Friday, March 01, 2013

March 2013 Highlights

Novels
1. Best Kept Secret (Macmillan, 2013) / Jeffrey Archer
2. Life After Life (Doubleday/Little, Brown, 2013) / Kate Atkinson
3. Horses of God (trans. from the French by Lulu Forman) (Tin House Books, 2013) / Mahi Binebine
4. Six Years (Dutton, 2013) / Harlan Coben
5. The Gods of Heavenly Punishment (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Jennifer Cody Epstein
6. The Childhood of Jesus (Harvill Secker, 2013) / J.M. Coetzee
7. Harvest (Picador/Nan A. Talese, 2013) / Jim Crace
8. Home Fires (Bloomsbury, 2013) / Elizabeth Day
9. A Thousand Pardons (Random House, 2013) / Jonathan Dee
10. The Monster’s Lament (Doubleday, 2013) / Robert Edric

11. The Five Acts of Diego Leon (Random House, 2013) / Alex Espinoza
12. The Hired Man (Bloomsbury, 2013) / Aminatta Forna
13. Schroder (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Amity Gaige
14. Middle C (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / William H. Gass
15. Mount Pleasant (Random House Canada, 2013) / Don Gillmor
16. The End of the Point (Harper, 2013) / Elizabeth Graver
17. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (Hamish Hamilton/Riverhead Books, 2013) / Mohsin Hamid
18. Benediction (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / Kent Haruf
19. The Obituary Writer (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Ann Hood
20. Five Days (Hutchinson, 2013) / Douglas Kennedy

21. Ordinary Grace (Atria Books, 2013) / William Kent Krueger
22. The Thief of Words (Quantuck Lane Press, 2013) / Starling Lawrence
23. Submergence (Coffee House Press, 2013) / J.M. Ledgard
24. The Abundance (Metropolitan Books, 2013) / Amit Majmudar
25. Brief Loves That Live Forever (trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan) (MacLehose Press, 2013) / Andreï Makine
26. The Infatuations (trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa) (Hamish Hamilton, 2013) / Javier Marías
27. A Beautiful Truth (Hamish Hamilton Canada, 2013) / Colin McAdam
28. Life After Life (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2013) / Jill McCorkle
29. Jacob’s Folly (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Rebecca Miller
30. The Quickening (Hammer, 2013) / Julie Myerson

31. The Accursed (Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, 2013) / Joyce Carol Oates
32. This Magnificent Desolation (Bloomsbury USA, 2013) / Thomas O’Malley
33. A Tale for the Time Being (Canongate Books/Viking, 2013) / Ruth Ozeki
34. The Storyteller (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013) / Jodi Picoult
35. American Dream Machine (Tin House Press, 2013) / Matthew Spektor
36. The Mountain Shadow (Abacus/Little, Brown, 2013) / Gregory David Roberts
37. Where Tigers Are At Home (trans. from the French by Mike Mitchell) (Other Press, 2013) / Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès
38. Red Joan (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Jennie Rooney
39. Honor (Viking, 2013) / Elif Shafak
40. Mary Coin (Blue Rider Press, 2013) / Marisa Silver

41. The Silence and the Roar (trans. from the Arabic by Max Weiss) (Other Press, 2013) / Nihad Sirees
42. The Burgess Boys (Random House, 2013) / Elizabeth Strout
43. The City of Devi (Bloomsbury, 2013) / Manil Suri
44. Helsinki Blood (Putnam, 2013) / James Thompson
45. Secrecy (Granta Books, 2013) / Rupert Thomson
46. The Magic of Saida (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) / M.G. Vassanji
47. The Promise (Mantle, 2013) / Ann Weisgarber
48. The Retrospective (trans. from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / A.B. Yehoshua

First Novels
1. Season of the Rainbirds (Vintage, 2013) / Nadeem Aslam
2. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) / Therese Anne Fowler
3. Queen’s Gambit (Michael Joseph, 2013) / Elizabeth Fremantle
4. The Palace of Curiosities (HarperCollins, 2013) / Rosie Garland
5. Telling the Bees (Putnam, 2013) / Peggy Hesketh
6. The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards (Viking, 2013 / Kristopher Jansma
7. Elysian Fields (Mid-City, 2013) / Mark LaFlaur
8. A Map of Tulsa (Penguin, 2013) / Benjamin Lytal
9. The Fields (Little, Brown, 2013) / Kevin Maher
10. Rage Against the Dying (Minotaur Books, 2013) / Becky Masterman

11. Elders (Hogarth, 2013) / Ryan McIlvain
12. Falling to Earth (Europa Editions, 2013) / Kate Southwood
13. She Rises (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / Kate Worsley

Stories
1. The Iraqi Christ (trans. from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright) (Comma Press, 2013) / Hassan Blasim
2. Damage Control (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) / Amber Dermont
3. This Close (Graywolf Press, 2013) / Jessica Francis Kane
4. Any Deadly Thing (Dzanc Books, 2013) / Roy Kesey
5. The Fun Parts (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Sam Lipsyte
6. Brief Loves That Live Forever (trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan) (MacLehose Press, 2013) / Andreï Makine
7. I Want To Show You More (Grove Press, 2013) / Jamie Quatro
8. The Best Place on Earth (HarperCollins Canada, 2013) / Ayelet Tsabari

Poetry
1. Glasswings (Bloodaxe Books, 2013) / Fleur Adcock
2. Recalculating (University of Chicago Press, 2013) / Charles Bernstein
3. Dear Boy (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Emily Berry
4. For the Greek Spring (Shearsman Books, 2013) / Kelvin Corcoran
5. Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (2nd Edition) (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Paul Hoover (ed.)
6. The Word on the Street (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Paul Muldoon
7. Coleshill (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Fiona Sampson
8. Selected and New Poems: 1962-2012 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Charles Simic
9. Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems (Penguin Books, 2013) / Robert Wrigley

Nonfiction
1. Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations (Profile Books, 2013) / Mary Beard
2. She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me (Faber & Faber, March 2013) / Emma Brockes
3. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences (Allen Lane, 2013) / David Cannadine
4. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Harper/HarperCollins, 2013) / Christopher Clark
5. Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011) (Viking, 2013) / Paul Auster & J.M. Coetzee
6. The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / A.C. Grayling
7. The Book of My Lives (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Aleksandar Hemon
8. Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century (Little, Brown, 2013) / Eric Hobsbawn
9. Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self (Harvard University Press, 2013) / Gish Jen
10. The Science of Monsters (Constable, 2013) / Matt Kaplan

11. On Writing (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / A.L. Kennedy
12. Landscapes of the Metropolis: Reflections on Memory and Imagination (trans. by Ralph Mandel) (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2013) / Otto Dov Kulka
13. Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Megan Marshall
14. Trespassers (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Julia O’Faolain
15. Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power (Penguin Books, 2013) / David Priestland
16. The Still Point of the Turning World (Penguin USA, 2013) / Emily Rapp
17. How Literature Saved My Life (Notting Hill Editions, 2013) / David Shields
18. O My America!: Second Acts in a New World (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Sara Wheeler