Saturday, August 01, 2015

August 2015 Highlights

Novels
1. Infinite Home (Riverhead Books, 2015) / Kathleen Alcott
2. The Automobile Club of Egypt (trans. from the Arabic by Russell Harris) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Alaa Al Aswany
3. The Dove’s Necklace (Overlook, 2015) / Raja Alem
4. Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonder (Little, Brown, 2015) / Julianna Baggott
5. Noonday (Hamish Hamilton, 2015) / Pat Barker
6. Devotion (Oneworld Publications, 2015) / Ros Barber
7. The Incarnations (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Susan Barker
8. The Other Side of the World (Tinder Press, 2015) / Stephanie Bishop
9. Up Against the Night (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015) / Justin Cartwright
10. Trust No One (Atria Books, 2015) / Paul Cleave

11. Another Mother’s Son (Chatto & Windus, 2015) / Janet Davey
12. Last Bus to Wisdom (Riverhead Books, 2015) / Ivan Doig
13. Days of Awe (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) / Lauren Fox
14. Flood of Fire (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Amitav Ghosh
15. The Fall of Princes (Algonquin Books, 2015) / Robert Goolrick
16. Best Boy (Liveright, 2015) / Eli Gottlieb
17. The Taming of the Queen (Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Philippa Gregory
18. A Game for All the Family (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015) / Sophie Hannah
19. His Whole Life (McClelland & Stewart, 2015) / Elizabeth Hay
20. Black-Eyed Susans (Ballantine Books/Michael Joseph, 2015) / Julia Heaberlin

21. The Marriage of Opposites (Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Alice Hoffman
22. A Guide to Berlin (Vintage Australia, 2015) / Gail Jones
23. Man on Fire (Bloomsbury Circus, 2015) / Stephen Kelman
24. Villa America (Little, Brown, 2015) / Liza Klaussmann
25. A Woman Loved (trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan) (Graywolf Press/MacLehose Press, 2015) / Andreï Makine
26. Splinter the Silence (Little, Brown, 2015) / Val McDermid
27. Circling the Sun (Virago, 2015) / Paula McLain
28. The Night Sister (Doubleday, 2015) / Jennifer McMahon
29. The Crossing (Sceptre, 2015) / Andrew Miller
30. The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l’Étoile, The Night Watch & Ring Roads (trans. from the French by Caroline Hillier, Patricia Wolf & Frank Wynne) (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015) / Patrick Modiano

31. Songs of Love and Montefiore (Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Santa Montefiore
32. Eileen (Random House, 2015) / Ottessa Moshfegh
33. Miss Emily (Sandstone Press, 2015) / Nuala O’Connor
34. The Nature of the Beast (Minotaur Books/Sphere, 2015) / Louise Penny
35. Sistering (Linda Leith Publishing, 2015) / Jennifer Quist
36. Slab (Coffee House Press, 2015) / Selah Saterstrom
37. The Boy Between (Hachette Books Ireland, 2015) / Susan Stairs
38. All the Old Knives (Picador, 2015) / Olen Steinhauer
39. Salt Creek (Pan Macmillan Australia, 2015) / Lucy Treloar
40. The Girls at the Kingfisher Club (Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Genevieve Valentine

41. The Illogic of Kassel (trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean & Anna Milsom) (Harvill Secker, 2015) / Enrique Vila-Matas
42. A Body in Barcelona (Chatto & Windus, 2015) / Jason Webster
43. A Little Life (Picador, 2015) / Hanya Yanagihara
44. Kauthar (Salt Publishing, 2015) / Meike Ziervogel

First Novels
1. The Girl Who Slept with God (Viking, 2015) / Val Brelinski
2. Nelly Dean (The Borough Press, 2015) / Alison Case
3. The Daughters (Liveright, 2015) / Adrienne Celt
4. Everybody Rise (St Martin’s Press, 2015) / Stephanie Clifford
5. Make Your Home Among Strangers (St Martin’s Press, 2015) / Jennine Capó Crucet
6. Whispers Through a Megaphone (One, 2015) / Rachel Elliott
7. The Pope’s Daughter (trans. from the Italian by Anthony Shugaar) (Europa Editions, 2015) / Dario Fo
8. The Girl from the Garden (Ecco, 2015) / Parnaz Forouton
9. The Loney (John Murray, 2015) / Andrew Michael Hurley
10. Bright Lines (Penguin Books, 2015) / Tanwi Nandini Islam

