July 2018 Highlights

NOVELS
1. Give Me Your Hand (Little, Brown, 2018) / Megan Abbott
2. The Occasional Virgin (trans. from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham) (Pantheon, 2018) / Hanan Al-Shaykh
3. Brother (Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2018) / David Chariandy
4. The Last Cruise (Doubleday, 2018) / Kate Christensen
5. So Much Life Left Over (Harvill Secker, 2018) / Louis de Bernières
6. A Long Island Story (Canongate Books, 2018) / Rick Gekoski
7. A Terrible Country (Viking, 2018) / Keith Gessen
8. The Dying of the Light (Harper, 2018) / Robert Goolrick
9. The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna (Ballantine Books, 2018) / C.W. Gortner
10. The Story of a Marriage (trans. from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin) (Hogarth Press, 2018) / Geir Gulliksen

11. The Water Thief (Oneworld, 2018) / Claire Hajaj
12. The Mere Wife (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018) / Maria Dahvana Headley
13. An Untouched House (trans. from the Dutch by David Colmer) (Pushkin Press, 2018) / William Frederik Hermans
14. The Electric (John Murray, 2018) / Edward Hogan
15. Country (John Murray, 2018) / Michael Hughes
16. Bone Deep (Polygon, 2018) / Sandra Ireland
17. This Mortal Boy (Penguin Books New Zealand, 2018) / Fiona Kidman
18. Immigrant, Montana (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018) / Amitava Kumar
19. An Unwanted Guest (Bantam Press, 2018) / Shari Lapena
20. Half Moon Bay (Scribner, 2018) / Alice LaPlante

21. Too Much Lip (University of Queensland Press, 2018) / Melissa Lucashenko
22. Feast Days (4th Estate, 2018) / Ian MacKenzie
23. The Great Believers (Fleet, 2018) / Rebecca Makkai
24. The Garden Party (Random House, 2018) / Grace Dane Mazur
25. My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Penguin Press, 2018) / Ottessa Moshfegh
26. Convenience Store Woman (trans. from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori) (Portobello Books, 2018) / Sayaka Murata
27. Spinning Silver (Macmillan/Del Rey, 2018) / Naomi Novik
28. Sins as Scarlet (Michael Joseph, 2018) / Nicolás Obregón
29. Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel (Hogarth Press, 2018) / Lawrence Osborne
30. Our Friends in Berlin (Jonathan Cape, 2018) / Anthony Quinn

31. Eagle & Crane (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2018) / Suzanne Rindell
32. Careless Love (Hodder & Stoughton, 2018) / Peter Robinson
33. The Disappearing (Dutton, 2018) / Lori Roy
34. From a Low and Quiet Sea (Penguin Books USA, 2018) / Donal Ryan
35. The Tempest (trans. from the Swedish by Anna Paterson) (Faber & Faber, 2018) / Steve Sem-Sandberg
36. The Great Level (Chatto & Windus, 2018) / Stella Tillyard
37. Clock Dance (Alfred A. Knopf/Chatto & Windus, 2018) / Anne Tyler
38. Little Eve (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018) / Catriona Ward
39. The New Inheritors (Grove Press, 2018) / Kent Wascom
40. The House of Shadows (Orion, 2018) / Kate Williams

41. The Family Tabor (Flatiron Books, 2018) / Cherise Wolas
42. The Day the Sun Died (trans. from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas) (Chatto & Windus, 2018) / Yan Lianke
43. Putney (Bloomsbury Circus, 2018) / Sofka Zinovieff

FIRST NOVELS
1. Pretend I’m Dead (Oneworld Publications, 2018) / Jen Beagin
2. Hold (published in the U.S. as Housegirl by Picador USA) (4th Estate, 2018) / Michael Donkor
3. Inappropriation (Ecco, 2018) / Lexi Freiman
4. The Boatbuilder (McSweeney’s, 2018) / Daniel Gumbiner
5. Everything Under (Jonathan Cape, 2018) / Daisy Johnson
6. The Incendiaries (Riverhead Books, 2018) / R.O. Kwon
7. Early Work (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018) / Andrew Martin
8. Find You in the Dark (Atria Books, 2018) / Nathan Ripley
9. Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday, 2018) / Ingrid Rojas Contreras
10. Testament (Riverrun, 2018) / Kim Sherwood

11. What We Were Promised (Little, Brown, 2018) / Lucy Tan
12. Bottled Goods (Fairlight Books, 29018) / Sophie van Llewyn

STORIES
1. Elsewhere, Home (Telegram Books, 2018) / Leila Aboulela
2. How to Love a Jamaican (Ballantine Books, 2018) / Alexia Arthurs
3. Perfect Conditions (Curbside Splendor Publishing, 2018) / Vanessa Blakeslee
4. Days of Awe (Granta Books, 2018) / A.M. Homes
5. The Pre-War House and Other Stories (Biblioasis, 2018) / Alison Moore
6. The Dark Dark (FSG Originals, 2018) / Samantha Hunt

POETRY
1. Fondue (Offord Road, 2018) / A.K. Blakemore
2. The New Testament (Picador/Pan Macmillan, 2018) / Jericho Brown
3. House of Lords and Commons (Faber & faber, 2018) / Ishion Hutchinson

4. Us (Faber & Faber, 2018) / Zaffar Kunial
5. Between Mountain and Sea: Poems from Assynt (ed. Roderick Watson) (Polygon, 2018) / Norman MacCaig
6. The Distal Point (HappenStance, 2018) / Fiona Moore

NONFICTION
1. The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places (Doubleday, 2018) / William Atkins
2. New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future (Verso Books, 2018) / James Bridle
3. Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America’s Forgotten Border (W.W. Norton, 2018) / Porter Fox
4. A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) / Donald Hall
5. The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (Tim Duggan Books/William Collins, 2018) / Michiko Kakutani
6. Another Kyoto (Penguin, 2018) / Alex Kerr (with Kathy Arlyn Sokol)
7. Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan (W.W. Norton, 2018) / Ruby Lal
8. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018) / Deborah Levy
9. Making Oscar Wilde (Oxford University Press, 2018) / Michèle Mendelssohn
10. Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why It Matters (Allen Lane, 2018) / Jesse Norman

11. Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness (Harvill Secker, 2018) / Tim Parks
12. Notes to Self: Essays (Tramp Press, 2018) / Emilie Pine
13. What to Read and Why (Harper, 2018) / Francine Prose
14. Calypso (Little, Brown, 2018) / David Sedaris
15. Human Relations and Other Difficulties (Profile Books, 2018) / Mary-Kay Wilmers
16. Can You Tolerate This!: Essays (Riverhead Books, 2018) / Ashleigh Young