April 2023 Highlights

NOVELS

1. The Midnight News (Phoenix, 2023) / Jo Baker

2. The Lock-Up (Faber & Faber, 2023) / John Banville

3. The Sleep Watcher (Sceptre, 2023) / Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

4. A House for Alice (Chatto & Windus, 2023) / Diana Evans

5. How to Build a Boat (Harvill Secker, 2023) / Elaine Feeney

6. The Trackers (Ecco, 2023) / Charles Frazier

7. The Memory of Animals (Fig Tree, 2023) / Claire Fuller

8. Kantika (Metropolitan Books, 2023) / Elizabeth Graver

9. Enter Ghost (Grove Press/Jonathan Cape, 2023) / Isabella Hammad

10. The Scent of Flowers at Night (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (Coronet, 2023) / Leïla Slimani

11. Greek Lessons (trans. from the Korean by Deborah Smith & Emily Yae Won) (Hogarth/Hamish Hamilton, 2023) / Han Kang

12. Small Mercies (Harper/Abacus, 2023) / Dennis Lehane

13. The Lost Wife (Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Susanna Moore

14. The Imposters (Riverrun, 2023) / Tom Rachman

15. Siblings (trans. from the German by Lucy Jones) (Penguin Classics, 2023) / Brigitte Reimann

16. Romantic Comedy (Random House/Doubleday, 2023) / Curtis Sittenfeld

17. Praiseworthy (Giramondo, 2023) / Alexis Wright

18. Golden Age (trans. from the Chinese by Yan Yan) (Penguin Classics, 2023) / Wang Xiaobo

FIRST NOVELS

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

2. Close to Home (Hamish Hamilton, 2023) / Michael Magee

3. Black Butterflies (Duckworth, 2023) / Priscilla Morris

STORIES

1. Games and Rituals (4th Estate, 2023) / Katherine Heiny

2. The Disappeared (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Andrew Porter

POETRY

1. The Ink Cloud Reader (Carcanet Press, 2023) / Kit Fan

2. The Speculations of Country People (Penguin, 2023) / Majella Kelly

3. Skeletons (Copper Canyon Press, 2023) / Deborah Landau

NONFICTION

1. Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 (Allen Lane, 2023) / Christopher Clark

2. Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire (Pegasus Books, 2023) / Nandini Das

3. Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Claire Dederer

4. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Viking, 2023) / Timothy Egan

5. Among Others: Friendships and Encounters (Faber & Fabel, 2023) / Michal Frayn

6. Time Come: Selected Prose (Picador, 2023) / Linton Kwesi Johnson

7. American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal (Mariner Books, 2023) / Neil King Jr

8. The Poverty Paradox: Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity (Oxford University Press USA, 2023) / Mark Robert Rank

9. The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present (Allen Lane, 2023) / Nigel Townson

10. The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023) / Chad L. Williams