Wednesday, June 30, 2021

July 2021 Highlights

NOVELS
1. The Startup Wife (Scribner, 2021) / Tahmima Anam
2. A Passage North (Hogarth/Granta, 2021) / Anuk Arudpragasam
3. Appleseed (Custom House, 2021) / Matt Bell
4. Blue Postcards (Fairlight Books, 2021) / Douglas Bruton
5. Ceremony of Innocence (Granta Books, 2021) / Madeleine Bunting
6. Godspeed (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Faber & Faber, 2021) / Nickolas Butler
7. What Strange Paradise (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Omar El Akkad
8. Dear Miss Metropolitan (Henry Holt, 2021) / Carolyn Ferrell
9. Monkey Boy (Grove Press UK, 2021) / Francisco Goldman
10. The Pages (4th Estate, 2021) / Hugo Hamilton

11. A Song Everlasting (Pantheon, 2021) / Ha Jin
12. Afraid of the Light (Hutchinson, 2021) / Douglas Kennedy
13. Intimacies (Riverhead, 2021) / Katie Kitamura
14. Songbirds (Manilla Press, 2021) / Christy Lefteri
15. What You Can See From Here (trans. from the German by Tess Lewis) (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Marina Leky
16. Dream Girl (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Laura Lippman
17. The Black Dress (Tinder Press, 2021) / Deborah Moggach
18. Daughters of the Labyrinth (Corsair, 2021) / Ruth Padel
19. China Room (Viking, 2021) / Sunjeev Sahota
20. People Like Us (trans. from the French by Lara Vergnaud) (Raven Books, 2021) / Samira Sedira

21. Fortune (Peepal Tree Press, 2021) / Amanda Smyth
22. Wayward (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Dana Spiotta
23. Bolla (trans. from the Finnish by David Hackston) (Pantheon, 2021) / Pajtim Statovci
24. Hard Like Water (trans. from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas) (Black Cat, 2021) / Yan Lianke
25. Creatures of Passage (Jacaranda Books, 2021) / Morowa Yejidé

FIRST NOVELS
1. The Paper Lantern (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Will Burns
2. Three Rooms (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Jo Hamya
3. The Paper Palace (Riverhead/Viking, 2021) / Miranda Cowley Heller
4. Strange Children (Red Hen Press, 2022) / Sadie Hoagland
5. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Harper/HarperCollins, 2021) / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
6. Build Your House Around My Body (Oneworld, 2021) / Violet Kupersmith
7. The Coward (Canongate, 2021) / Jarred McGinnis
8. Wild Pets (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Amber Medland
9. The Five Wounds (Tuskar Rock Press/Profile Books, 2021) / Kirstin Valdez Quade
10. Everyone Is Still Alive (Phoenix, 2021) / Cathy Rentzenbrink

STORIES
1. Cursed Bunny (trans. from the Korean by Anton Hur) (Honford Star, 2021) / Bora Chung
2. We Want What We Want (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Alix Ohlin
3. Variations on the Body (trans. from the Spanish by Heather Cleary) (Coffee House Press, 2021) / María Ospina
4. Objects of Desire (Picador, 2021) / Clare Sestanovich
5. Shine/Variance (Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Stephen Walsh

POETRY
1. The Wild Fox of Yemen (Picador, 2021) / Threa Almontaser
2. The Paper Lantern (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Will Burns
3. Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency (Valley Press, 2021) / Kate Simpson (ed.)

NONFICTION
1. The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans (W.W. Norton, 2021) / Cynthia Barnett
2. Hello, Stranger: How We Find Connection in a Disconnected World (Granta, 2021) / Will Buckingham
3. Beginnings, Endings, and Salt: Essays (Books & Books Press, 2021) / Edwidge Danticat
4. The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier (Picador, 2021) / Max Egremont
5. Things Are Against Us (Galley Beggar Press, 2021) / Lucy Ellmann
6. A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha (HarperVia, 2021) / Rodrigo García
7. Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey Into Muslim Europe (Bradt Guides, 2021) / Tharik Hussain
8. Panic As Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist (Robinson, 2021) / Roger Lytollis
9. The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History (Verso, 2021) / Jamie Mackay
10. Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves (Manchester University Press, 2021) / Peter Mitchell

