September 2016 Highlights

NOVELS
1. Selection Day (Picador, 2016) / Aravind Adiga
2. The Hidden Keys (Coach House Books, 2016) / André Alexis
3. Nine Island (Catapult, 2016) / Jane Alison
4. Stranger (HarperCollins Canada, 2016) / David Bergen
5. Orphans of the Carnival (Canongate Books, 2016) / Carol Birch
6. Between a Wolf and a Dog (Scribe UK, 2016) / Georgia Blain
7. The Cleanskin (The Author People, 2016) / Laura Bloom
8. Perfume River (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016) / Robert Olen Butler
9. The Schooldays of Jesus (Harvill Secker, 2016) / J.M. Coetzee
10. Transit (Jonathan Cape, 2016) / Rachel Cusk

11. The Spawning Grounds (Knopf Canada, 2016) / Gail Anderson-Dargatz
12. The Fortunes (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) / Peter Ho Davies
13. The Wonder (Little, Brown/Picador, 2016) / Emma Donoghue
14. Here I Am (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Hamish Hamilton, 2016) / Jonathan Safran Foer
15. A Column of Fire (Pan Macmillian, 2016) / Ken Follett
16. The Trespasser (Hodder & Stoughton, 2016) / Tana French
17. Closed Casket (HarperCollins, 2016) / Sophie Hannah
18. Conclave (Hutchinson, 2016) / Robert Harris
19. A House Without Windows (William Morrow, 2016) / Nadia Hashimi
20. Lord of the Darkwood: The Tale of Shikanoko (Picador, 2016) / Lian Hearn

21. The Tengu’s Game of Go: The Tale of Shikanoko (FSG Originals, 2016) / Lian Hearn
22. After James (McClelland & Stewart/Tin House Books, 2016) / Michael Helm
23. The Good People (Pan Macmillan Australia, 2016) / Hannah Kent
24. Viking Fire (Little, Brown, 2016) / Justin Hill
25. Cartes Postales from Greece (Headline Review, 2016) / Victoria Hislop
26. Dear Mr M (trans. from the Dutch by Sam Garrett) (Hogarth, 2016) / Herman Koch
27. Mercury (Harper, 2016) / Margot Livesey
28. Shelter in Place (Europa Editions, 2016) / Alexander Maksik
29. Who Killed Piet Barol? (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016) / Richard Mason
30. The Lesser Bohemians (Faber & Faber/Hogarth, 2016) / Eimear McBride

31. Nutshell (Jonathan Cape/Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2016) / Ian McEwan
32. The Black Notebook (trans. from the French by Mark Polizzotti) (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) / Patrick Modiano
33. Darktown (Little, Brown, 2016) / Thomas Mullen
34. Judas (trans. from the Hebrew by Nicholas De Lange) (Chatto & Windus, 2016) / Amos Oz
35. Commonwealth (Harper/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016) / Ann Patchett
36. By Gaslight (Oneworld Publications, 2016) / Steven Price
37. The Risen (Ecco Press, 2016) / Ron Rash
38. The Museum of Modern Love (Allen & Unwin, 2016) / Heather Rose
39. As We Shall Know (Doubleday, 2016) / Donal Ryan
40. Little Nothing (Blue Rider Press, 2016) / Marisa Silver

41. A Gentleman in Moscow (Viking, 2016) / Amor Towles
42. The Gustav Sonata (W.W. Norton, 2016) / Rose Tremain
43. Reputations (trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean) (Riverhead Books, 2016) / Juan Gabriel Vásquez
44. Nostalgia (Doubleday Canada, 2016) / M.G. Vassanji
45. Loner (Simon & Schuster, 2016) / Teddy Wayne
46. The Underground Railroad (Doubleday, 2016) / Colson Whitehead
47. Resolution (Allen & Unwin, 2016) / A.N. Wilson

FIRST NOVELS
1. The Story of a Brief Marriage (Flatiron Books, 2016) / Anuk Arudpragasam
2. Inch Levels (Head of Zeus, 2016 / Neil Hegarty
3. Mischling (Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown, 2016) / Affinity Konar
4. Wild Island (Allen & Unwin, 2016) / Jennifer Livett
5. After Disasters (Little A, 2016) / Viet Dinh

STORIES
1. A Tree or a Person or a Wall (Soho Press, 2016) / Matt Bell
2. When Black Dogs Sing (Arlen House, 2016) / Tanya Farrelly
3. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 (Anchor Books/Penguin Random House, 2016) / Laura Furman (ed.)
4. Head Land: 10 Years of The Edge Hill Short Story Prize (Edge Hill University Press, 2016) / Rodge Glass (ed.)
5. The Fat Artist and Other Stories (Picador, 2016) / Benjamin Hale
6. The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories (Profile Books, 2016) / Susan Hill
7. Sex & Death (Faber & Faber, 2016) / Sarah Hall & Peter Hobbs (eds.)
8. Deceit and Other Possibilities (Willow Books, 2016) / Vanessa Hua
9. The Man Who Wouldn’t Get Up and Other Stories (Vintage, 2016) / David Lodge
10. John O’Hara: Stories (Library of America, 2016) / John O’Hara

