June 2022 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Jackie & Me (Algonquin Books, 2022) / Louis Bayard

2. Horse (Viking/Little, Brown, 2022) / Geraldine Brooks

3. Paper Cup (Canongate, 2022) / Karen Campbell

4. Factory Girls (John Murray, 2022) / Michelle Galen

5. The Kingdom of Sand (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Andrew Holleran

6. Lapvona (Random House UK, 2022) / Ottessa Moshfegh

7. The Men (Granta Press/Grove Press, 2022) / Sandra Newman

8. Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight (trans. from the Japanese by Alison Watts) (Bitter Lemon Press, 2022) / Riku Onda

9. Marzahn, Mon Amour (trans. from the German by Jo Heinrich) (Peirene Press, 2022) / Katja Oskamp

10. The Half Life of Valery K (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Natasha Pulley

11. Dark Earth (4th Estate, 2022) / Rebecca Stott

12. Scattered All Over the Earth (trans. from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani) (Granta Books, 2022) / Yoko Tawada

13. The Companion (Head of Zeus, 2022) / Lesley Thomson

14. Fight Night (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Miriam Toews

15. Madwoman (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Louisa Treger

16. Winter Flowers (trans. from the French by Adriana Hunter) (Peirene Press, 2022) / Angélique Villeneuve

17. The Young Accomplice (Viking, 2022) / Benjamin Wood

18. Death on Gokumon Island (trans. from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai) (Pushkin Vertigo, 2022) / Seishi Yokomizo

FIRST NOVELS

1. Yell, Sam, If You Still Can (trans. from the French by Clíona Ní Ríordáin) (The Lilliput Press, 2022) / Maylis Besserie

2. Tiepolo Blue (Sceptre, 2022) / James Cahill

3. Woman of Light (One World, 2022) / Kali Fajardo-Anstine

4. Nuclear Family (Counterpoint, 2022) / Joseph Han

5. Nightcrawling (Bloomsbury Circus/Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Leila Mottley

6. The Whalebone Theatre (Fig Tree, 2022) / Joanna Quinn

7. Briefly, A Delicious Life (Picador, 2022) / Nell Stevens

STORIES

1. Learning to Talk (Henry Holt, 2022) / Hilary Mantel

2. This Train Is For (No Alibis Press, 2022) / Bernie McGill

3. Fool for Love: The Selected Short Stories (Tinder Press, 2022) / Deborah Moggach

4. The Angel of Rome and Other Stories (Harper/HarperCollins, 2022) / Jess Walter

POETRY

1. Quiet (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Victoria Adukwei Bulley

2. Sonnets for Albert (Bloomsbury Poetry, 2022) / Anthony Joseph

3. Lines Off (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Hugo Williams

NONFICTION

1. Goshawk Summer: The Diary of an Extraordinary Season in the Forest (Elliott & Thompson, 2022) / James Aldred

2. Marilynne Robinson, Theologian of the Ordinary (Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Andrew Cunning

3. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World (John Murray, 2022) / Jonathan Freedland

4. Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London (Duckworth, 2022) / Oskar Jensen

5. Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (Profile Books, 2022) / Marjoleine Kars

6. I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys (W.W. Norton, 2022) / Miranda Seymour

7. Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation (Doubleday, 2022) / Linda Villarosa

8. Discovering Fiction (trans. from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas) (Duke University Press, 2022) / Yan Lianke