11. Democracy Rules (Allen Lane, 2021) / Jan-Werner Müller
12. The Hero’s Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna (W.W. Norton, 2021) / Tim Parks
13. Meet the Georgians: Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century (William Collins, 2021) / Robert Peal
14. This Is Your Mind on Plants (Penguin Press/Allen Lane, 2021) / Michael Pollan
15. Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us (Viking, 2021) / Patrick Roberts
16. White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector (Salt Publishing, 2021) / Nicholas Royle
17. Home in the World: A Memoir (Allen Lane, 2021) / Amartya Sen
18. 12 Bytes (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Jeanette Winterson
19. Pessoa: A Biography/Pessoa: An Experimental Life (Liveright/Allen Lane, 2021) / Richard Zenith

Tuesday, June 01, 2021

June 2021 Highlights

NOVELS
1. The Divorce (trans. from the Spanish by Chris Andrews) (New Directions/And Other Stories, 2021) / César Aira
2. Cwen (Serpent’s Tail, 2021) / Alice Albinia
3. Ghosted (Sceptre, 2021) / Jenn Ashworth
4. Two Women in Rome (Corvus, 2021) / Elizabeth Buchan
5. Statues in a Garden (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Isabel Colgate
6. Legends of the North Cascades (Algonquin Books, 2021) / Jonathan Evison
7. The Dictator’s Muse (Doubleday, 2021) / Nigel Farndale
8. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Rivka Galchen
9. The Promise (Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Damon Galgut
10. A Room Made of Leaves (Text Publishing, 2021) / Kate Grenville

11. Mrs England (Manilla Press, 2022) / Stacey Halls
12. Morningside Heights (Pantheon, 2021) / Joshua Henkin
13. The Woman in the Purple Skirt (trans. from the Japanese by Lucy North) (Penguin Books/Faber & Faber, 2021) / Natsuko Imamura
14. Lorna Mott Comes Home (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Diane Johnson
15. Keeping in Touch (Westland, 2021) / Anjali Joseph
16. Heaven (trans. from the Japanese by Sam Bett & David Boyd) (Picador, 2021) / Mieko Kawakami
17. The Feast (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Margaret Kennedy
18. The Great Mistake (Granta/Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Jonathan Lee
19. Palace of the Drowned (Flatiron Books/Little, Brown, 2021) / Christine Mangan
20. Batlava Lake (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021) / Adam Mars-Jones

21. Sorrow and Bliss (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Meg Mason
22. Hell of a Book (Dutton, 2021) / Jason Mott
23. Sankofa (Virago, 2021) / Chibundu Onuzo
24. Elephant (Salt, 2021) / Paul Pickering
25. One Hundred Days (Black Inc., 2021) / Alice Pung
26. The Shape of Darkness (Penguin Books, 2021) / Laura Purcell
27. A Shock (Picador, 2021) / Keith Ridgway
28. Last Hummingbird West of Chile (Breakwater, 2021) / Nicholas Ruddock
29. Strange Flowers (Penguin Books, 2021) / Donal Ryan
30. Should We Stay Or Should Wo Go (Harper/The Borough Press, 2021) / Lionel Shriver

31. Double Blind (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Edward St Aubyn
32. Filthy Animals (Riverhead/Daunt Books, 2021) / Brandon Taylor
33. Barcelona Dreaming (Other Press/Corsair, 2021) / Rupert Thomson
34. Night Came With Many Stars (Godine, 2021) / Simon Van Booy
35. The Hummingbird (trans. from the Italian by Elena Pala) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Sandro Veronesi
36. The Chosen and the Beautiful (Tordotcom, 2021) / Nghi Vo
37. Still Life (4th Estate, 2021) / Sarah Winman
38. The Secret Talker (trans. from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang) (HarperVia, 2021) / Geling Yan
39. Hard Like Water (trans. from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas) (Grove/Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Yan Lianke

