February 2016 Highlights

NOVELS
1. Carry Me (Pantheon, 2016) / Peter Behrens
2. A Doubter’s Almanac (Random House, 2016) / Ethan Canin
3. The Queen of the Night (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) / Alexander Chee
4. Under the Visible Life (Serpent’s Tail/Profile Books, 2016) / Kim Echlin
5. Sudden Death (trans. from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer) (Riverhead Books, 2016) / Álvaro Enrique
6. I Am No One (Atlantic Books, 2016) / Patrick Flanery
7. The Vatican Princess (Ballantine Books, 2016) / C.W. Gortner
8. Forty Rooms (Putnam, 2016) / Olga Grushin
9. All The Winters After (Sourcebooks Landmark, 2016) / Seré Prince Halverson
10. The Vegetarian (trans. from the Korean by Deborah Smith) (Hogarth, 2016) / Han Kang

11. The Narrow Bed (Hodder & Stoughton, 2016) / Sophie Hannah
12. A Friend of Mr Lincoln (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / Stephen Harrigan
13. The Ballroom (Doubleday, 2016) / Anna Hope
14. The Opposite of Everyone (William Morrow, 2016) / Joshilyn Jackson
15. Shylock Is My Name (Hogarth, 2016) / Howard Jacobson
16. Why We Came to the City (Viking, 2016) / Kristopher Jansma
17. The Silk Merchant’s Daughter (Viking, 2016) / Dinah Jefferies
18. The Drowned Detective (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016) / Neil Jordan
19. The Blue Hour (Atria Books, 2016) / Douglas Kennedy
20. The Heart (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Maylis de Kerangal

21. Thus Bad Begins (trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa) (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 2016) / Javier Marías
22. Under the Influence (William Morrow, 2016) / Joyce Maynard
23. The North Water (Scribner UK, 2016) / Ian McGuire
24. Tender (Lee Boudreaux/Little, Brown, 2016) / Belinda McKeon
25. This Census-Taker (Picador, 2016) / China Miéville
26. When the Floods Came (Sceptre, 2016) / Clare Morrall
27. What Lies Between Us (St Martin’s Press, 2016) / Nayomi Munaweera
28. The Heart Stopped (Jonathan Cape, 2106) / Julie Myerson
29. Max Baer and the Star of David (Mandel Vilar Press, 2016) / Jay Neugeboren
30. The Man Without a Shadow (Ecco, 2016) / Joyce Carol Oates

31. The Little Red Chairs (Faber & Faber, 2016) / Edna O’Brien
32. Thomas and Mary: A Love Story (Harvill Secker, 2016) / Tim Parks
33. Arcadia (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / Iain Pears
34. Black Deutschland (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Darryl Pinckney
35. Green Island (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / Shawna Yang Ryan
36. Martin John (And Other Stories, 2016) / Anakana Schofield
37. For Two Thousand Years (trans. from the Romanian by Philip Ó Ceallaigh) (Penguin Classics, 2016) / Mihail Sebastian
38. Salt to the Sea (Philomel Books, 2016) / Ruta Sepetys
39. Ginny Gall (Harper, 2016) / Charlie Smith
40. Wolf’s Mouth (Michigan State University Press, 2016) / John Smolens

41. The Fugitives (Simon & Schuster, 2016) / Christopher Sorrentino
42. Arcadian Nights (The Overlook Press, 2016) / John Spurling
43. Missing, Presumed (The Borough Press, 2016) / Susie Steiner
44. My Name Is Lucy Barton (Viking, 2016) / Elizabeth Strout
45. Mothering Sunday (Scribner UK, 2016) / Graham Swift
46. Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O’Keeffe (Random House, 2016) / Dawn Tripp
47. The Lost Time Accidents (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / John Wray
48. The Extra (trans. from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman) (Halban, 2016) / A.B. Yehoshua

FIRST NOVELS
1. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl (Penguin Books, 2016) / Mona Awad
2. Rush Oh! (Virago, 2016) / Shirley Barrett
3. The Butcher’s Hook (Two Roads, 2016) / Janet Ellis
4. Youngblood (Atria Books, 2016) / Matt Gallagher
5. The Book of Memory (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Petina Gappah
6. The Yid (Picador USA, 2016) / Paul Goldberg
7. The Beautiful Possible (Harper Perennial/HarperCollins, 2016) / Amy Gottlieb
8. The Forgetting Time (Flatiron Books/Mantle, 2016) / Sharon Guskin
9. The Girl in the Red Coat (Melville House, 2016) / Kate Hamer
10. Be Frank With Me (William Morrow, 2016) / Julia Claiborne Johnson

11. The Benedictines (Braddock Avenue Books, 2016) / Rachel May
12. Not All Bastards Are From Vienna (trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar & Patrick Creagh) (Grove Press/Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016) / Andrea Molesini
13. The Sympathizer (Corsair, 2016) / Viet Thanh Nguyen
14. Ways to Disappear (Little, Brown, 2016) / Idra Novey
15. The Maker of Swans (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016) / Paraic O’Donnell
16. Anatomy of a Soldier (Faber & Faber, 2016) / Harry Parker
17. Wreck and Order (Hogarth, 2016) / Hannah Tennant-Moore
18. Jonathan Unleashed (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016) / Meg Rosoff
19. Private Citizens (William Morrow, 2016) / Tony Tulathimutte
20. Gold Fame Citrus (Quercus, 2016) / Claire Vaye Watkins

