November 2021 Highlights

NOVELS

1. The Selfless Act of Breathing (Dialogue Books, 2021) / J.J. Bola

2. The Perishing (Counterpoint, 2021) / Natasha Deón

3. The Sentence (Harper, 2021) / Louise Erdrich

4. Never (Macmillan/Viking, 2021) / Ken Follett

5. O Beautiful (St Martin’s Press, 2021) / Jung Yun

6. Small Things Like These (Grove, 2021) / Claire Keegan

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

8. The Transentients (trans. from the Spanish by Jessica Powell) (McPherson, 2021) / Sergio Missana

9. The Retreat (Salt Publishing, 2021) / Alison Moore

10. The Fell (Picador, 2021) / Sarah Moss

11. An Unusual Grief (Cassava Republic Press, 2021) / Yewande Omotoso

12. The Island of Missing Trees (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Elif Shafak

13. Our Country Friends (Random House, 2021) / Gary Shteyngart

14. Blue Skinned Gods (Legend Press, 2021) / S.J. Sindu

15. Where You Come From (trans. from the German by Damion Searls) (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Saša Stanišić

16. Trust (trans. from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri) (Europa Editions, 2021) / Domenico Starnone

17. The Books of Jacob (trans. from the Polish by Jennifer Croft) (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021) / Olga Tokarczuk

18. Lily: A Tale of Revenge (Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Rose Tremain

19. Harsh Times (trans. from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West) (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Mario Vargas Llosa

20. The Gardener (Viking, 2021) / Sally Vickers

21. The Swift and the Harrier (Allen & Unwin, 2021) / Minette Walters

22. A Previous Life (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Edmund White

23. Still Life (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2021) / Sarah Winman

FIRST NOVELS

1. New York, My Village (W.W. Norton, 2021) / Uwem Akpan

2. Somebody Loves You (And Other Stories, 2021) / Mona Arshi

3. A Net for Small Fishes (Flatiron Books, 2021) / Lucy Jago

4. Pity the Beast (And Other Stories, 2021) / Robin McLean

5. The Falling Thread (Bloomsbury Circus, 2021) / Adam O’Riordan

6. Love in the Big City (trans. from the Korean by Anton Hur) (Black Cat, 2021) / Sang Young Park

7. Learwife (Canongate, 2021) / J.R. Thorp

8. Win Me Something (Tin House, 2021) / Kyle Lucia Wu

STORIES

1. Catalogue of a Private Life (trans. from the Arabic by Sawad Hussain) (Dedalus Books, 2021) / Najwa Bin Shatwan

2. Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / A.S. Byatt

3. The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights (trans. by Yasmine Seale) (Liveright, 2021) / Paulo Lemos Horta (ed.)

4. People From My Neighborhood (trans. from the Japanese by Ted Goossen) (Soft Skull Press, 2021) / Hiromi Kawakami

5. Five Tuesdays in Winter (Grove, 2021) / Lily King

6. Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love (Sceptre, 2021) / Huma Qureshi

7. Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone (Canongate, 2021) / John Edgar Wideman

8. The City of Mist (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Carlos Ruiz Zafón

POETRY

1. Against Silence (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Frank Bidart

2. Like a Tree, Walking (Carcanet Press, 2021) / Vahni Capildeo

3. New and Selected Poems (Picador, 2021) / Ian Duhig

4. Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village (trans. from the Swedish by Peter Graves) (Allen Lane, 2021) / Marit Kapla

5. Howdie-Skelp (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Paul Muldoon

6. The All-Seeing Eye: Collected Poems (trans. from the Chinese by John Balcom) (Cambria Press, 2021) / Shang Qin

7. Amnion (Granta, 2021) / Stephanie Sy-Quia

8. Oak (Picador, 2021) / Katharine Towers

9. Stones (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Kevin Young

NONFICTION

1. The Greeks: A Global History (Faber & Faber/Basic Books, 2021) / Roderick Beaton

2. The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment / Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece (Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2021) / Kevin Birmingham

3. Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict (Yale University Press, 2021) / Sumantra Bose

4. Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution (Doubleday, 2021) / H.W. Brands

5. A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick (W.W. Norton, 2021) / Cathy Curtis

6. Magritte: A Life (Profile Books/Pantheon, 2021) / Alex Danchev

7. Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages and the City of Arles (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Lydia Davis

8. Why Food Matters (Yale University Press, 2021) / Paul Freedman

9. Oppositions: Selected Essays (Serpent’s Tail, 2021) / Mary Gaitskill

10. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World (Allen Lane, 2021) / Malcolm Gaskill

11. I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir (trans. from the Norwegian by B.L. Crook) (Pushkin Press, 2021) / Jan Grue

12. A Hitch In Time: Writings from the London Review of Books (Atlantic Books, 2021) / Christopher Hitchens

13. On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times (Metropolitan Books, 2021) / Michael Ignatieff

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

15. The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe (Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2021) / Mark Mazower

16. A Venetian at the Mughal Court: The Life and Adventures of Nicolò Manucci (trans. from the Italian by Elisabetta Gnecchi Ruscone) (Penguin Random House India, 2021) / Marco Moneta

17. Allegorizings (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Jan Morris

18. Last Letter to a Reader: Essays (Giramondo, 2021) / Gerald Murnane

19. These Precious Days: Essays (Harper, 2021) / Ann Patchett

20. Indigo: Arm Wrestling, Snake Saving, and Some Things In Between (Catapult, 2021) / Padgett Powell

21. A Life of Picasso: The Minotaur Years 1933-1943 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / John Richardson

22. The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III (Viking, 2021) / Andrew Roberts

23. Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Elizabeth D. Samet

24. Pride, Prejudice and Punditry: The Essential Shashi Tharoor (Aleph Book Company, 2021) / Shashi Tharoor

25. The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English (Profile Books, 2021) / Hana Videen

26. When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be (Princeton University Press, 2021) / Martin Williams

October 2021 Highlights

NOVELS

1. The Pessimists (Grove Press, 2021) / Bethany Ball

2. April in Spain (Faber & Faber, 2021) / John Banville

3. The Impossible Truths of Love (Lake Union Publishing, 2021) / Hannah Beckerman

4. Case Study (Saraband, 2021) / Graeme Macrae Burnet

5. Small Pleasures (Custom House, 2021) / Clare Chambers

6. What Storm, What Thunder (Tin House Press, 2021) / Myriam J. A. Chancy

7. Whisper (trans. from the Chinese by Roddy Flagg) (Honford Star, 2021) / Chang Yu-Ko

8. Scary Monsters (Allen & Unwin, 2021) / Michelle de Kretser

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

10. Treacle Walker (4th Estate, 2021) / Alan Garner

11. Burntcoat (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Sarah Hall

12. A Change of Circumstance (Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Susan Hill

13. A Guardian Angel Recalls (trans. from the Dutch by David Colmer) (Pushkin Press, 2021) / Willem Frederik Hermans

14. Some Things Like These (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Claire Keegan

15. Corporal Hitler’s Pistol (Penguin Books Australia, 2021) / Tom Keneally

16. Devotion (Picador Australia/Pan Macmillan Australia, 2021) / Hannah Kent

17. Five Decembers (Hard Case Crime, 2021) / James Kestrel

18. Lemon (trans. from the Korean by Janet Hong) (Other Press/Apollo, 2021) / Kwon Yeo-sun

19. Silverview (Viking, 2021) / John le Carré

20. The Archipelago of Another Life (trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan) (Arcade Publishing, 2021) / Andreï Makine

21. The Reprieve (William Morrow/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / James Han Mattson

22. The Pastor (trans. from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken) (Archipelago Books, 2021) / Hanne Ørstavik

23. Riccardino (trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli) (Mantle, 2021) / Andrea Camilleri

24. Trust (trans. from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri) (Europa Editions, 2021) / Domenico Starnone

