August 2021 Highlights

NOVELS

1. The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Press, 2021) / Rabih Alameddine

2. All’s Well (Simon & Schuster, 2021) / Mona Awad

3. The Women of Troy (Hamish Hamilton/Doubleday, 2021) / Pat Barker
4. The Echo Chamber (Doubleday, 2021) / John Boyne

5. Loved and Missed (Virago, 2021) / Susie Boyt

6. What Happens at Night (Europa Editions, 2021) / Peter Cameron

7. Waiting for the Waters to Rise (trans. from the French by Richard Philcox) (World Editions, 2021) / Maryse Condé

8. Moon and the Mars (Seven Stories, 2021) / Kia Corthron

9. The President and the Frog (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Carolina De Robertis

10. Rose Nicolson (Riverrun, 2021) / Andrew Greig

11. More Than I Love My Life (trans. from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen) (Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / David Grossman

12. A Narrow Door (Orion, 2021) / Joanne Harris

13. A Slow Fire Burning (Doubleday/Riverhead, 2021) / Paula Hawkins

14. The Guide (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Peter Heller

15. The Wingmaker (Text Publishing, 2021) / Mette Jakobsen

16. Monument Maker (White Rabbit, 2021) / David Keenan

17. Billy Summers (Scribner, 2021) / Stephen King

18. Something New Under the Sun (Hogarth/4th Estate, 2021) / Alexandra Kleeman

19. The Plot (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Jean Hanff Korelitz

20. Lightning Strike (Atria, 2021) / William Kent Kruger

21. Once There Were Wolves (Flatiron, 2021) / Charlotte McConaghy

22. 1979 (Little, Brown, 2021) / Val McDermid

23. The Human Zoo (Grove Press/Black Cat, 2021) / Sabina Murray

24. Breathe (Ecco/4th Estate, 2021) / Joyce Carol Oates

25. Men in My Situation (trans. from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey) (Harvill Secker, 2021) / Per Petterson

26. News of the Dead (Hamish Hamilton, 2021) / James Robertson

27. The Perfume Thief (Doubleday, 2021) / Timothy Schaffert

28. The Island of Missing Trees (Viking, 2021) / Elif Shafak

29. Tomb of Sand (trans. from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell) (Tilted Axis Press, 2022) / Geetanjali Shree

30. The Country of Others/In the Country of Others (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (Faber & Faber/Penguin Books, 2021) / Leïla Slimani

31. Savage Tongues (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021) /Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

32. The Angels of L19 (Weatherglass, 2021) / Jonathan Walker

FIRST NOVELS

1. Radiant Fugitives (Counterpoint, 2021) / Nawaaz Ahmed

2. Checkout 19 (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Claire-Louise Bennett

3. Edge Case (Ecco, 2021) / YZ Chin

4. Damnation Spring (Scribner, 2021) / Ash Davidson

5. Mrs March (Liveright, 2021) / Virginia Feito

6. Three Rooms (Mariner Books, 2021) / Jo Hamya

7. Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / David Hoon Kim

8. Paul (Granta, 2021) / Daisy Lafarge

9. Gold Diggers (Simon & Schuster UK, 2021) / Sanjena Sathian

10. Unbelonging (Mango & Marigold Press, 2021) / Gayatri Sethi

11. The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach (Hodder & Stoughton, 2021) / Jas Treadwell

STORIES

1. Dark as Last Night (University of Queensland Press, 2021) / Tony Birch

2. Shoko’s Smile (trans. from the Korean by Sung Ryu) (John Murray, 2021) / Choi Eunyoung

3. Skinship (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Yoon Choi

4. People From My Neighbourhood (trans. from the Japanese by Ted Goossen) (Granta, 2021) / Hiromi Kawakami

5. Blank Pages and Other Stories (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Bernard MacLaverty

6. American Estrangement (W.W. Norton, 2021) / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

7. Afterparties (Ecco, 2021) / Anthony Veasna So

8. Songs for the Flames (trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean) (Riverhead, 2021) / Juan Gabriel Vásquez

9. We Two Alone (HarperVia, 2021) / Jack Wang

10. Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) Hilma Wolitzer

POETRY

1. Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf Press, 2021) / Kaveh Akbar

2. Learning to Sleep (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / John Burnside

3. Playlist for the Apocalypse (W.W. Norton, 2021) / Rita Dove

4. Poems 1962-2020 (Penguin Classics, 2021) / Louise Glück

5. Cheryl’s Destinies (Penguin, 2021) / Stephen Sexton

6. A Year in the New Life (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Jack Underwood

7. Grass Chapels: New & Selected Poems (Mercer University Press, 2021) / William Wright

NONFICTION

1. Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald (Bloomsbury Circus, 2021) / Carole Angier
2. Festival Days (Little, Brown US, 2021) / Jo Ann Beard

3. Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It/Time Management for Mortals (The Bodley Head/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Oliver Burkeman

4. Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans (Allen Lane, 2021) / Christopher Clark

5. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler (Little, Brown/Canongate Books, 2021) / Rebecca Donner

6. The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler’s First Mass-Murder Programme (William Collins, 2021) / Charlie English

7. Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness (Profile Books, 2021) / Charles Foster

8. Family Business: An Intimate History of John Lewis and the Partnership (William Collins, 2021) / Victoria Glendinning

9. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Dave Goulson

10. Farming in Modern Irish Literature (Oxford University Press, 2021) / Nicholas Grene

11. I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir (trans. from the Norwegian by B.L. Crook) (FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Jan Grue

12. The Prisoner (trans. from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell & Anton Hur) (Verso Books, 2021) / Hwang Sok-yong

13. The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris (Oxford University Press, 2021) / Colin Jones

14. Aftershocks: Pandeimc Politics and the End of the Old International Order (St Martin’s Press, 2021) / Colin Kahl & Thomas Wright

15. Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960 (Columbia University Press, 2021) / Elizabeth LaCouture

16. Real Estate: A Living Autobiography (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Deborah Levy

17. The Contemporary American Essay (Anchor, 2021) / Phillip Lopate (ed.)

18. What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Alice McDermott

19. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (W.W. Norton, 2021) / Mae Ngai

20. Borges and Me: An Encounter (Canongate, 2021) / Jay Parini

21. Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Eyal Press

22. Secret Selves: A History of Our Inner Space (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) / Stephen Prickett

23. Antwerp: The Glory Years (Allen Lane, 2021) / Michael Pye

24. Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor (Catapult, 2021) / Anna Qu

25. Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (W.W. Norton, 2021) / Fiona Sampson

26. The Truth About Lies: A Taxonomy of Deceit, Hoaxes and Cons (Atlantic Books, 2021) / Aja Raden

27. Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City (Melville House, 2021) / Samira Shackle

28. Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia (Little, Brown Australia, 2021) / Jeevan Vasagar

29. Lives Between the Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Michael Vatikiotis

30. Burning Man: The Trials of D.H. Lawrence (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Frances Wilson

31. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir (Picador, 2021) / Michelle Zaune1