Monday, June 01, 2015

June 2015 Highlights

Novels
1. The Blue Between Sky and Water (Bloomsbury Circus, 2015) / Susan Abulhawa
2. A General Theory of Oblivion (trans. from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn) (Harvill Secker, 2015) / José Eduardo Agualusa
3. Saint Mazie (Serpent’s Tail, 2015) / Jami Attenberg
4. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry (trans. from the Swedish by Henning Koch) (Atria Books, 2015) / Fredrik Backman
5. June (trans. from the Dutch by David Colmer) (Harvill Secker, 2015) / Gerbrand Bakker
6. Summerlong (Ecco, 2015) / Dean Bakopoulos
7. Devotion (Oneworld Publications, 2015) / Ros Barber
8. The Truth According to Us (The Dial Press, 2015) / Annie Barrows
9. Invisible Threads (Quartet Books, 2015) / Lucy Beresford
10. In the Unlikely Event (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Judy Blume

11. The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club (2015) / Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
12. Forever Young (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins Australia, 2015) / Steven Carroll
13. Nothing But Grass (Chatto & Windus, 2015) / Will Cohu
14. The Barefoot Queen (Black Swan, 2015) / Idelfonso Falcones
15. The Italian Wife (Sphere, 2015) / Kate Furnivall
16. Our Souls at Night (Picador, 2015) / Kent Haruf
17. The Stories We Tell (St Martin’s Press, 2015) / Patty Callahan Henry
18. Tokyo (Cargo Publishing, 2015) / Nicholas Hogg
19. The Loved Ones (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015) / Mary-Beth Hughes
20. Leap (Allen & Unwin, 2015) / Myfanwy Jones

21. Language Arts (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) / Stephanie Kallos
22. The Festival of Insignificance (trans. from the French by Linda Asher) (Harper/Faber & Faber, 2015) / Milan Kundera
23. China Rich Girlfriend (Doubleday, 2015) / Kevin Kwan
24. The Mountain Story (Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Lori Lansens
25. The Last Summer of the Water Strider (Scribner, 2015) / Tim Lott
26. Song of the Sea Maid (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015) / Rebecca Mascull
27. Tightrope (Little, Brown, 2015) / Simon Mawer
28. Tender (Picador, 2015) / Belinda McKeon
29. As Night Falls (Ballantine Books, 2015) / Jenny Milchman
30. Red Lightning (Counterpoint, 2015) / Laura Pritchett

31. Let Me Die in His Footsteps (Dutton, 2015) / Lori Roy
32. The Year of the Runaways (Picador, 2015) / Sunjeev Sahota
33. Hearts of Stone (Headline, 2015) / Simon Scarrow
34. Into the Fire (Bantam Press, 2015) / Manda Scott
35. I Saw a Man (Faber & Faber/Doubleday, 2015) / Owen Sheers
36. The Pinch (Graywolf Press, 2015) / Steve Stern
37. The House of Hidden Mothers (Doubleday, 2015) / Meera Syal
38. Valley Fever (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Katherine Taylor
39. A Head Full of Ghosts (William Morrow, 2015) / Paul Tremblay
40. The Girls at the Kingfisher Club (Atria Books, 2015) / Genevieve Valentine

41. The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty (Ecco, 2015) / Vendela Vida
42. The Sunken Cathedral (Scribner, 2015) / Kate Walbert
43. Death is a Welcome Guest (John Murray, 2015) / Louise Welsh
44. A Year of Marvellous Ways (Tinder Press, 2015) / Sarah Winman
45. Haints Stay (Two Dollar Radio, 2015) / Colin Winnette
46. The Cartel (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Don Winslow
47. The Household Spirit (Pantheon, 2015) / Tod Wodicka

First Novels
1. Weightless (St Martin’s Press, 2015) / Sarah Bannan
2. The Versions of Us (Widenfeld & Nicolson, 2015) / Laura Barnett
3. Nothing But Grass (Chatto & Windus, 2015) / Will Cohu
4. The Meursault Investigation (trans. from the French by John Cullen) (Other Press, 2015) / Kamel Daoud
5. The Sunlit Night (Bloomsbury Circus/Bloomsbury USA, 2015) / Rebecca Dinerstein
6. Muse (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Jonathan Galassi
7. I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) / Jesse Goolsby
8. In the Language of Miracles (Viking, 2015) / Rajia Hassib
9. The Library at Mount Char (Crown Publishing, 2015) / Scott Hawkins
10. The Way Back to Florence (Cheyne Walk, 2015) / Glenn Haybittle

