November 2023 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Baumgartner (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Paul Auster

2. Water (Doubleday, 2023) / John Boyne

3. Day (Random House, 2023) / Michael Cunningham

4. Restless Dolly Maunder (Canongate Books, 2023) / Kate Grenville

5. An Ordinary Youth (trans. from the German by Michael Lipkin) (Granta Books, 2023) / Walter Kempowski

6. Fanatic Heart (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Thomas Keneally

7. My Armenian Friend (trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan) (Mountain Leopard Press, 2023) / Andrei Makine

7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023) / James McBride

8. Held (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023) / Anne Michaels

9. Fire Bird (trans. from the Tamil by Janani Kannan) (Penguin Random House India, 2023) / Perumal Murugan

10. The Vulnerables (Riverhead Books, 2023) / Sigrid Nunez

11. Same Bed Different Dreams (Random House, 2023) / Ed Park

12. Run to the Western Shore (Swift Press, 2023) / Tim Pears 

13. The Caretaker (Canongate Books, 2023) / Ron Rash

FIRST NOVELS

1. Playing Games (Sceptre, 2023) / Huma Qureshi

STORIES

1. Our Strangers (Canongate Books, 2023) / Lydia Davis

2. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men (Grove Press, 2023) / Claire Keegan

3. Sandalwood Soap and Other Stories (trans. from the Tamil by Kavitha Muralidharan) (Juggernaut, 2023) / Perumal Murugan

POETRY

1. The Orange and Other Poems (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Wendy Cope

2. School of Instructions (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Ishion Hutchinson

NONFICTION

1. Notes from the Henhouse (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023) / Elspeth Barker

2. The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd (Penguin, 2023) / Alistair Owen

3. Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles (Abrams Press, 2023) / Jay Owens

4. Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 (Picador, 2023) / Robert Service

5. Stuffed: A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain (Atlantic Books, 2023) / Pen Vogler