25. Oh William! (Random House/Viking, 2021) / Elizabeth Strout

26. Em (trans. from the French by Sheila Fischman) (Seven Stories Press, 2021) / Kim Thúy

27. Fight Night (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Miriam Toews

28. The Lincoln Highway (Viking/Hutchinson Heinemann, 2021) / Amor Towles

29. I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness (Riverhead, 2021) / Claire Vaye Watkins

30. Monster in the Middle (Riverhead, 2021) / Tiphanie Yanique

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

FIRST NOVELS

1. My Monticello (Henry Holt, 2021) / Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

2. The Whistling (Michael Joseph, 2021) / Rebecca Netley

3. Love in the Big City (trans. from the Korean by Anton Hur) (Tilted Axis Press, 2021) / Sang Young Park

4. The Survivors (trans. from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles) (Fleet, 2021) / Alex Schulman

5. Oldladyvoice (trans. from the Spanish by Charlotte Whittle) (And Other Stories, 2021) / Elisa Victoria

STORIES

1. Life Without Children (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Roddy Doyle

2. Metamorphosis: Selected Stories (Fig Tree, 2021) / Penelope Lively

3. The Ruins of Contracoeur and Other Presences (Swan River Press, 2021) / Joyce Carol Oates

4. Dark Neighbourhood (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021) / Vanessa Onwuemezi

POETRY

1. The Owl and the Nightingale (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Simon Armitage

2. Winter Recipes from the Collective (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Carcanet, 2021) / Louise Glück

3. All the Men I Never Married (Seven, 2021) / Kim Moore

4. Sanctuaries of Invention (Peepal Tree Press, 2021) / Jennifer Rahim

5. Shoulder Tap (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Maurice Riordan

6. Such Color: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2021) / Tracy K. Smith

NONFICTION

1. Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (Faber & Faber/Henry Holt, 2021) / Paul Auster

2. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs (Basic Books, 2021) / Marc David Baer

3. Athens: City of Wisdom (Apollo/Head of Zeus, 2021) / Bruce Clark

4. Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (University of Chicago Press, 2021) / Teju Cole

5. Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be (Princeton University Press, 2021) / Diane Coyle

6. The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets (PublicAffairs, 2021) / Janine di Giovanni

7. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City (Random House, 2021) / Andrea Elliott

8. Manifesto: On Never Giving Up (Hamish Hamilton, 2021) / Bernardine Evaristo

9. A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece (Oneworld Publications, 2021) / Peter Fiennes

10. Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2021) / Howard W. French

11. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (John Murray/University of Chicago Press, 2021) / Amitav Ghosh

12. Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language (Zed Books, 2021) / James Griffiths

13. Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups (Columbia University Press, 2021) / Robert Hellyer

14. Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (Simon & Schuster, 2021) / Woody Holton

15. Everything, All the Same, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern (Verso, 2021) / Stuart Jeffries

16. The Loneliest Americans (Crown, 2021) / Jay Caspian Kang

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

18. The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA’s Double Helix (W.W. Norton, 2021) / Howard Markel

19. The Joy of Small Things (Guardian Faber Publishing, 2021) / Hannah Jane Parkinson

20. Mud Sweeter Than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania (trans. from the Polish by Zosia Krasodomska-Jones & Antonia Lloyd-Jones (MacLehose Press, 2021) / Margo Rejmer

21. George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch (Allen Lane, 2021) / Andrew Roberts

22. The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream (Simon & Schuster, 2021) / David M. Rubenstein

23. Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes (Riverhead Books, 2021) / Albert Samaha

24. Ancient India: Culture of Contradictions (Aleph, 2021) / Upinder Singh

25. Orwell’s Roses (Granta/Viking, 2021) / Rebecca Solnit

26. The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World (Viking, 2021) / Claire Tomalin

27. Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (Allen Lane, 2021) / Lea Ypi