June 2021 Highlights

NOVELS

1. The Divorce (trans. from the Spanish by Chris Andrews) (New Directions/And Other Stories, 2021) / César Aira

2. Cwen (Serpent’s Tail, 2021) / Alice Albinia

3. Ghosted (Sceptre, 2021) / Jenn Ashworth

4. Two Women in Rome (Corvus, 2021) / Elizabeth Buchan

5. Statues in a Garden (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Isabel Colgate

6. Legends of the North Cascades (Algonquin Books, 2021) / Jonathan Evison

7. The Dictator’s Muse (Doubleday, 2021) / Nigel Farndale

8. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Rivka Galchen

9. The Promise (Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Damon Galgut

10. A Room Made of Leaves (Text Publishing, 2021) / Kate Grenville

11. Mrs England (Manilla Press, 2022) / Stacey Halls

12. Morningside Heights (Pantheon, 2021) / Joshua Henkin

13. The Woman in the Purple Skirt (trans. from the Japanese by Lucy North) (Penguin Books/Faber & Faber, 2021) / Natsuko Imamura

14. Lorna Mott Comes Home (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Diane Johnson

15. Keeping in Touch (Westland, 2021) / Anjali Joseph

16. Heaven (trans. from the Japanese by Sam Bett & David Boyd) (Picador, 2021) / Mieko Kawakami

17. The Feast (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Margaret Kennedy

18. The Great Mistake (Granta/Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Jonathan Lee

19. Palace of the Drowned (Flatiron Books/Little, Brown, 2021) / Christine Mangan

20. Batlava Lake (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021) / Adam Mars-Jones

21. Sorrow and Bliss (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Meg Mason

22. Hell of a Book (Dutton, 2021) / Jason Mott

23. Sankofa (Virago, 2021) / Chibundu Onuzo

24. Elephant (Salt, 2021) / Paul Pickering

25. One Hundred Days (Black Inc., 2021) / Alice Pung

26. The Shape of Darkness (Penguin Books, 2021) / Laura Purcell

27. A Shock (Picador, 2021) / Keith Ridgway

28. Last Hummingbird West of Chile (Breakwater, 2021) / Nicholas Ruddock

29. Strange Flowers (Penguin Books, 2021) / Donal Ryan

30. Should We Stay Or Should Wo Go (Harper/The Borough Press, 2021) / Lionel Shriver

31. Double Blind (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Edward St Aubyn

32. Filthy Animals (Riverhead/Daunt Books, 2021) / Brandon Taylor

33. Barcelona Dreaming (Other Press/Corsair, 2021) / Rupert Thomson

34. Night Came With Many Stars (Godine, 2021) / Simon Van Booy

35. The Hummingbird (trans. from the Italian by Elena Pala) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Sandro Veronesi

36. The Chosen and the Beautiful (Tordotcom, 2021) / Nghi Vo

37. Still Life (4th Estate, 2021) / Sarah Winman

38. The Secret Talker (trans. from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang) (HarperVia, 2021) / Geling Yan

39. Hard Like Water (trans. from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas) (Grove/Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Yan Lianke

FIRST NOVELS
1. The Day I Fell Off My Island (Myriad Editions, 2021) / Yvonne Bailey-Smith

2. Assembly (Hamish Hamilton, 2021) / Natasha Brown

3. Widowland (Quercus, 2021) / C.J. Carey
4. The Sweetness of Water (Little, Brown/Tinder Press, 2021) / Nathan Harris

5. The Other Black Girl (Atria Books/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Zakiya Dalila Harris

6. Island (Pushkin Press, 2021) / Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen

7. Long Division (Scribner, 2021) / Kiese Layton

8. The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu (Little, Brown, 2021) / Tom Lin

9. We Were Not Men (HarperCollins Australia, 2021) / Campbell Mattinson

10. The Fugitivities (Melville House, 2021) / Jesse McCarthy

11. Rainbow Milk (Doubleday, 2021) / Paul Mendez

12. The Son of the House (Dundurn Group, 2021) / Cheluchi Onyemelukwe Onuobia

13. Fifty-five Pillars, Red Walls (trans. from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell) (Speaking Tiger, 2021) / Usha Priyamvada

14. Moth (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Melody Razak

15. The Stranding (Coronet, 2021) / Kate Sawyer

16. Animal (Bloomsbury Circus, 2021) / Lisa Taddeo
17. The First Day of Spring (Hutchinson, 2021) / Nancy Tucker

STORIES

1. Shoko’s Smile (trans. from the Korean by Sung Ryu) (Penguin Books, 2021) / Choi Eunyoung

2. The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories (Penguin Classics, 2021) / Margaret Jull Costa (ed.)

3. Let Us Look Elsewhere (Dahlia, 2021) / Mona Dash

4. The Souvenir Museum (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Elizabeth McCracken

5. Chemistry and Other Stories (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Tim Pears

6. In the Event of Contact (Dzanc Books, 2021) / Ethel Rohan

7. Filthy Animals (Riverhead/Daunt Books, 2021) / Brandon Taylor

POETRY

1. Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Leo Boix

2. The Resurrectionists (Bloodaxe, 2021) / John Challis

3. The Heeding (with illustrations by Nick Hayes) (Elliott & Thompson, 2021) / Rob Cowen

4. Honorifics (Nine Arches Press, 2021) / Cynthia Miller

5. Lyonesse (Bloodaxe, 2021) / Penelope Shuttle

NONFICTION

1. The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China (Princeton University Press, 2021) / Tonio Andrade

2. Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Rosencrans Baldwin

3. The Undocumented Americans (Swift Press, 2021) / Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

4. Connections: A Story of Human Feeling (Viking, 2021) / Karl Deisseroth

5. The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Jon Dunn

6. The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of war Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History (Random House, 2021) / Margalit Fox

7. Destination Peking (Blacksmith Books, 2021) / Paul French

8. Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Pluto Press, 2021) / Amelia Horgan

9. Among the Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Ed Husain

10. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 (trans. from the German by Shaun Whiteside) (WH Allen, 2021) / Harald Jähner

11. The Broken House: Growing Up Under Hitler (trans. from the German by Shaun Whiteside) (The Bodley Head, 2021) / Horst Krüger

12. Love and the Novel: Life After Reading (Profile Books, 2022) / Christina Lupton

13. The Day the World Stops Shopping (The Bodley Head, 2021) / J.B. MacKinnon

14. Hyphen (Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Pardis Mahdavi

15. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Random House, 2021) / Tiya Miles

16. The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides (William Collins, 2021) / Adam Nicolson

17. Migratory Birds (trans. from the Spanish by Julia Sanches) (Transit Books, 2021) / Marina Oliver

18. The Hero’s Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna (Harvill Secker, 2021) / Tim Parks

19. The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021) / Annie Murphy Paul

20. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth (Brookings Institution Press, 2021) / Jonathan Rausch

21. Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows (Liveright, 2021) / Ruth Scurr

22. Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Anne Sebba

23. Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy (St Martin’s Press, 2021) / Anne Sebba

24. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Little, Brown, 2021) / Clint Smith

25. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth (Penguin Press, 2021) / Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson & Jason Stanford

26. Walking the Invisible: Following in the Brontës’ Footsteps (HQ/HarperCollins, 2021) / Michael Stewart

27. A Stinging Delight: A Memoir (Faber & Faber, 2021) / David Storey

28. The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany (Manilla Press, 2021) / Gwen Strauss

29. House of Sticks: A Memoir (Scribner, 2021) / Ly Tran

30. The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / John Tresch

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

32. The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid (Allen Lane/Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Lawrence Wright