STORIES
1. Sweet Home (Windhill Books, 2016) / Carys Bray
2. Napoleon’s Road (University of Queensland Press, 2016) / David Brooks
3. Children’s Children (Liberties Press, 2016) / Jan Carson
4. Foreign Soil (Corsair, 2016) / Maxine Beneba Clarke
5. We’ve Already Gone This Far (Henry Holt, 2016) / Patrick Dacey
6. A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press, 2016) / Brian Evenson
7. The Loss of All Lost Things (Elixir Press, 2016) / Amina Gautier
8. You Should Pity Us Instead (Sarabande Books, 2016) / Amy Gustine
9. Cities I’ve Never Lived In (Graywolf Press, 2016) / Sara Majka
10. The High Mountains of Portugal (Canongate Books/Spiegel & Grau, 2016) / Yann Martel

11. The High Places (Penguin Australia, 2016) / Fiona McFarlane
12. Prosperity Drive (Jonathan Cape, 2016) / Mary Morrissy
13. Under the Rose: Selected Stories (Faber & Faber, 2016) / Julia O’Faolain
14. Light Box (Daunt Books, 2016) / K.J. Orr
15. Ways to Spend the Night (Engine Books, 2016) / Pamela Painter
16. In the Land of Armadillos (Scribner, 2016) / Helen Maryles Shankman
17. Interior Darkness: Selected Stories (Doubleday, 2016) / Peter Straub
18. The Best Place on Earth (HarperCollins, 2016) / Ayelet Tsabari
19. Dog Run Moon (The Dial Press, 2016) / Callan Wink
20. Legoland (Picador, 2016) / Gerard Woodward

21. Miss Grief and Other Stories (ed. Anne Boyd Rioux) (W.W. Norton, 2016) / Constance Fenimore Woolson

POETRY
1. The Blind Road-Maker (Picador, 2016) / Ian Duhig
2. Scarecrow (Wesleyan University Press, 2016) / Robert Fernandez
3. Window Left Open (Graywolf Press, 2016) / Jennifer Grotz
4. Firebreaks (W.W. Norton, 2016) / John Kinsella
5. Shaler’s Fish (Grove Press/Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016) / Helen MacDonald
6. Interference Pattern (Jonathan Cape, 2016) / J.O. Morgan
7. Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2016) / Lucia Perillo
8. Every Little Sound (Liverpool University Press, 2016) / Ruby Robinson
9. The Catch (Chatto & Windus, 2016) / Fiona Sampson
10. Widening Income Inequality (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Frederick Seidel

11. All the Poems (New Directions, 2016) / Stevie Smith
12. Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / Kevin Young

NONFICTION
1. Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto Press, 2016) / Robin Yassin-Kassab & Leila Al-Shami
2. Stop the Clocks: Thoughts on What I Leave Behind (Virago, 2016) / Joan Bakewell
3. The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker (Counterpoint, 2016) / Maeve Brennan
4. The Iceberg (Black Cat/Grove Press, 2016) / Marion Coutts
5. The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016) / Janine di Giovanni
6. The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World (Bloomsbury USA, 2016) / William Egginton
7. Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow (The University of Western Australia Publishing, 2016) / Suzanne Falkiner
8. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2016) / Dario Fernandez-Moreira
9. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / Peter Frankopan
10. Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / John Gimlette

11. Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America’s Founding Father (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016) / George Goodwin
12. Postcards from Here: A Memoir in Vignettes (Vine Leaves Press, 2016) / Penny Guisinger
13. Reasons to Stay Alive (Penguin Books, 2016) / Matt Haig
14. The Great Fear: Stalin’s Terror of the 1930s (Oxford University Press, 2016) / James Harris
15. Spring: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons (Elliott & Thompson, 2016) / Melissa Harrison
16. Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion (Pantheon, 2016) / Susan Jacoby
17. In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond (Random House, 2016) / Robert D. Kaplan
18. Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life (Grove Press, 2016) / Sayed Kashua
19. Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (Allen Lane, 2016) / Sunil Khilnani
20. In Other Words (trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / Jhumpa Lahiri

21. Quicksand: What It Means to be a Human Being (trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson) (Harvill Secker, 2016) / Henning Mankell
22. Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria’s Great Merchant City (I.B. Tauris, 2016) / Philip Mansel
23. Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist (W.W. Norton, 2016) / Anne Boyd Rioux
24. Culloden: Scotland’s Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire (Little, Brown, 2016) / Trevor Royle
25. Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth (Penguin Press, 2016) / A.O. Scott
26. Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran (Riverhead Books, 2016) / Laura Secor
27. Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann (Yale University Press, 2016) / Frederick Spotts
28. West of Eden: An American Place (Random House/Jonathan Cape, 2016) / Jean Stein
29. Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet (Schaffner Press, 2016) / Terese Svoboda
30. Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World (Faber & Faber, 2016) / Tim Whitmarsh