July 2016 Highlights

NOVELS
1. You Will Know Me (Little, Brown/Picador, 2016) / Megan Abbott
2. The Seamstress and the Wind (trans. from the Spanish by Rosalie Knecht) (And Other Stories, 2016) / César Aira
3. Fell (Sceptre, 2016) / Jenn Ashworth
4. Lucky Strikes (Henry Holt, 2016) / Louis Bayard
5. The Memory Stones (Bloomsbury Circus, 2016) / Caroline Brothers
6. The Muse (Ecco, 2016) / Jessie Burton
7. Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador (trans. from the Spanish by Lee Klein) (New Directions, 2016) / Horacio Castellanos Moya
8. The Last Photograph (Picador, 2016) / Emma Chapman
9. On the Edge (trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa) (Harvill Secker, 2016) / Rafael Chirbes
10. The Hopefuls (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / Jennifer Close

11. The Death of All Things Seen (Head of Zeus, 2016) / Michael Collins
12. Before We Visit the Goddess (Simon & Schuster UK, 2016) / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
13. Heroes of the Frontier (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 2016) / Dave Eggers
14. Siracusa (Blue Rider Press, 2016) / Delia Ephron
15. Belgravia (Weidenfeld & Nicholson/Grand Central Publishing, 2016) / Julian Fellowes
16. The Mare (Serpent’s Tail, 2016) / Mary Gaitskill
17. Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan (Atlantic Books, 2016) / Ruth Gilligan
18. The Transmigration of Bodies (trans. from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman) (And Other Stories, 2016) / Yuri Herrera
19. Dirt Road (Canongate Books, 2016) / James Kelman
20. Everything Love Is (Bloomsbury Circus, 2016) / Claire King

21. Age of Consent (Nan A. Talese, 2016) / Marti Leimbach
22. Blood Wedding (trans. from the French by Frank Wynne) (MacLehose Press, 2016) / Pierre Lemaire
23. Hot Milk (Bloomsbury USA, 2016) / Deborah Levy
24. Wilde Lake (Faber & Faber, 2016) / Laura Lippman
25. For Those Who Know the Ending (Mantle, 2016) / Malcolm Mackay
26. I See You (Sphere, 2016) / Clare Mackintosh
27. The Association of Small Bombs (Chatto & Windus, 2016) / Karan Mahajan
28. The Long, Hot Summer (Grand Central Publishing, 2016) / Kathleen MacMahon
29. Augustown (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016) / Kei Miller
30. A Meal in Winter (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (New Press, 2016) / Hubert Mingarelli

31. The Unseen World (W.W. Norton, 2016) / Liz Moore
32. The Tidal Zone (Granta Books, 2016) / Sarah Moss
33. The Inseparables (Little, Brown, 2016) / Stuart Nadler
34. Lions (Grove Press, 2016) / Bonnie Nadzam
35. Lying in Wait (Penguin Ireland, 2016) / Liz Nugent
36. Once Again Assembled Here (Picador, 2016) / Sean O’Brien
37. This Must Be the Place (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / Maggie O’Farrell
38. The Heavenly Table (Doubleday/Harvill Secker, 2016) / Donald Ray Pollock
39. The Low Voices (trans. from the Galician by Jonathan Dunne) (Harvill Secker, 2016) / Manuel Rivas
40. When the Music’s Over (Hodder & Stoughton, 2016) / Peter Robinson

41. The Black Widow (Harper, 2016) / Daniel Silva
42. Leaving Lucy Pear (Viking, 2016) / Anna Solomon
43. Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Granta Books, 2016) / Madeleine Thien
44. A Climate of Fear (trans. from the French by Siân Reynolds) (Harvill Secker, 2016) / Fred Vargas
45. Smoke (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016) / Dan Vyleta
46. Miss Jane (W.W. Norton, 2016) / Brad Watson

FIRST NOVELS
1. The House at the Edge of Night (Random House, 2016) / Catherine Banner
2. The Confession of Stella Moon (Contraband, 2016) / Shelley Day
3. Here Comes the Sun (Liveright, 2016) / Nicole Dennis-Benn
4. Ways to Disappear (Daunt Books, 2016) / Idra Novey
5. Problems (Coffee House Press, 2016) / Jade Sharma
6. Owl Song at Dawn (Legend Press, 2016) / Emma Claire Sweeney
7. Break in Case of Emergency (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / Jessica Winter
8. The Lost Girls (William Morrow, 2016) / Heather Young

STORIES
1. The Storyteller (trans. from the German by Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie & Sebastian Truskolaski) (Verso Books, 2016) / Walter Benjamin
2. Pond (Riverhead Books, 2016) / Claire-Louise Bennett
3. When Watched (Penguin Books, 2016) / Leopoldine Core
4. Monterey Bay (Penguin Press, 2016) / Lindsay Hatton
5. Heartbreaker (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Maryse Meijer
6. Insurrections (University Press of Kentucky, 2016) / Rion Amilcar Scott
7. The Sun in Your Eyes (HarperCollins, 2016) / Deborah Shapiro
8. Sandlands (Sandstone Press, 2016) / Rosy Thornton
9. Ninety-nine Stories of God (Tin House Books, 2016) / Joy Williams

POETRY
1. Hemming Flames (Utah State University Press, 2016) / Patricia Colleen Murphy
2. The Seasons of Cullen Church (Faber & Faber, 2016) / Bernard O’Donoghue
3. Falling Awake (Jonathan Cape, 2016) / Alice Oswald
4. Look (Graywolf Press, 2016) / Solmaz Sharif

NONFICTION
1. The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (Allen Lane, 2016) / Daniel Beer
2. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North (Ecco, 2016) / Blair Braverman
3. Peacock & Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work (Chatto & Windus, 2016) / A.S. Byatt
4. Dadland: A Journey Into Unchartered Territory (Chatto & Windus, 2016) / Keggie Carew
5. Everywhere I Look (Text Publishing, 2016) / Helen Garner
6. The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam (Allen Lane, 2016) / Christopher Goscha
7. The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History (Picador, 2016) / Thomas Harding
8. Some Enchanted Evenings: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin (St Martin’s Press, 2016) / David Kaufman
9. Squirrel Pie (and Other Stories): Adventures in Food Across the Globe (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016) / Elisabeth Luard
10. All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation (Allen Lane, 2016) / Diarmaid MacCulloch

11. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between (Random House, 2016) / Hisham Matar
12. On Trails: An Exploration (Simon & Schuster, 2016) / Robert Moor
13. Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy (Dalkey Archive Press, 2016) / Keith Hopper & Neil Murphy (eds.)
14. Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) / Cynthia Ozick
15. Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016) / Anna Pavord
16. The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay (Biteback Publishing, 2016) / Guy Standing
17. The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer (Penguin Press, 2016) / Kate Summerscale
18. The Classical World: The Foundations of the West and the Enduring Legacy of Antiquity (Pegasus Books, 2016) / Nigel Spivey
19. Wear and Tear: The Threads of My Life (Scribner, 2016) / Tracy Tynan