January 2019 Highlights
NOVELS
1. Love in the New Millennium (trans. from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen) (Yale University Press, 2019) / Can Xue
2. The Weight of a Piano (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019) / Chris Cander
3. In the Full Light of the Sun (Virago, 2019) / Clare Clark
4. Elsey Come Home (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019) / Susan Conley
5. Deviation (trans. from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel) (Pushkin Press, 2019) / Luce D’Eramo
6. The Paragon Hotel (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2019) / Lyndsay Faye
7. Dream Sequence (Jonathan Cape, 2019) / Adam Foulds
8. Late in the Day (Harper, 2019) / Tessa Hadley
9. The Lost Girls of Paris (Park Row, 2019) / Pam Jenoff
10. The Current (Algonguin Books, 2019) / Tim Johnston
11. For the Good Times (Faber & Faber, 2019) / David Keenan
12. The Great Wide Open (Hutchinson, 2019) / Douglas Kennedy
13. The Wall (Faber & Faber, 2019) / John Lanchester
14. Hark (Simon & Schuster, 2019) / Sam Lipsyte
15. The Man With No Face (Riverrun, 2019) / Peter May
16. Praise Songs for the Butterflies (Jacaranda, 2019) / Bernice L. McFadden
17. Virtuoso (Serpent’s Tail, 2019) / Yelena Moskovich
18. Border Districts (And Other Stories, 2019) / Gerard Murnane
19. The Little House (trans. from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori) (Darf Publishers, 2019) / Kyoko Nakajima
20. An Orchestra of Minorities (Little, Brown, 2019) / Chigozie Obioma
21. My Coney Island Baby (Jonathan Cape, 2019) / Billy O’Callaghan
23. Once Upon a River (Doubleday, 2019) / Diane Setterfield
24. Katalin Street (trans. from the Hungarian by Len Rix) (MacLehose Press, 2019) / Magda Szabó
25. Unquiet (trans. from the Norwegian by Thilo Reinhard) (W.W. Norton, 2019) / Linn Ullmann
26. The Order of the Day (trans. from the German by Mark Polizzotti) (Picador, 2019) / Éric Vuillard
27. Tell Her Everything (Context, 2019) / Mirza Waheed
28. The Dreamers (Random House, 2019) / Karen Thompson Walker
29. The Death of Murat Idrissi (trans. from the Dutch by Sam Garrett) (Scribe U.K., 2019) / Tommy Wieringa
30. Godsend (Canongate, 2019) / John Wray
FIRST NOVELS
1. Golden Child (Faber & Faber/SJP for Hogarth, 2019) / Claire Adam
2. A Long Night in Paris (trans. from the Hebrew by Daniella Zamir) (MacLehose Press, 2019) / Dov Alfon
3. My Sister, the Serial Killer (Atlantic Books, 2019) / Oyinkan Braithwaite
4. The Orphan of Salt Winds (Tin House Books, 2019) / Elizabeth Brooks
5. The Binding (The Borough Press, 2019) / Bridget Collins
6. Optic Nerve (trans. from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead) (Harvill Secker, 2019) / Maria Gainza
7. When All Is Said (Sceptre, 2019) / Anne Griffin
8. Scrublands (Wildfire/Atria Books, 2019) / Chris Hammer
9. Everything Under (Graywolf Press, 2019) / Daisy Johnson
10. 99 Nights in Logar (Bloomsbury Publishing/Viking, 2019) / Jamil Jan Kochai
11. The Water Cure (Doubleday, 2019) / Sophie Mackintosh
12. Where the Crawdads Sing (Corsair, 2019) / Delia Owens
13. Something Like Breathing (And Other Stories, 2019) / Angela Readman
14. We Cast a Shadow (One World, 2019) / Maurice Carlos Ruffin
15. The Distance Home (Picador, 2019) / Paula Saunders
16. Blood and Sugar (Mantle, 2019) / Laura Shepherd-Robinson
17. Adèle (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (Faber & Faber/Penguin Books, 2019) / Leila Slimani
18. House of Stone (W.W. Norton, 2019) / Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
19. The Far Field (Grove Press, 2019) / Madhuri Vijay
20. Reproduction (Random House Canada, 2019) / Ian Williams
STORIES
1. The Handsome Monk and Other Stories (trans. from the Tibetan by Christopher Peacock) (Columbia University Press, 2019) / Tsering Döndrup
2. Jokes for the Gunmen (trans. from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright) (Granta Books, 2019) / Mazen Maarouf
3. Picnic in the Storm (published in the U.S. as The Lonesome Bodybuilder in 2018 by Soft Skull Press) (trans. from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda) (Corsair, 2019) / Yukiko Motoya
4. Mothers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019) / Chris Power
5. I Want to Show You More (Grove Press, 2019) / Jamie Quatro
6. Mouthful of Birds (trans. from the Spanish by Megan McDowell) (Riverhead Books, 2019) / Samanta Schweblin
POETRY
1. Kingdomland (Faber & Faber, 2019) / Rachael Allen
2. Vertigo & Ghost (Jonathan Cape, 2019) / Fiona Benson
3. Sweet Shop (Salt, 2019) / Amit Chaudhuri
NONFICTION
1. Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich (Princeton University Press, 2019) / Christopher Clark
2. Thick: And Other Essays (The New Press, 2019) / Tressie McMillan Cottom
3. Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely (Other Press, 2019) / Andrew S. Curran
4. Origins: How The Earth Made Us (Bodley Head, 2019) / Lewis Dartnell
5. Happy Ever After: Escaping the Myth of the Perfect Life (Allen Lane, 2019) / Paul Dolan
6. Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Random House, 2019) / Benjamin Dreyer
7. No Authority: Writings from the Laureateship (University College Dublin Press, 2019) / Anne Enright
8. Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2019) / Jonathan Fennell
9. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Allen Lane, 2019) / Anand Giridharadas
10. A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (Allen Lane, 2019) / Toby Green
11. The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Pantheon, 2019) / Ha Jin
12. Journey Through Indonesia: An Unforgettable Journey from Sumatra to Papua (Tuttle, 2019) / Tim Hannigan
13. Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinpeng (The Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2019) / Klaus Mühlhahn
14. The Innocence of Memories (trans. from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap) (Faber & Faber, 2019) / Orhan Pamuk
15. Notes to Self (Hamish Hamilton, 2019) / Emilie Pine
16. Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) / Monisha Rajesh
17. The Photographer at Sixteen (MacLehose Press, 2019) / George Szirtes
18. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (Riverhead Books, 2019) / David Treuer
19. Out of the Woods (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019) / Luke Turner
20. Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution (Ballantine Books/Random House, 2019) / Helen Zia
21. J.G. Farrell’s Empire Novels: The Decline and Fall of the Human Condition (Four Courts Press, 2019) / Rebecca Ziegler
22. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (PublicAffairs/Profile Books, 2019) / Shoshana Zuboff