March 2019 Highlights

NOVELS
1. Bird Summons (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019) / Leila Aboulela
2. I Will Never See the World Again (trans. from the French by Yasemin Çongar) (Granta Books, 2019) / Ahmet Altan
3. Homeland (trans. from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam) (Pantheon, 2019) / Fernando Aramburu 

4. The Fourth Shore (Fleet, 2019) / Virginia Baily
5. A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself (Pegasus Books/No Exit Press, 2019) / William Boyle
6. Little Faith (Ecco, 2019) / Nickolas Butler
7. In Another Time (Harper Perennial, 2019) / Jillian Cantor
8. The Night Dragon (The University of Queensland Press, 2019) / Matthew Condon
9. Animalia (trans. from the French by Frank Wynne) (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019) / Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
10. Charlie Savage (Jonathan Cape, 2019) / Roddy Doyle

11. The Parade (Hamish Hamilton, 2019) / Dave Eggers
12. The River (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019) / Peter Heller
13. The Narrow Land (Atlantic Books, 2019) / Christine Dwyer Hickey
14. Memories of the Future (Hodder & Stoughton/Sceptre, 2019) / Siri Hustvedt
15. The Missing Sister (Penguin, 2019) / Dinah Jefferies
16. Empires of Dust (trans. from the Chinese by Christopher Payne & Olivia Milburn) (Alain Charles Asia Publishing, 2019) / Jiang Zilong
17. Death Is Hard Work (trans. from the Arabic by Leri Price) (Faber & Faber, 2019) / Khaled Khalifa
18. The Snakes (Chatto & Windus, 2019) / Sadie Jones
19. The Other Americans (Pantheon, 2019) / Laila Lalami
20. The Promise of Elsewhere (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019) / Brad Leithauser

21. Bowlaway (Jonathan cape, 2019) / Elizabeth McCracken
22. Tiny Americans (Harper Perennial, 2019) / Devin Murphy
23. The Dragonfly Sea (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019) / Yvonne Adhiambor Owuor
24. Gingerbread (Picador/Riverhead Books, 2019) / Helen Oyeyemi
25. Lanny (Faber & Faber, 2019) / Max Porter
26. “Muslim” (trans. from the French by Matt Reeck) (Deep Vellum, 2019) / Zahia Rahmani
27. Daisy Jones & The Six (Ballantine Books/Hutchinson, 2019) / Taylor Jenkins Reid
28. The Night Swimmers (Soho Press, 2019) / Peter Rock
29. The Volunteer (Penguin Press, 2019) / Salvatore Scibona
30. The Island of Sea Women (Scribner, 2019) / Lisa See

31. Spring (Hamish Hamilton, 2019) / Ali Smith
32. Reasons to be Cheerful (Viking, 2019) / Nina Stibbe
33. Before She Knew Him (Faber & Faber, 2019) / Peter Swanson
34. Halibut on the Moon (Atlantic Books/Grove Press, 2019) / David Vann
35. Tokyo Ueno Station (trans. from the Japanese by Morgan Giles) (Titled Axis Press, 2019) / Yu Miri

FIRST NOVELS
1. A Perfect Explanation (Salt, 2019) / Eleanor Anstruther
2. Queenie (Gallery/Scout Press, 2019) / Candice Carty-Williams
3. When All Is Said (Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin’s Press, 2019) / Anne Griffin
4. The Wolf and the Watchman (trans. from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg) (Atria Books, 2019) / Niklas Natt och Dag
5. The Pine Islands (trans. from the German by Jen Calleja) (Serpent’s Tail, 2019) / Marion Poschmann
6. Berg (And Other Stories, 2019) / Ann Quinn
7. The Old Drift (Hogarth, 2019) / Namwali Serpell
8. A People’s History of Heaven (Algonquin Books, 2019) / Mathangi Subramanian

