November 2020 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Love in the Days of Rebellion (trans. from the Turkish by Brendan Freely & Yelda Türedi) (Europa Editions, 2020) / Ahmet Altan

2. Astral Travel (Salt Publishing, 2020) / Elizabeth Baines

3. The Autumn of the Ace (Harvill Secker, 2020) / Louis de Bernieres

4. God 99 (trans. from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright) (Comma Press, 2020) / Hassan Blasim

5. The Man Who Collected Women (Monsoon, 2020) / Nigel Barley

6. The Sun Collective (Pantheon, 2020) / Charles Baxter

7. When the Lights Go Out (Hutchinson, 2020) / Carys Bray
8. The Swallowed Man (Gallic Books, 2020) / Edward Carey

9. Mr Wilder and Me (Viking, 2020) / Jonathan Coe
10. The Betrayals (The Borough Press, 2020) / Bridget Collins

11. Paris by Starlight (Del Rey, 2020) / Robert Dinsdale

12. At Night All Blood Is Black (trans. from the French by Anna Moschovakis) (Pushkin Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) / David Diop

13. The Searcher (Viking, 2020) / Tana French
14. Moonflower Murders (Harper/HarperCollins, 2020) / Anthony Horowitz

15. An Island (Holland House Books, 2020) / Karen Jennings

16. Miss Benson’s Beetle (The Dial Press, 2020) / Rachel Joyce
17. Xstabeth (White Rabbit, 2020) / David Keenan

18. The Arrest (Ecco/Atlantic Books, 2020) / Jonathan Lethem

19. Little Cruelties (Gallery/Scout Press, 2020) / Liz Nugent

20. One by One (Harvill Secker, 2020) / Ruth Ware

21. Strange Beasts of China (trans. from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang) (Tilted Axis Press, 2020) / Yan Ge

FIRST NOVELS
1. Nights When Nothing Happened (Riverhead Books, 2020) / Simon Han

2. Murder in Old Bombay (Minotaur, 2020) / Nev March

3. The Last Good Man (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Thomas McMullan

STORIES
1. Some People Let You Down (University of North Texas Press, 2020) / Mike Alberti

2. The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories (Riverhead Books, 2020) / Danielle Evans

3. Collected Stories (ed. Brigitta Olubas) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) / Shirley Hazzard
4. The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard (Virago, 2020) / Shirley Hazzard
5. To Be a Man (Bloomsbury Publishing/Harper, 2020) / Nicole Krauss
6. Christmas Is Murder (Sphere, 2020) / Val McDermid

POETRY
1. Dearly (Ecco/Chatto & Windus, 2020) / Margaret Atwood
2. Poor (Penguin, 2020) / Caleb Femi

3. Life Without Air (Granta, 2020) / Daisy Lafarge

4. Music for the Dead and Resurrected (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) / Valzhyna Mort
5. The Late Sun (Faber & Faber, 2020) / Christopher Reid
6. My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems (trans. from the Chinese by Tracy K. Smith & Changtai Bi) (Graywolf Press, 2020) / Yi Lei

NONFICTION

1. The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020) / Manan Ahmed Asif

2. The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times (W.H. Allen, 2020) / Lionel Barber

3. Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / Julian Barnes

4. The Walker: On Losing and Finding Yourself in the Modern City (Verso, 2020) / Matthew Beaumont

5. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (W.W. Norton, 2020) / Ruth Ben-Ghiat

6. Walking With Ghosts: A Memoir (Picador, 2020) / Gabriel Byrne

7. The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest (Viking, 2020) / Ed Caesar

8. Oh Happy Day: Those Times and These Times (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / Carmen Callil

9. Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections (trans. from the German by Kurt Beals) (Granta Publications, 2020) / Jenny Erpenbeck

10. Stories I Forgot to Tell You (New York Review Books, 2020) / Dorothy Gallagher

11. The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene (W.W. Norton, 2020) / Richard Greene

12. The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives (Allen Lane, 2020) / Christopher Harding

13. The Invention of China (Yale University Press, 2020) / Bill Hayton
14. The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2020) / Hilary Holladay

15. A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order (Yale University Press, 2020) / G. John Ikenberry

16. Kings of Shanghai: Two Rival Dynasties and the Creation of Modern China (Little, Brown, 2020) / Jonathan Kaufman
17. The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (Pantheon, 2020) / Phillip Lopate (ed.)

18. Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020) / Mahmood Mamdani

19. Kant’s Little Russian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays (Fleet, 2020) / Claire Messud

20. The Upswing: How We Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again (Swift Press, 2020) / Robert Putnam

21. The Changing Outer Hebrides: Galson and the Meaning of Place (Acari, 2020) / Frank Rennie

22. Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong (Oxford University Press USA, 2020) / Ricky Ricardi

23. First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country (Harper, 2020) / Thomas E. Ricks
24. The Free Speech Wars: How Did We Get Here and Why Does It Matter? (Manchester University Press, 2020 / Charlotte Lydia Riley (ed.)

25. The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 (Allen Lane, 2020) / Ritchie Robinson

26. There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness (Allen Lane, 2020) / Carlo Rovelli

27. Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain (Robinson, 2020) / Padraic X. Scanlan

28. Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo (Reaktion Books, 2020) / Timon Screech

29. Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck (W.W. Norton, 2020) / William Souder

30. The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar (Oxford University Press, 2020) / Peter Stothard

31. The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery (The Bodley Head, 2020) / Michael Taylor
32. The Battle of Belonging: On Nationalism, Patriotism, and What It Means to be Indian (Aleph Book Company, 2020) / Shashi Tharoor

33. Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain (Atlantic Books, 2020) / Pen Vogler

34. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State (W.W. Norton, 2020) / Declan Walsh

35. The Lost Homestead: My Family, Partition and the Punjab (Hodder & Stoughton, 2020) / Marina Wheeler

36. Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention (Doubleday, 2020) / Ben Wilson

37. The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream (St Martin’s Press, 2020) / Michael Wood