Friday, June 01, 2018

June 2018 Highlights

NOVELS
1. Celestial Bodies (trans. from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth) (Sandstone Press, 2018) / Jokha Alharthi
2. The Occasional Virgin (trans. from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham) (Bloomsbury Circus, 208) / Hanan Al-Shaykh
3. Mad Boy (Europa Editions, 2018) / Nick Arvin
4. The Revenge of the Non-Vegetarian (Speaking Tiger, 2018) / Upamanyu Chatterjee
5. Little Green (HarperCollins, 2018) / Tish Cohen
6. After the Party (Viking, 2018) / Cressida Connolly
7. The Melody (Nan A. Talese, 2018) / Jim Crace
8. The Puppet Show (Constable, 2018) / M.W. Craven
9. Kudos (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018) / Rachel Cusk
10. The Verdun Affair (Scribner, 2018 / Nick Dybek

11. Old Baggage (Doubleday, 2018) / Lissa Evans
12. The Poison Bed (Michael Joseph, 2018) / Elizabeth Fremantle
13. In the Distance With You (trans. from the Spanish by John Cullen) (Other Press, 2018) / Carla Guelfenbein
14. Jar of Hearts (Minotaur, 2018) / Jennifer Hiller
15. Our Homesick Songs (Fig Tree, 2018) / Emma Hooper
16. Southernmost (Algonquin Books, 2018) / Silas House
17. Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile (Unbound, 2018) / Alice Jolly
18. Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon (Peepal Tree Press, 2018) / Anthony Joseph
19. The Mars Room (Jonathan Cape, 2018) / Rachel Kushner
20. History of Violence (trans. from the French by Lorin Stein) (Harvill Secker/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018) / Édouard Louis

21. The Great Believers (Viking, 2018) / Rebecca Makkai
22. A Weekend in New York (Faber & Faber, 2018) / Benjamin Markovits
23. The Quaker (HarperCollins, 2018) / Liam McIlvanney
24. Love and Ruin (Fleet, 2108) / Paula McLain
25. Convenience Store Woman (trans. from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori) (Grove Press, 2018) / Sayaka Murata
26. Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (trans. from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra) (Graywolf Press, 2018) / Dorthe Nors
27. Lying in Wait (Gallery/Scout Press, 2018) / Liz Nugent
28. Warlight (Jonathan Cape, 2018) / Michael Ondaatje
29. Lucia (Galley Beggar Press, 2018) / Alex Pheby
30. A View of the Empire at Sunset (Vintage, 2018) / Caryl Phillips

31. Visible Empire (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) / Hannah Pittard
32. Firefly (Quercus, 2018) / Henry Porter
33. Shadow Child (Grand Central Publishing, 2018) / Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
34. All the Lives We Never Lived (MacLehose Press, 2018) / Anuradha Roy
35. The Removes (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018) / Tatjana Soli
36. The Last Children of Tokyo (trans. from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani) (Portobello Books, 2018) / Yoko Tawada
37. Never Anyone But You (Corsair/Other Press, 2018) / Rupert Thomson
38. The Secrets Between Us (Harper, 2018) / Thrity Umrigar
39. The Death of Mrs Westaway (Harvill Secker, 2018) / Ruth Ware
40. The Shepherd’s Hut (Picador, 2018) / Tim Winton

41. A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better (Simon & Schuster UK, 2018) / Benjamin Wood
42. Upstate (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018) / James Wood

FIRST NOVELS
1. Daphne (Liveright, 2018) / Will Boast
2. Social Creature (Doubleday/Raven Books, 2018) / Tara Isabella Burton
3. The Tyranny of Lost Things (Sandstone Press, 2018) / Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
4. Small Country (trans. from the French by Sarah Ardizzone) (Hogarth, 2018) / Gaël Faye
5. Swan Song (Hutchinson, 2018) / Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
6. Only Killers and Thieves (Pushkin Press, 2018) / Paul Howarth
7. Orchid and the Wasp (Oneworld Publications, 2018) / Caoilinn Hughes
8. The Concubine’s Child (Head of Zeus, 2018) / Carol Jones
9. Crudo (Picador, 2018) / Olivia Laing
10. Number One Chinese Restaurant (Henry Holt, 2018) / Lillian Li

