Sunday, July 01, 2012

July 2012 Highlights

Novels
1. Dare Me (Reagan Arthur Books, 2012) / Megan Abbott
2. A Trick I Learned from Dead Men (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Kitty Aldridge
3. Lionel Asbo (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Martin Amis
4. True Believers (Random House, 2012) / Kurt Andersen
5. After Such Kindness (Tindal Street Press, 2012) / Gaynor Arnold
6. Chapman’s Odyssey (Bloomsbury USA, 2012) / Paul Bailey
7. Ancient Light (Viking, 2012) / John Banville
8. The Yips (Fourth Estate, 2012) / Nicola Barker
9. The Teleportation Accident (Sceptre, 2012) / Ned Beauman
10. The Sandcastle Girls (Doubleday, 2012) / Chris Bohjalian

11. The Absolutist (Other Press, 2012) / John Boyner
12. A Million Heavens (McSweeney’s, 2012) / John Brandon
13. Hell or High Water (Thomas Dunne Books, 2012) / Joy Castro
14. Gold (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Chris Cleave
15. The Purple Shroud (Virago, 2012) / Stella Duffy
16. The Silver Dark Sea (Fourth Estate, 2012) / Susan Fletcher
17. Broken Harbor (Viking/Hodder & Stoughton, 2012) / Tana French
18. Where We Belong (St. Martin’s Press, 2012) / Emily Giffin
19. The Big Music (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Kirsty Gunn
20. Shadow of Night (Viking, 2012) / Deborah Harkness

21. Long Time, No See (Viking, 2012) / Dermot Healy
22. Infrared (Black Cat/Grove Press, 2012) / Nancy Huston
23. The Uninvited (Bloomsbury UK, 2012) / Liz Jensen
24. Some Kind of Fairy Tale (Doubleday, 2012) / Graham Joyce
25. Come to the Edge (Quercus, 2012) / Joanna Kavenna
26. Say Nice Things About Detroit (W.W. Norton, 2012) / Scott Lasser
27. The Collective (W.W. Norton, 2012) / Don Lee
28. The Innocents (Avon/HarperCollins Publishers, 2012) / Laura Lippman
29. One Good Hustle (Random House Canada, 2012) / Billie Livingston
30. Gods and Beasts (Orion, 2012) / Denise Mina

31. The Summer House (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Santa Montefiore
32. Buddhaland Brooklyn (Scribner, 2012) / Richard C. Morais
33. The Truth (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012) / Michael Palin
34. You & Me (published as You & I in the UK) (Ecco, 2012) / Padgett Powell
35. The Conductor (Head of Zeus, 2012) / Sarah Quigley
36. The Saint Zita Society (Hutchinson, 2012) / Ruth Rendell
37. Hawthorn & Child (Granta Books, 2012) / Keith Ridgway
38. Archipelago (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Monique Roffey
39. The Prisoner of Heaven (Harper, 2012) / Carlos Ruiz Zafón
40. The Road to Urbino (Abacus, 2012) / Roma Tearne

41. Weirdo (Serpent’s Tail, 2012) / Cathi Unsworth
42. Beautiful Ruins (Harper/HarperCollins, 2012) / Jess Walter
43. Habits of the House (Head of Zeus, 2012) / Fay Weldon
44. How the Trouble Started (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Robert Williams


First Novels
1. The Red Chamber (Alfred A. Knopf/Virago Press, 2012) / Pauline A. Chen
2. Stony River (Penguin Canada, 2012) / Tricia Dower
3. If This Is Home (Picador, 2012) / Stuart Evers
4. The Beloved (Picador Australia, 2012) / Annah Faulkner
5. East of Denver (Dutton, 2012) / Gregory Hill
6. Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma (Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Kerry Hudson
7. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (Hesperus Press, 2012) / Jonas Jonasson
8. All Woman and Springtime (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012) / Brandon W. Jones
9. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Random House, 2012) / Rachel Joyce
10. Mountains of the Moon (Viking, 2012) / I.J. Kay

11. Tigers in Red Weather (Little, Brown, 2012) / Liza Klaussmann
12. A Violet Season (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Kathy Leonard Czepiel
13. Leaving the Atocha Station (Granta, 2012) / Ben Lerner
14. Shine Shine Shine (St. Martin’s Press, 2012) / Lydia Netzer
15. The Heat of the Sun (Atlantic Books, 2012) / David Rain
16. The Jump Artist (Viking, 2012) / Austin Ratner
17. In the Shadow of the Banyan (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Vaddey Ratner
18. The Light Between Oceans (Scribner, 2012) / M.L. Stedman
19. Communion Town (Fourth Estate, 2012) / Sam Thompson
20. The Painted Bridge (Scribner, 2012) / Wendy Wallace

21. Juliet in August (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 2012) / Dianne Warren

Stories
1. The Woman Who Married a Cloud: The Collected Short Stories of Jonathan Carroll (Subterranean, 2012) / Jonathan Carroll
2. Homesick (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Roshi Fernando
3. Enchantment: New and Selected Stories (Counterpoint, 2012) / Thaisa Frank
4. The Weight of a Human Heart (Old Street Publishing, 2012) / Ryan O’Neill
5. Loving You the Way I Do (Black Lawrence Press, 2012) / Ron Savage
6. Communion Town (Fourth Estate, 2012) / Sam Thompson
7. Sorry Please Thank You (Pantheon, 2012) / Charles Yu



Poetry
1. The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein (Salt Publishing, 2012) / William Allegrezza (ed.)
2. Bee Journal (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Sean Borodale
3. The World’s Two Smallest Humans (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Julia Copus
4. London: A History in Verse (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2012) / Mark Ford  (ed.)
5. The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Samuel Beckett
6. Collected Poems (trans. from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov) (Penguin Classics, 2012) / Vladimir Nabokov
7. Gravesend (University of California Press, 2012) / Cole Swensen

Nonfiction
1. Walking Home: Travels with a Troubadour on the Pennine Way (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Simon Armitage
2. Phantoms on the Bookshelves (Overlook, 2012) / Jacques Bonnet
3. Titian: His Life (HarperPress, 2012) / Sheila Hale
4. Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story (Liveright Publishing, 2012) / Jim Holt
5. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II (St. Martin’s Press, 2012) / Keith Lowe
6. The Good Life: The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World (Bloomsbury UK, 2012) / Cheryl Mendelson
7. Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Granta, 2012) / Sarah Moss
8. Meander: East to West, Indirectly, Along a Turkish River (Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Jeremy Seal
9. The Green Road Into the Trees: An Exploration of England (Preface Publishing, 2012) / Hugh Thomson
10. Raymond Chandler: A Mysterious Something in the Light: A New Biography (Aurum Press, 2012) / Tom Williams

11. When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) / Monica Wood

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