September 2021 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Children of Dust (Regal House Publishing, 2021) / Marlin Barton

2. A Calling for Charlie Barnes (Viking/Little, Brown, 2021) / Joshua Ferris

3. Civilisations (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Laurent Binet

4. Talk to Me (Ecco, 2021) / T.C. Boyle

5. Late City (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021) / Robert Olen Butler

6. When Ghosts Come Home (William Morrow, 2021) / Wiley Cash

7. Insignificance (Coach House Books, 2021) / James Clammer

8. Crossing the Mangrove (trans. from the French by Richard Philcox) (Penguin Classics, 2021) / Maryse Condé

9. The Lighthouse Witches (HarperCollins, 2021) / C.J. Cooke

10. Magpie (4th Estate, 2021) / Elizabeth Day

11. The Inseparables (trans. from the French by Lauren Elkin) (Vintage Classics, 2021) / Simone de Beauvoir

12. Inseparable (trans. from the French by Sandra Smith) (Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, 2021) / Simone de Beauvoir

13. Cloud Cuckoo Land (Scribner/4th Estate, 2021) / Anthony Doerr

14. Bodies of Light (Text Publishing, 2021) / Jennifer Down

15. The Trees (Graywolf Press, 2021) / Percival Everett

16. Snow Country (Hutchinson, 2021) / Sebastian Faulks

17. A Calling for Charlie Barnes (Viking, 2021) / Joshua Ferris

18. Freight Dogs (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Giles Foden

19. Matrix (Riverhead Books/William Heinemann, 2021) / Lauren Groff

20. The Water Statues (trans. from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff) (New Directions, 2021) / Fleur Jaeggy

21. Palmares (Beacon Press/Virago, 2021) / Gayl Jones

22. The Morning Star (trans. from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken) (Penguin Press/Harvill Secker, 2021) / Karl One Knausgaard

23. The War for Gloria (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Atticus Lish

24. Tenderness (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Alison MacLeod

25. The Sisters Mao (Scribe UK, 2021) / Gavin McCrea

26. The Dark Remains (Canongate, 2021) / William McIlvanney/Ian Rankin

27. Apples Never Fall (Henry Holt/Michael Joseph, 2021) / Liane Moriarty

28. The Man Who Died Twice (Viking, 2021) / Richard Osman

29. The Book of Form and Emptiness (Viking/Canongate, 2021) / Ruth Ozeki

30. Crazy Sorrow (Simon & Schuster, 2023) / Vince Passaro

31. Bewilderment (W.W. Norton/William Heinemann, 2021) / Richard Powers

32. Beautiful World, Where Are You (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Sally Rooney

33. The Earthspinner (Mountain Leopard Press, 2021) / Anuradha Roy

34. Oh, William! (Viking, 2021) / Elizabeth Strout

35. The Magician (Viking/Scribner, 2021) / Colm Tóibín

36. Harlem Shuffle (Fleet, 2021) / Colson Whitehead

37. Harrow (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Joy Williams

38. Planet of Clay (trans. from the Arabic by Leri Price) (World Editions, 2021) / Samar Yazbek

FIRST NOVELS
1. Keeping the House (And Other Stories, 2021) / Tice Cin

2. Dinner Party: A Tragedy (One, 2021) / Sarah Gilmartin

3. Fault Lines (Custom House, 2021) / Emily Itami

4. Snowflake (Harper, 2021) / Louise Nealon
5. The Whistleblower (Zaffre, 2021) / Robert Peston
6. House of Glass Hearts (Yali, 2021) / Leila Siddiqui
7. The Archer (Algonquin Books, 2021) / Shruti Swamy

8. Winter Counts (Simon & Schuster UK, 2021) / David Heska Wanbli Weiden

STORIES

1. English Magic (Galley Beggar Press, 2021) / Uschi Gatward
2. Greek Myths: A New Retelling (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Charlotte Higgins

3. The Dog of Tithwal (trans. from the Urdu by Khalid Hasan & Muhammad Umar Memon) (Archipelago, 2021) / Saadat Hasan Manto
4. When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds (Wayne State University Press, 2021) / Peter Markus
5. Hao (Catapult, 2021) / Ye Chun

POETRY

1. All The Names Given (Picador, 2021) / Raymond Antrobus
2. Bioluminescent Baby (Guillemot Press, 2021) / Fiona Benson

3. Men Who Feed Pigeons (Bloodaxe, 2021) / Selima Hill

4. Far District (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Ishion Hutchinson

5. My Darling from the Lions (Tin House Books, 2021) / Rachel Long

6. The Kids (Bloodaxe, 2021) / Hannah Lowe

7. The Poems (1961-2020) (The Gallery Press, 2021) / Derek Mahon

8. The Sun Is Open (Penned in the Margins, 2021) / Gail McConnell

NONFICTION

1. Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Princeton University Press, 2021) / Mary Beard

2. Souvenir: London, 1979-1986 (White Rabbit, 2021) / Michael Bracewell

3. The Conquistadores: The Untold History of Spanish Discovery and Empire (Viking, 2021) / Fernando Cervantes

4. The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

5. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure (Allen Lane, 2021) / Dennis Duncan

6. Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling (House of Anansi Press, 2021) / Esi Edugyan

7. The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783 (Liveright, 2021) / Joseph J. Ellis

8. Cuba: An American History (Scribner, 2021) / Ada Ferrer

9. Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories (Swift Press, 2021) / Angus Fletcher

10. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (Harper, 2021) / Dave Goulson

11. Poet Warrior: A Memoir (W.W. Norton, 2021) / Joy Harjo

12. People Who Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (W.W. Norton, 2021) / Dara Horn

13. Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 (Allen Lane, 2021) / Clare Jackson

14. Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture (Pantheon, 2021) / Randall Kennedy

15. On the Cusp: Days of ’62 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / David Kynaston

16. Beyond the Silk Roads: Trade, Mobility and Geopolitics Across Eurasia (Cambridge University Press, 2021) / Magnus Marsden

17. Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton (Basic Books, 2021) / Joe Moshenska

18. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Graywolf Press/Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Maggie Nelson

19. We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 (Head of Zeus, 2021) / Fintan O’Toole

20. Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy (Viking, 2021) / Nathaniel Philbrick

21. False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma (Juggernaut, 2021) / Manu S. Pillai

22. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters (Allen Lane/Viking, 2021) / Steven Pinker

23. Europe’s Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp’s Golden Age (Pegasus, 2021) / Michael Pye

24. Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South (Milkweed, 2021) / Margaret Renkl

25. Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us (Basic Books, 2021) / Patrick Roberts

26. Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Dan Saladino

27. The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers (Oneworld Publications, 2021) / Iain Sinclair

28. Merchants: The Community That Shaped England’s Trade and Empire, 1550-1650 (Yale University Press, 2021) / Edmond Smith

29. The Heroine With 1001 Faces (Liveright, 2021) / Maria Tatar

30. The Struggle for India’s Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy (Hurst, 2021) / Shashi Tharoor

31. The Amur River: Between Russia and China (Chatto & Windus/Harper, 2021) / Colin Thubron

32. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy (Allen Lane, 2021) / Adam Tooze

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

34. Beautiful Country: A Memoir (Doubleday, 2021) / Qian Julie Wang

35. The Luminous Solution: Creativity, Resilience and the Inner Life (Allen & Unwin, 2021) / Charlotte Wood