October 2022 Highlights

NOVELS

1. The Singularities (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / John Banville

2. The Romantic (Viking, 2022) / William Boyd

3. The Last Chairlift (Simon & Schuster/Scribner UK, 2022) / John Irving

4. Demon Copperhead (Harper/Faber & Faber, 2022) / Barbara Kingsolver

5. Darling (Fig Tree, 2022) / India Knight

6. The Passenger (Alfred A. Knopf/Picador, 2022) / Cormac McCarthy

7. The Hero of This Book (Ecco, 2022) / Elizabeth McCracken

8. The Sun Walks Down (Allen & Unwin, 2022) / Fiona McFarlane

9. The Slowworm’s Song (Europa Editions, 2022) / Andrew Miller

10. Dinosaurs (W.W. Norton, 2022) / Lydia Millet

11. The Call of the Cormorant (Saraband, 2022) / Donald S. Murray

12. Weasels in the Attic (trans. from the Japanese by David Boyd) (New Directions, 2022) / Hiroko Oyamada

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

14. Signal Fires (Alfred A. Knopf/Chatto & Windus, 2022) / Dani Shapiro

15. Where I End (Tramp Press, 2022) / Sophie White

FIRST NOVELS

1. When We Were Sisters (One World, 2022) / Fatimah Asghar

2. Euphoria (trans. from the Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida) (Canongate, 2022) / Elin Cullhed

3. Marigold and Rose (Carcanet Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Louise Glück

4. Our Share of Night (trans. from the Spanish by Megan McDowell) (Granta Books, 2022) / Mariana Enríquez

5. The Whalebone Theatre (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Joanna Quinn

6. Cocoon (trans. from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang) (World Editions, 2022) / Zhang Yearn

STORIES

1. The Consequences (Graywolf Press/The Indigo Press, 2022) / Manuel Muñoz

2. Liberation Day (Random House/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / George Saunders

3. Seven Empty Houses (trans. from the Spanish by Megan McDowell) (Riverhead Books, 2022) / Samanta Schweblin

POETRY

1. The Threshold (trans. from the Arabic by Robyn Creswell) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Iman Mersal

2. Beyond Stillness (Dedalus Press, 2022) / Mark Roper

3. Manorism (Penguin, 2022) / Yomi Ṣode

NONFICTION

1. A History of Popular Culture in Japan: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Bloomsbury, 2022) / E. Taylor Atkins

2. Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides (Scribe UK, 2022) / Paul Clements

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

4. The Last days of the Ottoman Empire (Allen Lane, 2022) / Ryan Gingeras

5. The World: A Family History (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022) / Simon Sebag Montefiore

6. Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe (Chatto & Windus., 2022) / Caroline Moorehead

7. A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast (trans. from the Danish by Caroline Waight) (Pushkin Press, 2022) / Dorthe Nors

8. Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth (Granta Books, 2022) / Keiron Pim

9. Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Riverrun, 2022) / Darryl Pinckney

10. James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer (Oxford University Press, 2022) / Michael Snyder