January 2008 Highlights

Novels
1. Chicago: A Modern Arabic Novel (trans. from the Arabic by Farouk Abdel Wahab) (The American University in Cairo Press, 2008) / Alaa Al Aswany
2. The Accordionist’s Son (trans. from the Basque by Margaret Jull Costa) (Harvill Secker, 2008) / Bernardo Atxaga
3. The Reserve (HarperCollins, 2008) / Russell Banks
4. Life Class (Doubleday, 2008) / Pat Barker
5. People of the Book (Viking/Fourth Estate, 2008) / Geraldine Brooks
6. Crusaders (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Richard T. Kelly
7. Ellington Boulevard (Spiegel & Grau, 2008) / Adam Langer
8. A Quiet Adjustment (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Benjamin Markovits
9. The Senator’s Wife (Random House, 2008) / Sue Miller
10. How the Dead Dream (Counterpoint, 2008) / Lydia Millet
11. Past Continuous (Picadoer India, 2008) / Neel Mukherjee
12. Serious Things (Sceptre, 2008) / Gregory Norminton
13. The Well and the Mine (Hawthorne Books, 2008) / Gin Phillips
14. Homecoming (trans. from the German by Michael Henry Heim) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008) / Bernhard Schlink
15. The Commoner (Nan A. Talese, 2008) / John Burnham Schwartz
16. The Boys in the Trees (Holt, 2008) / Mary Swan
17. A Perfect Waiter (trans. from the German by John Brownjohn) (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Alain Claude Sulzer
18. The Age of Shiva (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Manil Suri
19. The House of Midnight (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Lucie Whitehouse
20. A Father’s Law (Harper Perennial, 2008) / Richard Wright
21. Pavel & I (Bloomsbury USA, 2008) / Dan Vyleta

Novellas
1. Detective Story (trans. from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson) (Harvill Secker/Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Imre Kertesz

Stories
1. The Japanese Wife and Other Stories (HarperCollins India, 2008) / Kunal Basu
2. My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro (Harper Press, 2008) / Jeffrey Eugenides (ed.)
3. Lions In Winter (MPH Publishing, 2008) / Wena Poon

Poetry
1. Singing in the Dark (Carcanet, 2008) / Alison Brackenbury
2. Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004 (Wake Forest University Press, 2008) / Harry Clifton
3. The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005 (ed. Benjamin Friedlander) (University of California Press, 2008) / Robert Creeley
4. High-No-Place (Bloodaxe, 2008) / Jen Hadfield
5. The One-Strand River: Poems, 1994-2007 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Richard Kenney
6. Behind My Eyes (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Li-Young Lee
7. Sixty Poems (Harvest Books, 2008) / Charles Simic

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Nonfiction
1. The Second Plane (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Martin Amis
2. Experiments in Ethics (Harvard University Press, 2008) / Kwame Anthony Appiah
3. Somewhere Towards the End (Granta, 2008) / Diana Athill
4. Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Anna Beer
5. Memory: An Anthology (Chatto & Windus, 2008) / Harriet Harvey Wood and A.S. Byatt (eds.)
6. Alfred Kazin: A Biography (Yale University Press, 2008) / Richard M. Cook
7. On Eloquence (Yale University Press, 2008) / Denis Donoghue
8. Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir (Counterpoint, 2008) / Laura Flynn
9. The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World (Random House, 2008) / Tim Hardford
10. The Selfish Capitalist: Origins of Affluenza (Vermilion, 2008) / Oliver James
11. The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Adam Kirsch
12. God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 (W.W. Norton, 2008) / David Levering Lewis
13. Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Faber & Faber, 2008) / John Mullan
14. The Secret Life of Poems (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Tom Paulin
15. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (Penguin, 2008) / Michael Pollan
16. Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2008) / David Reiff
17. My Unwritten Books (Weidenfeld & Nicolson/New Directions, 2008) / George Steiner

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