May 2017 Highlights

NOVELS
1. Love Me Not (Michael Joseph, 2017) / M.J. Arlidge
2. The Night Visitor (Quercus, 2017) / Lucy Atkins
3. Behind the Moon (City Lights Publishers, 2017) / Madison Smartt Bell
4. The 7th Function of Language (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (Harvill Secker, 2017) / Laurent Binet
5. Some Rise by Sin (Henry Holt, 2017) / Philip Caputo
6. New Boy (Hogarth, 2017) / Tracy Chevalier
7. Miss Burma (Grove Press, 2017) / Charmaine Craig
8. The Fortunes (Sceptre, 2017) / Peter Ho Davies
9. The Other Hoffmann Sister (Little, Brown, 2017) / Ben Fergusson
10. There Your Heart Lies (Pantheon, 2017) / Mary Gordon

11. Little Sister (Tin House Books, 2017) / Barbara Gowdy
12. The Early Birds (Quercus, 2017) / Laurie Graham
13. Isadora (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / Amelia Gray
14. Not a Sound (Park Row Books, 2017) / Heather Gudenkauf
15. Gravel Heart (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) / Abdulrazak Gurnah
16. Into the Water (Doubleday/Riverhead Books, 2017) / Paula Hawkins
17. The Children of Jocasta (Mantle, 2017) / Natalie Haynes
18. Frost at Midnight (Bantam Press, 2017) / James Henry
19. The Parable of the Blind (trans. from the German by Christopher Middleton) (Verba Mundi Books, 2017 / Gert Hofmann
20. Need You Dead (Macmillan, 2017) / Peter James

21. When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife (Atlantic Books, 2017) / Meena Kandasamy
22. A Good Country (Bloomsbury USA, 2017) / Laleh Khadivi
23. The Baker’s Secret (William Morrow, 2017) / Stephen P. Kiernan
24. The Nothing (Faber & Faber, 2017) / Hanif Kureishi
25. Rich People Problems (Doubleday, 2017) / Kevin Kwan
26. Broken River (Graywolf Press, 2017) / J. Robert Lennon
27. Before We Sleep (Bloomsbury USA, 2017) / Jeffrey Lent
28. Black Moses (trans. from the French by Helen Stevenson) (The New Press, 2017) / Alain Mabanckou
29. All the Beloved Ghosts (Penguin Canada, 2017) / Alison MacLeod
30. The Wild Air (Hodder & Stoughton, 2017) / Rebecca Mascull

31. ’Round Midnight (Touchstone, 2017) / Laura McBride
32. Inheritance from Mother (trans. from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter) (Other Press, 2017) / Minae Mizumura
33. The Gallows Pole (Bluemoose, 2017) / Benjamin Myers
34. The Ice (4th Estate, 2017) / Laline Paull
35. Music of the Ghosts (Simon & Schuster, 2017) / Vaddey Ratner
36. No One Can Pronounce My Name (Picador USA, 2017) / Rakesh Satyal
37. The Awkward Age (Chatto & Windus/Riverhead Books, 2017) / Francesca Segal
38. Evensong (W.W. Norton, 2017) / Kate Southwood
39. Saints for All Occasions (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / J. Courtney Sullivan
40. Mother Land (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) / Paul Theroux

41. House of Names (Viking/Scribner, 2017) / Colm Tóibín
42. Flights (trans. from the Polish by Jennifer Croft) (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017) / Olga Tokarczuk
43. A Talent for Murder (Simon & Schuster UK, 2017) / Andrew Wilson

FIRST NOVELS
1. Salt Houses (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) / Hala Alyan
2. Sycamore (Harper, 2017) / Bryn Chancellor
3. How to Be Human (Metropolitan Books, 2017) / Paula Cocozza
4. Playing Possum (Aaaargh! Press, 2017) / Kevin Davey
5. Strange Heart Beating (Granta Books, 2017) / Eli Goldstone
6. A Small Revolution (Little A, 2017) / Jimin Han
7. Peculiar Ground (4th Estate, 2017) / Lucy Hughes-Hallett
8. Harvesting (New Island Books, 2017) / Lisa Harding
9. Standard Deviation  (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Katherine Heiny
10. Scarborough (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017) / Catherine Hernandez

11. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (HarperCollins/Viking, 2017) / Gail Honeyman
12. The End We Start From (Picador, 2017) / Megan Hunter
13. All That’s Left to Tell (Picador, 2017) / Daniel Lowe
14. Ginny Moon (Park Row Books, 2017) / Benjamin Ludwig
15. You Don’t Know Me (Michael Joseph, 2017) / Imran Mahmood
16. The Dead House (Brandon/O’Brien Press, 2017) / Billy O’Callaghan
17. See What I Have Done (Tinder Press, 2017) / Sarah Schmidt
18. Mr. Rochester (Grand Central Publishing, 2017) / Sarah Shoemaker
19. Mothers and Other Strangers (Prospect Park Books, 2017) / Gina Sorell
20. Sympathy (One/Pushkin Press, 2017) / Olivia Sudjic

