February 2017 Highlights

NOVELS
1. The Fatal Tree (Sceptre, 2017) / Jake Arnott
2. A Line Made by Walking (Tramp Press/William Heinemann, 2017) / Sara Baume
3. The Sleepwalker (Doubleday, 2017) / Chris Bohjalian
4. The Heart’s Invisible Furies (Doubleday, 2017) / John Boyne
5. Ashland & Vine (Jonathan Cape, 2017) / John Burnside
6. The Stolen Child (Harper Perennial, 2017) / Lisa Carey
7. The Dark Flood Rises (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / Margaret Drabble
8. Shadowbahn (Blue Rider Press, 2017) / Steve Erickson
9. The Doll Funeral (Faber & Faber, 2017) / Kate Hamer
10. The Typewriter’s Tale (St Martin’s Press, 2017) / Michiel Heyns

11. The House at Bishopgate (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) / Katie Hickman

12. Running (Simon & Schuster, 2017) / Cara Hoffman
13. The Evening Road (Little, Brown, 2017) / Laird Hunt
14. The Orphan’s Tale (MIRA, 2017) / Pam Jenoff
15. Carnivalesque (Bloomsbury Circus, 2017) / Neil Jordan
16. The Good People (Picador, 2017) / Hannah Kent
17. A Separation (Riverhead Books, 2017) / Katie Kitamura
18. A Piece of the World (William Morrow, 2017) / Christina Baker Kline
19. The Draughtsman (The Borough Press, 2017) / Robert Lautner
20. Pachinko (Grand Central Publishing/Apollo, 2017) / Min Jin Lee

21. The Blot (published in U.S. as A Gambler’s Anatomy) (Jonathan Cape, 2017) / Jonathan Lethem
22. On Turpentine Lane (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) / Elinor Lipman
23. The News from the End of the World (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) / Emily Jeanne Miller
24. Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (trans. from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra) (Pushkin Press, 2017) / Dorthe Nors
25. A Book of American Martyrs (Ecco, 2017) / Joyce Carol Oates
26. The Woman Next Door (Picador, 2017) / Yewande Omotoso
27. The Lonely Hearts Hotel (Riverhead Books/Riverrun, 2017) / Heather O’Neill
28. The Blue Hour (Counterpoint Press, 2017) / Laura Pritchett
29. First Love (Granta Books, 2017) / Gwendoline Riley
30. Son of a Trickster (Knopf Canada, 2017) / Eden Robinson

31. Windy City Blues (Berkley/Penguin Random House, 2017) / Renée Rosen
32. The Chosen Ones (trans. from the Swedish by Anna Paterson) (Faber & Faber, 2017) / Steve Sem-Sandberg
33. Three Daughters of Eve (Viking, 2017) / Elif Shafak
34. Ghachar Ghochar (trans. from the Kannada by Srinath Perur) (Penguin Books, 2017) / Vivek Shanbhag
35. The One Inside (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Sam Shepard
36. Autumn (Pantheon, 2017) / Ali Smith
37. A Gentleman in Moscow (Hutchinson, 2017) / Amor Towles

FIRST NOVELS
1. Under the Harrow (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017) / Flynn Berry
2. Sealskin (Orenda, 2017) / Su Bristow
3. Harmless Like You (W.W. Norton, 2017) / Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
4. This Living and Immortal Thing (Granta Books, 2017) / Austin Duffy

5. My Sister’s Bones (Penguin, 2017) / Nuala Ellwood
6. Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars (Harper, 2017) / Miranda Emmerson
7. History of Wolves (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017) / Emily Fridlund
8. Darke (Canongate Books, 2017) / Rick Gekoski
9. The Keeper of Lost Things (William Morrow, 2017) / Ruth Hogan
10. We Were the Lucky Ones (Viking, 2017) / Georgia Hunter

