September 2023 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Beasts of England (Galley Beggar Press, 2023) / Adam Biles

2. The Glutton (Granta Books, 2023) / A.K. Blakemore

3. Loved and Missed (New York Review Books, 2023) / Susie Boyt

4. The Pole (Liveright, 2023) / J.M. Coetzee

5. Beyond the Door of No Return (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023) / David Diop

6. The Seventh Son (Hutchinson Heinemann, 2023) / Sebastian Faulks

7. The Vaster Wilds (Riverhead/Hutchinson Heinemann, 2023) / Lauren Groff

8. Desertion (Riverhead Books, 2023) / Abdulrazak Gurnah

9. Wellness (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Nathan Hill

10. Holly (Scribner, 2023) / Stephen King

11. The Wolves of Eternity (trans. from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken) (Penguin Press, 2023) / Karl One Knausgaard

12. Prophet Song (Oneworld, 2023) / Paul Lynch

13. North Woods (Random House/John Murray, 2023) / Daniel Mason

14. Night Watch (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Jayne Anne Phillips

15. Fifteen Wild Decembers (Europa Editions, 2023) / Karen Powell

16. The Caretaker (Doubleday, 2023) / Ron Rash

17. Land of Milk and Honey (Riverhead, 2023) / C. Pam Zhang

STORIES

1. The Pole (Liveright, 2023) / J.M. Coetzee

2. Dragon Palace (trans. from the Japanese by Ted Goossen) (Stone Bridge Press, 2023) / Hiromi Kawakami

3. Wednesday’s Child (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/4th Estate, 2023) / Yiyun Li

4. Absolutely & Forever (Chatto & Windus, 2023) / Rose Tremain

5. This Is Salvaged (W.W. Norton, 2023) / Vauhini Vara

POETRY

1. The Asking: New and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Jane Hirshfield

NONFICTION

1. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth (Picador, 2023) / Natalie Haynes

2. A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023) / David Kynaston

3. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary (Chatto & Windus, 2023) / Sarah Ogilvie

August 2023 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Learned by Heart (Picador, 2023) / Emma Donoghue

2. A Bird in Winter (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Louise Doughty

3. Sun House (Little, Brown, 2023) / David James Duncan

4. The Wren, The Wren (Jonathan Cape, 2023) / Anne Enright

5. The Invisible Hour (Atria Books, 2023) / Alice Hoffman

6. The Well of Saint Nobody (Apollo, 2023) / Neil Jordan

7. Fanatic Heart (Penguin Books Australia, 2023) / Tom Keneally

8. Happiness Falls (Hogarth, 2023) / Angie Kim

9. Prophet Song (Oneworld Publications, 2023) / Paul Lynch

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

11. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Riverhead, 2023) / James McBride

12. Tom Lake (Harper/HarperCollins, 2023) / Ann Patchett

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

FIRST NOVELS

1. The Same Country (Legend Press, 2023) / Carole Burns

2. Anam (Picador, 2023) / André Dao

3. I Will Greet the Sun Again (Viking/Hogarth, 2023) / Khashayar J. Khabushani

4. Though the Bodies Fall (Granta Books, 2023) / Noel O’Regan

NOVELLAS/STORIES

1. Normal Rules Don’t Apply (Doubleday, 2023) / Kate Atkinson

2. Cheri (Serpent’s Tail, 2023) / Jo Ann Beard

3. Witness (4th Estate/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023) / Jamel Brinkley

4. Tomb Sweeping (Ecco, 2023) / Alexandra Chang

5. Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories (trans. from the Korean by Jamie Chang) (Scribner UK, 2023) / Cho Nam-Joo

6. So Late in the Day (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Claire Keegan

7. Open Up (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Thomas Morris

8. Burning Angel and Other Stories (Hogarth Press, 2023) / Lawrence Osborne

POETRY

1. Bright Fear (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Mary Jean Chan

NONFICTION

1. The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023) / Thomas Harding

2. Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization (Hanover Square Press, 2023) / Kenneth W. Harl

3. Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023) / Kenneth W. Harl

4. Frank Moorhouse: A Life (Allen & Unwin, 2023) / Catharine Lumby

5. Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles (Hodder & Stoughton, 2023) / Jay Owens

6. Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023) / David Shih