December 2021 Highlights

NOVELS

1. The Echo Chamber (Doubleday, 2021) / John Boyne

2. Silent Parade (trans. from the Japanese by Giles Murray) (Minotaur Books, 2021) / Keigo Higashino

3. The Fortune Men (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Nadifa Mohamed

4. White on White (Riverhead Books, 2021) / Ayşegül Savaş

5. Where You Come From (trans. from the German by Damion Searls) (Tin House Books, 2021) / Saša Stanišić

6. The Village of Eight Graves (trans. from the Japanese by Bryan Karetnyk) (Pushkin Vertigo, 2021) / Seishi Yokomizo

FIRST NOVELS

1. Five Days Untold (trans. from the Arabic by Christiaan James) (Dar Arab, 2021) / Badr Ahmad

2. Beasts of a Little Land (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2021) / Juhea Kim

3. The Wedding Party (trans. from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang) (Amazon Crossing, 2021) / Liu Xinwu

POETRY

1. Call Us What We Carry (Viking/Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Amanda Gorman

NONFICTION

1. The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Janine di Giovanni

2. Garbo (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Robert Gottlieb

3. Old Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions (David R. Hiding, 2021) / Donald Hall

4. Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays (Sceptre, 2021) / Siri Hustvedt

5. Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton (Basic Books, 2021) / Joe Moshenska

6. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe (Harper, 2022) / Matthew Gabriele & David M. Perry

7. The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dreams (trans. from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn) (Bantam Press, 2021) / Sidarta Ribeiro

8. Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries (I.B. Tauris, 2021) / Nan Sloane

9. Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine (Metropolitan Books, 2021) / Anna Della Subin