April 2022 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Elizabeth Finch (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Julian Barnes

2. Seven Steeples (Tramp Press/Mariner Books, 2022) / Sara Baume

3. A Tidy Ending (The Borough Press, 2022) / Joanna Cannon

4. Scary Monsters (Catapult, 2022) / Michelle de Kretser

5. The Red Children (Telegram Books, 2022) / Maggie Gee

6. Emergency (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022) / Daisy Hildyard

7. The Chosen (Riverrun, 2022) / Elizabeth Lowry

8. Beautiful Star (trans. from the Japanese by Stephen Dodd) (Penguin Classics, 2022) / Yukio Mishima

9. Life Sentences (Godine, 2022) / Billy O’Callaghan

10. At the Edge of the Woods (trans. from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter) (Two Lines Press, 2022) / Masatsugu Ono

11. Take My Hand (Berkley, 2022) / Dolen Perkins-Valdez

12. Violets (trans. from the Korean by Anton Hur) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022) / Kyung-Sook Shin

13. Tomb of Sand (trans. from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell) (Penguin India, 2022) / Geetanjali Shree

14. Companion Piece (Hamish Hamilton, 2022) / Ali Smith

15. Sea of Tranquility (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Emily St John Mandel

16. One Day I Shall Astonish the World (Viking, 2022) / Nina Stibbe

17. Young Mungo (Picador/Grove Atlantic, 2022) / Douglas Stuart

18. I Was the President’s Mistress!! (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Miguel Syjuco

19. Aftermath (And Other Stories, 2022) / Preti Tanja

20. Fight Night (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Miriam Toews

FIRST NOVELS

1. The Return of Faraz Ali (Riverhead Books, 2022) / Aamina Ahmad

2. Lessons In Chemistry (Doubleday, 2022) / Bonnie Garmus

3. Trespasses (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Louise Kennedy

4. Very Cold People (Picador, 2022) / Sarah Manguso

5. The Coward (Canongate, 2022) / Jarred McGinnis

6. Things They Lost (Oneworld, 2022) / Okwiri Oduor

7. A Mirror Made of Rain (The Unnamed Press, 2022) / Naheed Phiroze Patel

8. When We Fell Apart (Dutton, 2022) / Soon Wiley

9. Memphis (The Dial Press/John Murray, 2022) / Tara M. Stringfellow

10. Four Treasures of the Sky (Flatiron Books, 2022) / Jenny Tinghui Zhang

STORIES

1. People from Bloomington (trans. from the Indonesian by Tiffany Tsao) (Penguin Classics, 2022) / Budi Darma

2. The Trouble with Happiness and Other Stories (trans. from the Danish by Michael Favala Goldman) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Tove Ditlevsen

3. We Move (Serpent’s Tail, 2022) / Gurnail Johal

4. Interesting Women (Random House, 2022) / Andrea Lee

5. The Partition (Akashic Books, 2022) / Don Lee

6. Nobody Gets Out Alive (Scribner, 2022) / Leigh Newman

POETRY

1. Other People’s Lives (New Island Books, 2022) / Dermot Bolger

2. Orlam (Picador, 2022) / PJ Harvey

3. Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon Press, 2022) / Dana Levin

4. Music for the Dead and Resurrected (Bloomsbury Poetry, 2022) / Volzhyna Mort

5. Time Is a Mother (Penguin Press/Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Ocean Vuong

NONFICTION

1. The Lives of the Saints: The Laureate Lectures (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Sebastian Barry

2. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss (Granta Books, 2022) / Amy Bloom

3. On Agoraphobia (Picador, 2022) / Graham Caveney

4. Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past (Simon & Schuster, 2022) / Richard Cohen

5. Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan (McFarland, 2022) / David A. Conrad

6. The Fifties: An Underground History (Simon & Schuster, 2022) / James R. Gaines

7. The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality (The Bodley Head, 2022) / Oded Galor

8. Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction (Faber & Faber, 2022) / David George Haskell

9. Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age (Chatto & Windus, 2022) / Daisy Hay

10. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir (Pantheon, 2022) / Margo Jefferson

11. Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong (Riverhead Books, 2022) / Louisa Lim

12. The Barefoot Woman (trans. from the French by Jordan Stump) (Daunt Books, 2022) / Scholastique Mukasonga

13. The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World (The Bodley Head, 2022) / Gideon Rachman

14. A Life of Picasso: Volume IV: The Minotaur Years 1933-43 (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / John Richardson

15. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Katherine Rundell

16. Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World (Constable, 2022) / John Walsh

17. About a Son: A Murder and a Father’s Search for Truth (Phoenix, 2022) / David Whitehouse