June 2016 Highlights

“The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: JUNE had arrived.” ― J.K. ROWLING, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)

NOVELS
1. The Dove’s Necklace (trans. from the Arabic by Katharine Halls & Adam Talib) (Duckworth, 2016) / Raja Alem
2. The Bones of Grace (Harper, 2016) / Tahmima Anam
3. Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty (Riverhead Books, 2016) / Ramona Ausubel
4. The Book of Esther (Tim Duggan Books/Crown Publishing, 2016) / Emily Barton
5. Since She Went Away (NAL, 2016) / David Bell
6. Daisy in Chains (Bantam Press, 2016) / Sharon Bolton
7. Everyone Is Watching (Picador, 2016) / Megan Bradbury
8. The Museum of You (Hutchinson, 2016) / Carys Bray
9. The Light of Paris (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2016) / Eleanor Brown
10. Addlands (Granta Books, 2016) / Tom Bullough

11. The Muse (Picador, 2016) / Jessie Burton
12. Moonglow (HarperCollins, 2016) / Michael Chabon
13. The Crime Writer (Sceptre, 2016) / Jill Dawson
14. Black Water (Faber & Faber, 2016) / Louise Doughty
15. The Parable Book (trans. from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner) (MacLehose Press, 2016) / Per Olov Enquist
16. Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew (Virago, 2016) / Susan Fletcher
17. The Girl in the Glass Tower (Michael Joseph, 2016) / Elizabeth Fremantle
18. I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around (Tyrus Books, 2016) / Ann Garvin
19. Wintering (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / Peter Geye
20. Heat & Light (HarperCollins, 2016) / Jennifer Haigh

21. Imagine Me Gone (Hamish Hamilton, 2016) / Adam Haslett
22. Before the Fall (Hodder & Stoughton, 2016) / Noah Hawley
23. Emperor of the Eight Islands: The Tale of Shikanoko (Picador, 2016) / Lian Hearn
24. Autumn Princess, Dragon Child: The Tale of Shikanoko (FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Lian Hearn
25. War & Turpentine (trans. from the Dutch by David McKay) (Harvill Secker, 2016) / Stefan Hertmans
26. The World Without Us (Bloomsbury USA, 2016) / Mireille Juchau
27. Mend the Living (trans. from the French by Jessica Moore) (MacLehose Press, 2016) / Maylis de Kerangal
28. I Almost Forgot About You (Crown Publishing, 2016) / Terry McMillan
29. Invasion 14 (trans. from the French by W. Brian Newsome) (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016) / Maxence van der Meersch
30. The Essex Serpent (Serpent’s Tail, 2016) / Sarah Perry

31. Barkskins (Scribner/Fourth Estate, 2016) / Annie Proulx
32. Florence Grace (Quercus, 2016) / Tracy Rees
33. Conrad & Eleanor (Atlantic Books, 2016) / Jane Rogers
34. They May Not Mean To, But They Do (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Cathleen Schine
35. The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 (Harper, 2016) / Lionel Shriver
36. Marrow Island (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) / Alexis M. Smith
37. Presumed, Missing (Random House, 2016) / Susie Steiner
38. Paradise Lodge (Viking, 2016) / Nina Stibbe
39. The House of Hidden Mothers (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Meera Syal
40. The Gilded Years (Washington Square Press, 2016) / Karin Tanabe

41. The Good Lieutenant (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Whitney Terrell
42. Untethered (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2016) / Julie Lawson Timmer
43. No Man’s Land (HarperCollins, 2016) / Simon Tolkien
44. Vinegar Girl (Hogarth, 2016) / Anne Tyler
45. The Woman in Cabin 10 (Harvill Secker, 2016) / Ruth Ware
46. As Good As Gone (Algonquin Books, 2016) / Larry Watson
47. The Natural Way of Things (Allen & Unwin/Europa Editions, 2016) / Charlotte Wood
48. Devotion (The Borough Press, 2016) / Louisa Young

FIRST NOVELS
1. Invincible Summer (Little, Brown, 2016) / Alice Adams
2. Rich and Pretty (Ecco, 2016) / Rumaan Alam
3. The Storyteller (Holland House, 2016) / Kate Armstrong
4. The Good Guy (John Murray, 2016) / Susan Beale
5. Black Rabbit Hall (Penguin, 2016) / Eve Chase
6. The Girls (Random House/Chatto & Windus, 2016) / Emily Cline
7. Pigeon (Parthian Books, 2016) / Alys Conran
8. Grace (Counterpoint, 2016) / Natashia Deón
9. My Name Is Leon (Viking, 2016) / Kit de Waal
10. Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt (Tim Duggan Books/Crown Publishing, 2016) / Yasmine El Rashidi

