July 2019 Highlights

NOVELS
1. I Am Sovereign (William Heinemann, 2019) / Nicola Barker
2. Starling Days (Sceptre, 2019) / Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
3. In the Full Light of the Sun (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019) / Clare Clark
4. Ducks, Newburyport (Galley Beggar Press, 2019) / Lucy Ellmann
5. Chimes of a Lost Cathedral (Little, Brown, 2019) / Janet Fitch
6. Beirut Hellfire Society (W.W. Norton, 2019) / Rawi Hage
7. The Gifted School (Riverhead Books, 2019) / Bruce Holsinger
8. Expectation (Doubleday, 2019) / Anna Hope
9. The Vexations (Little, Brown, 2019) / Caitlin Horrocks
10. At Dusk (trans. from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell) (Scribe U.S., 2019) / Hwang Sok-yong

11. Live a Little (Jonathan Cape, 2019) / Howard Jacobson
12. The Sleepwalker (Doubleday, 2019) / Joseph Knox
13. Lady in the Lake (Faber & Faber/William Morrow, 2019) / Laura Lippman
14. The Archipelago of Another Life (trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan) (MacLehose Press, 2019) / Andreï Makine
15. The Nowhere Man (Small Axes, 2019) / Kamala Markandaya
16. Deep River (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019) / Karl Marlantes
17. The Chain (Orion, 2019) / Adrian McKinty
18. The Carer (Tinder Press, 2019) / Deborah Moggach
19. One Part Woman (trans. from the Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan) (Pushkin Press, 2019) / Perumal Murugan
20. The Warlow Experiment (Serpent’s Tail, 2019) / Alix Nathan

21. Knife (Harvill Secker, 2019) / Jo Nesbo
22. Sweet Sorrow (Hodder & Stoughton, 2019) / David Nicholls
23. The Vanishing Hours (Doubleday, 2019) / Barney Norris
24. Plastic Emotions (Influx Press, 2019) / Shiromi Pinto
25. The Need (Simon & Schuster, 2019) / Helen Phillips
26. Chances Are ... (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019) / Richard Russo
27. The Volunteer (Jonathan Cape, 2019) / Salvatore Scibona
28. The Lager Queen of Minnesota (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2019) / J. Ryan Stradal
29. Turbulence (Scribner, 2019) / David Szalay
30. Fu Ping (trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt) (Columbia University Press, 2019) / Wang Anyi

31. The Nickel Boys (Doubleday, 2019) / Colson Whitehead
32. The Yield (Penguin Random House Australia, 2019) / Tara June Winch
33. The Hiding Game (Picador, 2019) / Naomi Wood
34. The Gospel According to Lazarus (Peter Owen, 2019) / Richard Zimler

FIRST NOVELS
1. Dolores (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 20190 / Lauren Aimee Curtis
2. Nobber (JM Originals/John Murray, 2019) / Oisín Fagan
3. Goodnight Stranger (Park Row, 2019)/ Miciah Bay Gault
4. Nightingale Point (HQ, 2019) / Luan Goldie
5. The Vexations (Little, Brown, 2019) / Caitlin Horrocks
6. Fled (Arcade Publishing, 2019) / Meg Keneally
7. Delayed Rays of a Star (Nan A. Talese/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) / Amanda Lee Koe
8. Black Sun (Doubleday, 2019) / Owen Matthews
9. Beijing Payback (Ecco, 2019) / Daniel Nieh
10. Disappearing Earth (Scribner UK, 2019) / Julia Phillips

11. The Travelers (Jonathan Cape, 2019) / Regina Porter
12. A Flutter in the Colony (HarperCollins India, 2019) / Sandeep Ray
13. Say Say Say (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019) / Lila Savage
14. Marilou Is Everwhere (Riverhead Books, 2019) / Sarah Elaine Smith
15. The Expectations (Little, Brown, 2019) / Alexander Tilney
16. A Small Silence (Cassava Republic Press, 2019) / Jumoke Verissimo
17. The Far Field (Grove Press, 2019) / Madhuri Vijay

STORIES
1. Stand by Me (Allen Lane, 2019) / Wendell Berry
2. Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn (ed. Andrei Codrescu) (Princeton University Press, 2019) / Lafcadio Hearn
3. Japanese Ghost Stories (ed. Paul Murray) (Penguin Classics, 2019) / Lafcadio Hearn
4. The Quarter (trans. from the Arabic by Roger Allen) (Saqi Books, 2019) / Naguib Mahfouz
5. We Love Anderson Cooper: Short Stories (Celadon Books, 2019) / R.L. Maizes
6. Maggie Brown & Others (Little, Brown, 2019) / Peter Orner

POETRY
1. Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019) / Mary Jean Chan
2. Empirical (Giramondo, 2019) / Lisa Gorton
3. A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press, 2019) / Roger Robinson
4. The Government Lake: Last Poems (Ecco, 2019) / James Tate

NONFICTION
1. Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories/An Oral History of the Children of World War II (trans. from the Russian by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky) (Penguin Classics/Random House, 2019) / Svetlana Alexievich
2. If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years (Penguin Press, 2019) / Christopher Benfey
3. Without the Novel: Romance and the History of Prose Fiction (University of Virginia Press, 2019) / Scott Black
4. Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China (Manchester University Press, 2019) / Jonathan Chatwin
5. On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons (Chatto & Windus, 2019) / Laura Cumming
6. A Proper Person to Be Detained: The Story of a Murder and Its Aftermath (Contraband, 2019) / Catherine Czerkawska
7. India in the Persianate Age, 1000-1765 (Allen Lane, 2019) / Richard M. Eaton
8. Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It (University of California Press, 2019) / Felipe Fernández-Armesto
9. Great Cities Through Travellers’ Eyes (Thames & Hudson, 2019) / Peter Furtado (ed.)
10. The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel (William Collins, 2019) / David Gange

11. Stop Being Reasonable: Six Stories of How We Really Change Our Minds (Scribe U.K., 2019) / Eleanor Gordon-Smith
12. Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans in 1945 (trans. from the German by Imogen Taylor) (Allen Lane, 2019) / Florian Huber
13. The Way Through the Woods: On Mushrooms and Mourning (Spiegel & Grau, 2019) / Long Litt Woon
14. Hitler: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2019) / Peter Longerich
15. Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends (Yale University Press, 2019) / Alberto Manguel
16. King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV (Allen Lane, 2019) / Philip Mansel
17. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Riverhead Books, 2019) / Gretchen McCulloch
18. The Bad Boys of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones (William Collins, 2019) / Daniel Mendelsohn
19. King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne (Allen Lane, 2019) / Janet L. Nelson
20. Partition Voices: Untold British Stories (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) / Kavita Puri

21. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss (Milkweed Editions, 2019) / Margaret Renkl
22. The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It (Allen Lane, 2019) / Mark B. Smith
23. Three Women (Bloomsbury Circus/Avid Reader Press, 2019) / Lisa Taddeo
24. Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark (Ecco, 2019) / Cecelia Watson
25. Samurai: A Concise History (Oxford University Press, 2019) / Michael Wert
26. Walks in the Wild: A Guide Through the Forest (Rider, 2019) / Peter Wohlleben
27. Wanderlust: The Amazing Ida Pfeiffer, the First Female Tourist (NUS Press, 2019) / John van Wyhe