May 2023 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Windmill Hill (Quercus, 2023) / Lucy Atkins

2. The East Indian (Scribner, 2023) / Brinda Charry

3. The Light at the End of the World (Soho Press, 2023) / Siddhartha Deb

4. The Story of the Forest (Virago, 2023) / Linda Grant

5. Mister, Mister (Tinder Press, 2023) / Guy Gunaratne

6. Soldier Sailor (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Claire Kilroy

7. Yellowface (William Morrow/The Borough Press, 2023) / Rebecca F. Kuang

8. August Blue (Hamish Hamilton, 2023) / Deborah Levy

9. Fayne (Tramp Press, 2023) / Ann-Marie MacDonald

10. The Rope Artist (trans. from the Japanese by Sam Bett) (Soho Press, 2023) / Fuminori Nakamura

11. Small Worlds (Viking, 2023) / Caleb Azumah Nelson

12. The Paper Man (Jonathan Cape/Godine, 2023) / Billy O’Callaghan

13. Good Night, Irene (Little, Brown, 2023) / Luis Alberto Urrea

14. The Covenant of Water (Grove Press, 2023) / Abraham Verghese

FIRST NOVEL

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

POETRY

1. A Change in the Air (Bloodaxe, 2023) / Jane Clarke

2. Blood Feather (Jonathan Cape, 2023) / Patrick McGuinness

NONFICTION

1. The Seaside: England’s Love Affair (Granta Books, 2023) / Madeleine Bunting

2. Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (Sceptre, 2023) / Claire Dederer

3. King: A Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023) / Jonathan Eig

4. King: The Life of Martin Luther King (Simon & Schuster UK, 2023) / Jonathan Eig

5. Fortune’s Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong (Corsair, 2023) / Vaudine England

6. Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir (Serpent’s Tail, 2023) / M. John Harrison

7. Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Brooke Kroeger

8. The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare (Pegasus, 2023) / Paul Strathern

9. Orwell: The New Life (Constable, 2023) / D.J. Taylor

10. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” (MCD, 2023) / Héctor Tobar