September 2022 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Shrines of Gaiety (Doubleday, 2022) / Kate Atkinson

2. The Deceptions (Counterpoint, 2022) / Jill Bialosky

3. All the Broken Places (Doubleday, 2022) / John Boyne

4. A Street Shaken by Light (Mountain Leopard Press, 2022) / James Buchan

5. Sugar Street (Grove Press, 2022) / Jonathan Dee

6. The Pachinko Parlor (trans. from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins) (Open Letter, 2022) / Elisa Shua Dusapin

7. Act of Oblivion (Hutchinson Heinemann, 2022) / Robert Harris

8. Stone Blind: Medusa’s Story (Mantle, 2022) / Natalie Haynes

9. The Unfolding (Granta, 2022) / AM Homes

10. The Birdcatcher (Virago, 2022) / Gayl Jones

11. Fairy Tale (Scribner/Hodder & Stoughton, 2022) / Stephen King

12. The Ghost Variations (Weatherglass Books, 2022) / Damian Lanigan

13. The Book of Goose (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Yiyun Li

14. Lessons (Jonathan Cape/Knopf, 2022) / Ian McEwan

15. The Marriage Portrait (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Maggie O’Farrell

16. Nights of Plague (trans. from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap) (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Orhan Pamuk

17. First Love (New York Review Books, 2022) / Gwendoline Riley

18. My Phantoms (New York Review Books, 2022) / Gwendoline Riley

19. The Furrows (Hogarth, 2022) / Namwali Serpell

20. On the Rooftop (Ecco, 2022) / Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

21. Best of Friends (Bloomsbury, 2022) / Kamila Shamsie

22. The Village Idiot (Melville House, 2022) / Steve Stern

23. Lucy by the Sea (Random House, 2022) / Elizabeth Strout

24. The Bad Angel Brothers (Mariner Books/Hamish Hamilton, 2022) / Paul Theroux

25. Retrospective (trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean) (MacLehose Press, 2022) / Juan Gabriel Vásquez

26. The Book of the Gaels (Oldcastle Books, 2022) / James Yorkston

FIRST NOVELS

1. Woman of Light (Corsair, 2022) / Kali Fajardo-Anstine

2. The Family Izquierdo (W.W. Norton, 2022) / Rubén Degollado

3. Concerning My Daughter (trans. from the Korean by Jamie Chang) (Restless Books, 2022) / Kim Hye-jin

4. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm (Pantheon, 2022) / Laura Warrell

STORIES

1. Natural History (W.W. Norton, 2022) / Andrea Barrett

2. I Walk Between the Raindrops (Ecco/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / T.C. Boyle

3. If I Survive You (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Jonathan Escoffery

4. Bliss Montage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Text Publishing, 2022) / Ling Ma

5. Three Streets (trans. from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani) (New Directions, 2022) / Yoko Tawada

6. Her First Palestinian and Other Stories (Astoria, 2022) / Saeed Teebi

POETRY

1. Brother Sleep (Alice James Books, 2022) / Aldo Amparán

2. [To] the Last [Be] Human (Carcanet Press/Copper Canyon Press, 2022) / Jorie Graham

3. England’s Green (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Zaffar Kunial

4. The Slain Birds (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Michael Longley

5. Exculpatory Lilies (McClelland & Stewart, 2022) / Susan Musgrave

6. Faust (Shearsman Books, 2022) / Sandeep Parmar

7. Radical Normalisation (Carcanet Press, 2022) / Celia A. Sorhaindo

NONFICTION

1. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Rachel Aviv

2. An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family (Allen Lane, 2022) / Alison Bashford

3. The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy (Thames & Hudson, 2022) / Diana Darke

4. The Story of Russia (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Orlando Figes

5. How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding (Yale University Press, 2022) / Nile Green

6. Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022) / John Higgs

7. Stay True: A Memoir (Doubleday, 2022) / Hua Hsu

8. Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World (Bloomsbury Circus, 2022) / John Keay

9. Dandelions (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022) / Thea Lenarduzzi

10. Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles (trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson) / Clarice Lispector

11. Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World (W.W. Norton, 2022) / Anthony Sattin

12. Abominations: Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction (The Borough Press, 2022) / Lionel Shriver

13. Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City (Other Press, 2022) / Matthew Teller

14. How to Write About Africa (Hamish Hamilton, 2022) / Binyavanga Wainaina

15. Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman (Hodder & Stoughton/Pegasus Crime, 2022) / Lucy Worsley