FIRST NOVELS
1. The Day I Fell Off My Island (Myriad Editions, 2021) / Yvonne Bailey-Smith
2. Assembly (Hamish Hamilton, 2021) / Natasha Brown
3. Widowland (Quercus, 2021) / C.J. Carey
4. The Sweetness of Water (Little, Brown/Tinder Press, 2021) / Nathan Harris
5. The Other Black Girl (Atria Books/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Zakiya Dalila Harris
6. Island (Pushkin Press, 2021) / Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen
7. Long Division (Scribner, 2021) / Kiese Layton
8. The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu (Little, Brown, 2021) / Tom Lin
9. We Were Not Men (HarperCollins Australia, 2021) / Campbell Mattinson
10. The Fugitivities (Melville House, 2021) / Jesse McCarthy

11. Rainbow Milk (Doubleday, 2021) / Paul Mendez
12. The Son of the House (Dundurn Group, 2021) / Cheluchi Onyemelukwe Onuobia
13. Fifty-five Pillars, Red Walls (trans. from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell) (Speaking Tiger, 2021) / Usha Priyamvada
14. Moth (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Melody Razak
15. The Stranding (Coronet, 2021) / Kate Sawyer
16. Animal (Bloomsbury Circus, 2021) / Lisa Taddeo
17. The First Day of Spring (Hutchinson, 2021) / Nancy Tucker

STORIES
1. Shoko’s Smile (trans. from the Korean by Sung Ryu) (Penguin Books, 2021) / Choi Eunyoung
2. The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories (Penguin Classics, 2021) / Margaret Jull Costa (ed.)
3. Let Us Look Elsewhere (Dahlia, 2021) / Mona Dash
4. The Souvenir Museum (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Elizabeth McCracken
5. Chemistry and Other Stories (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Tim Pears
6. In the Event of Contact (Dzanc Books, 2021) / Ethel Rohan
7. Filthy Animals (Riverhead/Daunt Books, 2021) / Brandon Taylor

POETRY
1. Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Leo Boix
2. The Resurrectionists (Bloodaxe, 2021) / John Challis
3. The Heeding (with illustrations by Nick Hayes) (Elliott & Thompson, 2021) / Rob Cowen
4. Honorifics (Nine Arches Press, 2021) / Cynthia Miller
5. Lyonesse (Bloodaxe, 2021) / Penelope Shuttle

NONFICTION
1. The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China (Princeton University Press, 2021) / Tonio Andrade
2. Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Rosencrans Baldwin
3. The Undocumented Americans (Swift Press, 2021) / Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
4. Connections: A Story of Human Feeling (Viking, 2021) / Karl Deisseroth
5. The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Jon Dunn
6. The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of war Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History (Random House, 2021) / Margalit Fox
7. Destination Peking (Blacksmith Books, 2021) / Paul French
8. Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Pluto Press, 2021) / Amelia Horgan
9. Among the Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Ed Husain
10. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 (trans. from the German by Shaun Whiteside) (WH Allen, 2021) / Harald Jähner

11. The Broken House: Growing Up Under Hitler (trans. from the German by Shaun Whiteside) (The Bodley Head, 2021) / Horst Krüger
12. Love and the Novel: Life After Reading (Profile Books, 2022) / Christina Lupton
13. The Day the World Stops Shopping (The Bodley Head, 2021) / J.B. MacKinnon
14. Hyphen (Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Pardis Mahdavi
15. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Random House, 2021) / Tiya Miles
16. The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides (William Collins, 2021) / Adam Nicolson
17. Migratory Birds (trans. from the Spanish by Julia Sanches) (Transit Books, 2021) / Marina Oliver
18. The Hero’s Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna (Harvill Secker, 2021) / Tim Parks
19. The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021) / Annie Murphy Paul
20. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth (Brookings Institution Press, 2021) / Jonathan Rausch

21. Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows (Liveright, 2021) / Ruth Scurr
22. Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Anne Sebba
23. Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy (St Martin’s Press, 2021) / Anne Sebba
24. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Little, Brown, 2021) / Clint Smith
25. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth (Penguin Press, 2021) / Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson & Jason Stanford
26. Walking the Invisible: Following in the Brontës’ Footsteps (HQ/HarperCollins, 2021) / Michael Stewart
27. A Stinging Delight: A Memoir (Faber & Faber, 2021) / David Storey
28. The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany (Manilla Press, 2021) / Gwen Strauss
29. House of Sticks: A Memoir (Scribner, 2021) / Ly Tran
30. The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / John Tresch

31. Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship (Hurst, 2021) / Stephen Vines
32. The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid (Allen Lane/Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Lawrence Wright