11. Safekeeping (Fig Tree, 2015) / Jessamyn Hope
12. Butterfly Fish (Jacaranda Books, 2015) / Irenosen Okojie
13. The Star Side of Bird Hill (Penguin Press, 2015) / Naomi Jackson
14. Death and Mr Pickwick (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Stephen Jarvis
15. Eggshells (Liberties Press, 2015) / Caitriona Lally
16. Left of the Bang (Fourth Estate, 2015) / Claire Lowdon
17. The Unfortunates (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Sophie McManus
18. Butterfly Fish (Jacaranda Books, 2015) / Irenosen Okojie
19. The Hopeful (Ig Publishing, 2015) / Tracy O’Neill
20. Land Where I Flee (Quercus, 2015) / Prajwal Parajuly

21. A Fortunate Age (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015) / Joanna Rakoff
22. The House at the Edge of the World (Viking, 2015) / Julia Rochester
23. The Cherry Harvest (William Morrow, 2015) / Lucy Sanna
24. The Heart of the Order (Little A, 2015) / Theo Schell-Lambert
25. The Book of Speculation (St Martin’s Press, 2015) / Erika Swyler
26. The Lodger (Thomas Dunne Books, 2015) / Louisa Treger
27. Maud’s Line (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) / Margaret Verble
28. In a Dark, Dark Wood (Scout Press/Gallery Books, 2015) / Ruth Wave

Stories
1. In the Country (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Mia Alvar
2. The Not-Dead and The Saved and Other Stories (Picador, 2015) / Kate Clanchy
3. In Another Country: Selected Stories (Biblioasis, 2015) / David Constantine
4. Jellyfish (Freight Books, 2015) / Janice Galloway
5. Love + Hate: Stories and Essays (Faber & Faber, 2015) / Hanif Kureishi
6. Music for Wartime (Viking, 2015) / Rebecca Makkai
7. The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far (Coffee House Press, 2015) / Quintan Ana Wikswo

Poetry
1. Breezeway (Carcanet Press, 2015) / John Ashbery
2. Count the Waves (W.W. Norton, 2015) / Sandra Beasley
3. The River (Bloodaxe Books, 2015) / Jane Clarke
4. Forbidden Pleasures: New Selected Poems (trans. from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler) (Commonwealth Books, 2015) / Luis Cernuda
5. My Feelings (Graywolf Press, 2015) / Nick Flynn
6. The Hazards (University of Queensland Press, 2015) / Sarah Holland-Batt
7. Heaven (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Rowan Ricardo Phillips
8. Blood Work (CB Editions, 2015) / Matthew Siegel
9. Alive: New and Selected Poems (The New York Review of Books, 2015) / Elizabeth Willis
10. Benediction for a Black Swan (She Writes Press, 2015) / Mimi Zollars

Nonfiction
1. Walking Away: Further Travels with a Troubadour on the South West Coast Path (Faber & Faber, 2015) / Simon Armitage
2. The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm (ed. Phillip Lopate) (NYRB Classics, 2015) / Max Beerbohm
3. Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Emily Bingham
4. Born Bad: Original Sin and the Making of the Western World (Counterpoint, 2015) / James Boyce
5. The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde & Sargent in Title Street (Frances Lincoln, 2015) / Devon Cox
6. The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland (Belknap Press, 2015) / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
7. Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition (Amberley Publishing/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) / Nisid Hajari
8. How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People (Allen Lane, 2015) / Sudhir Hazareesingh
9. The Cost of Courage (Other Press, 2015) / Charles Kaiser
10. Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War (William Collins, 2015) / Raghu Karnad

11. The Seven Good Years: A Memoir (Riverhead Books, 2015) / Etgar Keret
12. The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects (W.W. Norton, 2015) / Deborah Lutz
13. In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love (HarperWave, 2015) Joseph Luzzi
14. Georgian Dublin: The Forces That Shaped the City (Cork University Press, 2015) / Diarmuid Ó Gráda
15. It’s All In Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Ilnesses (Chatto & Windus, 2015) / Suzanne O’Sullivan
16. A Literary Tour of Italy (Alma Books, 2015) / Tim Parks
17. Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (Thames & Hudson, 2015) / Nancy Princenthal
18. Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita (Bloomsbury USA, 2015) / Robert Roper
19. Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015) / Jonathan Sacks
20. London Overground: A Day’s Walk Around the Ginger Line (Hamish Hamilton, 2015) / Iain Sinclair

21. The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2015) / Tracy Slater
22. My Generation: Collected Nonfiction (ed. James L.W. West III) (Random House, 2015) / William Styron
23. Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (Fourth Estate/Harper, 2015) / Rosemary Sullivan