October 2023 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Light Over Liskeard (Harvill Secker, 2023) / Louis de Bernières

2. Tremor (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Teju Cole

3. Beyond the Door of No Return (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (Pushkin Press, 2023) / David Diop

4. The Wolves of Eternity (trans. from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken) (Harvill Secker, 2023) / Karl Ove Knausgaard

5. Absolution (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023) / Alice McDermott

6. Kibogo (trans. from the French by Mark Polizzotti) (Daunt Books, 2023) / Scholastique Mukasonga

7. Julia (Granta Books/Mariner Books, 2023) / Sandra Newman

8. A Man of Two Faces (Grove Press, 2023) / Viet Thanh Nguyen

9. Cahokia Jazz (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Francis Spufford

10. Let Us Descend (Scribner/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023) / Jesmyn Ward

STORIES

1. The Pole and Other Stories (Harvill Secker, 2023) / J.M. Coetzee

2. Roman Stories (trans. from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri & Todd Portnowitz) (Alfred A. Knopf/Picador, 2023) / Jhumpa Lahiri

3. The Hive and the Honey (Simon & Schuster, 2023) / Paul Yoon

POETRY

1. Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2023 (NYRB Poets, 2023) / Amit Chaudhuri

NONFICTION

1. The Brittanias; An Island Quest (Allen Lane, 2023) / Alice Albinia

1. J.G. Ballard: Selected Nonfiction 1962-2007 (The MIT Press, 2023) / Mark Blacklock (ed.)

2. Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press, 2023) / Martin Doyle

3. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People’s Business (Corsair, 2023) / Roxane Gay

4. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial (Grove Press, 2023) / Viet Thanh Nguyen

5. The Letters of Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Christopher Reid (ed.)