January 2023 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Picture in the Sand (Minotaur Books, 2023) / Peter Blauner

2. Unfinished Business (White Rabbit, 2023) / Michael Bracewell

3. Sugar Street (Corsair, 2023) / Jonathan Dee

4. The Shards (Alfred A. Knopf/Swift Press, 2023) / Bret Easton Ellis

5. Brotherless Night (Random House, 2023) / V.V. Ganeshananthan

6. Sam (The Dial Press, 2023) / Allegra Goodman

7. This Other Eden (W.W. Norton, 2023) / Paul Harding

8. The World and All That It Holds (MCD, 2023) / Aleksandar Hemon

9. Age of Vice (Fleet/Riverhead, 2023) / Deepti Kapoor

10. The Chinese Groove (Counterpoint, 2023) / Kathryn Ma

11. The Hero of This Book (Jonathan Cape, 2023) / Elizabeth McCracken

12. Scene of the Crime (trans. from the French by Mark Polizzotti) (Yale University Press, 2023) / Patrick Modiano

13. My Father’s House (Harvill Secker/Europa Editions, 2023) / Joseph O’Connor

14. The Last Gift of the Master Artists (Other Press, 2023) / Ben Okri

15. Hotel Milano (Harvill Secker, 2023) / Tim Parks

16. Tomb of Sand (trans. from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell) (HarperVia, 2023) / Geetanjali Shree

17. A Dangerous Business (Abacus, 2023) / Jane Smiley

18. Ghost Music (Grove Press/Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023) / An Yu

FIRST NOVELS

1. Whale (trans. from the Korean by Chi-young Kim) (Europa Editions, 2023) / Cheon Myeong-kwan

2. The End of Nightwork (Granta Books, 2023) / Aidan Cottrell-Boyce

3. The New Life (Chatto & Windus/Scribner, 2023) / Tom Crewe

4. The Things We Do to Our Friends (Viking, 2023) / Heather Darwent

5. Really Good, Actually (4th Estate, 2023) / Monica Heisey

6. Moonrise Over New Jessup (Algonquin, 2023) / Jamila Minnicks

7. The Circus Train (Sphere, 2023) / Amita Parikh

8. River Sing Me Home (Headline Review, 2023) / Eleanor Shearer

STORIES

1. The Faraway World (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, 2023) / Patricia Engel

POETRY

1. Balladz (Jonathan Cape, 2023) / Sharon Olds

2. Was It For This (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Hannah Sullivan

NONFICTION

1. Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected: A Biography (Pegasus Books, 2023) / Matthew Dennison

2. I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives (Jonathan Cape, 2023) / Colin Grant

3. All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything (Chatto & Windus, 2023) / Claire Harman

4. The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World (Bloomsbury Circus, 2023) / Pico Iyer

5. The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise (Riverhead Books, 2023) / Pico Iyer

6. The World: A Family History of Humanity (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Simon Sebag Montefiore

7. Toy Fights: A Boyhood (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Don Paterson

8. The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (Pelican, 2023) / Dan Stone

9. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023) / Caroline Dodds Pennock

10. A Guest at the Feast: Essays (Scribner, 2023) / Colm Tóibín