August 2020 Highlights
NOVELS
1. Against the Loveless World (Atria Books, 2020) / Susan Abulhawa
3. A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom (Hogarth, 2020) / John Boyne
4. What Happens at Night (Catapult, 2020) / Peter Cameron
6. The Mission House (Granta Books, 2020) / Carys Davies
7. The Death of Vivek Oji (Faber & Faber/Riverhead, 2020) / Akwaeke Emezi
10. Northernmost (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Peter Geye
12. A Lover’s Discourse (Chatto & Windus, 2020) / Xiaolu Guo
14. Moonflower Murders (Century, 2020) / Anthony Horowitz
15. The Sound Mirror (Bluemoose Books, 2020) / Heidi James
17. When These Mountains Burn (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2020) / David Joy
19. The Exiles (Custom House/Morrow, 2020) / Christina Baker Kline
20. With or Without You (Algonquin Books, 2020) / Caroline Leavitt
22. Must I Go (Hamish Hamilton, 2020) / Yiyun Li
23. The Boy in the Field (Harper/Sceptre, 2020) / Margot Livesey
24. The Labyrinth (Text Publishing, 2020) / Amanda Lohrey
26. The Archipelago of Another Life (trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan) (MacLehose Press, 2020) / Andreï Makine
28. I Give It to You (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday/Serpent’s Tail, 2020) / Valerie Martin
29. Still Life (Little, Brown, 2020) / Val McDermid
32. Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey (Penguin Books, 2020) / Kathleen Rooney
39. The Last Great Road Bum (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) / Héctor Tobar
40. The Frightened Ones (trans. from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Dima Wannous
FIRST NOVELS
1. Black Sunday (Canongate, 2020) / Tola Rotimi Abraham
2. The New Wilderness (Harper/Oneworld, 2020) / Diane Cook
3. Here is the Beehive (Bloomsbury Circus, 2020)P / Sarah Crossan
7. Luster (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) / Raven Leilani
9. A Ghost in the Throat (Tramp Press, 2020) / Doireann Ní Ghríofa
3. A House Is a Body (Algonquin, 2020) / Shruti Swamy
POETRY
1. Here is the Sweet Hand (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) / Francine J. Harris
5. My Darling from the Lions (Picador, 2020) / Rachel Long
7. Land’s End: New and Selected Poems (University of Chicago Press, 2020) / Gail Mazur
8. Fury (Carcanet Press, 2020) / David Morley
9. Middle Distance (W.W. Norton, 2020) / Stanley Plumly
NONFICTION
1. Tales from the Life of Bruce Wannell: Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist (Sickle Moon for Eland Publishing, 2020) / Barnaby Rogerson & Rose Baring (eds.)
3. Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust (Yale University Press, 2020) / Rebecca Clifford
5. Magdalena: River of Dreams (The Bodley Head, 2020) / Wade Davis
6. Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy (trans. from the German by Shaun Whiteside) (Penguin Press, 2020) / Wolfram Eilenberger
7. Time of the Magicians: The Invention of Modern Thought, 1919-1929 (trans. from the German by Shaun Whiteside) (Allen Lane, 2020) / Wolfram Eilenberger
8. The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War (Liveright, 2020) / Michael Gorra
9. Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / Alex Halberstadt
16. Vesper Flights (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / Helen Macdonald
17. Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape (Thames & Hudson, 2020) / Susan Owens
20. An Inventory of Losses (trans. from the German by Jackie Smith) (MacLehose Press, 2020) / Judith Schlansky
21. How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division (Wellcome Collection, 2020) / Elif Shafak
22. Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food is Wrong (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / Tim Spector
23. The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power (Little, Brown, 2020) / Peter Ross Range
24. Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire (William Collins, 2020) / Sujit Sivasundaram
26. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020) / Rebecca Wragg Sykes
27. Caste: The Lies That Divide Us (Allen Lane, 2020) / Isabel Wilkerson
28. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent (Random House, 2020) / Isabel Wilkerson
29. The Mystery of Charles Dickens (Harper, 2020) / A.N. Wilson