyrie (Picador, 2014) / Tim Winton
49. The Heroes’ Welcome (The Borough Press, 2014) / Louisa Young
50. The Lobster Kings (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Alexi Zentner

First Novels
1. The Strays (Affirm Press, 2014) / Emily Bitto
2. The Good Italian (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) / Stephen Burke
3. The Girl in the Road (Crown/Blackfriars, 2014) / Monica Byrne
4. The Untold (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 2014) / Courtney Collins
5. Invisible City (Minotaur Books, 2014) / Julia Dahl
6. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (MacLehose Press, 2014) / Joël Dicker
7. Cutting Teeth (St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Julia Fierro
8. An Untamed State (Black Cat/Grove Press, 2014) / Roxane Gay
9. The Hollow Ground (Thomas Dunne Books, 2014) / Natalie S. Harnett
10. The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (William Morrow, 2014) / Nadia Hashimi

11. Fourth of July Creek (Ecco, 2014) / Smith Henderson
12. The Book of You (Harper, 2014) / Claire Kendal
13. Black Lake (Little, Brown, 2014) / Johanna Lane
14. Faces in the Crowd (Coffee House Press, 2014) / Valeria Luiselli
15. The Year She Left Us (Harper, 2014) / Kathryn Ma
16. Young God (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Katherine Faw Morris
17. The Bees (Fourth Estate, 2014) / Laline Paull
18. Em and the Big Hoom (Viking, 2014) / Jerry Pinto
19. In the Light of What We Know (Picador, 2014) / Zia Haider Rahman
20. The Memory Garden (Landmark/Sourcebooks, 2014) / Mary Rickerts

21. The Transcriptionist (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014) / Amy Rowland
22. Point of Direction (Ig Publishing, 2014) / Rachel Weaver

Stories
1. The Promise (University of Queensland Press, 2014) / Tony Birch
2. Inside Madeleine (Soho Press, 2014) / Paula Bomer
3. In the Season of Blood & Gold (Press 53, 2014) / Taylor Brown
4. Foreign Soil (Hatchette Australia, 2014) / Maxine Beneba Clarke
5. We Were Flying to Chicago (Black Balloon Publishing, 2014) / Kevin Clouther
6. Chase Us (New Harvest, 2014) / Sean Ennis
7. American Innovations (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Rivka Galchen
8. The Stories (Little, Brown, 2014) / Jane Gardam
9. Collected Stories (Faber & Faber, 2014) / John McGahern
10. Snow in May (Henry Holt, 2014) / Kseniya Melnik

11. All Saints (Biblioasis, 2014) / K.D. Miller
12. Funny Once (Bloomsbury USA/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Antonya Nelson
13. The Walls of Delhi (trans. from the Hindi by Jason Grunebaum) (Seven Stories Press, 2014) / Uday Prakash
14. Many Roads Through Paradise: An Anthology of Sri Lankan Literature (Penguin India, 2014) / Shyam Selvadurai (ed.)
15. Between Wrecks (Dzanc Books, 2014) / George Singleton
16. The Tao of Humiliation (BOA Editions, 2014) / Lee Upton

Poetry
1. The Last Days of Troy (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Simon Armitage
2. Bright Travellers (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Fiona Benson
3. A Poet’s Dublin (Carcanet Press, 2014) / Eavan Boland
4. Eruv (Yale University Press, 2014) / Eryn Green
5. Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (Penguin, 2014) / Patricia Lockwood
6. The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet Press, 2014) / Kei Miller
7. Where the Wind Sleeps: New & Selected Poems (Salmon, 2014) / Noel Monahan
8. Blue Sonoma (Brick Books, 2014) / Jane Munro
9. New Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Tom Paulin
10. Gunpowder Valentine: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2014) / Paul Perry

11. The Moon Before Morning (Bloodaxe Books, 2014) / W.S. Merwin
12. The Earth Avails (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Mark Wunderlich

Nonfiction
1. The Moors: Lives, Landscape, Literature (Faber & Faber, 2014) / William Atkins
2. A Curious Career (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Lynn Barber
3. The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence (Harvard University Press, 2014) / David Bromwich
4. But Enough About Me: Essays (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Christopher Buckley
5. I Put a Spell On You (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / John Burnside
6. The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Tim Butcher
7. Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Ava Chin
8. Dublin: The Making of a Capital City (Profile Books, 2014) / David Dickson
9. Metaphor (Harvard University Press, 2014) / Denis Donoghue
10. Liberalism: The Life of an Idea (Princeton University Press, 2014) / Edmund Fawcett

11. Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction (Pelican, 2014) / Orlando Figes
12. The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West (Counterpoint, 2014) / Lorna Gibb
13. The Empire of Necessity: The Untold History of a Slave Rebellion in the Age of Liberty (Oneworld Publications, 2014) / Greg Grandin
14. Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz (Windmill Books, 2014) / Thomas Harding
15. Simply English: An A to Z of Avoidable Errors (Random House, 2014) / Simon Heffer
16. Roald Dahl and Philosophy: A Little Nonsense Now and Then (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014) / Jacob M. Held (ed.)
17. Eleanor Marx: A Life (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Rachel Holmes
18. Hidden Possibilities: Essays in Honor of Muriel Spark (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014) / Robert E. Hosmer Jr(ed.)
19. Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Andrew D. Kaufman
20. Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field (Doubleday, 2014) / John Lewis-Stempel

21. The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited (Oxford University Press USA, 2014) / Louisa Lim
22. The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics (Atlantic Books, 2014) / Kenan Malik
23. Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood (Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 2014) / Justin Marozzi
24. An Encyclopaedia of Myself (Fourth Estate, 2014) / Jonathan Meades
25. The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life (Fourth Estate, 2014) / Andy Miller
26. The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the World’s Greatest Invention (Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 2014) / Alexander Monro
27. A Journey into Russia (trans. from the German by Eugene H. Hayworth) (Haus Publishing, 2015) / Jens Mühling
28. The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters (William Collins, 2014) / Adam Nicolson
29. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Evan Osnos
30. Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (Yale University Press, 2014) / Adam Phillips

31. The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World (Other Press, 2014) / George Prochnik
32. Everything is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia (Grove Press/Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014) / Sigrid Rausing
33. In Search of Landfall: The Odyssey of an Indefatigable Adventurer (Ultima Thule Press, 2014) / Patrick Richardson
34. Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays (Haymarket Books, 2014) / Rebecca Solnit
35. Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo (Atlantic Books, 2014) / Anjan Sundaram