February 2015 Highlights

Novels
1. After Birth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) / Elisa Albert
2. Widows and Orphans (Arcadia, 2015) / Michael Arditti
3. A History of Loneliness (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / John Boyne
4. Half a Lifelong Romance (trans. from the Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury) (Vintage Books, 2015) / Eileen Chang
5. Odysseus Abroad (Oneworld Publications, 2015) / Amit Chaudhuri
6. The Librarian (trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield) (Pushkin Press, 2015) / Mikhail Elizarov
7. The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty (W.W. Norton, 2015) / Amanda Filipacchi
8. The Exit (Faber & Faber, 2015) / Helen FitzGerald
9. I Regret Everything (Europa Editions, 2015) / Seth Greenland
10. The Vegetarian (trans. from the Korean by Deborah Smith) (Hogarth, 2015) / Han Kang

11. The Nightingale (St Martin’s Press, 2015) / Kristin Hannah
12. Lies, First Person (trans. from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu) (Open Letter, 2015) / Gail Hareven
13. Funny Girl (Riverhead, 2015) / Nick Hornby
14. The Evening Chorus (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) / Helen Humphreys
15. Neverhome (Chatto & Windus, 2015) / Laird Hunt
16. The Tusk That Did the Damage (Harvill Secker, 2015) / Tania James
17. The Laughing Monsters (Harvill Secker, 2015) / Denis Johnson
18. Welcome to Braggsville (William Morrow, 2015) / T. Geronimo Johnson
19. The African Equation (trans. from the French by Howard Curtis) (Gallic Books, 2015) / Yasmina Khadra
20. I Am Radar (Penguin Press, 2015) / Reif Larsen

21. The Half Brother (Doubleday, 2015) / Holly LeCraw
22. The Hunger of the Wolf (Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Stephen Marche
23. Satin Island (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Tom McCarthy
24. Tender (Picador, 2015) / Belinda McKeon
25. Dorothy Parker Drank Here (Putnam, 2015) / Ellen Meister
26. The Country of Ice Ceam Star (Ecco, 2015) / Sandra Newman
27. The Lovers of Amherst (published as Amherst in the U.S.) (Quercus/Simon & Schuster, 2015) / William Nicholson
28. The Sacrifice (Ecco, 2015) / Joyce Carol Oates
29. Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League (Maiden Lane Press, 2015) / Jonathan Odell
30. The Illuminations (Faber & Faber, 2015) / Andrew O’Hagan

31. Vanessa and Her Sister (Bloomsbury Circus, 2015) / Priya Parmar
32. The Death House (Gollancz, 2015) / Sarah Pinborough
33. The Whites (Henry Holt, 2015) / Richard Price (writing as Harry Brandt)
34. The Damned (Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Andrew Pyper
35. Lamentation (Mulholland Books, 2015) / C.J. Sansom
36. The Last Good Paradise (St Martin’s Press, 2015) / Tatjana Soli
37. The Kind Worth Killing (William Morrow, 2015) / Peter Swanson
38. Canary (Mulholland Books, 2015) / Duane Swierczynski
39. The Way Things Were(Picador, 2015) / Aatish Taseer
40. Anna Karenina (trans. from the Russian by Marian Schwartz) (Yale University Press, 2015) / Leo Tolstoy

41. Prudence (Riverhead, 2015) / David Treuer
42. The Tongues of Men or Angels (Corsair, 2015) / Jonathan Trigell
43. A Spool of Blue Thread (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Anne Tyler
44. Second Life (Doubleday, 2015) / S.J. Watson
45. The Four Books (trans. from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas) (Grove Press, 2015) / Yan Lianke

First Novels
1. Green on Blue (Scribner, 2015) / Elliot Ackerman
2. Jam on the Vine (Grove Press, 2015) / LaShonda Katrice Barnett
3. She Weeps Each Time You’re Born (Pantheon, 2015) / Quan Barry
4. Spill Simmer Falter Wither (Tramp Press, 2015) / Sara Baume
5. Find Me (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Laura van den Berg
6. Jillian (Curbside Splendor, 2015) / Halle Butler
7. Glass (Serpent’s Tail, 2015) / Alex Christofi
8. Some Other Town (Harper Perennial, 2015) / Elizabeth Collison
9. Wolf Winter (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015) / Cecilia Ekbäck
10. Our Endless Numbered Days (Fig Tree, 2015) / Claire Fuller

11. The Ship (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015) / Antonia Honeywell
12. Esperanza Street (And Other Stories, 2015) / Niyati Keni
13. The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell (St Martin’s Press, 2015) / William Klaber
14. Fate Moreland’s Widow (University of South Carolina Press, 2015) / John Lane
15. Arab Jazz (trans. from the French by Sam Gordon) (MacLehose Press, 2015) / Karim Miské
16. Red Jacket (TAP Books/Dundurn Press, 2015) / Pamela Mordecai
17. The Fishermen (One/Pushkin Press, 2015) / Chigozie Obioma
18. When the Doves Disappeared (trans. from the Finnish by Lola M. Rogers) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Sofi Oksanen
19. The Chimes (Sceptre, 2015) / Anna Smaill
20. Mainlander (Fourth Estate, 2015) / Will Smith

