February 2022 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Love Marriage (Virago, 2022) / Monica Ali

2. Cold Enough for Snow (Giramondo/New Directions/Fitzcarraldo, 2022) / Jessica Au

3. When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East (Pantheon, 2022) / Quan Barry

4. We Were Young (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022) / Niamh Campbell

5. Even the Darkest Night (trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean) (MacLehose Press, 2022) / Javier Cercas

6. The Family Chao (W.W. Norton/One/Pushkin Press, 2022) / Lan Samantha Chang

7. Not Everybody Lives the Same Way (trans. from the French by David Homel) (MacLehose Press, 2022) / Jean-Paul Dubois

8. Wivenhoe (Corsair, 2022) / Samuel Fisher

9. Iron Curtain: A Love Story (Chatto & Windus, 2022) / Vesna Goldsworthy

10. Mercy Street (Ecco, 2022) / Jennifer Haigh

11. The Pages (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Hugo Hamilton

12. Free Love (Harper, 2022) / Tessa Hadley

13. Pure Colour (Harvill Secker/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Sheila Heti

14. Devotion (Picador, 2022) / Hannah Kent

15. Circus of Wonders (Emily Bestler/Atria, 2022) / Elizabeth Macneal

16. The Colony (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Audrey Magee

17. Run and Hide (Hutchinson Heinemann, 2022) / Pankaj Mishra

18. The Swimmers (Alfred A. Knopf/Fig Tree, 2022) / Julie Otsuka

19. Men in My Situation (trans. from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey) (Graywolf Press, 2022) / Per Petterson

20. Winchelsea (Canongate, 2022) / Alex Preston

21. Off-White (trans. from the Dutch by Jan Steyn) (Two Lines Press, 2022) / Astrid Roemer

22. Bolla (trans. from the Finnish by David Hackston) (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Pajtim Statovci

23. The Books of Jacob (trans. from the Polish by Jennifer Croft) (Riverhead Books, 2021) / Olga Tokarczuk

24. Woman Running in the Mountains (trans. from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt) (NYRB Classics, 2022) / Yūko Tsushima

FIRST NOVELS

1. The Stone World (Melville House, 2022) / Joel Agee

2. The Leviathan (Raven Books, 2022) / Rosie Andrews

3. When We Were Birds (Hamish Hamilton, 2022) / Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

4. Defenestrate (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Renée Branum

5. Black Cloud Rising (Grove Press, 2022) / David Wright Faladé

6. Abundance (Dialogue Books, 2022) / Jakob Guanzon

7. Violets (Granta Books, 2022) / Alex Hyde

8. The Gifts (Manilla Press, 2022) / Liz Hyder

9. Vladimir (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, 2022) / Julia May Jonas

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

11. Very Cold People (Hogarth, 2022) / Sarah Manguso

12. The Whale Tattoo (Muswell Press, 2022) / Jon Ransom

13. The Violin Conspiracy (Anchor, 2022) / Brendan Slocumb

14. Mercia’s Take (Swift Press, 2022) / Daniel Wiles

15. Black Cake (Ballantine Books, 2022) / Charmaine Wilkerson

STORIES

1. How to Gut a Fish (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Sheila Armstrong

2. Life Without Children (Viking, 2022) / Roddy Doyle

3. Dance Move (Picador, 2022) / Wendy Erskine

4. Recitatif (Alfred A. Knopf/Chatto & Windus, 2022) / Toni Morrison

POETRY

1. Why I No Longer Write Poems (trans. from the Georgian by Natalia Bukia-Peters & Jean Sprackland) (Bloodaxe, 2022) / Diana Anphimiadi

2. Joie de vivre (CB Editions, 2022) / Paul Bailey

3. Ephemeron (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Fiona Benson

4. Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Carcanet Press, 2022) / Carl Phillips

NONFICTION

1. The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee Underground (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022) / Matthieu Aikins

2. Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / James Curtis

3. This Mortal Coil: A History of Death (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Andrew Doig

4. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age (W.W. Norton, 2022) / Dennis Duncan

5. My Own Worst Enemy: Scenes of a Childhood (Swift Press, 2022) / Robert Edric

6. Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race (Serpent’s Tail, 2022) / Esi Edugyan

7. The Fifties: An Underground History (Simon & Schuster, 2022) / James R. Gaines

8. Otherlands: A World in the Making (Allen Lane, 2022) / Thomas Halliday

9. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: How the Natural World is Adapting to Climate Change (Icon Books, 2022) / Thor Hanson

10. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader (Canongate, 2022) / Mark Hodkinson

11. Circle Way: A Daughter’s Memoir, a Writer’s Journey Home (Wonderwell, 2022) / Mary Ann Hogan

12. Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West (W.W. Norton, 2022) / Anne F. Hyde

13. Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-1997 (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Richard King

14. Manhattan Phoenix: The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York (Oxford University Press, 2022) / Daniel S. Levy

15. Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Rebecca Mead

16. Korea: A History (Stanford University Press, 2022) / Eugene Y. Park

17. Heiresses: The Lives of the Million-Dollar Babies (St Martin’s Press, 2022) / Laura Thompson

18. A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) / Jonathan W. White

19. Capitalism and Slavery (Penguin Modern Classics, 2022) / Eric Williams