STORIES
1. Immigrant City and Other Stories (HarperCollins Canada, 2019) / David Bezmozgis
2. Show Them a Good Time (Bloomsbury Circus, 2019) / Nicole Flattery
3. Sing to It: New Stories (Scribner, 2019) / Amy Hempel
4. The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories (Penguin Classics, 2019) / Jhumpa Lahiri (ed.)
5. Instructions for a Funeral (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Faber & Faber, 2019) / David Means
6. Look How Happy I’m Making You (Doubleday, 2019) / Polly Rosenwaike
7. Guestbook: Ghost Stories (Particular Books, 2019) / Leanne Shapton
8. Lot: Stories (Riverhead Books, 2019) / Bryan Washington

POETRY
1. The Low Passions (W.W. Norton, 2019) / Anders Carlson-Wee
2. Girlhood (Faber & Faber, 2019) / Julia Copus
3. “I”: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019) / Toi Derricotte
4. Significant Other (Carcanet Press, 2019) / Isabel Galleymore
5. Tap Out (Mariner Books, 2019) / Edgar Kunz
6. Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, 2019) / Ilya Kaminsky
7. The Octopus Museum (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019) / Brenda Shaughnessy
8. Discipline (Carcanet Press, 2019) / Jane Yeh

NONFICTION
1. I Will Never See the World Again (trans. from the Turkish by Yasemin Çongar) (Granta, 2019) / Ahmet Altan
2. Shout (Viking, 2019) / Laurie Halse Anderson
3. Irish Cinema in the Twenty-First Century (Manchester University Press, 2019) / Ruth Barton
4. Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation (Allen Lane, 2019) / Roderick Beaton
5. Tunnel Vision (Faber & Faber, 2019) / Kevin Breathnach
6. Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future (Allen Lane/W.W. Norton, 2019) / Kate Brown
7. The Grassling (Allen Lane, 2019) / Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
8. The Club: Johnson, Boswell and the Friends Who Shaped an Age (Yale University Press, 2019) / Leo Damrosch
9. Potato (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) / Rebecca Earle
10. London Made Us: A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City (Canongate, 2019) / Robert Elms

11. What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Penguin Press, 2019) / Carolyn Forché
12. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (Metropolitan Books, 2019) / Greg Grandin
13. This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom (Pantheon, 2019) / Martin Hägglund
14. Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior (Yale University Press, 2019) / Catherine Hanley
15. Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene’s Cold War Spy Novel (Pegasus, 2019) / Christopher Hull
16. Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family (Scribner, 2019) / Mitchell S. Jackson
17. A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin (PublicAffairs 2019) / Simon Jenkins
18. Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are (Granta Books, 2019) / John Kaag
19. Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China (Hatchette Books, 2019) / Karoline Kan
20. An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago (Nan A. Tales/Doubleday, 2019) / Alex Kotlowitz

21. Horizon (Alfred A. Knopf/The Bodley Head, 2019) / Barry Lopez
22. Maoism: A Global History (Bodley Head, 2019) / Julia Lovell
23. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) / T. Kira Madden
24. Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a Literary Legacy (Cork University Press, 2019) / Derek Hand & Eamon Maher
25. Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (Yale University Press, 2019) / Tim Mackintosh-Smith
26. An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) / Owen Matthews
27. All the Fierce Tethers (Sarabande Books, 2019) / Lia Purpura
28. See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in Italy (Crown, 2019) / Frances Mayes
29. Far Country: Scenes from American Culture (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019) / Franco Moretti
30. This Much Country: A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing, 2019) / Kristin Knight Pace

31. Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, 2019) / Alexandra Popoff
32. Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point (Princeton University Press, 2019) / Gyan Prakash
33. The Trial of Lizzie Borden: A True Story (Simon & Schuster, 2019) / Cara Robertson
34. Angels: A Visible and Invisible History (Hodder & Stoughton, 20919) / Peter Stanford
35. The Good Immigrant USA (Dialogue Books, 2019) / Nikesh Shukla & Chimene Suleyman(eds.)
36. The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/C. Hurst & Co., 2019) / Aatish Taseer
37. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Harper, 2019) / Christina Thompson

38. Chaucer: A European Life (Princeton University Press, 2019) / Marion Turner
39. The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change (4th Estate, 2019) / Bee Wilson
40. Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country (Picador, 2019) / Simon Winder

41. The Salt Path (Penguin Books, 2019) / Raynor Winn