Wednesday, July 01, 2015

July 2015 Highlights

Novels
1. Infinite Home (The Borough Press, 2015) / Kathleen Alcott
2. Early One Morning (Virago, 2015) / Virginia Baily
3. June (trans. from the Dutch by David Colmer) (Harvill Secker, 2015) / Gerbrand Bakker
4. The Shouting in the Dark (Sandstone Press, 2015) / Elleke Boehmer
5. A Cure for Suicide (Pantheon, 2015) / Jesse Ball
6. Broken Promise (New American Library, 2015) / Linwood Barclay
7. The Incarnations (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Susan Barker
8. The Truth According to Us (Doubleday, 2015) / Annie Barrows
9. The Dust that Falls from Dreams (Harvill Secker, 2015) / Louis de Bernières
10. The Love She Left Behind (W.W. Norton, 2015) / Amanda Coe

11. Confession of the Lioness (trans. from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw) (Harvill Secker, 2015) / Mia Couto
12. Archipelago of Souls (Picador Australia, 2015) / Gregory Day
13. The Ends of the Earth (Bantam Press, 2015) / Robert Goddard
14. Devastation Road (Scribner UK, 2015) / Jason Hewitt
15. The Anger Meridian (Akashic Books, 2015) / Kaylie Jones
16. The Captive Condition (Pantheon, 2015) / Kevin P. Keating
17. Go Set a Watchman (Harper/William Heinemann, 2015) / Harper Lee
18. The Prophets of Eternal Fjord (trans. from the Danish by Martin Aitken) (Atlantic Books/W.W. Norton, 2015) / Kim Leine
19. The Quality of Silence (Little, Brown, 2015) / Rosamund Lupton
20. Good Hope Road (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015) / Sarita Mandanna

21. You Don’t Have to Live Like This (Faber & Faber/Harper, 2015) / Benjamin Markovits
22. Circling the Sun (Ballantine Books, 2015) / Paula McLain
23. Blood Salt Water (Orion, 2015) / Denise Mina
24. Something to Hide (Chatto & Windus, 2015) / Deborah Moggach
25. Signs for Lost Children (Granta Books, 2015) / Sarah Moss
26. The Mark and the Void (Hamish Hamilton, 2015) / Paul Murray
27. A Master Plan for Rescue (Riverhead Books, 2015) / Janis Cooke Newman
28. The Rocks (Heron Books, 2015) / Peter Nichols
29. Miss Emily (Penguin Press, 2015) / Nuala O’Connor
30. The Hands: An Australian Pastoral (Wakefield Press, 2015) / Stephen Orr

31. The Gods of Tango (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Carolina de Robertis
32. The Kindness (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015) / Polly Samson
33. The Tale of Genji (trans. from the Japanese by Dennis Washburn) (W.W. Norton, 2015) / Murasaki Shikibu
34. The Parrots (Fig Tree, 2015) / Alexandra Shulman
35. The Black Widow (Harper, 2016) / Daniel Silva
36. The Song Collector (Sceptre, 2015) / Natasha Solomons
37. The First of July (published as At Break of Day in the U.K. in 2013) (Pegasus, 2015) / Elizabeth Speller
38. The New Neighbor (Touchstone, 2015) / Leah Stewart
39. The Way Things Were (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Aatish Taseer
40. The Seed Collectors (Canongate Books, 2015) / Scarlett Thomas

41. Without the Moon (Serpent’s Tail, 2015) / Cathi Unsworth
42. The Night Stages (Oneworld Publications/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Jane Urquhart
43. Lovers on All Saints’ Day (Riverhead Books, 2015) / Juan Gabriel Vásquez
44. The Dying Grass (Viking, 2015) / William T. Vollmann
45. The Invaders (Regan Arts, 2015) / Karolina Waclawiak
46. Secessia (Grove Press, 2015) / Kent Wascom
47. The Ecliptic (Scribner UK, 2015) / Benjamin Wood

First Novels
1. A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding (Hutchinson, 2015) / Jackie Copleton
2. Neverwhere (William Morrow, 2015) / Neil Gaiman
3. The Artificial Anatomy of Parks (Legend Press, 2015) / Kat Gordon
4. The Last Pilot (Myriad Editions, 2015) / Benjamin Johncock
5. Let Me Explain You (Scribner, 2015) / Annie Liontas
6. Generation (John Murray Originals, 2015) / Paula McGrath
7. Us Conductors (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015) / Sean Michaels
8. Bull Mountain (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2015) / Brian Panowich
9. Among the Ten Thousand Things (Random House, 2015) / Julia Pierpont
10. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (Bloomsbury Circus/Bloomsbury USA, 2015) / Natasha Pulley

11. The Looking Glass House (Corvus, 2015) / Vanessa Tait
12. Maud’s Line (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) / Margaret Verble
13. My Sunshine Away (Viking, 2015) / M.O. Walsh
14. In a Dark, Dark Wood (Harvill Secker, 2015) / Ruth Ware
15. The Small Backs of Children (Harper, 2105) / Lidia Yuknavitch

Stories
1. An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It (JM Originals, 2015) / Jessie Greengrass
2. The Complete Stories (trans. from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson) (New Directions, 2015) / Clarice Lispector
3. The Dog (Picador, 2015) / Jack Livings
4. New American Stories (Vintage, 2015) / Ben Marcus (ed.)
5. Daydreams of Angels (Quercus, 2015) / Heather O’Neill
6. Confidence (Biblioasis, 2015) / Russell Smith
7. Among The Wild Mulattos & Other Tales (Texas Review Press, 2015) / Tom Williams
8. The All Saints’ Day Lovers (trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean) (Riverbed Books, 2015) / Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Poetry
1. Black Cat Bone (Graywolf Press, 2015) / John Burnside
2. Turning into Dwelling (Graywolf Press, 2015) / Christopher Gilbert
3. Steep Tea (Carcanet Press, 2015) / Jee Leong Koh
4. Physical (Jonathan Cape, 2015) / Andrew McMillan
5. Happiness (Faber & Faber, 2015) / Jack Underwood 

Nonfiction
1. August: The Biography (trans. from the German by Anthea Bell) (Allen Lane, 2015) / Jochen Bleicken
2. Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015) / Ta-Nehisi Coates
3. The Discourse of Race in Modern China (Hurst, 2015) / Frank Dikötter
4. The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the Present Day (Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Jonathan Fenby
5. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (Penguin Press, 2015) / William Finnegan
6. The Seven Good Years (Granta Books, 2015) / Etgar Keret
7. The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War (Bodley Head, 2015) / Yasmin Khan
8. Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World (published in the U.S. as Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empires, His Legacy) (Bodley Head/Da Capo Press, 2015) / Frank McLynn
9. Harry Mount’s Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015) / Harry Mount
10. Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History (Random House, 2015) / John Julius Norwich

11. Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History (Bloomsbury, 2015) / Francis O’Gorman
12. Between Gods (Tinder Press, 2015) / Alison Pick
13. Going Up: To Cambridge and Beyond: A Writer’s Memoir (The Robson Press, 2015) / Frederic Raphael
14. The Last Act of Love (Picador, 2015) / Cathy Rentzenbrink
15. Black Apples of Gower (Little Toller Books, 2015) / Iain Sinclair
16. Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society (trans. from the Spanish by John King) (Faber & Faber, 2015) / Mario Vargas Llosa
17. The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria (Rider, 2015) / Samar Yazbek