Thursday, February 01, 2018

February 2018 Highlights

NOVELS
1. The Only Story (Jonathan Cape, 2018) / Julian Barnes
2. Consent (Faber & Faber, 2018) / Leo Benedictus
3. White Houses (Random House, 2018) / Amy Bloom
4. A Long Way From Home (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018) / Peter Carey
5. The Coffin Path (Headline Review, 2018) / Katherine Clements
6. The Melody (Picador, 2018) / Jim Crace
7. The Toymakers (Del Rey, 2018) / Robert Dinsdale
8. The Ghost Notebooks (Pantheon, 2018) / Ben Dolnick
9. The Adulterants (Hamish Hamilton, 2018) / Joe Dunthorne
10. Monsieur Ka (Chatto & Windus, 2018) / Vesna Goldsworthy

11. Ghost (Fledgling Press, 2018) / Helen Grant
12. The Dark Angel (Quercus, 2018) / Elly Griffiths
13. The Great Alone (St Martin’s Press/Macmillan, 2018) / Kristin Hannah
14. Force of Nature (Little, Brown/Macmillan, 2018) / Jane Harper
15. The Friendly Ones (4th Estate, 2018) / Philip Hensher
16. Where the Dead Sit Talking (Soho Press, 2018) / Brandon Hobson
17. An American Marriage (Algonquin Books, 2018) / Tayari Jones
18. All For Nothing (trans. from the German by Anthea Bell) (New York Review Books, 2018) / Walter Kempowski
19. The Hoarder (Canongate Books, 2018) / Jess Kidd
20. Sunburn (William Morrow, 2018) / Laura Lippman

21. Chicago (Custom House, 2018) / David Mamet
22. The Last of the Greenwoods (Sceptre, 2018) / Clare Morrall
23. Down the River Unto the Sea (Mulholland Books, 2018) / Walter Mosley
24. The Friend (Riverhead Books, 2018) / Sigrid Nunez
25. Love (trans. from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken) (Archipelago Books, 2018) / Hanne Ørstavik
26. Frankenstein in Baghdad (trans. from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright) (Oneworld Publications, 2018) / Ahmed Saadawi
26. The Intrusions (Faber & Faber, 2018) / Stev Sherez
27. The Necessary Angel (Allen & Unwin, 2018) / C.K. Stead
28. An Unsuitable Match (Mantle, 2018) / Joanna Trollope
29. The Neighborhood (trans. from the Spanish by Edith Grossman) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018) / Mario Vargas Llosa
30. Call Me Zebra (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) / Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

31. Don’t Skip Out On Me (Harper Perennial, 2018) / Willy Vlautin

FIRST NOVELS
1. Daphne (Granta Books, 2018) / Will Boast
2. Freshwater (Grove Press, 2018) / Akwaeke Emezi
3. Folk (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018) / Zoe Gilbert
4. Sight (John Murray, 2018) / Jessie Greengrass
5. Asymmetry (Simon & Schuster, 2018) / Lisa Halliday
6. Cocktail Bar (New Island Books, 2018) / Norah Hoult
7. Only Killers and Thieves (Harper, 2018) / Paul Howarth
8. Silence Under a Stone (Doubleday Ireland, 2018) / Norma MacMaster
9 The Sealwoman’s Gift (Two Roads, 2018) / Sally Magnusson
10. The Queen of Hearts (Berkley, 2018) / Kimmery Martin

11. Woman at Sea (Jonathan Cape, 2018) / Catherine Poulain
12. Winter Kept Us Warm (Counterpoint, 2018) / Anne Raeff
13. Find You in the Dark (Simon & Schuster, 2018) / Nathan Ripley
14. Restless Souls (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018) / Dan Sheehan

STORIES
1. The Sea Beast Takes a Lover (Dutton, 2018) / Michael Andreasen
2. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden (Jonathan Cape, 2018) / Denis Johnson
3. Beautiful Days (Ecco, 2018) / Joyce Carol Oates
4. All the Names They Used for God (Spiegel & Grau, 2018) / Anjali Sachdeva
5. My Old Faithful (University of Massachusetts, 2018) / Yang Huang

POETRY
1. Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days (Wesleyan University Press, 2018) / Brenda Hillman
2. The Undressing (W.W. Norton, 2018) / Li-Young Lee
3. The Long Take (Picador, 2018) / Robin Robertson
4. House of Fact, House of Ruin (Graywolf Press, 2018) / Tom Sleigh
5. Bird of Sorrow (Templar Poetry, 2018) / Rachel Spence

NONFICTION
1. The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1986-2017 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018) / Martin Amis
2. These Islands: A Letter To Britain (Haus Publishing, 2018) / Ali M. Ansari
3. The Last Wilderness: A Journey into Silence (Tinder Press, 2018) / Neil Ansell
4. Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018) / John Banville
5. Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 (Viking, 2018) / David Cannadine
6. The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border (Riverhead Books, 2018) / Francisco Cantú
7. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia (Belt Publishing, 2018) / Elizabeth Catte
8. The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures (Random House/Pantheon, 2018) / Antonio Damasio
9. The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History (4th Estate, 2018) / Aida Edemariam
10. The Heart Is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai (Harper, 2018) / Elizabeth Flock

11. Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World (W.W. Norton, 2018) / Joshua B. Freeman
12. A History of Judaism (Princeton University Press, 2018) / Martin Goodman
13. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging (Jonathan Cape, 2018) / Afua Hirsch
14. Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s (Columbia University Press, 2018) / George Hutchinson
15. Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton University Press, 2018) / Robert Irwin
16. Spring (trans. from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey) (illustrated by Anna Bjerger) (Harvill Secker, 2018) / Karl Ove Knausgaard
17. The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order (Allen Lane, 2018) / Bruno Maçães
18. Heart Berries: A Memoir (Counterpoint, 2018) / Terese Marie Mailhot
19. Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind (Harper, 2018) / Michael Massing
20. I Am, I Am, I Am: A Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018) / Maggie O’Farrell

21. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress (Allen Lane/Viking, 2018) / Steven Pinker
22. The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England (Picador, 2018) / Graham Robb
23. What Are We Doing Here?: Essays (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018) / Marilynne Robinson
24. The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing in an Age of Refugees (Graywolf Press, 2018) / Tom Sleigh
25. Feel Free (Hamish Hamilton, 2018) / Zadie Smith
26. Jesus in Asia (Harvard University Press, 2018) / R.S. Sugirtharajah
27. Making an Elephant (Simon & Schuster UK, 2018) / Graham Swift 28. The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (Harvard University Press, 2018) / Beth Lew-Williams