Wednesday, March 01, 2017

March 2017 Highlights

NOVELS
1. All Grown Up (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) / Jami Attenberg
2. A Piece of the World (The Borough Press, 2017) / Christina Baker Kline
3. The River of Kings (St Martin’s Press, 2017) / Taylor Brown
4. The Hearts of Men (Ecco, 2017) / Nickolas Butler
5. Frontier (trans. from the Chinese by Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping) (Open Letter, 2017) / Can Xue
6. The Underworld (W.W. Norton, 2017) / Kevin Canty
7. The Kingdom (trans. from the French by John Lambert) (Allen Lane, 2017) / Emmanuel Carrère
8. Ill Will (Ballantine Books, 2017) / Dan Chaon
9. The Death of All Things Seen (Head of Zeus, 2017) / Michael Collins
10. In the Name of the Family (Virago/Random House, 2017) / Sarah Dunant

11. Birdcage Walk (Hutchinson, 2017) / Helen Dunmore
12. The Arrangement (Little, Brown, 2017) / Sarah Dunn
13. Compass (trans. from the French by Charlotte Mandell) (Fitzcarraldo Editions/New Directions, 2017) / Mathias Énard
14. Edith & Oliver (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017) / Michèle Forbes
15. The Confessions of Young Nero (Berkley/Macmillan, 2017) / Margaret George
16. Our Short History (Algonquin Books, 2017) / Lauren Grodstein
17. Exit West (Hamish Hamilton/Riverhead Books, 2017) / Mohsin Hamid
18. The Memory Tree (Cheyne Walk, 2017) / Glenn Haybittle
19. Celine (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Peter Heller
20. From the Heart (Chatto & Windus, 2017) / Susan Hill

21. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (HarperCollins, 2017) / Balli Kaur Jaswal
22. The Weight of This World (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2017) / David Joy
23. A Separation (Clerkenwell Press, 2017) / Katie Kitamura
24. The Devil and Webster (Grand Central Publishing, 2017) / Jean Hanff Korelitz
25. White Tears (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Hari Kunzru
26. The Night Ocean (Penguin Press, 2017) / Paul La Farge
27. Black Moses (trans. from the French by Helen Stevenson) (Serpent’s Tail, 2017) / Alain Mabanckou
28. Girl in Disguise (Sourcebooks Landmark, 2017) / Greer Macallister
29. The Long Drop (Harvill Secker, 2017) / Denise Mina
30. A Book of American Martyrs (Ecco, 2017) / Joyce Carol Oates

31. Minds of Winter (Quercus Books, 2017) / Ed O’Loughlin
32. In Extremis (Harvill Secker, 2017) / Tim Parks
33. A Natural (Jonathan Cape, 2017) / Ross Raisin
34. The World Made Straight (Canongate, 2017) / Ron Rash
35. The Woman on the Stairs (trans. from the German by Joyce Hackett & Bradley Schmidt) (Pantheon, 2017) / Bernhard Schlink
36. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Scribner, 2017) / Lisa See
37. The Woman in the Castle (HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2017) / Jessica Shattuck
38. Ties (trans. from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri) (Europa Editions, 2017) / Domenico Starnone
39. The Ashes of London (HarperCollins, 2017) / Andrew Taylor
40. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley (The Dial Press, 2017) / Hannah Tinti

41. Bright Air Black (William Heinemann, 2017) / David Vann
42. The Explosion Chronicles (trans. from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas) (Chatto & Windus, 2017) / Yan Lianke

FIRST NOVELS
1. Stay With Me (Canongate Books, 2017) / Ayobami Adebayo
2. Taduno’s Song (Pantheon, 2017) / Odafe Atogun
3. The Idiot (Penguin Press, 2017) / Elif Batuman
4. Larchfield (riverrun, 2017) / Polly Clark
5. Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney’s, 2017) / Patty Yumi Cottrell
6. The Gargoyle Hunters (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / John Freeman Gill
7. The Same Old Story (trans. from the Russian by Stephen Pearl) (Bunim & Bannigan, 2017) / Ivan Goncharov
8. Man with a Seagull on His Head (Bluemoose Books, 2017) / Harriet Paige
9. The Impossible Fairy Tale (trans. from the Korean by Janet Hong) (Graywolf Press, 2017) / Han Yujoo
10. Himself (Atria Books, 2017) / Jess Kidd

