March 2015 Highlights
Novels
1. Abacus (Vagabond Press, 2015) / Louis Armand
2. The Shut Eye (Bantam Press, 2015) / Belinda Bauer
3. Acts of the Assassins (Harvill Secker, 2015) / Richard Beard
4. The Sellout (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Paul Beatty
5. The Harder They Come (Ecco/Harper, 2015) / T.C. Boyle
6. Before the Fire (Picador, 2015) / Sarah Butler
7. Sweetland (Corsair, 2015) / Michael Crummey
8. The Dream of My Return (trans. from the Spanish by Katherine Silver) (New Directions, 2015) / Horacio Castellanos Moya
9. Notes From a Dead House (trans. from the Russian by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Fyodor Dostoevsky
10. Under the Visible Life (Hamish Hamilton Canada/Penguin Random House Canada, 2015) / Kim Echlin
11. Shame (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015) / Melanie Finn
12. A Place Called Winter (Tinder Press, 2015) / Patrick Gale
13. At the Water’s Edge (Spiegel & Grau, 2015) / Sara Gruen
14. The Wolf Border (Faber & Faber, 2015) / Sarah Hall
15. Delicious Foods (Little, Brown, 2015) / James Hannaham
16. Signs Preceding the End of the World (trans. from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman) (And Other Stories, 2015) / Yuri Herrera
17. The Other Joseph (Ecco, 2015) / Skip Horack
18. The World Before Us (Hamish Hamilton/Hogarth, 2015) / Aislinn Hunter
19. The Buried Giant (Faber & Faber/Alfred A. knopf, 2015) / Kazuo Ishiguro
20. The Tusk That Did the Damage (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Tania James
21. She Will Build Him a City (Bloomsbury USA, 2015) / Raj Kamal Jha
22. Ghosting (Myriad Editions, 2015) / Jonathan Kemp
23. Dancing in the Dark: My Struggle: Book Four (trans. from the Norwegian by Donald Bartlett) (Harvill Secker, 2014) / Karl Ove Knausgaard
24. The Last Word (Scribner, 2015) / Hanif Kureishi
25. World Gone By (William Morrow, 2015) / Dennis Lehane
26. The Unloved (Bloomsbury Press, 2015) / Deborah Levy
27. The Merchants of Light: A Novel of Venice (Nine Elms Books/Bene Factum Publishing, 2015) / Marta Maretich
28. Satin Island (Jonathan Cape, 2015) / Tom McCarthy
29. The Faithful Couple (Little, Brown, 2015) / A.D. Miller
30. A Reunion of Ghosts (Harper/Fourth Estate, 2015) / Judith Claire Mitchell
31. The Dream of My Return (trans. from the Spanish by Katherine Silver) (New Directions, 2015) / Horacio Castellanos Moya
32. The Dirty Dust (trans. from the Irish by Alan Titley) (Yale University Press, 2015) / Máirtín Ó Cadhain
33. The Illuminations (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Andrew O’Hagan
34. Will & Tom (The Borough Press, 2015) / Matthew Plampin
35. The Lost Child (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Caryl Phillips
36. The Kindness (Bloomsbury Circus, 2015) / Polly Samson
37. Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral (Ecco, 2015) / Mary Doria Russell
38. A Time for Friends (Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Patricia Scanlan
39. The Architect’s Apprentice (Viking, 2015) / Elif Shafak
40. The Fifth Heart (Little, Brown/Sphere, 2015) / Dan Simmons
41. Aquarium (Atlantic Monthly Press/William Heinemann, 2015) / David Vann
42. All the Old Knives (Minotaur, 2015) / Olen Steinhauer
43. A Little Life (Doubleday, 2015) / Hanya Yanagihara
44. The Wisdom of Perversity (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015) / Rafael Yglesias
45. Above Us Only Sky (Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Michele Young-Stone
