March 2022 Highlights

NOVEL

1. Fencing with the King (W.W. Norton, 2022) / Diana Abu-Jaber

2. Glory (Viking, 2022) / NoViolet Bulowayo

3. The World Cannot Give (Simon & Schuster, 2022) / Tara Isabella Burton

4. These Days (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Lucy Caldwell

5. The Trees (Influx Press, 2022) / Percival Everett

6. Booth (Putnam, 2022) / Karen Joy Fowler

7. Mother’s Boy (Tinder Press, 2022) / Patrick Gale

8. A Ballad of Love and Glory (Atria Books, 2022) / Reyna Grande

9. Moon Witch, Spider King (Hamish Hamilton, 2022) / Marlon James

10. Sell Us the Rope (Sandstone Press, 2022) / Stephen May

11. Paradais (trans. from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes) (New Directions, 2022) / Fernanda Melchor

12. The Exhibitionist (Mantle, 2022) / Charlotte Mendelson

13. The Slowworm’s Song (Sceptre, 2022) / Andrew Miller

14. Run and Hide (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Pankaj Mishra

15. The Fell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Sarah Moss

16. Ocean State (Grove Press, 2022) / Stewart O’Nan

17. The Great Passion (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / James Runcie

18. Mecca (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Susan Straight

19. Scattered All Over the Earth (trans. from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani) (New Directions, 2022) / Yoko Tawada

20. French Braid (Alfred A. Knopf/Chatto & Windus, 2022) / Anne Tyler

21. Reputation (Simon & Schuster UK, 2022) / Sarah Vaughan

22. Sundial (Viper, 2022) / Catriona Ward

FIRST NOVELS

1. Good Intentions (4th Estate/Henry Holt, 2022) / Kasim Ali

2. Our Wives Under the Sea (Picador, 2022) / Julia Armfield

3. The Rack (Vintage Classics, 2022) / A.E. Ellis (Derek Lindsay)

4. Peach Blossom Spring (Wildfire/Little, Brown, 2021) / Melissa Fu

5. Mischief Acts (Bloomsbury Circus, 2022) / Zoe Gilbert

6. The Flames (Doubleday, 2022) / Sophie Haydock

7. Last Resort (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022) / Andrew Lipstein

8. The Wonders (trans. from the Spanish by Lizzie Davis & Thomas Bunstead) (Pushkin Press, 2022) / Elena Medel

9. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies (Picador, 2022) / Maddie Mortimer

10. I Am Not Your Eve (Bluemoose Books, 2022) / Devika Ponnambalam

11. Metronome (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Tom Watson

STORIES

1. Homesickness (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Colin Barrett

2. How Strange a Season (Scribner, 2022) / Megan Mayhew Bergman

3. Seeking Fortune Elsewhere (Catapult, 2022) / Sindya Bhanoo

4. The Trouble With Happiness and Other Stories (trans. from the Danish by Michael Favala Goldman) (Penguin Classics, 2022) / Tove Ditlevsen

5. The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea (Seven Stories Press, 2022) / Barry Gifford

6. A Better Class of People (Dance Books, 2022) / Robert Lopez

7. Galatea (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Madeline Miller

POETRY

1. Unexhausted Time (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Emily Berry

2. In Praise of Limes (Sungold, 2022) / Shirley Geok-lin Lim

3. Best Barbarian (W.W. Norton, 2022) / Roger Reeves

4. Lurex (Picador, 2022) / Denise Riley

5. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (Chatto & Windus, 2022) / Warsan Shire

6. Vinegar Hill (Carcanet Press/Beacon Press, 2022) / Colm Tóibín

NONFICTION

1. The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022) / Bryan Appleyard

2. Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 (Chatto & Windus/Doubleday, 2022) / Margaret Atwood

3. Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing (Liveright, 2022) / Polly Barton

4. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss (Random House, 2022) / Amy Bloom

5. Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals (Profile Books, 2022) / Oliver Bullough

6. All the Living and the Dead: A Personal Investigation into the Death Trade (Raven Books, 2022) / Hayley Campbell

7. Who Are We Now?: Stories of Modern England (Picador, 2022) / Jason Cowley

8. Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whale (Virago, 2022) / Doreen Cunningham

9. Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher (Princeton University Press, 2022) / John Davis

10. The Lion House: The Coming of a King (The Bodley Head, 2022) / Christopher de Bellaigue

11. Arnold Bennett: Lost Icon (Unicorm, 2022) / Patrick Donovan

12. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (The Bodley Head/Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Caroline Elkins

13. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative (Catapult, 2022) / Melissa Febos

14. Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan (University of California Press/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Felipe Fernández-Armesto

15. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing (trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein) (Europa Editions, 2022) / Elena Ferrante

16. Liberalism and Its Discontents (Profile Books, 2022) / Francis Fukuyama

17. The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam (Princeton University Press, 2022) / Christopher Goscha

18. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Matthew Green

19. My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route (4th Estate/Melville House, 2022) / Sally Hayden

20. You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (HQ, 2022) / Zora Neale Hurston

21. Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Howard Jacobson

22. Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-45 (Allen Lane, 2022) / Halik Kochanski

23. The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World (W.W. Norton, 2022) / Oliver Milman

24. Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories (William Collins, 2022) / Duncan 

Minshull (ed.)

25. Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times (Dey Street Books, 2022) / Azar Nafisi

26. We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland (Liveright, 2022) / Fintan O’Toole

27. The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy and the Future of Meat (Little, Brown, 2022) / Rob Percival

28. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory (Penguin Press, 2022) / Sarah Polley

29. Oceans of Grains: How American Wheat Remade the World (Basic Books, 2022) / Scott Reynolds Nelson

30. France: An Adventure History (Picador, 2022) / Graham Robb

31. Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City (Profile Books, 2022) / Matthew Teller

32. China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision (Duke University Press, 2022) / Ban Wang

33. The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal (Simon & Schuster UK, 2022) / Peter Watson

34. C.L.R. James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries (Constable, 2022) / John L. Williams