January 2022 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Violeta (trans. from the Spanish by Frances Riddle) (Ballantine/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Isabel Allende

2. Yonder (Simon & Schuster, 2022) / Jabari Asim

3. In An Ideal World (Penguin Random House India, 2022) / Kunal Basu

4. The Raptures (Doubleday, 2022) / Jan Carson

5. Devil House (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / John Darnielle

6. Scary Monsters (Allen & Unwin, 2022) / Michelle de Kretser

7. The Sentence (Corsair, 2022) / Louise Erdrich

8. Small World (Dutton, 2022) / Jonathan Evison

9. The High House (Scribner, 2022) / Jessie Greengrass

10. Free Love (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Tessa Hadley

11. Anthem (Grand Central Publishing, 2022) / Noah Hawley

12. Zorrie (Riverrun, 2022) / Laird Hunt

13. Roundabout of Death (trans. from the Arabic by Max Weiss) (Head of Zeus, 2022) / Faysal Khartash

14. Our Country Friends (Allen & Unwin, 2022) / Gary Shteyngart

15. Wayward (Virago, 2022) / Dana Spiotta

16. Phenotypes (trans. from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn) (And Other Stories, 2022) / Paulo Scott

17. Honor (Algonquin Books, 2022) / Thrity Umrigar

18. I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness (Riverrun, 2022) / Claire Vaye Watkins

19. The Second Cut (Canongate, 2022) / Louise Welsh

20. A Previous Life (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Edmund White

21. Harrow (Tuskar Rock, 2022) / Joy Williams

22. Mouth to Mouth (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, 2022) / Antoine Wilson

23. To Paradise (Doubleday/Macmillan, 2022) / Hanya Yanagihara

FIRST NOVELS

1. Brown Girls (Random House, 2022) / Daphne Palasi Andreades

2. A Terrible Kindness (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Jo Browning Wroe

3. The School for Good Mothers (Simon & Schuster, 2022) / Jessamine Chan

4. Tides (Granta Books, 2022) / Sara Freeman

5. Olga Dies Dreaming (Flatiron Books/Fleet, 2022) / Xochitl Gonzalez

6. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (4th Estate, 2022) / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

7. Beasts of a Little Land (Oneworld Publications, 2022) / Juhea Kim

8. Last Resort (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Andrew Lipstein

9. How High We Go In the Dark (William Morrow/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Sequoia Nagamatsu

10. All Day Is a Long Time (Harper/Sceptre, 2022) / David Sanchez

11. Pandora (Harvill Secker, 2022) / Susan Stokes-Chapman

STORIES

1. Thank You, Mr Nixon (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Gish Jen

2. Five Tuesdays in Winter (Picador, 2022) / Lily King

3. Blank Pages and Other Stories (W.W. Norton, 2022) / Bernard MacLaverty

4. Longing and Other Stories (trans. from the Japanese by Anthony H. Chambers & Paul McCarthy) (Columbia University Press, 2022) / Junʼichirō Tanizaki

POETRY

1. Pilgrim Bell (Chatto & Windus, 2022) / Kaveh Akbar

2. Refractive Africa (Granta, 2022) / Will Alexander

3. Hurricane Watch (Carcanet Press, 2022) / Olive Senior

4. In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century (Carcanet Classics, 2022) / Wong May

5. The Vulture (Picador, 2022) / Gerard Woodward

NONFICTION

1. Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom (Henry Holt, 2022) / Carl Bernstein

2. Bacon in Moscow (Cheerio, 2022) / James Birch

3. A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick (W.W. Norton, 2022) / Cathy Curtis

4. Garbo (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Robert Gottlieb

5. White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022) / Thomas Harding

6. You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (eds. Genevieve West & Henry Louis Gates Jr.) (Amistad, 2022) / Zora Neale Hurston

7. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the the Third Reich, 1945-1955 (trans. from the German by Shaun Whiteside) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Harald Jähner

8. East Side Voices: Essays Celebrating East and Southeast Asian Identity in Britain (Sceptre, 2021) / Helena Lee (ed.)

9. The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World (Atlantic Books, 2022) / Oliver Milman

10. Dismantling Global White Privilege: Equity for a Post-Western World (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2022) / Chandran Nair

11. Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Jed Perl

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

13. Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality (Apollo/Head of Zeus, 2022) / Eyal Press

14. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Ben Rawlence

15. Lost & Found: A Memoir (Random House, 2022) / Kathryn Schulz

16. Home in the World: A Memoir (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2022) / Amartya Sen

17. Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine (Granta Books, 2022) / Anna Della Subin