21. State of Emergency (Epigram Books, 2017) / Jeremy Tiang
22. The Color of Our Sky (William Morrow, 2017) / Amita Trasi
23. Spoils (Jonathan Cape, 2017) / Brian Van Reet
24. Chemistry (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Weike Wang

STORIES
1. The Dinner Party (Little, Brown, 2017) / Joshua Ferris
2. Bad Dreams and Other Stories (Harper, 2017) / Tessa Hadley
3. Peculiar Ground (Fourth Estate, 2017) / Lucy Hughes-Hallett
4. Fen (Graywolf Press, 2017) / Daisy Johnson
5. Jane Austen: The Secret Radical (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Helena Kelly
6. We Could’ve Been Happy Here (MG Press, 2017) / Keith Lesmeister
7. All the Beloved Ghosts (Bloomsbury USA, 2016) / Alison MacLeod
8. Men Without Women (trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel & Ted Goossen) (Alfred A. Knopf/Harvill Secker, 2017) / Haruki Murakami
9. Trajectory (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Richard Russo
10. Tender (Small Beer Press, 2017) / Sofia Samatar

POETRY
1. Fast (Ecco, 2017) / Jorie Graham
2. Injury Time (Picador, 2017) / Clive James
3. Before Dawn on Bluff Road: Selected New Jersey Poems/Hollyhocks in the Fog: Selected San Francisco Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / August Kleinzahler
4. Said Not Said (Graywolf Press, 2017) / Fred Marchant
5. On Balance (Carcanet Press, 2017) / Sinéad Morrissey
6. Silage (Indigo Dreams, 2017) / Bethany W. Pope
7. Symphony for Human Transport (Shearsman Books, 2017) / Lisa Samuels
8. Will You Walk a Little Faster? (Bloodaxe Books, 2017) / Penelope Shuttle

NONFICTION
1. Wrestling with His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1849-1856 (Simon & Schuster, 2017) / Sidney Blumenthal
2. Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2017) / David S. Brown
3. I Must Belong Somewhere (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017) / Jonathan Dean
4. Ernest Hemingway: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Mary V. Dearborn
5. Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Claire Dederer
6. Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z (Library of America, 2017) / Jonathan Lethem & Kevin Dettmar (eds.)
7. Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters (Little, Brown, 2017) / Harold Evans
8. Between Them: Remembering My Parents (Ecco/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) / Richard Ford
9. The Mighty Franks: A Memoir (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / Michael Frank
10. The Inky Digit of Defiance: Tony Harrison: Selected Prose 1966-2016 (Faber & Faber, 2017) / Tony Harrison

11. The Catholics: The Church and Its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day (Chatto & Windus, 2017) / Roy Hattersley
12. Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2017) / John Higgs
13. Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs: Selected Prose, 2000-2016 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / August Kleinzahler
14. One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays (Picador, 2017) / Scaachi Koul
15. Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World (Princeton University Press, 2017) / Krishan Kumar
16. Turning: A Swimming Memoir (Virago, 2017) / Jessica J. Lee
17. Passchendaele: A New History (Viking, 2017) / Nick Lloyd
18. Priestdaddy: A Memoir (Riverhead Books/Allen Lane, 2017) / Patricia Lockwood
19. The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Little, Brown, 2017) / Edward Luce
20. Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation (Yale University Press, 2017) / Peter Marshall

21. The History of the Future (Coffee House Press, 2017) / Edward McPherson
22. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (Verso, 2017) / China Míeville
23. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: The Boom in British Thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed (HarperCollins, 2017) / Mike Ripley
24. Goethe: Life as a Work of Art (trans. from the Russian by David Dollenmayer) (Liveright, 2017) / Rüdiger Safranski
25. The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered (Penguin Books, 2017) / Benjamin Taylor
26. The New Book of Snobs: A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery (Constable, 2017) / D.J. Taylor
27. Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation (Harper Perennial, 2017) / Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman (eds.)
28. Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King’s Ransom (Headline Review, 2017) / Alison Weir
29. The Boy Behind the Curtain: Notes from an Australian Life (Picador, 2017) / Tim Winton 30. William Farquhar and Singapore: Stepping Out from Raffles’ Shadow (Entrepôt Publishing, 2017) / Nadia H. Wright