11. Mrs Bennet has Her Say (Berkley, 2015) / Jane Juska
12. You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (Harper, 2015) / Alexandra Kleeman
13. Beauty Is a Wound (trans. from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker) (Text Publishing, 2015) / Eka Kurniawan
14. Christodora (Grove Press, 2016) / Tim Murphy
15. Salt Creek (Picador Australia/Pan Macmillan Australia, 2015) / Lucy Treloar
16. The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley (Riverhead Books, 2015) / Jeremy Massey
17. The Beautiful Bureaucrat (Henry Holt, 2015) / Helen Phillips
18. Alice and the Fly (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015) / James Rice
19. Dragonfish (W.W. Norton, 2015) / Vu Tran
20. All That Followed (Henry Holt, 2015) / Gabriel Urza

21. Landfalls (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Naomi J. Williams

Stories
1. The State We’re In: Maine Stories (Scribner, 2015) / Ann Beattie
2. A Manual for Cleaning Women (ed. Stephen Emerson) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Lucia Berlin
3. Beneath the Earth: Dark and Surprising Stories (Doubleday, 2015) / John Boyne
4. The Life-Writer (Comma Press, 2015) / David Constantine
5. Man V. Nature (Oneworld Publications, 2015) / Diane Cook
6. Barbara the Slut and Other People (Riverhead Books, 2015) / Lauren Holmes
7. A Clear View of the Southern Sky (Story River Books, 2015) / Mary Hood
8. Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings (eds. Laurence Jackson Hyman & Sarah Hyman DeWitt) (Random House, 2015) / Shirley Jackson
9. Fortune Smiles (Random House, 2015) / Adam Johnson
10. The Complete Stories (trans. from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson) (New Directions, 2015) / Clarice Lispector

11. A Portable Shelter (The Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2015) / Kirsty Logan
12. Sea Lovers: Selected Stories (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2015) / Valerie Martin
13. On the Edges of Vision (Queen’s Ferry Press, 2015) / Helen McClory
14. We Don’t Know What We’re Doing (Faber & Faber, 2015) / Thomas Morris

Poetry
1. Almost the Equinox: Selected Poems (Chatto & Windus, 2015) / Sarah Maguire
2. Waiting for the Past (Carcanet Press, 2015) / Les Murray
3. A Small Story About the Sky (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) / Alberto Ríos
4. Shipbreaking (Anhinga Press, 2015) / Robin Beth Schaer
5. Dome of the Hidden Pavilion: New Poems (Ecco, 2015) / James Tate

Nonfiction
1. Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah (Riverhead Books, 2015) / Anna Badkhen
2. Yanks and Limeys: Alliance Warfare in the Second World War (Jonathan Cape, 2015) / Niall Barr
3. Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 (Atlantic Books, 2015) / Philipp Blom
4. ’Membering (Dundurn, 2015) / Austin Clarke
5. The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion (St Martin’s Press, 2015) / Tracy Daugherty
6. Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books (Pegasus, 2015) / Michael Dirda
7. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015) / Peter Frankopan
8. The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir (Faber & Faber, 2015) / David Hare
9. The Lost World of Byzantium (Yale University Press, 2015) / Jonathan Harris
10. Reading Claudius (The Dial Press/Random House, 2015) / Caroline Heller

11. Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting (Granta Books, 2015) / Michael Jacobs
12. Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe (Atticus Books, 2015) / Lori Jakiela
13. Latest Readings (Yale University Press, 2015) / Clive James
14. The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution (Viking, 2015) / Dominic Lieven
15. Desert Songs of the Night: 1500 Years of Arabic Literature (Saqi Books, 2015) / Suheil Bushrui & James M. Malarkey (eds.)
16. Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father (Particular Books, 2015) / Adam Mars-Jones
17. Pedigree: A Memoir (trans. from the French by Mark Polizzotti) (Yale University Press, 2015) / Patrick Modiano
18. Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal (Little, Brown, 2015) / Jay Parini
19. Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother’s Journey (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015) / David Payne
20. Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita (Bloomsbury USA, 2015) / Robert Roper

21. Out in the Midday Sun: The British in Malaya, 1880-1960 (Monsoon Books, 2015) / Margaret Shennan
22. Cursed Kings: The Hundred Years War IV (Faber & Faber/University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) / Jonathan Sumption
23. World Without End: Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire (Random House, 2015) / Hugh Thomas
24. Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society (trans. from the Spanish by John King) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) / Mario Vargas Llosa

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