11. An Ocean of Minutes (Quercus, 2018) / Thea Lim
12. Devoured (Propolis, 2018) / Anna Mackmin
13. Bearskin (Ecco, 2018) / James A. McLaughlin
14. A Place for Us (SJP/Hogarth, 2018) / Fatima Farheen Mizra
15. There There (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018) / Tommy Orange
16. Find You in the Dark (Atria Books, 2018) / Nathan Ripley
17. Confessions of the Fox (One World, 2018) / Jordy Rosenberg
18. House of Stone (Atlantic Books, 2018) / Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

STORIES
1. Perfect Conditions (Curbside Splendor, 2018) / Vanessa Blakeslee
2. The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis (trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson) (Liveright, 2018) / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
3. Some Trick: Thirteen Stories (W.W. Norton, 2018) / Helen DeWitt
4. We Don’t Live Here Anymore: Collected Short Stories and Novellas (David R. Godine, 2018) / Andre Dubus
5. The Winter Father: Collected Short Stories and Novellas (David R. Godine, 2018) / Andre Dubus
6. Girl, Balancing and Other Stories (Hutchinson, 2018) / Helen Dunmore
7. How the Light Gets In (Influx Press, 2018 / Clare Fisher
8. Florida (Riverhead/William Heinemann, 2018) / Lauren Groff
9. Days of Awe (Viking, 2018) / A.M. Homes
10. Half Gods (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018) / Akil Kumarasamy

11. Fight No More (W.W. Norton, 2018) / Lydia Millet
12. Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense (Mysterious Press, 2018) / Joyce Carol Oates
13. Good Trouble (4th Estate, 2018) / Joseph O’Neill
14. Kolyma Stories (trans. from the Russian by Donald Rayfield) (NYRB Classics, 2018) / Varlam Shalamov
15. Sweet and Low (Blue Rider Press, 2018) / Nick White

POETRY
1. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Books, 2018) / Terrance Hayes
2. Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press, 2018) / Allison Joseph
3. Quarrels (Anvil Press, 2018) / Eve Joseph

NONFICTION
1. The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places (Faber & Faber, 2018) / William Atkins
2. Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession (William Morrow, 2018) / Alice Bolin
3. The Wrong Country: Essays on Modern Irish Writing (Irish Academic Press, 2018) / Gerald Dawe
4. The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History (Allen Lane, 2018) / David Edgerton
5. Returning to Reims (trans. from the French by Michael Lucey) (Allen Lane, 2018) / Didier Eribon
6. The Years (trans. from the French by Alison L. Strayer) (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018) / Annie Ernaux
7. City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir (riverrun, 2018) / Paul French
8. I Will Be Complete: A Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf/Sceptre, 2018) / Glen David Gold
9. Near-Death Experiences ... and Others (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018) / Robert Gottlieb
10. Reporter: A Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf/Allen Lane, 2018) / Seymour M. Hersh

11. The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life (Macmillan, 2018) / Henry Hitchings
12. Facts and Fiction: A Book of Storytelling (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018) / Michael Holroyd
13. Call Me American: A Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018) / Abdi Nor Iftin (with Max Alexander)
14. A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle (Allen Lane, 2018 / Julian Jackson
15. Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, 2018) / Konrad H. Jarausch
16. The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain (Chatto & Windus, 2018) / Damian Le Bas
17. The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s Well-being (Allen Lane, 2018) / Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
18. The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family (St Martin’s Press, 2018) / Helen Rappaport
19. How Democracy Ends (Basic Books, 2018) / David Runciman
20. In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein (Pegasus, 2018) / Fiona Sampson

21. Why to Kill a Mockingbird Matters: What Harper Lee’s Book and the Iconic American Film Mean to Us Today (St Martin’s Press, 2018) / Tom Santopietro
22. The Crossway (Picador, 2018) / Guy Stagg
23. In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England (Yale University Press, 2018) / Keith Thomas
24. The 100 Best Novels in Translation (Galileo, 2018) / Boyd Tonkin
25. The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018) / Edmund White
26. Empire of Enchantment: The Story of Indian Magic (published in India as Jadoowallahs, Jugglers and Jinns: A Magical History of India by Pan Macmillan India) (Hurst, 2018) / John Zubrzycki