February 2019 Highlights

NOVELS
1. Sea Monsters (Chatto & Windus/Catapult, 2019) / Chloe Aridjis
2. The Hundred Wells of Salaga (Other Press, 2019) / Ayesha Harruna Attah
3. Leading Men (Viking, 2019) / Christopher Castellani
4. Friend of My Youth (New York Review Books, 2019) / Amit Chaudhuri
5. The Night Tiger (Quercus/Flatiron Books, 2018) / Yangsze Choo
6. Woman of the Ashes (trans. from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw) (World Editions, 2019) / Mia Couto
7. Happening (trans. from the French by Tanya Leslie) (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019) / Annie Ernaux
8. The Wych Elm (Viking, 2019) / Tana French
9. Blood (Fentum Press, 2019) / Maggie Gee
10. The Peacock Feast (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019) / Lisa Gornick

11. The Stone Circle (Quercus, 2019) / Elly Griffiths
12. Late in the Day (Jonathan Cape, 2019) / Tessa Hadley
13. The White Book (trans. from the Korean by Deborah Smith) (Hogarth, 2019) / Han Kang
14. The Lost Man (Flatiron Books/Little, Brown, 2019) / Jane Harper
15. Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Riverhead Books/Hamish Hamilton, 2019) / Marlon James
16. Death Is Hard Work (trans. from the Arabic by Leri Price) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019) / Khaled Khalifa
17. Victory (Jonathan Cape, 2019) / James Lasdun
18. Where Reasons End (Random House/Hamish Hamilton, 2019) / Yiyun Li
19. We Must be Brave (4th Estate, 2019) / Frances Liardet
20. Good Riddance (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019) / Elinor Lipman

21. Who Killed My Father (trans. from the French by Lorin Stein) (Harvill Secker, 2019) / Édouard Louis
22. Lost Children Archive (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019) / Valeria Luiselli
23. Bowlaway (Ecco, 2019) / Elizabeth McCracken
24. The Capital (trans. from the German by Jamie Bulloch) (MacLehose Press, 2019) / Robert Menasse
25. The Heavens (Grove Press, 2019) / Sandra Newman
26. The Freedom Artist (Head of Zeus, 2019) / Ben Okri
27. I Am God (trans. from the Italian by Frederika Randall) (Restless Books, 2019) / Giacomo Sartori
28. Women (trans. from the Romanian by Philip Ó Ceallaigh) (Other Press, 2019) / Mihail Sebastian
29. The Tempest (trans. from the Swedish by Anna Paterson) (Faber & Faber, 2019) / Steve Sem-Sandberg
30. Improvement (Allen & Unwin, 2019) / Joan Silber

31. The Taking of Annie Thorne (Michael Joseph, 2019) / C.J. Tudor
32. Unquiet (trans. from the Norwegian by Thilo Reinhard) (W.W. Norton, 2019) / Linn Ullmann
33. Cherokee America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019) / Margaret Verble
34. The Dreamers (Scribner UK, 2019) / Karen Thompson Walker
35. Beautiful Revolutionary (Scribe U.K., 2019) / Laura Elizabeth Woollett

FIRST NOVELS
1. Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club (House of Anansi Press, 2019) / Megan Gail Coles
2. Remembered (Dialogue Books, 2019) / Yvonne Battle-Felton
3. Stubborn Archivist (Fleet, 2019) / Yara Rodrigues Fowler
4. The Familiars (Zaffre/MIRA, 2019) / Stacey Halls
5. 99 Nights in Logar (Bloomsbury Circus, 2019) / Jamil Jan Kochai
6. The Atlas of Reds and Blues (Counterpoint, 2019) / Devi S. Laskar
7. The Glass Woman (Michael Joseph, 2019) / Caroline Lea
8. Number One Chinese Restaurant (One/Pushkin Press, 2019) / Lillian Li
9. Tamarisk Row (And Other Stories, 2019) / Gerard Murnane
10. The Wolf and the Watchman (trans. from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg) (John Murray, 2019) / Niklas Natt och Dag

11. Night Theatre (Serpent’s Tail, 2019) / Vikram Paralkar
12. The Age of Light (Little, Brown/Picador, 2019) / Whitney Scharer
13. Mothlight (Influx Press, 2019) / Adam Scovell
14. Northern Lights (Simon & Schuster, 2019) / Raymond Strom
15. Bangkok Wakes to Rain (Riverhead Books/Sceptre, 2019) / Pitchaya Sudbanthad
16. To the Lions (Raven Books, 2019) / Holly Watt
17. American Spy (Random House, 2019) / Lauren Wilkinson
18. Nothing But the Night (NYRB Classics, 2019) / John Williams

STORIES
1. Show Them a Good Time (Stinging Fly Press, 2019) / Nicole Flattery

2. That Time I Loved You (Liveright, 2019) / Carrianne Leung
3. I Want to Show You More (Picador, 2019) / Jamie Quatro
4. Mouthful of Birds (trans. from the Spanish by Megan McDowell) (Oneworld, 2019) / Samanta Schweblin
5. Tacoma Stories (Bellevue Literary Press, 2019) / Richard Wiley

POETRY
1. Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 (Bloodaxe, 2019) / Helen Dunmore
2. The Built Moment (Faber & Faber, 2019) / Lavinia Greenlaw
3. Insomnia (Picador, 2019) / John Kinsella
4. The Carrying (Corsair, 2019) / Ada Limón
5. Green Shadows and Other Poems (Giramondo, 2019) / Gerald Murnane
6. Magical Negro (Tin House Books/Corsair, 2019) / Morgan Parker

NONFICTION
1. Merchants of Truth: Inside the News Revolution (Bodley Head/Simon & Schuster, 2019) / Jill Abramson
2. Time Song: Searching for Doggerland (Jonathan Cape, 2019) / Julia Blackburn
3. Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little, Brown, 2019) / Richard J. Evans
4. Last Days of the Mighty Mekong (Zed Books, 2019) / Brian Eyler
5. The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics (Profile Books, 2019) / Diarmaid Ferriter
6. Europe: A Natural History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019) / Tim Flannery
7. El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019) / Carrie Gibson
8. Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant: Modern Life as Interpreted By Someone Who Is Reasonably Bad at Living It (Mudlark, 2019) / Joel Golby
9. Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist (Yale University Press, 2019) / Elizabeth Goldring
10. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Bantam Press/Simon & Schuster, 2019) / Adam Higginbotham

11. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Doubleday, 2019) / Patrick Radden Keefe
12. Four Words for Friend: Why Using More Than One Language Matters Now More Than Ever (Yale University Press, 2019) / Marek Kohn
13. Nobody’s Looking at You: Essays (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019) / Janet Malcolm
14. Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations (Chatto & Windus, 2019) / Toni Morrison
15. The Source of Self-Regard: Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019) / Toni Morrison
16. Solitude & Company (trans. from the Spanish by Edith Grossman) (Seven Stories Press, 2019) / Silvana Paternostro
17. Figuring (Canongate, 2019) / Maria Popova
18. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Doubleday, 2019) / Hallie Rubenhold
19. The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966-2016 (ed. Moustafa Bayoumi & Andrew Rubin) (Vintage, 2019) / Edward Said
20. Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River (Yale University Press, 2019) / Sudipta Sen

21. The Art of Living: A Memoir (Random House, 2019) / Ayelet Tsabari
22. Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre (Yale University Press, 2019) / Kim A. Wagner
23. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Tim Duggan Books, 2019) / David Wallace-Wells
24. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Graywolf Press, 2019) / Esmé Weijun Wang
25. The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After (Randon House, 2019) / Julie Yip-Williams