11. The Barrowfields (Hogarth, 2017) / Phillip Lewis
12. One of the Boys (Scribner, 2017) / Daniel Magariel
13. Ithaca (Picador, 2017) / Alan McMonagle
14. The Lucky Ones (Spiegel & Grau, 2017) / Julianne Pachico
15. Next Year, For Sure (Scribner, 2017) / Zoey Leigh Peterson
16. Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) / George Saunders
17. Fever Dream (trans. from the Spanish by Megan McDowell) (Oneworld, 2017) / Megan Schweblin
18. Temporary People (Restless Books, 2017) / Deepak Unnikrishnan
19. The Girl from Rawblood (Sourcebooks Landmark, 2017) / Catriona Ward

STORIES
1. All the Beloved Ghosts (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) / Alison MacLeod
2. The Lucky Ones (Spiegel & Grau, 2017) / Julianne Pachico
3. Swimming Among the Stars (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / Kanishk Tharoor
4. Wait Till You See Me Dance (Graywolf Press, 2017) / Deb Olin Unferth
5. The Last Bell (trans. from the German by David Burnett) (Pushkin Press, 2017) / Johannes Urzidil
6. Attrib. and Other Stories (Influx Press, 2017) / Eley Williams

POETRY
1. The Unaccompanied (Faber & Faber, 2017) / Simon Armitage
2. The Conference of the Birds (trans. from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé) (W.W. Norton, 2017) / Attar
3. Magdalene (W.W. Norton, 2017) / Marie Howe
4. Selected Poems (ed. Dermot Bolger) (New Island Books, 2017) / Francis Ledwidge
5. Whereas (Graywolf Press, 2017) / Layli Long Soldier
6. Simulacra (Yale University Press, 2017) / Airea D. Matthews
7. Box (Penguin Books, 2017) / Robert Wrigley
8. Orbit (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Cynthia Zarin

NONFICTION
1. Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain (Oxford University Press, 2017) / John Bew
2. The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / David Bellos
3. Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom (Allen Lane, 2017) / Erica Benner
4. Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination (Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2017) / Robert Bickers
5. The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (Liveright, 2017) / Jack E. Davis
6. South and West: From a Notebook (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Joan Didion
7. Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2017) / Eamon Duffy
8. The Transferred Life of George Eliot (Oxford University Press, 2017) / Philip Davis
9. Walking in Berlin: A Flaneur in the Capital (trans. from the German by Amanda DeMarco) (The MIT Press, 2016) / Franz Hessel
10. The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Gish Jen

11. An Arrangement of Skin: Essays (Counterpoint, 2017) / Anna Journey
12. Havana: A Subtropical Delirium (Bloomsbury USA, 2017) / Mark Kurlansky
13. More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers (ed. Christopher Boucher) (Melville House, 2017) / Jonathan Lethem
14. The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir (Random House/Fleet, 2017) / Ariel Levy
15. Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation (Yale University Press, 2017) / Peter Marshall
16. The Popular Mind in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Cork University Press, 2017) / Vincent Morley
17. Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism (Pantheon, 2017) / Camille Paglia
18. Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem (Other Press, 2017) / George Prochnik
19. Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (Random House, 2017) / Lyndal Roper
20. Confessions of a Heretic: Selected Essays (Notting Hill Editions, 2017) / Roger Scruton

21. The Mother of All Questions (Haymarket Books, 2017) / Rebecca Solnit
22. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Pantheon, 2017) / Kory Stamper
23. Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident (Hodder & Stoughton, 2017) / Peter Stanford
24. The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy (The MIT Press, 2017) / Peter Temin
25. Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2017) / Shashi Tharoor