21. Disgruntled (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Asali Solomon
22. Ismael and His Sisters (Granta Books, 2015) / Louise Stern
23. The Anchoress (Faber & Faber, 2015) / Robyn Cadwallader
24. My Sunshine Away (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2015) / M.O. Walsh

Stories
1. Five Selves (trans. from the Hebrew by Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein) (Holland House, 2015) / Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein
2. There’s Something I Want You to Do (Pantheon, 2015) / Charles Baxter
3. Over Our Heads (Penguin, 2015) / Andrew Fox
4. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (William Morrow, 2015) / Neil Gaiman
5. A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories (Rupa Publications, 2015) / Siddhartha Gigoo
6. Single, Carefree, Mellow (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Katherine Heiny
7. Sweet Nothing (Mulholland Books, 2015) / Richard Lange
8. Lucky Alan and Other Stories (Doubleday, 2015) / Jonathan Lethem
9. Get in Trouble (Random House, 2015) / Kelly Link
10. Making Nice (Henry Holt, 2015) / Matt Sumell

11. The American Lover (W.W. Norton, 2015) / Rose Tremain
12. Mischief (Head of Zeus, 2015) / Fay Weldon

Poetry
1. Ask the Moon: Collected Poems, 1948-2015 (Hutchinson, 2015) / Dannie Abse
2. SOS: Poems 1961-2013 (ed. Paul Vangelisti) (Grove Press, 2015) / Amiri Baraka
3. The Boys of Bluehill (The Gallery Press, 2015) / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
4. Reveille (University of Arkansas Press, 2015) / George David Clark
5. Portraits (Carcanet Press, 2015) / Elaine Feinstein
6. Barely Composed (W.W. Norton, 2015) / Alice Fulton
7. From the New World: Poems 1976-2014 (Ecco, 2015) / Jorie Graham
8. Empty Pockets: New and Selected Stories (Coffee House Press, 2015) / Dale Herd
9. Disinformation (Picador, 2015) / Frances Leviston
10. Poems (Little, Brown, 2015) / Iain Banks & Ken MacLeod

11. We Mammals in Hospitable Times (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015) / Jynne Dilling Martin
12. Shingle Street (Chatto & Windus, 2015) / Blake Morrison
13. The Do-Over (Sarabande Books, 2015) / Kathleen Ossip
14. Due North (Shearsman Books, 2015) / Peter Riley
15. Summer Requiem: A Book of Poems (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015) / Vikram Seth
16. Complete Poems (eds. John Glover & Kathryn Jenner) (Northern House/Carcanet Press, 2015) / Jon Silkin
17. Sea Summit (trans. from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain) (Milkweed Editions, 2015) / Yi Lu

Nonfiction
1. It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War (Penguin Press, 2015) / Lynsey Addario
2. After the Ancestors: An Anthropologist’s Story (Cambridge University Press, 2015) / Andrew Beatty
3. The Story of Australia’s People: The Fall and Rise of Ancient Australia (Penguin Books Australia, 2015) / Geoffrey Blainey
4. Machiavelli: A Portrait (Harvard University Press, 2015) / Christopher S. Celenza
5. Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man (Dey Street Books, 2015) / Robert Christgau
6. Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land (Jonathan Cape, 2015) / Robert Crawford
7. Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education (Liveright, 2015) / Morris Dickstein
8. Kaleidoscope City: A Year in Varanasi (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015) / Piers Moore Ede
9. Leaving Before the Rains Come (Harvill Secker/The Penguin Press, 2015) / Alexandra Fuller
10. Love Songs: The Hidden History (Oxford University Press, 2015) / Ted Gioia

11. Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London (Riverhead, 2015) / Mohsin Hamid
12. Kaufman’s Hill: A Memoir (Bancroft Press, 2015) / John C. Hampsey
13. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Harper, 2015) / Yuval Noah Harari
14. Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Daisy Hay
15. Where Have You Been?: Selected Essays (Faber & Faber, 2015) / Michael Hofmann
16. Eleanor Marx: A Life (Bloomsbury Press, 2015) / Rachel Holmes
17. Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015) / Oliver Kamm
18. Screening Room: Family Pictures (Pantheon, 2015) / Alan Lightman
19. Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Clancy Martin
20. In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation or Rural China (Bloombury, 2015) / Michael Meyer

21. Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine (Eland Publishing, 2015) / Dervla Murphy
22. The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream (Bloomsbury Circus, 2015) / Katharine Norbury
23. Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia (Faber & Faber, 2015) / Peter Pomerantsev
24. The Authumn Balloon (Grand Central Publishing, 2015) / Kenny Porpora
25. Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made (Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Richard Rhodes
26. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920 (Allen Lane, 2015) / Eugene Rogan
27. A Brief Stop on the Road From Auschwitz (ed. John Cullen) (trans. from the Swedish by Sarah Death) (Other Press, 2015) / Göran Rosenberg
28. This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War (Atlantic Books, 2015) / Samanth Subramanian
29. The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2015) / Timothy Tackett
30. European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche (Yale University Press, 2015) / Frank M. Turner

31. Edward Thomas: From Adlestrop to Arras: A Biography (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2015) / Jean Moorcroft Wilson
32. Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage (Jonathan Cape, 2015) / Kathleen Winter
33. Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Basic Books, 2015) / Irvin D. Yale