First Novels
1. Weightless (Bloomsbury Circus, 2015) / Sarah Bannan
2. The Boatmaker (Tin House Books, 2015) / John Benditt
3. Whisper Hollow (Other Press, 2015) / Chris Cander
4. The Strangler Vine (G.P. Putnam’s, 2015) / M.J. Carter
5. The Well (Canongate Books, 2015) / Catherine Chanter
6. The Only Ones (Two Dollar Radio, 2015) / Carola Dibbell
7. Hausfrau (Random House, 2015) / Jill Alexander Essbaum
8. Our Endless Numbered Days (Tin House/House of Anansi Press, 2015) / Claire Fuller
9. The Girl in the Red Coat (Faber & Faber, 2015) / Kate Hamer
10. The A-Z of You and Me (Doubleday, 2015) / James Hannah
11. Signs Preceding the End of the World (trans. from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman) (And Other Stories, 2015) / Yuri Herrera
12. Small Mercies (Viking, 2015) / Eddie Joyce
13. Where All Light Tends to Go (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2015) / David Joy
14. Soil (Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Jamie Kornegay
15. Call Me Home (Hawthorne Books, 2015) / Megan Kruse
16. The Empire of the Senses (Pantheon, 2015) / Alexis Landau
17. Transoceanic Lights (Harvard Square Editions, 2015) / S. Li
18. The Blue Horse (Freight Books, 2015) / Philip Miller
19. A Reunion of Ghosts (Fourth Estate, 2015) / Judith Claire Mitchell
20. White Hunger (trans. from the Finnish by Emily Jeremiah & Fleur Jeremiah) (Peirene Press, 2015) / Aki Ollikainen
21. Black Rock White City (Transit Lounge, 2015) / A.S. Patric
22. The Poser (Viking, 2015) / Jacob Rubin
23. The Shore (William Heinemann, 2015) / Sara Taylor
24. The Last Flight of Poxl West (St Martin’s Press, 2015) / Daniel Torday
25. The Cunning House (Sandstone Press, 2015) / Richard Maggraf Turley
Stories
1. The Musical Brain: And Other Stories (trans. from the Spanish by Chris Andrews) (New Directions, 2015) / César Aira
2. Young Skins (Black Cat/Grove Press, 2015) / Colin Barrett
3. Crow Fair (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Thomas McGuane
4. Daydreams of Angels (HarperCollins Canada, 2015) / Heather O’Neill
5. Barefoot Dogs (Scribner, 2015) / Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
6. Night at the Fiestas (W.W. Norton, 2015) / Kirstin Valdez Quade
7. The Four Books (trans. from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas) (Chatto & Windus/Grove Atlantic, 2015) / Yan Lianke
Poetry
1. Ozone Journal (University of Chicago Press, 2015) / Peter Balakian
2. The Last Two Seconds (Graywolf Press, 2015) / Mary Jo Bang
3. Like the New Moon, I Will Live My Life (White Pine Press, 2015) / Robert Bly
4. The Days of Surprise (Harvill Secker, 2015) / Paul Durcan
5. The Opposite House (Louisiana State University Press, 2015) / Claudia Emerson
6. Snake Train: Poems 1984-2013 (Shearsman Books, 2015) / Edwin Frank
7. From the New World: Poems 1976-2014 (Ecco, 2015) / Jorie Graham
8. Shakespeare’s Horse (Waywiser Press, 2015) / Joseph Harrison
9. How to be Drawn (Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2015) / Terrance Hayes
10. Jutland (Bloodaxe Books, 2015) / Selima Hill
11. The Beauty (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Jane Hirshfield
12. Far-Fetched (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Devin Johnston
13. The World Before Snow (Carcanet Press, 2015) / Tim Liardet
14. Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond (Beyond Baroque Books/Pacific Coast Poetry Series, 2015) / Suzanne Lummis (ed.)
