Sunday, June 01, 2014

June 2014 Highlights

Novels
1. The Fever (Little, Brown, 2014) / Megan Abbott
2. Song of the Shank (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Jeffery Renard Allen
3. Travelling Sprinkler (Serpent’s Tail, 2014) / Nicholson Baker
4. In the Approaches (Fourth Estate, 2014) / Nicola Barker
5. Bliss House (Pegasus, 2014) / Laura Benedict
6. Hidden Knowledge (Sceptre, 2014) / Bernadine Bishop
7. The Stories We Tell (St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Patti Callahan Henry
8. Outlaws (trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean) (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Javier Cercas
9. Abroad (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Katie Crouch
10. Kamal Jann (trans. from the French by Ros Schwartz) (Seagull Books, 2014) / Dominique Eddé

11. The Good Children (Tinder Press, 2014) / Roopa Farooki
12. Midnight in Europe (Random House, 2104) / Alan Furst
13. The Silkworm: A Cormoran Strike Novel (Mulholland Books/Sphere, 2014) / Robert Galbraith
14. Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (Telegram Books, 2014) / Maggie Gee
15. The Book of Unknown Americans (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Cristina Henriquez
16. Other Lives (trans. from the Arabic by Michelle Hartman) (Interlink World Fiction, 2014) / Iman Humaydan
17. The Pink Suit (Virago, 2014) / Nicole Mary Kelby
18. Euphoria (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014) / Lily King
19. Summerhouse with Swimming Pool (trans. from the Dutch by Sam Garrett) (Hogarth/Atlantic Books, 2014) / Herman Koch
20. Mambo in Chinatown (Riverhead, 2014) / Jean Kwok

21. Her (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014) / Harriet Lane
22. The Sea Garden (Harper, 2014) / Deborah Lawrenson
23. Road Ends (The Dial Press, 2014) / Mary Lawson
24. The True & Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Michelle Lovric
25. The Last Kind Words Saloon (Liveright, 2014) / Larry McMurtry
26. A Million Windows (Garamondo, 2014) / Gerald Murnane
27. The Arsonist (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Sue Miller
28. The Illuminations (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Andrew O’Hagan
29. The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Heather O’Neill
30. The Blue Room (trans. from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin) (Peirene Press, 2014) / Hanne Ørstavik

31. The Rise & Fall of Great Powers (The Dial Press, 2014) / Tom Rachman
32. Shirley (Blue Rider Press, 2014) / Susan Scarf Merrell
33. China Dolls (Random House, 2014) / Lisa See
34. I’ll Be Right There (trans. from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell) (Other Press, 2014) / Kyung-Sook Shin
35. The Last Days of My Mother (trans. from the Icelandic by Helga Soffía Einarsdóttir) (Open Letter, 2014) / Sölvi Björn Sigurdsson
36. The Illusionists (The Overlook Press, 2014) / Rosie Thomas
37. All My Puny Sorrows (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Miriam Toews
38. The City Son (Soho Press, 2014) / Samrat Upadhyay
39. The Marriage Game: A Novel of Elizabeth I (Hutchinson, 2014) / Alison Weir
40. Eyrie (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Tim Winton

41. The Unexpected Waltz (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Kim Wright
42. The Night Watchman (Corsair, 2014) / Richard Zimler

First Novels
1. A Song for Issy Bradley (Hutchinson, 2014) / Carys Bray
2. The Living (Atlantic Books, 2014) / Léan Cullinan
3. A Replacement Life (Harper/One, 2014) / Boris Fishman
4. Randall (Galley Beggar Press, 2014) / Jonathan Gibbs
5. The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street (Grand Central Publishing, 2014) / Susan Jane Gilman
6. Elizabeth Is Missing (Penguin Viking/Harper, 2014) / Emma Healey
7. Flying Shoes (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / Lisa Howorth
8. Of Sea and Cloud (Tyrus Books, 2014) / Jon Keller
9. Elemental (Livingston Press/University of West Alabama, 2014) / Tara Mantel
10. I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You (Touchstone, 2014) / Courtney Maum

11. We Are Called to Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Laura McBride
12. Us Conductors (Tin House Books, 2014) / Sean Michaels
13. Young God (Granta, 2014) / Katherine Faw Morris
14. Everything I Never Told You (The Penguin Press, 2014) / Celeste Ng
15. The Quick (Random House, 2014) / Lauren Owen
16. The Antiquarian (trans. from the Spanish by Joseph Mulligan) (Black Cat/Grove Press, 2014) / Gustavo Faverón Patriau
17. After Me Comes the Flood (Serpent’s Tail, 2014) / Sarah Perry
18. Home Leave (Grand Central Publishing, 2014) / Brittani Sonnenberg
19. The Visitors (Quercus Books, 2014) / Simon Sylvester
20. The Diary of Mary Travers (Somerville Press, 2014) / Eibhear Walshe

21. After Before (Legend Press, 2014) / Jemma Wayne
22. Time of the Locust (Atria Books, 2014) / Morowa Yejidé

Stories
1. Further Joy (McSweeney’s, 2014) / John Brandon
2. Little Reef and Other Stories (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014) / Michael Carroll
3. So Much a Part of You (Little, Brown, 2014) / Polly Dugan
4. Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Stuart Dybek
5. Paper Lantern: Love Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Stuart Dybek
6. The Stories of Jane Gardam (Europa Editions, 2014) / Jane Gardam
7. Noontide Toll (Granta Books, 2014) / Romesh Gunesekera
8. Problems with People (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / David Guterson
9. Black Vodka: Ten Stories (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / Deborah Levy
10. Let Me See It (Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2014) / James Magruder

Poetry
1. The Remains (Picador, 2015) / Annie Freud
2. Songs for Ophelia (Papaveria Press, 2014) / Theodora Goss
3. Terror (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Toby Martinez de las Rivas

Nonfiction
1. The House of Twenty Thousand Books (Halban Publishers, 2014) / Sasha Abramsky
2. Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up (University of California Press, 2014) / Mary Beard
3. J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist (New Harvest, 2014) / Thomas Beller
4. The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers (Oxford University Press, 2014) / Joanna Bourke
5. The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War (Grove Press, 2014) / Tim Butcher
6. Reading Style: A Life in Sentences (Columbia University Press, 2014) / Jenny Davidson
7. Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom (Picador USA, 2014) / Philip Eade
8. A Literary Education and Other Essays (Axios Press, 2014) / Joseph Epstein
9. Curious: True Stories and Loose Connections (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014) / Rebecca Front
10. Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter (Virago, 2014) / Lyndall Gordon

11. Ten Cities That made an Empire (Allen Lane, 2014) / Tristram Hunt
12. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Marina Keegan
13. Things I Don’t Want to Know: On Writing (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / Deborah Levy
13. A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Sam Miller
14. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China (Bodley Head, 2014) / Evan Osnos
15. Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation (Granta/W.W. Norton, 2014) / Elizabeth Pisani
16. My Salinger Year (Alfred A. Knopf/Bloomsbury Circus, 2014) / Joanna Rakoff
17. The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra (St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Helen Rappaport
18. Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation (Perigee, 2014) / Ammon Shea 
19. Take This Man: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Brando Skyhorse
20. Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire (Harvard University Press, 2014) / Paul Sorrentino

21. On Silbury Hill (Little Toller Books, 2014) / Adam Thorpe
22. Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / John Waters
23. Romany and Tom: A Memoir (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / Ben Watt
24. The Nile: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt’s Past and Present (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Toby Wilkinson
25. J.M. Coetzee and the Politics of Style (Cambridge University Press, 2014) / Jarad Zimbler

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