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