11. Speak Gigantular (Jacaranda Books, 2016) / Irenosen Okojie
12. The Virginity of Famous Men (Bloomsbury USA, 2016) / Christine Sneed
13. Children of the New World (Picador USA, 2016) / Alexander Weinstein

POETRY
1. Slakki: New & Neglected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2016) / Roy Fisher 
2. George Washington (Liveright, 2016) / Adam Fitzgerald
3. Archeophonics (Wesleyan University Press, 2016) / Peter Gizzi
4. The Best American Poetry 2016 (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 2016) / David Lehman & Edward Hirsch (eds.)
5. House of Lords and Commons (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Ishion Hutchinson
6. Sunshine (Penned in the Margins, 2016) / Melissa Lee-Houghton
7. World of Made and Unmade (Alice James Books, 2016) / Jane Mead
8. Garden Time (Copper Canyon Press/Bloodaxe Books, 2016) / W.S. Merwin
9. Selected Poems 1968-2014 (Faber & Faber, 2016) / Paul Muldoon
10. Odes (Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / Sharon Olds

11. High on Rust: Selected Poems (Tangent Books, 2016) / Ray Webber
12. Blackacre (Graywolf Press, 2016) / Monica Youn

NONFICTION
1. The History of England, Volume IV: Revolution (Macmillan, 2016) / Peter Ackroyd
2. Jean Cocteau: A Life (trans. from the French by Lauren Elkin and Charlotte Mandell) (Yale University Press, 2016) / Claude Arnaud
3. Citizen Clem: A Biography of Atlee (Riverrun, 2016) / John Bew
4. The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood (Graywolf Press, 2016) / Belle Boggs
5. Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence (John Murray, 2016) / Artemis Cooper
6. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (Allen Lane, 2016) / Christopher de Hamel
7. Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman (Allen Lane, 2016) / Minoo Dinshaw
8. The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 (Allen Lane, 2016) / Richard J. Evans
9. Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright, 2016) / Ruth Franklin
10. Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time (Canongate Books, 2016) / Simon Garfield

11. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (The University of Chicago Press, 2016) / Amitav Ghosh
12. Vietnam: A New History (Basic Books, 2016) / Christopher Goscha
13. Avid Reader: A Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Robert Gottlieb
14. Against Everything: Essays (Pantheon/Verso, 2016) / Mark Greif
15. Democrats and Dissenters (Penguin Random House India, 2016) / Ramachandra Guha
16. Istanbul: A Biography of a City (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016) / Bettany Hughes
17. The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Jamie James
18. Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / Robert Kanigel
19. Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic (The University of Chicago Press, 2016) / Alice Kaplan
20. Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) / Sunil Khilnani

21. Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2016) / Brendan King
22. Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies (Bloomsbury USA/Bloomsbury Circus, 2016) / Ross King
23. Imperial Triumph: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine (published in the U.S. as The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine) (Profile Books, 2016) / Michael Kulikowski
24. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life (Viking, 2016) / John le Carré
25. Words Are My Matter: Writing About Life and Books, 2000-2016 (Small Beer Press, 2016) / Ursula K. Le Guin
26. Estuary: Out from London to the Sea (Hamish Hamilton, 2016) / Rachel Lichtenstein
27. All Things Made New: The Reformation and Its Legacy (Oxford University Press, 2016) / Diarmaid MacCulloch
28. Cast Away: Stories of Survival from Europe’s Refugee Crisis (The New Press, 2016) / Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
29. Words on the Move: Why English Won’t—and Can’t—Sit Still (Like, Literally) (Henry Holt, 2016) / John McWhorter
30. Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill (published in the U.K. as Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill) (Doubleday/Allen Lane, 2016) / Candice Millard

31. Ciao, Carpaccio!: An Infatuation (Pallas Athene Arts, 2016) / Jan Morris
32. Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life (Ecco, 2016) / Joyce Carol Oates
33. Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (W.W. Norton, 2016) / Patrick Phillips
34. The End of Imagination (Haymarket Books, 2016) / Arundhati Roy
35. John Aubrey, My Own Life (New York Review Books, 2016) / Ruth Scurr
36. The Good Immigrant (Unbound, 2016) / Nikesh Shukla (ed.)
37. Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation (William Collins, 2016) / James Stourton
38. American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 (W.W. Norton, 2016) / Alan Taylor
39. The Fortress: A Love Story (Dey Street Books/William Morrow, 2016) / Danielle Trussoni
40. Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 (trans. from the German by Jefferson Chase) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) / Volker Ullrich

41. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (William Collins, 2016) / J.D. Vance