Sunday, July 31, 2022

August 2022 Highlights

NOVELS
1. Boulder (trans. from the Catalan by Julia Sanches) (And Other Stories, 2023) / Eva Baltasar
2. Sojourn (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Amit Chaudhuri
3. Eden (Picador, 2022) / Jim Crace
4. Trust (Picador, 2022) / Hernan Diaz
5. Haven (Picador, 2022) / Emma Donoghue
6. The King of India (trans. from the Arabic by Paula Haydar) (Interlink Books, 2022) / Jabbour Douaihy
7. The Night Interns (Granta Books, 2022) / Austin Duffy
8. The Pachinko Parlour (trans. from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins) (Daunt Books, 2022) / Elisa Shua Dusapin
9. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (Atria Books, 2022) / Jamie Ford
10. The People Immortal (trans. from the Russian by Robert Chandler & Elizabeth Chandler) (MacLehose Press, 2022) / Vasily Grossman

11. Afterlives (Riverhead Books, 2022) / Abdulrazak Gurnah
12. The Last White Man (Hamish Hamilton/Riverhead Books, 2022) / Mohsin Hamid
13. Emergency (Astra House, 2022) / Daisy Hildyard
14. The White Rock (Fig Tree, 2022) / Anna Hope
15. The Devil Takes You Home (Mulholland Books, 2022) / Gabino Iglesias
16. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Sort Of Books, 2022) / Shehan Karunatilaka
17. The Night Ship (Canongate, 2022) / Jess Kidd
18. The Latecomer (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Jean Hanff Korelitz
19. Mount Chicago (Doubleday, 2022) / Adam Levin
20. Mercury Pictures Presents (Hogarth, 2022) / Anthony Marra

21. Pyre (trans. from the Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan) (Pushkin Press, 2022) / Perumal Murugan 
22. Bronze Drum (Grand Central Publishing, 2022) / Phong Nguyen
23. Undercurrent (Doubleday, 2022) / Barney Norris
24. Babysitter (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Joyce Carol Oates
25. The Marriage Portrait (Tinder Press, 2022) / Maggie O’Farrell
26. The Last Gift of the Master Artists (Apollo, 2022) / Ben Okri
27. On Java Road (Hogarth, 2022) / Lawrence Osborne
28. A Hunger (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Ross Raisin
29. The Queen of Dirt Island (Doubleday, 2022) / Donal Ryan
30. Properties of Thirst (Simon & Schuster, 2022) / Marianne Wiggins

FIRST NOVELS
1. The Rabbit Hutch (Alfred A Knopf, 2022) / Tess Gunty
2. All This Could Be Different (Viking, 2022) / Sarah Thankam Mathews
3. Perish (Tiny Reparations Books, 2022) / LaToya Watkins

STORIES
1. Tomorrow in Shanghai and Other Stories (Blair, 2022) / May-Lee Chai
2. Her First Palestinian and Other Stories (House of Anansi Press, 2022) / Saeed Teebi
3. Dead-End Memories (trans. from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda) (Counterpoint, 2022) / Banana Yoshimoto

POETRY
1. The Hurting Kind (Corsair, 2022) / Ada Limón
2. Slide (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Mark Pajak
3. The Arctic (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Don Paterson
4. A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts: Selected Poems (trans. from the Chinese by Andrea Lingenfelter) (New York Review Books, 2022) / Wang Yin

NONFICTION
1. The Passengers (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Will Ashon
2. The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells (Apollo, 2022) / Sarah Churchwell
3. Black and Female (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Tsitsi Dangarembga
4. Teller of the Unexpected: The Life of Roald Dahl: An Unofficial Biography (Apollo/Head of Zeus, 2022) / Matthew Dennison
5. The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society (Henry Holt, 2022) / William Dereseiwicz
6. Without Warning & Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood (Tinder Press, 2022) / Kit de Waal
7. High: A Journey Across the Himalayas Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China (trans. from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson) (MacLehose Press, 2022) / Erika Fatland
8. Motherlands: In Search of Our Inherited Cities (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Amaryllis Gacioppo
9. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity (Little, Brown, 2022) / Justin Gregg
10. Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings (W.W. Norton, 2022) / Randall Kenan

