December 2014 Highlights

Novels
1. The Lady in White (trans. from the French by Alison Anderson) (University of Nebraska Press, 2014) / Christian Bobin
2. A Price to Pay (trans. from the German by John Brownjohn) (Haus Publishing, 2014) / Alex Capus
3. The Boston Girl (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Anita Diamant
4. The End of Days (trans. from the German by Susan Bernofsky) (Portobello Books, 2014) / Jenny Erpenbeck
5. Vanessa and Her Sister (Ballantine Books/Random House, 2014) / Priya Parmar
6. Volcano Street (Atlantic Books, 2014) / David Rain
7. Skylight (trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / José Saramago
8. How to be Both (Pantheon, 2014) / Ali Smith

First Novels
1. Ridley Road (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014) / Jo Bloom
2. The Bishop’s Wife (Soho Crime, 2014) / Mette Ivie Harrison
3. Last Days in Shanghai (Counterpoint, 2014) / Casey Walker

Stories
1. Love & Hate (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Hanif Kureishi

Poetry
1. A Woman Without a Country (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Eavan Boland
2. Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry (trans. from the German by Pierre Joris) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Paul Celan
3. The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) / Olena Kalytiak Davis
4. The Little Edges (Wesleyan, 2014) /Fred Moten

Nonfiction
1. Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Sven Beckert
2. Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers (Bloomsbury, 2014) / Costica Bradatan
3. The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words (ed. Barry Day) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Raymond Chandler
4. Henry VIII: The Quest for Fame (Allen Lane, 2014) / John Guy
5. Essays After Eighty (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Donald Hall
6. Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age (The University of Chicago Press, 2014) / Robert Pogue Harrison
7. Where Have You Been?: Selected Essays (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Michael Hofmann
8. A Tremendous Thing: Friendship from the Iliad to the Internet (Cornell University Press, 2014) / Gregory Jusdanis
9. Modernity Britain: 1957-1962 (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / David Kynaston
10. Huck Finn’s America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Andrew Levy

11. Loving Literature: A Cultural History (The University of Chicago Press, 2014) / Deidre Shauna Lynch
12. The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Good Ones) Saved My Life (Harper Perennial, 2014) / Andy Miller
13. Seeing Things As They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings (Harvill Secker, 2014) / George Orwell
14. Jealousy (Yale University Press, 2014) / Peter Toohey
15. Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale (Oxford University Press, 2014) / Marina Warner