September 2020 Highlights

NOVELS
1. Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown, 2020) / Ayad Akhtar
2. Inside Story (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / Martin Amis
3. The Good German (Patrick Crean Editions, 2020) / Dennis Bock
4. Piranesi (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Susanna Clarke
5. The End of the Day (Gallery/Scout Press, 2020) / Bill Clegg

6. The Tolstoy Estate (HarperCollins Australia, 2020) / Steven Conte

7. D: A Tale of Two Worlds (Doubleday, 2020) / Michel Faber
8. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Knopf Australia, 2020) / Richard Flanagan
9. The Evening and the Morning (Macmillan/Viking, 2020) / Ken Follett
10. Afterlives (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Abdulrazak Gurnah

11. Transcendent Kingdom (Viking/Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Yaa Gyasi
12. The Survivors (Macmillan Australia, 2020) / Jane Harper
13. Just Like You (Viking, 2020) / Nick Hornby
14. Darkness As a Bride (Simon & Schuster, 2020) / John Irving
15. The Dickens Boy (Sceptre, 2020) / Thomas Keneally
16. One Left (trans. from the Korean by Bruce Fulton & Ju-Chan Fulton) (University of Washington Press, 2020) / Kim Soom
17. Red Pill (Alfred A. Knopf/Scribner UK, 2020) / Hari Kunzru
18. When We Cease to Understand the World (trans. from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West) (Pushkin Press, 2020) / Benjamín Labatut

19. Petra (Random House Canada, 2020) / Shaena Lambert
20. Dear Ann (Harper, 2020) / Bobbie Ann Mason

21. The Abstainer (Scribner UK, 2020) / Ian McGuire

22. Max (Allen & Unwin, 2020) / Alex Miller

23. Monogamy (Harper/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Sue Miller
24. The Forger’s Daughter (Mysterious Press, 2020) / Bradford Morrow
25. What Are You Going Through (Riverhead Books, 2020) / Sigrid Nunez
26. Mayflies (Faber & Faber, 2020) / Andrew O’Hagan
27. Jack (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Virago, 2020) / Marilynne Robinson
28. We Germans (Little, Brown, 2020) / Alexander Starritt

29. Here We Are (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Graham Swift
30. Farewell, Ghosts (trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein) (Penguin Random House USA, 2020) / Nadia Terranova

31. Islands of Mercy (Chatto & Windus, 2020) / Rose Tremain
32. The Bass Rock (Pantheon, 2020) / Evie Wyld

FIRST NOVELS
1. Bestiary (One World, 2020) / K-Ming Chang

2. The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020) / Joseph Fasano
3. The Last Story of Mina Lee (Park Row Books/Headline Review, 2020) / Nancy Jooyoun Kim

4. Who They Was (4th Estate, 2020) / Gabriel Krauze
5. The Thursday Murder Club (Viking, 2020) / Richard Osman

6. The River Within (Europa Editions, 2020) / Karen Powell

7. The Discomfort of Evening (trans. from the Dutch by Michele Hutchinson) (Graywolf Press, 2020) / Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
8. The Appointment (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020) / Katharina Volckmer

9. Reproduction (Dialogue Books, 2020) / Ian Williams

STORIES
1. Secrets Never Told (New Island Press, 2020) / Dermot Bolger
2. Likes (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) / Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
3. Daddy (Random House/Chatto & Windus, 2020) / Emma Cline
4. No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories (trans. from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana) (Tilted Axis, 2020) / Jayant Kaikini

5. Bread and Salt (Whitepoint Press, 2020) / Valerie Miner

6. The Awkward Black Man (Grove Press, 2020) / Walter Mosley
7. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (West Virginia University Press, 2020) / Deesha Philyaw

8. If We Were Electric (University of Georgia Press, 2020) / Patrick Earl Ryan
9. Famished (Influx Press, 2020) / Anna Vaught
10. We Two Alone (House of Anansi Press, 2020) / Jack Wang

POETRY
1. Whale Day and Other Poems (Random House, 2020) / Billy Collins
2. The Problem of the Many (Picador, 2020) / Timothy Donnelly

3. Runaway (Carcanet Press, 2020) / Jorie Graham

4. The Kids (Bloodaxe Books, 2021) / Hannah Lowe

5. It Says Here (Picador, 2020) / Sean O’Brien

6. Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe, 2020) / Pascale Petit
7. Just Us: An American Conversation (Graywolf Press/Allen Lane, 2020) / Claudia Rankine
8. Rain in Plural (Princeton University Press, 2020) / Fiona Sze-Lorrain

NONFICTION
1. Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) / David A. Bell

2. Having and Being Had (Riverhead Books, 2020) / Eula Biss
3. Beethoven: A Life (California University Press, 2020) / Jan Caeyers
4. Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Wade Davis
5. Suppose a Sentence (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020) / Brian Dillon

6. The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / William Feaver
7. On Seamus Heaney (Princeton University Press, 2020) / R.F. Foster

8. Russian Roulette: The Life and Times of Graham Greene (Little, Brown, 2020) / Richard Greene

9. Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (Allen Lane, 2020) / Sudhir Hazareesingh
10. Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Rachel Holmes

11. Hooghly: The Global History of a River (C. Hurst & Co., 2020) / Robert Ivermee

12. Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind (Penguin Press, 2020) / Alan Jacobs

13. Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami (Soft Skull Press, 2020) / David Karashima

14. Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America (Pantheon, 2020) / Laila Lalami

15. The Louder I Will Sing (Sphere, 2020) / Lee Lawrence

16. If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (Liveright, 2020) / Jill Lepore

17. JFK: Volume One (Viking, 2020) / Fredrik Logevall

18. JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (Random House, 2020) / Fredrik Logevall
19. Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas (Harper, 2020) / Roberto Lovato
20. Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way (trans. from the French by Frank Wynne) (World Editions, 2020) / Amin Maalouf

21. Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century (Verso, 2020) / Andreas Malm

22. Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption (Picador, 2020) / Robert McCrum

23. Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack (John Murray, 2020) / Richard Ovenden
24. Orange (Steidl, 2020) / Orhan Pamuk

25. English Pastoral: An English Inheritance (Allen Lane, 2020) / James Rebanks
26. Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times (Penguin Press, 2020) / David S. Reynolds

27. A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards (Headline, 2020) / Peter Ross

28. Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. (Haymarket Books/Penguin, 2020) / Arundhati Roy
29. The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Allen Lane, 2020) / Michael J. Sandel
30. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures (The Bodley Head, 2020) / Merlin Sheldrake

31. Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time (Bloomsbury Circus, 2020) / James Suzman

32. Hitler: Downfall 1939-1945 (trans. from the German by Jefferson Chase) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Volker Ullrich

33. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Declan Walsh
34. Metropolis: A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / Ben Wilson

35. The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and Its People (Simon & Schuster UK, 2020) / Michael Wood