11. Memoirs (eds. Steven Gould Axelrod & Grzegorz Kosc) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Robert Lowell
12. The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022) / Philippe Sands

Friday, July 01, 2022

July 2022 Highlights

NOVELS
1. Milk Teeth (Sceptre, 2022) / Jessica Andrews
2. Our Wives Under the Sea (Flatiron Books, 2022) / Julia Armfield
3. Venomous Lumpsucker (Sceptre, 2022) / Ned Beauman
4. The House of Fortune (Picador, 2022) / Jessie Burton
5. Joan (Hodder & Stoughton, 2022) / Katherine J. Chen
6. The Bewitching (Sceptre, 2022) / Jill Dawson
7. Fellowship Point (Scribner, 2022) / Alice Elliott Dark
8. The Displacements (Riverhead Books, 2022) / Bruce Holsinger
9. Amy & Lan (Chatto & Windus, 2022) / Sadie Jones
10. The Night Ship (Canongate/Atria Books, 2022) / Jess Kidd

11. The Mermaid’s Tale (trans. from the Chinese by Darryl Sterk) (Scribner UK, 2022) / Lee Wei-Jing
12. Ancestry (Little, Brown, 2022) / Simon Mawer
13. Take No Names (Ecco, 2022) / Daniel Nieh
14. Elena Knows (trans. from the Spanish by Frances Riddle) (Charco Press, 2022) / Claudia Piñeiro
15. The Mermaid of Black Conch (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Monique Roffey
16. The Earthspinner (HarperVia, 2022) / Anuradha Roy
17. The Sorcerer of Pyongyang (Corsair, 2022) / Marcel Theroux
18. The Pallbearers Club (William Morrow/Titan, 2022) / Paul Tremblay
19. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way (Riverrun, 2022) / Rebecca Wait
20. Golden Age (trans. from the Chinese by Yan Yan) (Astra House, 2022) / Wang Xiaobo

21. The Incandescent Threads (Parthian Books, 2022) / Richard Zimler

FIRST NOVELS
1. The Rabbit Hutch (Oneworld Publications, 2022) / Tess Gunty
2. The Twilight World (trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann) (The Bodley Head, 2022) / Werner Herzog
3. Delphi (Fig Tree, 2022) / Clare Pollard
4. Other Names for Love (Harvill Secker, 2022) / Taymour Soomro
5. Four Treasures of the Sky (Michael Joseph, 2022) / Jenny Tinghui Zhang

STORIES
1. God’s Children Are Little Broken Things (Weidenfled & Nicolson, 2022) / Arinze Ifeakandu
2. Self-Portrait with Ghost (Mariner Books, 2022) / Meng Jin
3. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories (Viking, 2022) / Jamil Jan Kochai
4. Life Ceremony (trans. from the Japanese by Ginny Tapely Takemori) (Grove Press/Black Cat, 2022) / Sayaka Murata

POETRY
1. The Illustrated Woman (Chatto & Windus, 2022) / Helen Mort

NONFICTION
1. Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature (Graywolf Press, 2022) / Charles Baxter
2. Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales (Scribner, 2022) / Doreen Cunningham
3. All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir (Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Seán Hewitt
4. Takeaway: Stories From a Childhood Behind the Counter (Trapeze, 2022) / Angela Hui
5. Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body (Simon & Schuster/The Indigo Press, 2022) / Savala Molan
6. Scotland: The Global History: 1603 to the Present (Yale University Press, 2022) / Murray Pittock
7. To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics (Columbia University Press, 2022) / Rahul Sagar (ed.)
8. Edge of England: Landfall in Lincolnshire (C. Hurst & Co., 2022) / Derek Turner
9. Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World (Constable, 2022) / John Walsh