February 2020 Highlights

NOVELS
1. Amnesty (Picador/Scribner, 2020) / Aravind Adiga
2. The Man in the Red Coat (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Julian Barnes
3. Little Constructions (Graywolf Press, 2020) / Anna Burns
4. Greenwood (Hogarth/Scribe UK, 2020) / Michael Christie
5. Actress (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / Anne Enright
6. A Good Neighborhood (St Martin’s Press, 2020) / Therese Anne Fowler
7. Where You’re All Going (Sarabande Books, 2020) / Joan Frank
8. Big Girl, Small Town (John Murray, 2020) / Michelle Gallen
9. Out of Darkness, Shining Light (Faber & Faber, 2020) / Petina Gappah
10. Northernmost (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Peter Geye

11. The Foundling (Manilla Press, 2020) / Stacey Halls
12. A Small Revolution in Germany (4th Estate, 2020) / Philip Hensher
13. The Convert (trans. from the Dutch by David McKay) (Pantheon, 2020) / Stefan Hertmans
14. Death and the Butterfly (Counterpoint, 2020) / Colin Hester
15. Eden Mine (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) / S.M. Hulse
16. The Slaughterman’s Daughter (trans. from the Hebrew by Orr Scharf) (MacLehose Press, 2020) / Yaniv Iczkovits

17. The Resisters (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Gish Jen
18. Tyll (trans. from the German by Ross Benjamin) (Riverrun/Pantheon, 2020) / Benjamin Kehlmann
19. Grown Ups (Michael Joseph, 2020) / Marian Keyes
20. Gathering Evidence (Atlantic Books, 2010) / Martin MacInnes

21. Strange Hotel (Faber & Faber, 2020) / Eimear McBride
22. Apeirogon (Random House, 2020) / Colum McCann
23. Independence Square (Harvill Secker, 2020) / A.D. Miller
24. Weather (Granta Books, 2020) / Jenny Offill
25. The Freedom Artist (Akashic Books, 2020) / Ben Okri
26. The Aosawa Murders (trans. from the Japanese by Alison Watts) (Bitter Lemon Press, 2020) / Riku Onda
27. The King at the Edge of the World (Random House, 2020) / Arthur Phillips
28. The Lost Future of Pepper Harrow (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Natasha Pulley
29. House of Trelawney (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Hannah Rothschild
30. How Pale the Winter Has Made Us (Influx Press, 2020) / Adam Scovell

31. Here We Are (Scribner UK, 2020) / Graham Swift
32. Low (Faber & Faber, 2020) / Jeet Thayil
33. Little Disasters (Simon & Schuster UK, 2020) / Sarah Vaughan
34. The Lucky Star (Penguin Random House USA/Viking, 2020) / William T. Vollman
35. The Inugami Curse (trans. from the Japanese by Yumiko Yamazaki) (Pushkin Vertigo, 2020) / Seishi Yokomizo

FIRST NOVELS
1. Black Sunday (Catapult, 2020) / Tola Rotimi Abraham
2. Shuggie Bain (Grove Press, 2020) / Douglas Stuart
3. The Illness Lesson (Doubleday, 2020) / Clare Beams
4. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (trans. from the Korean by Jamie Chang) (Scribner, 2020) / Cho Nam-Joo
5. The Water Dancer (Hamish Hamilton, 2020) / Ta-Nehisi Coates
6. The Temple House Vanishing (Corvus, 2020) / Rachel Donohue
7. Winter in Sokcho (trans. from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins) (Daunt Books, 2020) / Elisa Shua Dusapin
8. Big Girl, Small Town (John Murray, 2020) / Michelle Gallen

9. The Snow Collectors (Dzanc Books, 2020) / Tina May Hall
10. The Mercies (Picador/Little, Brown, 2020) / Kiran Millwood Hargrave

11. The Family Tree (HQ, 2020) / Sairish Hussain
12. Swimming in the Dark (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Tomasz Jedrowski
13. Nightingale (4th Estate, 2020) / Marina Kemp
14. Hurricane Season (trans. from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes) (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020) / Fernanda Melchor
15. Topics of Conversation (Serpent’s Tail, 2020) / Miranda Popkey
16. Real Life (Riverhead Books, 2020) / Brandon Taylor
17. Love and Other Thought Experiments (Corsair, 2020) / Sophie Ward

STORIES
1. Where the Wild Ladies Are (trans. from the Japanese by Polly Barton) (Tilted Axis Press, 2020) / Aoko Matsuda
2. The Quarry (Dialogue Books, 2020) / Ben Halls
3. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (HQ, 2020) / Zora Neale Hurston
4. Escape Routes (Tinder Press, 2020) / Naomi Ishiguro
5. Collected Short Fiction (And Other Stories, 2020) / Gerald Murnane
6. Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020) / Lily Tuck
7. Verge (Riverhead Books, 2020) / Lidia Yuknavitch

POETRY
1. The Air Year (Carcanet Press, 2020) / Caroline Bird
2. Wing (Faber & Faber, 2020) / Matthew Francis
3. Rendang (Granta Poetry, 2020) / Will Harris
4. Imperial Liquor (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) / Amaud Jamaul Johnson

5. Come Down (Corsair, 2020) / Fiona Sampson
6. Homie (Chatto & Windus, 2020) / Danez Smith
7. Complete the Circle (Bloodaxe, 2020) / Anne Stevenson

NONFICTION
1. These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson (W.W. Norton, 2020) / Martha Ackmann
2. Inventory: A River, A City, A Family (Chatto & Windus, 2020) / Darran Anderson
3. Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear (trans. from the French by Willard Wood) (Other Press, 2020) / Patrick Boucheron
4. Flight Lines: Across the Globe on a Journey with the Astonishing Ultramarathon Birds (Allen & Unwin, 2020) / Andrew Darby
5. Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place (University of New Mexico Press, 2020) / Joan Frank
6. Twenty-First Century Socialism (Polity Press, 2020) / Jeremy Gilbert
7. A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago (Oxford University Press, 2020) / Lennie Goodings
8. Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) / Vivian Gornick
9. Krishna’s Playground: Vrindavan in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press India, 2020) / John Stratton Hawley
10. Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild (Allen Lane, 2020) / Lucy Jones

11. To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace (Granta, 2020) / Kapka Kassabova
12. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance (Profile Books, 2020) / Rashid Khalidi
13. V.S. Naipaul’s Journeys: From Periphery to Center (Columbia University Press, 2020) / Sanjay Krishnan
14. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Crown, 2020) / Erik Larson
15. Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) / Joseph Luzzi (ed.)
16. Islamic Empires: The Cities that Shaped Civilization: From Mecca to Dubai (Pegasus Books, 2020) / Justin Marozzi
17. Wintering: How I Learned to Flourish When Life Became Frozen (Rider, 2020) / Katherine May
18. When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains (Scribner UK, 2020) / Ariana Neumann
19. 1774: The Long Year of Revolution (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Mary Beth Norton

20. Migrant City: A New History of London (Yale University Press, 2020) / Panikos Panayi

21. The Lost Pianos of Siberia (Doubleday, 2020) / Sophy Roberts
22. How to Argue with a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020) / Adam Rutherford
23. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir (Tin House Books, 2020) / Jenn Shapland
24. Sex and Lies (trans. from the French by Sophie Lewis) (Faber & Faber, 2020) / Leïla Slimani
25. These Silent Mansions: A Life in Graveyards (Jonathan Cape, 2020)/ Jean Sprackland
26. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood (Flatiron Books, 2020) / Sam Wasson
27. Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay (Little Toller Books, 2021) / Jeff Young