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