April 2020 Highlights

NOVELS
1. Afterlife (Algonquin, 2020) / Julia Alvarez
2. Magpie Lane (Quercus, 2020) / Lucy Atkins

3. A Thousand Moons (Viking, 2020) / Sebastian Barry
4. Hinton (Granta, 2020) / Mark Blacklock
5. Starling Days (Overlook, 2020) / Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
6. Hollow in the Land (Serpent’s Tail, 2020 / James Clarke
7. Peace Talks (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Tim Finch
8. Sea Wife (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Amity Gaige
9. Cleanness (Picador, 2020) / Garth Greenwell
10. St Ivo (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) / Joanna Hershon

11. Breasts and Eggs (trans. from the Japanese by Sam Bett & David Boyd) (Europa Editions, 2020) / Mieko Kawakami
12. The Book of Longings (Viking, 2020) / Sue Monk Kidd
13. You People (Viking, 2020) / Nikita Lalwani
14. To Calais, In Ordinary Time (Canongate, 2020) / James Meek
15. Death in Her Hands (Penguin Press, 2020) / Ottessa Moshfegh
16. Execution (HarperCollins, 2020) / S.J. Parris
17. Love After Love (Faber & Faber/Oneworld, 2020) / Ingrid Persaud
18. The Mermaid of Black Conch (Peepal Tress Press, 2020) / Monique Roffey
19. A Theatre for Dreamers (Bloomsbury Circus, 2020) / Polly Samson
20. The Glass Hotel (Picador, 2020) / Emily St John Mandel

21. The King of Warsaw (trans. from the Polish by Sean Gasper Bye) (Amazon Crossing, 2020) / Szczepan Twardoch
22. Redhead by the Side of the Road (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Anne Tyler
23. Little Disasters (Simon & Schuster UK, 2020) / Sarah Vaughan
24. I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me (trans. from the Spanish by Daniel Hahn) (And Other Stories, 2020) / Juan Pablo Villalobos

25. The End of October (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Lawrence Wright

FIRST NOVELS
1. Braised Pork (Grove Press, 2020) / An Yu
2. Conjure Women (4th Estate/Random House, 2020) / Afia Atakora
3. If I Had Your Face (Ballantine Books, 2020) / Frances Cha
4. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (trans. from the Korean by Jamie Chang) (Liveright, 2020) / Cho Nam-Joo

5. Eat a Bowl of Tea (University of Washington Press, 2020) / Louis Chu
6. Exciting Times (Orion, 2020) / Naoise Dolan
7. Five Little Indians (Harper Perennial, 2020) / Michelle Good

8. Rainbow Milk (Dialogue Books, 2020) / Paul Mendez
9. The Beauty of Your Face (W.W. Norton, 2020) / Sahar Mustafah
10. Passage West (Ecco, 2020) / Rishi Reddi

11. The Yellow Bird Sings (Picador, 2020) / Jennifer Rosner
12. What’s Left of Me is Yours (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020) / Stephanie Scott
13. Sharks in the Time of Saviors (Canongate, 2020) / Kawai Strong Washburn

14. Come Again (Canongate, 2020) / Robert Webb
15. Reproduction (Europa Editions, 2020) / Ian Williams
16. How Much of These Hills Is Gold (Riverhead Books/Virago, 2020) / C. Pam Zhang

STORIES
1. Fifty-Two Stories (trans. from the Russian by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Anton Chekhov
2. The Heartsick Diaspora (Myriad Editions, 2020) / Elaine Chiew
3. Lake Like a Mirror (trans. from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce) (Two Lines Press, 2020) / Ho Sok Fong
4. We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / A.L. Kennedy
5. If It Bleeds (Hodder & Stoughton, 2020) / Stephen King
6. The Boatman and Other Stories (Harper/HarperCollins, 2020) / Billy O’Callaghan
7. The Dominant Animal (Daunt Books, 2020) / Kathryn Scanlan
8. How to Pronounce Knife (Little, Brown, 2020) / Souvankham Thammavongsa

POETRY
1. Obit (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) / Victoria Chang

2. The Half-God of Rainfall (4th Estate, 2020) / Inua Ellams
3. Tongues of Fire (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / Seán Hewitt
4. How to Wash a Heart (Pavilion/Liverpool University Press, 2020) / Bhanu Kapil
5. The Shore (Wave Books, 2020) / Chris Nealon

6. Passport to Here and There (Bloodaxe Books, 2020) / Grace Nichols
7. The Mother House (Wake Forest University Press, 2020) / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
8. Citadel (Pavilion Poetry/Liverpool University Press, 2020) / Martha Sprackland

NONFICTION
1. Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020) / Gregory Afinogenov
2. Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir (Harper, 2020) / Madeleine Albright
3. Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Lamorna Ash
4. Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World (William Collins, 2020) / Jonathan Bate
5. Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West (William Collins, 2020) / Catherine Belton
6. Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan (Macmillan USA, 2020) / Michael Booth
7. One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time (4th Estate, 2020) / Craig Brown

8. Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar (Hatchette/Faber & Faber, 2020) / Oliver Craske

9. Magdalena: River of Dreams (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Wade Davis
10. What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / Mark Doty

11. Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Harvard University Press, 2020) / Nicole R. Fleetwood

12. Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World (Penguin Books, 2020) / John Freeman(ed.)
13. The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World (W.W.Norton, 2020) / Barry Gewen
14. Warhol (Ecco, 2020) / Blake Gopnik
15. Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy (Yale University Press, 2020) / Emma Griffin
16. 33 Meditations on Death: Notes from the Wrong End of Medicine (Doubleday, 2020) / David Jarrett

17. The Broken Heart of America: St Louis and the Violent History of the United States (Basic Books, 2020) / Walter Johnson
18. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Doubleday, 2020) / Robert Kolker
19. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Picador, 2020) / Olivia Laing
20. Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (Yale University Press, 2020) / Andrew B. Liu

21. Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Helen McCarthy
22. American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland (Graywolf Press, 2020) / Marie Mutsuki Mockett
23. Akbar: The Great Mughal (Aleph, 2020) / Ira Mukhoty
24. Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back (Granta/Doubleday, 2020) / Mark O’Connell
25. Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century (Simon & Schuster, 2020) / John Loughery & Blythe Randolph
26. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (Oxford University Press, 2020) / Heather Cox Richardson
27. Murder on the Middle Passage: The Trial of Captain Kimber (Boydell & Brewer, 2020) / Nicholas Rogers
28. The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020) / Philippe Sands
29. Coffeeland: A History (Allen Lane, 2020) / Augustine Sedgewick
30. Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug (Penguin Press, 2020) / Augustine Sedgewick

31. Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World (Allen Lane, 2020) / Laurence C. Smith
32. Walking the Great North Line: From Stonehenge to Lindisfarne to Discover the Mysteries of Our Ancient Past (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020) / Robert Twigger

33. A History of Solitude (Polity Press, 2020) / David Vincent
34. An American Uprising in Second World War England: Mutiny in the Duchy (Pen & Sword Books, 2020) / Kate Werran

35. The Cambridge Companion to J.M. Coetzee (Cambridge University Press, 2020) / Jarad Zimbler (ed.)