August 2018 Highlights
NOVELS
1. In the Spider’s Room (trans. from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright) (Hoopoe, 2018) / Muhammad Abdelnabi
2. Read Me (Twelve, 2018) / Leo Benedictus
3. So Much Life Left Over (Pantheon, 2018) /Louis de Bernières
4. A Ladder to the Sky (Doubleday, 2018) / John Boyne
5. Perfidious Albion (Faber & Faber, 2018) / Sam Byers
6. Begotten Not Made (Irishtown Press, 2018) / Cónal Creedon
7. The Verdun Affair (Corsair/Little, Brown UK, 2018) / Nick Dybek
8. Washington Black (Serpent’s Tail, 2018) / Esi Edugyan
9. Bitter Orange (Fig Tree, 2018) / Claire Fuller
10. Take Nothing With You (Tinder Press, 2018) / Patrick Gale
11. The Hazards of Good Fortune (Europa Editions, 2018) / Seth Greenland
12. Rust & Stardust (St Martin’s Press, 2018) / T. Greenwood
13. Beirut Hellfire Society (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2018)/ Rawi Hage
14. The Mystery of Three Quarters (HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2018) / Sophie Hannah
15. The Cage (Text Publishing, 2018) / Lloyd Jones
16. The Line That Held Us (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2018) / David Joy
17. The End (trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett & Martin Aitken) (Harvill Secker, 2018) / Karl Ove Knausgaard
18. People in the Room (trans. from the Spanish by Charlotte Whittle) (And Other Stories, 2018) / Norah Lange
19. An Unwanted Guest (Viking, 2018) / Shari Lapena
20. The Necessary Marriage (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018) / Elisa Lodato
21. Learning to Die (Scribe UK, 2018) / Thomas Maloney
22. Conscience (Pegasus, 2018) / Alice Mattison
23. Broken Ground (Little, Brown, 2018) / Val McDermid
24. Praise Songs for the Butterflies (Akashic Books, 2018) / Bernice L. McFadden
25. Now We Shall Be Entirely Free (Sceptre, 2018) / Andrew Miller
26. Becoming Belle (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2018) / Nuala O’Connor
27. Night Soil (Soho Press, 2018) / Dale Peck
28. The Air You Breathe (Riverhead Books, 2018) / Frances de Pontes Peebles
29. Mr Godley’s Phantom (David Fickling, 2018) / Mal Peet
30. Normal People (Faber & Faber, 2018) / Sally Rooney
31. The Shakespeare Requirement (Doubleday, 2018) / Julie Schumacher
32. The Court Dancer (trans. from the Korean by Anton Hur) (Pegasus, 2018) / Kyung-Sook Shin
34. Women Talking (Faber & Faber, 2018) / Miriam Toews
35. Flights (trans. from the Polish by Jennifer Croft) (Riverhead Books, 2018) / Olga Tokarczuk
36. Kismet (Little, Brown, 2018) / Luke Tredget
37. Grace’s Day (Apollo, 2018) / William Wall
FIRST NOVELS
1. The Litten Path (Salt, 2018) / James Clarke
2. Housegirl (published in Great Britain as Hold by 4th Estate) (Picador USA, 2018) / Michael Donkor
3. Horse (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018) / Talley English
4. Sight (Hogarth, 2018) / Jessie Greengrass
6. If You Leave Me (William Morrow, 2018) / Crystal Hana Kim
7. Severance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018) / Ling Ma
8. Ohio (Simon & Schuster, 2018) / Stephen Markley
9. Future Popes of Ireland (4th Estate, 2019) / Darragh Martin
10. Where the Crawdads Sing (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2018) / Delia Owens
12. The Distance Home (Random House, 2018) / Paula Saunders
STORIES
1. Certain American States (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018) / Catherine Lacey
2. Notes from the Fog (Alfred A. Knopf/Granta Books, 2018) / Ben Marcus
3. Other People’s Love Affairs (Algonquin Books, 2018) / D. Wystan Owen
4. Heads of the Colored People (Chatto & Windus, 2018) / Nafissa Thompson-Spires
5. Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine (Ecco, 2018) / Kevin Wilson
POETRY
1. Be With (New Directions, 2018) / Forrest Gander
2. Feel Free (Faber & Faber, 2018) / Nick Laird
3. The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) / Ada Limón
4. Against the Clock (The Gallery Press, 2018) / Derek Mahon
5. Playtime (Jonathan Cape, 2018) / Andrew McMillan
NONFICTION
1. The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity (Liveright, 2018) / Kwame Anthony Appiah
2. The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire (Graywolf Press/Chatto & Windus, 2018) / Deborah Baker
3. Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction (Random House, 2018) / Joshua Cohen
4. Where Shall We Run To?: A Memoir (4th Estate, 2018) / Alan Garner
5. All the Colors We Will See: Reflections on Barriers, Brokenness, and Finding Our Way (Thomas Nelson, 2018) / Patrice Gopo
6. Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road (Dey Street Books/HarperCollins, 2018) / Kate Harris
7. All Among the Barley (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018) / Melissa Harrison
8. Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths (Jonathan Cape, 2018) / Charlotte Higgins
9. The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination (Yale University Press, 2018) / Robert Holland
10. De Gaulle (first published in the U.K. as A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle) (The Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2018 / Julian Jackson
11. Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 (Allen Lane, 2018) / Ian Kershaw
12. Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East (Viking/Penguin Random House, 2018) / David D. Kirkpatrick
13. Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan (W.W. Norton, 2018) / Ruby Lal
14. Viceroys: The Creation of the British (Constable, 2018) / Christopher Lee
15. Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World (Pegasus, 2018) / Julio Crespo MacLennan
16. Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History (Zed Books, 2018) / Nur Masalha
17. All Happy Families: A Memoir (Harper Wave, 2018) / Jeanne McCulloch
18. Between Eternities and Other Writings (Vintage, 2018) / Javier Marías
19. Poverty Safari (Picador, 2018) / Darren McGarvey
20. Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups (Profile Books, 2018) / William Miller
21. Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World (Chatto & Windus, 2018) / Peter Moore
22. Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness (Harvill Secker, 2018) / Tim Parks
23. Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry (edited and with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert) (W.W. Norton, 2018) / Adrienne Rich
24. Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island (Dey Street Books, 2018) / Earl Swift
25. Empress: Queen Victoria and India (Yale University Press, 2018) / Miles Taylor
26. Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Journey Without End (Head of Zeus, 2018) / Ian Thomson
27. A Life of My Own (Penguin Press, 2018) / Claire Tomalin
28. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (Allen Lane/Viking, 2018) / Adam Tooze
29. The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found (Fig Tree/Penguin, 2018) / Bart van Es
30. Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929) (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018) / Jean Moorcroft Wilson
31. Can You Tolerate This?: Essays (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018) / Ashleigh Young