11. Homegoing (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / Yaa Gyasi
12. We Could Be Beautiful (Doubleday/Random House, 2016) / Swan Huntley
13. Beauty Is a Wound (trans. from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker) (Pushkin Press, 2016) / Eka Kurniawan
14. The Wolf Road (The Borough Press, 2016) / Beth Lewis
15. The Many (Salt Publishing, 2016) / Wyl Menmuir
16. The Toy Maker (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Australia, 2016) / Liam Pieper
17. Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Graywolf Press, 2016) / Max Porter
18. Amy Snow (Simon & Schuster, 2016) / Tracy Rees
19. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Text Publishing, 2016) / Iain Reid
20. The Sun in Your Eyes (William Morrow, 2016) / Deborah Shapiro

21. Owl Song at Dawn (Legend Press, 2016) / Emma Claire Sweeney
22. A Quiet Life (The Borough Press, 2016) / Natasha Walter
23. Foxhole (Fourth Estate, 2016) / Eleanor Wasserberg

STORIES
1. In the Country (Oneworld Publications, 2016) / Mia Alvar
2. Your Father Sends His Love (Picador, 2016) / Stuart Evers
3. Fen (Jonathan Cape, 2016) / Daisy Johnson
4. So Much for That Winter: Novellas (trans. from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra) (Graywolf Press, 2016) / Dorthe Nors
5. Goodnight, Beautiful Women (Grove Press, 2016) / Anna Noyes

POETRY
1. The Poems of Basil Bunting (ed. Don Share) (Faber & Faber, 2016) / Basil Bunting
2. Selected Poems (ed. Clive Wilmer) (Faber & Faber, 2016) / Thom Gunn
3. Cain (Penned in the Margins, 2016) / Luke Kennard
4. Certain Magical Acts (Penguin Books, 2016) / Alice Notley
5. The Laughter of the Sphinx (New Directions, 2016) / Michael Palmer
6. The After Party (Tim Duggan Books/Crown Publishing, 2016) / Jana Prikryl
7. Collected Poems: 1950-2012 (W.W. Norton, 2016) / Adrienne Rich

NONFICTION
1. By Fire: Writings on the Arab Spring (trans. from the French by Rita S. Nezami) (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2016) / Tahar Ben Jelloun
2. Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) / Lesley M.M. Blume
3. Charmed Life: The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon (William Collins, 2016) / Damian Collins
4. White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World (Canongate, 2016) / Geoff Dyer
5. The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine (Penguin Press, 2016) / Ben Ehrenreich
6. Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 (Yale University Press, 2016) / Carlos M.N. Eire
7. My Father Before Me: A Memoir (Scribner, 2016) / Chris Forhan
8. Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide (Metropolitan Books, 2016) / Charles Foster
9. Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting Pieces (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Ian Frazier
10. The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam (Allen Lane, 2016) / Christopher Goscha

11. The Life of Louis XVI (Yale University Press, 2016) / John Hardman
12. Negroland: A Memoir (Granta Books, 2016) / Margo Jefferson
13. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (Fourth Estate, 2016) / Sebastian Junger
14. Istanbul: A Traveller’s Reader (Robinson/Little, Brown, 2016) / Laurence Kelly (ed.)
15. Moscow: A Traveller’s Reader (Robinson/Little, Brown, 2016) / Laurence Kelly (ed.)
16. The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall’s Most Treacherous Stretch of Coast (Chatto & Windus, 2016) / Gavin Knight
17. What Language Do I Dream In?: A Memoir (Virago, 2016) / Elena Lappin
18. The Hatred of Poetry (FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Ben Lerner
19. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between (Viking/Penguin Books, 2016) / Hisham Matar
20. Poacher’s Pilgrimage: An Island Journey (Birlinn, 2016) / Alastair McIntosh

21. In My Own Time: Thoughts and Afterthoughts (Virago, 2016) / Jane Miller
22. A Chorus of Cockerels: Walking on the Wild Side in Mallorca (Summersdale, 2016) / Anna Nicholas
23. Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (Little, Brown, 2016) / Peter Parker
24. Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (The Bodley Head, 2016) / Lyndal Roper
25. Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West (published in the U.S. as Ancient Worlds: A Global History of Antiquity) (Hutchinson, 2016) / Michael Scott
26. Kingdoms in the Air: Dispatches from the Far Away (Grove Press, 2016) / Bob Shacochis
27. Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education (Nation Books, 2016) / Mychal Denzel Smith
28. Feel Free (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books, 2016) / Zadie Smith
29. The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars (Jonathan Cape, 2016) / Adrian Tinniswood
30. Man Up: Surviving Modern Masculinity (Icon Books, 2016) / Jack Urwin

31. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper, 2016) / J.D. Vance
32. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America (Liveright, 2016) / Wendy Warren
33. The Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee (Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016) / Jan Wilm