11. Eyes Like Mine (published as The Lost Ones by William Morrow in the U.S.) (Zaffre, 2017) / Sheena Kamal
12. The End of Eddy (trans. from the French by Michael Lucey) (Harvill Secker, 2017) / Édouard Louis
13. Behold the Dreamers (Fourth Estate, 2017) / Imbolo Mbue
14. Under the Almond Tree (Two Roads, 2017) / Laura McVeigh
15. Blue Light Yokohama (Michael Joseph, 2017) / Nicolás Obregón
16. The Lucky Ones (Faber & Faber, 2017) / Julianne Pachico
17. The Weight of Him (St Martin’s Press, 2017) / Ethel Rohan
18. Flesh and Bone and Water (Viking, 2017) / Luiza Sauma
19. Lincoln in the Bardo (Random House, 2017) / George Saunders
20. Kruso (trans. from the German by Tess Lewis) (Scribe UK, 2017) / Lutz Seiler

21. Barren Island (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2017) / Carol Zoref

STORIES
1. Things We Lost in the Fire (trans. from the Spanish by Megan McDowell) (Hogarth Press, 2017) / Mariana Enríquez
2. Norse Mythology (Bloomsbury Publishing/W.W. Norton, 2017) / Neil Gaiman
3. The Doll’s Alphabet (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017) / Camilla Grudova
4. The Refugees (Grove Press, 2017) / Viet Thanh Nguyen
5. The Lucky Ones (Faber & Faber, 2017) / Julianne Pachico
6. The World to Come (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Jim Shepard
7. The Dark and Other Love Stories (W.W. Norton, 2017) / Deborah Willis

POETRY
1. Stranger, Baby (Faber & Faber, 2017) / Emily Berry
2. Still Life with Feeding Snake (Jonathan Cape, 2017) / John Burnside
3. Whereas (W.W. Norton, 2017) / Stephen Dunn
4. The Book of Endings (University of Akron Press, 2017) / Leslie Harrison
5. New Selected Poems (ed. Katie Peterson) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / Robert Lowell
6. I Am Flying Into Myself: Selected Poems, 1960-2014 (ed. Thomas Lux) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / Bill Knott
7. Poems 1980-2015 (New Island Books, 2017) / Michael O’Loughlin
8. A Herring Famine (Chatto & Windus, 2017) / Adam O’Riordan
9. Sun & Urn (The University of Georgia Press, 2017) / Christopher Salerno
10. Incendiary Art (Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2017) / Patricia Smith

NONFICTION
1. The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border (Faber & Faber, 2017) / Garrett Carr
2. Blood & Faith: The Purge of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614 (C. Hurst & Co., 2017) / Matthew Carr
3. Fathers & Sons: A Memoir (Picador, 2017) / Howard Cunnell
4. Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2017) / Eamon Duffy
5. Materialism (Yale University Press, 2017) / Terry Eagleton
6. Lines in the Sand: Collected Journalism (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017) / A.A. Gill
7. Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love (Harper, 2017) / Brad Gooch
8. Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953 (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017) / Simon Ings
9. We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie (W.W. Norton, 2017) / Noah Isenberg
10. Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Kay Redfield Jamison

11. Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Granta Books, 2017) / Kapka Kassabova
12. Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) / Megan Marshall
13. Self-Portrait with Dogwood (Trinity University Press, 2017) / Christopher Merrill
14. Age of Anger: A History of the Present (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / Pankaj Mishra
15. Black and British: A Forgotten History (Pan Books, 2021) / David Olusoga

16. Animals Strike Curious Poses (Sarabande Books, 2017) / Elena Passarello
17. The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia (trans. from the Russian by Anna Summers) (Penguin Books, 2017) / Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
18. Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917: A World on the Edge (St Martin’s Press, 2017) / Helen Rappaport
19. Deaths of the Poets (Jonathan Cape, 2017) / Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts
20. Rulers, Religion and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not (Cambridge University Press, 2017) / Jared Rubin

21. The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance (trans. from the Swedish by Henning Koch) (Viking, 2017) / Anders Rydell
22. On Human Nature (Princeton University Press, 2017) / Roger Scruton
23. Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017) / Victor Sebestyen
24. The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution (Macmillan, 2017) / Robert Service
25. Other People: Takes & Mistakes (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / David Shields
26. The Wild Other: A Memoir (Hodder & Stoughton, 2017) / Clover Stroud
27. Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel (W.W. Norton, 2017) / John Stubbs
28. The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners (Penguin, 2017) / Margaret Visser