July 2021 Highlights

NOVELS

1. The Startup Wife (Scribner, 2021) / Tahmima Anam

2. A Passage North (Hogarth/Granta, 2021) / Anuk Arudpragasam

3. Appleseed (Custom House, 2021) / Matt Bell

4. Blue Postcards (Fairlight Books, 2021) / Douglas Bruton

5. Ceremony of Innocence (Granta Books, 2021) / Madeleine Bunting

6. Godspeed (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Faber & Faber, 2021) / Nickolas Butler

7. What Strange Paradise (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Omar El Akkad

8. Dear Miss Metropolitan (Henry Holt, 2021) / Carolyn Ferrell

9. Monkey Boy (Grove Press UK, 2021) / Francisco Goldman

10. The Pages (4th Estate, 2021) / Hugo Hamilton

11. A Song Everlasting (Pantheon, 2021) / Ha Jin

12. Afraid of the Light (Hutchinson, 2021) / Douglas Kennedy

13. Intimacies (Riverhead, 2021) / Katie Kitamura

14. Songbirds (Manilla Press, 2021) / Christy Lefteri

15. What You Can See From Here (trans. from the German by Tess Lewis) (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Marina Leky

16. Dream Girl (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Laura Lippman

17. The Black Dress (Tinder Press, 2021) / Deborah Moggach

18. Daughters of the Labyrinth (Corsair, 2021) / Ruth Padel

19. China Room (Viking, 2021) / Sunjeev Sahota

20. People Like Us (trans. from the French by Lara Vergnaud) (Raven Books, 2021) / Samira Sedira

21. Fortune (Peepal Tree Press, 2021) / Amanda Smyth

22. Wayward (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Dana Spiotta

23. Bolla (trans. from the Finnish by David Hackston) (Pantheon, 2021) / Pajtim Statovci

24. Hard Like Water (trans. from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas) (Black Cat, 2021) / Yan Lianke

25. Creatures of Passage (Jacaranda Books, 2021) / Morowa Yejidé

FIRST NOVELS

1. The Paper Lantern (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Will Burns

2. Three Rooms (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Jo Hamya

3. The Paper Palace (Riverhead/Viking, 2021) / Miranda Cowley Heller

4. Strange Children (Red Hen Press, 2022) / Sadie Hoagland

5. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Harper/HarperCollins, 2021) / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

6. Build Your House Around My Body (Oneworld, 2021) / Violet Kupersmith

7. The Coward (Canongate, 2021) / Jarred McGinnis

8. Wild Pets (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Amber Medland

9. The Five Wounds (Tuskar Rock Press/Profile Books, 2021) / Kirstin Valdez Quade

10. Everyone Is Still Alive (Phoenix, 2021) / Cathy Rentzenbrink

STORIES

1. Cursed Bunny (trans. from the Korean by Anton Hur) (Honford Star, 2021) / Bora Chung

2. We Want What We Want (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Alix Ohlin

3. Variations on the Body (trans. from the Spanish by Heather Cleary) (Coffee House Press, 2021) / María Ospina

4. Objects of Desire (Picador, 2021) / Clare Sestanovich

5. Shine/Variance (Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Stephen Walsh

POETRY

1. The Wild Fox of Yemen (Picador, 2021) / Threa Almontaser

2. The Paper Lantern (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Will Burns

3. Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency (Valley Press, 2021) / Kate Simpson (ed.)

NONFICTION

1. The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans (W.W. Norton, 2021) / Cynthia Barnett

2. Hello, Stranger: How We Find Connection in a Disconnected World (Granta, 2021) / Will Buckingham

3. Beginnings, Endings, and Salt: Essays (Books & Books Press, 2021) / Edwidge Danticat

4. The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier (Picador, 2021) / Max Egremont

5. Things Are Against Us (Galley Beggar Press, 2021) / Lucy Ellmann

6. A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha (HarperVia, 2021) / Rodrigo García

7. Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey Into Muslim Europe (Bradt Guides, 2021) / Tharik Hussain

8. Panic As Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist (Robinson, 2021) / Roger Lytollis

9. The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History (Verso, 2021) / Jamie Mackay

10. Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves (Manchester University Press, 2021) / Peter Mitchell

11. Democracy Rules (Allen Lane, 2021) / Jan-Werner Müller

12. The Hero’s Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna (W.W. Norton, 2021) / Tim Parks

13. Meet the Georgians: Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century (William Collins, 2021) / Robert Peal

14. This Is Your Mind on Plants (Penguin Press/Allen Lane, 2021) / Michael Pollan

15. Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us (Viking, 2021) / Patrick Roberts

16. White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector (Salt Publishing, 2021) / Nicholas Royle

17. Home in the World: A Memoir (Allen Lane, 2021) / Amartya Sen

18. 12 Bytes (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Jeanette Winterson

19. Pessoa: A Biography/Pessoa: An Experimental Life (Liveright/Allen Lane, 2021) / Richard Zenith