July 2023 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Pet (Europa Editions, 2023) / Catherine Chidgey

2. Penance (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Eliza Clark

3. Sanderson’s Isle (Serpent’s Tail, 2023) / James Clarke

4. Vanishing Maps (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Cristina García

5. The Brothers Karamazov (trans. from the Russian by Michael R. Katz) (Liveright, 2023) / Fyodor Dostoevsky

6. Restless Dolly Maunder (Text Publishing, 2023) / Kate Grenville

7. No One Prayed Over Their Graves (trans. from the Arabic by Leri Price) (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Khaled Khalifa

8. Ordinary Human Failings (Jonathan Cape, 2023) / Megan Nolan

9. The Beasts of Paris (Quercus, 2023) / Stef Penney

10. Somebody’s Fool (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Richard Russo

11. Crook Manifesto (Doubleday/Fleet, 2023) / Colson Whitehead

FIRST NOVELS

1. Kala (Atlantic Books, 2023) / Colin Walsh

STORIES

1. Temple Folk (Simon & Schuster, 2023) / Aaliyah Bilal

2. The Pole and Other Stories (Text Publishing, 2023) / J.M. Coetzee

3. After the Funeral (Jonathan Cape, 2023) / Tessa Hadley

4. After the Funeral and Other Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Tessa Hadley

5. The Best Possible Experience (Pantheon, 2023) / Nishanth Injam

NONFICTION

1. Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 (Liveright, 2023) / David Blackbourn

2. Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century (Bodley Head, 2023) / Joya Chatterji

3. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention and Murder (Granta Books, 2023) / Mark O’Connell

4. High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland (Headline, 2023) / Tom Parfitt

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

June 2023 Highlights

NOVELS

1. The Wind Know My Name (trans. from the Spanish by Frances Riddle) (Ballantine Books, 2023) / Isabel Allende

2. Two Women in Rome (Corvus, 2023) / Elizabeth Buchan

3. Even the Darkest Night (trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Javier Cercas

4. The Three Graces (Abacus, 2023) / Amanda Craig

5. Such Kindness (W.W. Norton, 2023) / Andre Dubus III

6. Kairos (trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann) (Granta Books, 2023) / Jenny Erpenbeck

7. Be Mine (Ecco/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023) / Richard Ford

8. The Fascination (Orenda Books, 2023) / Essie Fox

9. Mater 2-10 (trans. from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell & Younjae Josephine May) (Scribe US, 2023) / Hwang Sok-yong

10. Loot (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Tania James

11. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Lorrie Moore

12. The Brightest Star (HarperVia, 2023) / Gail Tsukiyama

13. The End of August (trans. from the Japanese by Giles Morgan) (Tilted Axis Press, 2023) / Yu Miri

FIRST NOVELS

1. At the Edge of the Woods (Two Dollar Radio, 2023) / Kathryn Bromwich

2. Forgiving Imelda Marcos (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023) / Nathan Go

3. Mrs S (4th Estate, 2023) / K. Patrick

POETRY

1. Chinese Fish (Giramondo Publishing, 2023) / Grace Yee

NONFICTION

1. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 (Crown, 2023) / Christopher Clark

2. One Midsummer’s Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth (Jonathan Cape, 2023) / Mark Cocker

3. This Is Europe: The Way We Live Now (Picador, 2023) / Ben Judah

4. Rural: The Lives of the Working-Class Countryside (William Collins, 2023) / Rebecca Smith

5. On Women (Hamish Hamilton, 2023) / Susan Sontag