Friday, December 01, 2017

December 2017 Highlights

NOVELS
1. In the Fall They Come Back (Bloomsbury USA, 2017) / Robert Bausch
2. Ultraluminous (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / Katherine Faw
3. One Station Away (Ecco Press, 2017) / Olaf Olafsson
4. Three Daughters of Eve (Bloomsbury USA, 2017) / Elif Shafak
5. Spy of the First Person (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Sam Shepard

FIRST NOVELS
1. Halsey Street (Little A, 2017) / Naima Coster
2. Goblin (Saraband, 2017) / Ever Dundas
3. An Unremarkable Body (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017) / Elisa Lodato
4. Elmet (Algonquin Books, 2017) / Fiona Mozley

STORIES
1. The Vanishing Princess (Ecco, 2017) / Jenny Diski
2. No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories (trans. from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana) (HarperCollins India, 2017) / Jayant Kaikini
3. The Reservoir Tapes (4th Estate, 2017) / Jon McGregor

POETRY
1. The Complete Poems of A.R. Ammons: Volume 1: 1955-1977 (ed. Robert M. West) (W.W. Norton, 2017) / A.R. Ammons
2. Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (ed. Abel Debritto) (Ecco, 2017) / Charles Bukowski
3. Witch Wife (Sarabande Books, 2017) / Kiki Petrosino

NONFICTION
1. Iran: A Modern History (Yale University Press, 2017) / Abbas Amanat
2. Women & Power: A Manifesto (Liveright, 2017) / Mary Beard
3. Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History (Allen Lane, 2017) / Norman Davies
4. No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) / Ursula K. Le Guin
5. With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial (William Collins, 2017) / Kathryn Mannix
6. Caesar’s Footprints: A Cultural Excursion to Ancient France: Journeys Through Roman Culture (Pegasus, 2017) / Bijan Omrani
7. Hasidism: A New History (Princeton University Press, 2017) / David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv & Marcin Wodziński