May 2022 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Bitter Orange Tree (trans. from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth) (Scribner UK/Catapult, 2022) / Jokha Alharthi

2. Love Marriage (Scribner, 2022) / Monica Ali

3. Either/Or (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Elif Batuman

4. The Lioness (Doubleday, 2022) / Chris Bohjalian

5. Bad Relations (Viking, 2022) / Cressida Connolly

6. Trust (Riverhead Books, 2022) / Hernan Diaz

7. Privilege (Two Roads, 2022) / Guinevere Glasfurd

8. Vigil Harbor (Pantheon, 2022) / Julia Glass

9. Time Shelter (trans. from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel) / Georgi Gospodinov

10. Discretion (trans. from the French by Sarah Ardizzone) (Saqi Books, 2022) / Faïza Guène

11. The Dance Tree (Picador, 2022) / Kiran Millwood Hargrave

12. Forbidden City (Ballantine Books, 2022) / Vanessa Hua

13. The Ballad of Lord Edward and Citizen Small (Apollo, 2022) / Neil Jordan

14. 2 A.M. in Little America (Milkweed Editions, 2022) / Ken Kalfus

15. The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding (Lake Union, 2022) / Lydia Kang

16. All the Lovers in the Night (trans. from the Japanese by Sam Bett & David Boyd) (Europa Editions, 2022) / Meiko Kawakami

17. All the Seas of the World (Hodder & Stoughton/Berkley, 2022) / Guy Gavriel Kay

18. The Latecomer (Celadon Books, 2022) / Jean Hanff Korelitz

19. The War for Gloria (Serpent’s Tail, 2022) / Atticus Lish

20. The Colony (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Audrey Magee

21. Appliance (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / J.O. Morgan

22. Two Nights in Lisbon (MCD/Farrar, straus & Giroux, 2022) / Chris Pavone

23. Elektra (Flatiron, 2022) / Jennifer Saint

24. Mansions of the Moon (Knopf Canada, 2022) / Shyam Selvadurai

25. Here Goes Nothing (Sceptre/Melville House, 2022) / Steve Toltz

26. The Schoolhouse (Corsair/Little, Brown, 2022) / Sophie Ward

FIRST NOVELS

1. The Red Arrow (Alfred A. Knopf/John Murray, 2022) / William Brewer

2. My Name Is Yip (Doubleday, 2022) / Paddy Crewe

3. Deceit (trans. from the Russian by Bryan Karetnyk) (Prototype Publishing, 2022) / Yuri Felsen

4. An Island (Hogarth, 2022) / Karen Jennings

5. Vladimir (Picador, 2022) / Julia May Jonas

6. The Evening Hero (Simon & Schuster, 2022) / Marie Myung-Ok Lee

7. Black Butterflies (Duckworth, 2022) / Priscilla Morris

8. Ruth & Pen (Hamish Hamilton, 2022) / Emilie Pine

9. The Immortal King Rao (W.W. Norton/Grove Press UK, 2022) / Vauhini Vara

10. What Time Is Love? (Orion, 2022) / Holly Williams

STORIES

1. Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (Mysterious Press, 2022) / Joyce Carol Oates

2. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (One, 2022) / Deesha Philyaw

3. You Have a Friend in 10A (Doubleday/Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Maggie Shipstead

POETRY

1. Rookie: Selected Stories (Carcanet Press, 2022) / Caroline Bird

2. The Jaguar (University of Queensland Press, 2022) / Sarah Holland-Batt

3. The Hurting Kind (Milkweed Editions, 2022) / Ada Limón

NONFICTION

1. The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba (trans. from the Spanish by Frank Wynne with Rahul Bery) (Graywolf Press/Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022) / Carlos Manuel Álvarez

2. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022) / Antony Beevor

3. Liberalism and Its Discontents (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Francis Fukuyama

4. Why We Read: 70 Writers on Non-Fiction (Penguin, 2022) / Josephine Greywoode (ed.)

5. The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (ed. Alex Andriesse) (NYRB Classics, 2022) / Elizabeth Hardwick

6. The Fairy Tellers: A Journey Into the Secret History of Fairy Tales (Nicholas Brealey, 2022) / Nicholas Jubber

7. Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945 (Liveright, 2022) / Halik Kochanski

8. Translating Myself and Others (Princeton University Press, 2022) / Jhumpa Lahiri

9. In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History (Allen Lane, 2022) / Dominic Lieven

10. Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays (Random House, 2022) / Barry Lopez

11. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Doubleday, 2022) / Candice Millard

12. What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics (eds. W.P. Malecki & Chris Voparil) (Princeton University Press, 2022) / Richard Rorty

13. To Raise a Fallen People: How Nineteenth-Century Indians Saw Their World and Shaped Ours (Juggernaut, 2022) / Rahul Sagar (ed.)

14. Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World (John Murray, 2022) / Anthony Sattin

15. I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys (William Collins, 2022) / Miranda Seymour