July 2017 Highlights

NOVELS
1. H(a)ppy (William Heinemann, 2017) / Nicola Barker
2. The Destroyers (Scribner UK, 2017) / Christopher Bollen
3. Pages for Her (Counterpoint Press, 2017) / Sylvia Brownrigg
4. Memory and Straw (Luath Press, 2017) / Angus Peter Campbell
5. Moving Kings (Random House, 2017) / Joshua Cohen
6. The Party (4th Estate, 2017) / Elizabeth Day
7. After She Vanished (Hachette Books Ireland, 2017) / S.A. Dunphy
8. You’ll Never Know, Dear (William Morrow, 2017) / Hallie Ephron
9. The Last Laugh (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / Lynn Freed
10. Nature and Necessity (Repeater, 2017) / Tariq Goddard

11. Less (Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown, 2017) / Andrew Sean Greer
12. A Catalog of Birds (Europa Editions, 2017) / Laura Harrington
13. The House at Water’s End (Berkley, 2017) / Patti Callahan Henry
14. Devastation Road (Little, Brown, 2017) / Jason Hewitt
15. The Goddesses (Doubleday, 2017) / Swan Huntley
16. The Almost Sisters (William Morrow, 2017) / Joshilyn Jackson
17. The Music Shop (Doubleday/Random House, 2017) / Rachel Joyce
18. Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (trans. from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker) (Pushkin Press, 2017) / Eka Kurniawan
19. Grace (Little, Brown, 2017) / Paul Lynch
20. Under the Sun (Picador, 2017) / Lottie Moggach

21. Like a Fading Shadow (trans. from the Spanish by Camilo A. Ramirez) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / Antonio Muñoz Molina
22. A State of Freedom (Chatto & Windus, 2017) / Neel Mukherjee
23. Refuge (Riverhead Books, 2017) / Dina Nayeri
24. My Heart Hemmed In (trans. from the French by Jordan Stump) (Two Lines Press, 2017) / Marie NDiaye
25. Infinite Summer (trans. from the Italian by Alice Kilgarriff) (Other Press, 2017) / Edoardo Nesi
26. Beautiful Animals (Hogarth, 2017) / Lawrence Osborne
27. The Breakdown (St Martin’s Press, 2017) / B.A. Paris
28. Fierce Kingdom (Viking, 2017) / Gin Phillips
29. The Bedlam Stacks (Bloomsbury Circus, 2017) / Natasha Pulley
30. Eureka (Jonathan Cape, 2017) / Anthony Quinn

31. To Die in Spring (trans. from the German by Shaun Whiteside) (Picador, 2017) / Ralf Rothmann
32. Careers for Women (Little, Brown, 2017) / Joanna Scott
33. Everybody’s Son (Harper, 2017) / Thrity Umrigar
34. The Lying Game (Gallery/Scout Press, 2017) / Ruth Ware
35. Tin Man (Tinder Press, 2017) / Sarah Winman
36. Telling Time (Atlantic Books, 207) / Austin Wright

FIRST NOVELS
1. What We Lose (Viking/4th Estate, 2017) / Zinzi Clemmons
2. The End (trans. from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin) (Restless Books, 2017) / Fernanda Entrekin
3. The Last Man in Europe (Black Inc., 2017) / Dennis Glover
4. The Haunting of Henry Twist (Serpent’s Tail, 2017) / Rebecca F. John
5. The Lost Ones (published as Eyes Like Mine by William Morrow in the U.S.) (William Morrow, 2017) / Sheena Kamal
6. Goodbye, Vitamin (Henry Holt, 2017) / Rachel Khong
7. An Ocean of Minutes (You cystine, 2018) / Thea Lim
8. How Saints Die (Harvill Secker, 2017) / Carmen Marcus
9. Gather the Daughters (Tinder Press, 2017) / Jennie Melamed
10. The Upstairs Room (Picador, 2017) / Kate Murray-Browne

11. South Pole Station (Picador, 2017) / Ashley Shelby
12. Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile (Wrecking Ball Press, 2017) / Adelle Stripe
13. The Cure for Lonely (Freight Books, 2017) / Jessica Thummel
14. Can You Hear Me? (trans. from the Italian by Alex Valente) (Two Roads, 2017) / Elena Varvello
15. When the English Fall (Algonquin Books, 2017) / David Williams

STORIES
1. The Greybar Hotel (Scribner, 2017) / Curtis Dawkins
2. Madame Zero (Faber & Faber, 2017) / Sarah Hall
3. The Dark Dark (FSG Originals, 2017) / Samantha Hunt
4. Come Let Us Sing Anyway (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) / Leone Ross
5. A Life of Adventure and Delight (W.W. Norton, 2017) / Akhil Sharma

POETRY
1. The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx (Carcanet Press, 2017) / Tara Bergin
2. In These Days of Prohibition (Carcanet Press, 2017) / Caroline Bird
3. Selected Poems (ed. Clive Wilmer) (Faber & Faber, 2017) / Thom Gunn
4. Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) / Shivanee Ramlochan
5. Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf Press, 2017) / Erika L. Sánchez
6. Seasonal Disturbances (Carcanet Press, 2017) / Karen McCarthy Woolf

NONFICTION
1. The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II (trans. from the Russian by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky) (Penguin Classics/Random House, 2017) / Svetlana Alexievich
2. Blind Spot (Faber & Faber, 2017) / Teju Cole
3. The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story (Graywolf Press, 2017) / Edwidge Danticat
4. Emigrants: Why the English Sailed to the New World (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017) / James Evans
5. As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Birds & Books (Corsair, 2017) / Alex Preston & Neil Gower
6. Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / Sujatha Gidla
7. American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land (Liveright, 2017) / Monica Hesse
8. Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017) / John Higgs
9. Rising Tide, Falling Star (4th Estate, 2017) / Philip Hoare
10. The Traitors: A True Story of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit (John Murray, 2017) / Josh Ireland

11. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Bodley Head, 2017) / Ibram X. Kendi
12. The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing (Tin House Books, 2017) / Margot Livesey
13. On Trails: An Exploration (Simon & Schuster, 2017) / Robert Moor
14. Criminals: Essays (Counterpoint Press, 2017) / Robert Anthony Siegel
15. David Malouf and the Poetic: His Earlier Writings (Cambria Press, 2017) / Yvonne Smith
16. Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe (W.W. Norton, 2017) / Inara Verzemnieks
17. Henry David Thoreau: A Life (The University of Chicago Press, 2017) / Laura Dassow Walls
18. Sugar: The World Corrupted, From Slavery to Obesity (Robinson, 2017) / James Walvin