August 2022 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Boulder (trans. from the Catalan by Julia Sanches) (And Other Stories, 2023) / Eva Baltasar

2. Sojourn (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Amit Chaudhuri

3. Eden (Picador, 2022) / Jim Crace

4. Trust (Picador, 2022) / Hernan Diaz

5. Haven (Picador, 2022) / Emma Donoghue

6. The King of India (trans. from the Arabic by Paula Haydar) (Interlink Books, 2022) / Jabbour Douaihy

7. The Night Interns (Granta Books, 2022) / Austin Duffy

8. The Pachinko Parlour (trans. from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins) (Daunt Books, 2022) / Elisa Shua Dusapin

9. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (Atria Books, 2022) / Jamie Ford

10. The People Immortal (trans. from the Russian by Robert Chandler & Elizabeth Chandler) (MacLehose Press, 2022) / Vasily Grossman

11. Afterlives (Riverhead Books, 2022) / Abdulrazak Gurnah

12. The Last White Man (Hamish Hamilton/Riverhead Books, 2022) / Mohsin Hamid

13. Emergency (Astra House, 2022) / Daisy Hildyard

14. The White Rock (Fig Tree, 2022) / Anna Hope

15. The Devil Takes You Home (Mulholland Books, 2022) / Gabino Iglesias

16. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Sort Of Books, 2022) / Shehan Karunatilaka

17. The Night Ship (Canongate, 2022) / Jess Kidd

18. The Latecomer (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Jean Hanff Korelitz

19. Mount Chicago (Doubleday, 2022) / Adam Levin

20. Mercury Pictures Presents (Hogarth, 2022) / Anthony Marra

21. Pyre (trans. from the Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan) (Pushkin Press, 2022) / Perumal Murugan 

22. Bronze Drum (Grand Central Publishing, 2022) / Phong Nguyen

23. Undercurrent (Doubleday, 2022) / Barney Norris

24. Babysitter (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Joyce Carol Oates

25. The Marriage Portrait (Tinder Press, 2022) / Maggie O’Farrell

26. The Last Gift of the Master Artists (Apollo, 2022) / Ben Okri

27. On Java Road (Hogarth, 2022) / Lawrence Osborne

28. A Hunger (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Ross Raisin

29. The Queen of Dirt Island (Doubleday, 2022) / Donal Ryan

30. Properties of Thirst (Simon & Schuster, 2022) / Marianne Wiggins

FIRST NOVELS

1. The Rabbit Hutch (Alfred A Knopf, 2022) / Tess Gunty

2. All This Could Be Different (Viking, 2022) / Sarah Thankam Mathews

3. Perish (Tiny Reparations Books, 2022) / LaToya Watkins

STORIES

1. Tomorrow in Shanghai and Other Stories (Blair, 2022) / May-Lee Chai

2. Her First Palestinian and Other Stories (House of Anansi Press, 2022) / Saeed Teebi

3. Dead-End Memories (trans. from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda) (Counterpoint, 2022) / Banana Yoshimoto

POETRY

1. The Hurting Kind (Corsair, 2022) / Ada Limón

2. Slide (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Mark Pajak

3. The Arctic (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Don Paterson

4. A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts: Selected Poems (trans. from the Chinese by Andrea Lingenfelter) (New York Review Books, 2022) / Wang Yin

NONFICTION

1. The Passengers (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Will Ashon

2. The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells (Apollo, 2022) / Sarah Churchwell

3. Black and Female (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Tsitsi Dangarembga

4. Teller of the Unexpected: The Life of Roald Dahl: An Unofficial Biography (Apollo/Head of Zeus, 2022) / Matthew Dennison

5. The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society (Henry Holt, 2022) / William Dereseiwicz

6. Without Warning & Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood (Tinder Press, 2022) / Kit de Waal

7. High: A Journey Across the Himalayas Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China (trans. from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson) (MacLehose Press, 2022) / Erika Fatland

8. Motherlands: In Search of Our Inherited Cities (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Amaryllis Gacioppo

9. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity (Little, Brown, 2022) / Justin Gregg

10. Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings (W.W. Norton, 2022) / Randall Kenan

11. Memoirs (eds. Steven Gould Axelrod & Grzegorz Kosc) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Robert Lowell

12. The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022) / Philippe Sands