March 2021 Highlights

NOVELS
1. The Arsonists’ City (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021) / Hala Alyan

2. Foregone (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2021) / Russell Banks

3. A Sabbatical in Leipzig (The Lilliput Press, 2021) / Adrian Duncan

4. Vera (Scribner, 2021) / Carol Edgarian

5. Infinite Country (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, 2021) / Patricia Enjel

6. Unsettled Ground (Fig Tree, 2021) / Claire Fuller

7. Libertie (Algonquin Books, 2021) / Kaitlyn Greenidge

8. Transcendent Kingdom (Viking, 2021) / Yaa Gyasi
9. Harvest (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Georgina Harding

10. Klara and the Sun (Faber & Faber/Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Kazuo Ishiguro

11. Later (Hard Case Crime, 2021) / Stephen King

12. The Absolute Book (Michael Joseph, 2021) / Elizabeth Knox

13. Red Island House (Scribner/Simon & Schuster USA, 2021) / Andrea Lee

14. How Beautiful We Were (Random House, 2021) / Imbolo Mbue

15. Hot Stew (John Murray, 2021) / Fiona Mozley

16. In a Veil of Mist (Saraband, 2021) / Donald S. Murray

17. Redder Days (Doubleday, 2021) / Sue Rainsford

18. Double Blind (Harvill Secker, 2021) / Edward St Aubyn

19. Names of the Women (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Jeet Thayil

20. The Performance (Riverhead Books, 2021) / Claire Thomas

21. The Committed (Grove Press/Corsair, 2021) / Viet Thanh Nguyen

22. The Last House on Needless Street (Viper, 2021) / Catriona Ward

23. The Fourth Child (Harper, 2021) / Jessica Winter

24. The Art of Losing (trans. from the French by Frank Wynne) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Alice Zeniter

FIRST NOVELS

1. The Manningtree Witches (Granta, 2021) / A.K. Blakemore

2. The Eighth Girl (Pushkin Vertigo, 2021) / Maxine Mei-Fung Chung

3. The Scapegoat (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Sara Davis

4. The Weight of Love (Doubleday Ireland, 2021) / Hilary Fannin

5. Common Ground (Tinder Press, 2021) / Naomi Ishiguro

6. Our Lady of the Nile (trans. from the French by Melanie Mauthner) (Daunt Books, 2021) / Scholastique Mukasonga

7. Acts of Desperation (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Megan Nolan

8. The Five Wounds (W.W. Norton, 2021) / Kirstin Valdez Quade

9. Abundance (Graywolf Press, 2021) / Jakob Quanzon

10. My Old Home (Pantheon, 2021) / Orville Schell

11. The Life of the Mind (Hogarth, 2021) / Christine Smallwood

12. The Lamplighters (Picador, 2021) / Emma Stonex

13. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev (37 Ink/Simon & Schuster, 2021) / Dawnie Walton

14. The Dictionary of Lost Words (Affirm Press, 2021) / Pip Williams

STORIES

1. Land of Big Numbers (Scribner UK, 2021) / Te-Ping Chen

2. The Office of Historical Corrections (Picador, 2021) / Danielle Evans

3. Damned If I Do (Influx Press, 2021) / Percival Everett

4. Touring the Land of the Dead (trans. from the Japanese by Haydn Trowell) (Europa Editions, 2021) / Maki Kashimada

5. Reality and Other Stories (W.W. Norton, 2021) / John Lanchester

6. The (Other) You (Ecco, 2021) / Joyce Carol Oates

POETRY

1. Dropbear (University of Queensland Press, 2021) / Evelyn Araluen

2. The Stone Age (Picador, 2021) / Jen Hadfield

3. Beowulf: A New Translation (Scribe UK, 2021) / Maria Dahvana Headley

4. Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet Press, 2021) / Victoria Kennefick

5. New Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Frederick Seidel

6. War of the Beasts and the Animals (trans. from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale) (Bloodaxe, 2021) / Maria Stepanova

7. Ransom (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Michael Symmons Roberts

8. frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press, 2021) / Diane Seuss

NONFICTION

1. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance (Random House, 2021) / Hanif Abdurraqib

2. A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance (Allen Lane, 2021) / Hanif Abdurraqib

3. He (Text Publishing, 2021) / Murray Bail

4. The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Shrabani Basu

5. Handiwork (Tramp Press, 2021) / Sara Baume

6. Festival Days (Little, Brown, 2021) / Jo Ann Beard

7. Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said (Bloomsbury Publishing/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Timothy Brennan

8. Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth (Oxford University Press, 2021) / Gordon Campbell

9. Value(s): Building a Better World for All (William Collins, 2021) / Mark Carney

10. Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing (Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Horatio Clare

11. The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World (Profile Books, 2021) / Linda Colley

12. Girlhood (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Melissa Febos

13. The Fragile Earth: Writing from The New Yorker on Climate Change(William Collins, 2021) / David Remnick & Henry Finder (eds)

14. Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Glenn Frankel

15. Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time (Verso, 2021) / Vivian Gornick

16. Albert and the Whale (4th Estate, 2021) / Philip Hoare

17. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Simon & Schuster/Simon & Schuster UK, 2021) / Walter Isaacson

18. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (The Bodley Head, 2021) / Elizabeth Kolbert

19. Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology (Granta, 2021) / Frances Larson

20. The Nightingale: Notes on a Songbird (Century, 2021) / Sam Lee

21. Birdsong in a Time of Silence (Particular Books, 2021) / Steven Lovatt

22. India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750–2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2021) / Claude Markovits

23. Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988-2020 (Unbound, 2021) / Jonathan Meades

24. Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions (Random House, 2021) / Michael Moss

25. Philip Roth: A Counterlife (Oxford University Press, 2021) / Ira Nadel

26. On Wanting to Change (Penguin, 2021) / Adam Phillips

27. Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Hella Pick

28. The Karakoram: Ice Mountains of Pakistan (Merrell Publishers, 2021) / Colin Prior

29. New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time (W.W. Norton/John Murray, 2021) / Craig Taylor

30. A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / David Thomson

31. Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship (Hurst, 2021) / Stephen Vines

32. Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir (William Collins, 2021) / Marina Warner

33. A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Picador/W.W. Norton, 2021) / Scott Weidensaul