September 2020 Highlights
NOVELS
1. Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown, 2020) / Ayad Akhtar
2. Inside Story (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / Martin Amis
3. The Good German (Patrick Crean Editions, 2020) / Dennis Bock
4. Piranesi (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Susanna Clarke
5. The End of the Day (Gallery/Scout Press, 2020) / Bill Clegg
8. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Knopf Australia, 2020) / Richard Flanagan
9. The Evening and the Morning (Macmillan/Viking, 2020) / Ken Follett
10. Afterlives (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Abdulrazak Gurnah
11. Transcendent Kingdom (Viking/Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Yaa Gyasi
12. The Survivors (Macmillan Australia, 2020) / Jane Harper
13. Just Like You (Viking, 2020) / Nick Hornby
14. Darkness As a Bride (Simon & Schuster, 2020) / John Irving
15. The Dickens Boy (Sceptre, 2020) / Thomas Keneally
16. One Left (trans. from the Korean by Bruce Fulton & Ju-Chan Fulton) (University of Washington Press, 2020) / Kim Soom
17. Red Pill (Alfred A. Knopf/Scribner UK, 2020) / Hari Kunzru
18. When We Cease to Understand the World (trans. from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West) (Pushkin Press, 2020) / Benjamín Labatut
20. Dear Ann (Harper, 2020) / Bobbie Ann Mason
24. The Forger’s Daughter (Mysterious Press, 2020) / Bradford Morrow
25. What Are You Going Through (Riverhead Books, 2020) / Sigrid Nunez
26. Mayflies (Faber & Faber, 2020) / Andrew O’Hagan
27. Jack (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Virago, 2020) / Marilynne Robinson
28. We Germans (Little, Brown, 2020) / Alexander Starritt
30. Farewell, Ghosts (trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein) (Penguin Random House USA, 2020) / Nadia Terranova
32. The Bass Rock (Pantheon, 2020) / Evie Wyld
3. The Last Story of Mina Lee (Park Row Books/Headline Review, 2020) / Nancy Jooyoun Kim
5. The Thursday Murder Club (Viking, 2020) / Richard Osman
8. The Appointment (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020) / Katharina Volckmer
STORIES
1. Secrets Never Told (New Island Press, 2020) / Dermot Bolger
2. Likes (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) / Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
3. Daddy (Random House/Chatto & Windus, 2020) / Emma Cline
4. No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories (trans. from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana) (Tilted Axis, 2020) / Jayant Kaikini
7. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (West Virginia University Press, 2020) / Deesha Philyaw
9. Famished (Influx Press, 2020) / Anna Vaught
10. We Two Alone (House of Anansi Press, 2020) / Jack Wang
POETRY
1. Whale Day and Other Poems (Random House, 2020) / Billy Collins
2. The Problem of the Many (Picador, 2020) / Timothy Donnelly
7. Just Us: An American Conversation (Graywolf Press/Allen Lane, 2020) / Claudia Rankine
8. Rain in Plural (Princeton University Press, 2020) / Fiona Sze-Lorrain
NONFICTION
1. Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) / David A. Bell
3. Beethoven: A Life (California University Press, 2020) / Jan Caeyers
4. Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Wade Davis
5. Suppose a Sentence (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020) / Brian Dillon
7. On Seamus Heaney (Princeton University Press, 2020) / R.F. Foster
10. Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) / Rachel Holmes
19. Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas (Harper, 2020) / Roberto Lovato
20. Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way (trans. from the French by Frank Wynne) (World Editions, 2020) / Amin Maalouf
24. Orange (Steidl, 2020) / Orhan Pamuk
26. Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times (Penguin Press, 2020) / David S. Reynolds
29. The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Allen Lane, 2020) / Michael J. Sandel
30. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures (The Bodley Head, 2020) / Merlin Sheldrake
31. Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time (Bloomsbury Circus, 2020) / James Suzman
34. Metropolis: A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / Ben Wilson