15. Oracle (W.W. Norton, 2015) / Cate Marvin
16. The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015) / Kim Moore
17. The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2015) / David Morley
18. In a Mist (Shearsman Books, 2015) / Geoffrey O’Brien
19. The Beautiful Librarians (Picador, 2015) / Sean O’Brien
20. Goat’s Milk: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2015) / Frank Ormsby
21. Made in Detroit (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Marge Piercy
22. Elegy for a Broken Machine (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Patrick Phillips
23. Couldn’t Prove, Had to Promise (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015) / Wyatt Prunty
24. The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom (ed. Ben Mazer) (Un-Gyve Press, 2015) / John Crowe Ransom
25. Blood Work (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015) / Matthew Siegel
26. The Tijuana Door of the Dead (Soft Skull Press, 2015) / Luis Albert Urrea
Nonfiction
1. Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now (Harper, 2015) / Ayaan Hirsi Ali
2. Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London (Verso Books, 2015) / Matthew Beaumont
3. There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction (ed. Benjamin Taylor) (Viking, 2015) / Saul Bellow
4. Why Religions Matter (Cambridge University Press, 2015) / John Bowker
5. On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion (Oxford University Press USA, 2015) / Berit Brogaard
6. Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel (Yale University Press, 2015) / Annie Cohen-Solal
7. Gathering Carrageen: A Return to Donegal (Sandstone Press, 2015) / Monica Connell
8. The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction (Viking, 2015) / Matthew B. Crawford
9. Young Eliot: A Biography (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Robert Crawford
10. Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes (William Collins, 2015) / Richard Davenport-Hines
11. The Impossible Craft: Literary Biography (Penn State University Press, 2015) / Scott Donaldson
12. From the Elephant’s Back: Collected Essays and Travel Writings (ed. James Gifford) (University of Alberta Press, 2015) / Lawrence Durrell
13. The Third Reich in History and Memory (Oxford University Press, 2015) / Richard J. Evans
14. Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People (Hill and Wang, 2015) / Elizabeth A. Fenn
15. Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, SG, 2015) / Jean Findlay
16. The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom (Allen Lane, 2015) / John Gray
17. Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / James Grissom
18. Reasons to Stay Alive (Canongate Books, 2015) / Matt Haig
19. The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History (Basic Books, 2015) / Thor Hanson
20. Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Jane Hirshfield
21. Bettyville: A Memoir (Viking, 2015) / George Hodgman
22. Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame (Yale University Press, 2015) / H.J. Jackson
23. Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language (Liveright, 2015) / Clive James
24. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Doubleday, 2015) / Erik Larson
25. H is for Hawk (Grove Press, 2015) / Helen Macdonald
26. Landmarks (Hamish Hamilton, 2015) / Robert Macfarlane
27. Curiosity (Yale University Press, 2015) / Alberto Manguel
28. Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (Graywolf Press, 2015) / Sarah Manguso
29. Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers (New York Review Books, 2015) / Edward Mendelson
30. Stammered Songbook: A Mother’s Book of Hours (trans. from the Dutch by Paul Vincent) (Pushkin Press, 2015) / Erwin Mortier
31. The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India, 1805-1905 (Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Ferdinand Mount
32. American Ghost: A Family’s Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest (Harper, 2015) / Hannah Nordhaus
33. The Best Travel Writing Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World (Travelers’ Tales, 2015) / James O’Reilly, Larry Habegger & Sean O’Reilly (eds.)
34. Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays (The Dial Press, 2015) / Michael Paterniti
35. Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the Genocide (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015) / Laure Marchand & Guillaume Perrier
36. Repetition (Four Way, 2015) / Rebecca Reilly
37. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Basic Books, 2015) / Eugene Rogan
38. Confucius: And the World He Created (Basic Books, 2015) / Michael Schuman
39. Madness in Civilization: From the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine (Thames & Hudson, 2015) / Andrew Scull
40. John Aubrey: My Own Life (Chatto & Windus, 2015) / Ruth Scurr
41. Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception (Oxford University Press, 2015) / John R. Searle
42. Communion (Dock Street Press, 2015) / Curtis Smith
43. Ordinary Light: A Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Tracy K. Smith
44. Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015) / Peter Stanford
45. A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and Bright Young Thing (Macmillan, 2015) / Anna Thomasson
46. Why Acting Matters (Yale University Press, 2015) / David Thomson
47. On Elizabeth Bishop (Princeton University Press, 2015) / Colm Tóibín
48. Seneca: A Life (Allen Lane, 2015) / Emily Wilson
49. Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much (New Harvest, 2015) / Michael Wood
50. Boswell’s Enlightenment (Belknap Press, 2015) / Robert Zaretsky
51. The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me: An Aristocratic Family, a High-Society Scandal and an Extraordinary Legacy (Harper, 2015) / Sofka Zinovieff