Sunday, January 01, 2017

January 2017 Highlights

NOVELS
1. Enigma Variations (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / André Aciman
2. Dark at the Crossing (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Elliot Ackerman
3. A Harvest of Thorns (Thomas Nelson, 2017) / Corban Addison
4. Selection Day (Scribner, 2017) / Aravind Adiga
5. The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping (trans. from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green) (Schocken Books, 2017) / Aharon Appelfeld
6. The Golden Legend (Faber & Faber, 2017) / Nadeem Aslam
7. 4321 (Faber & Faber/Henry Holt, 2017) / Paul Auster
8. Days Without End (Viking, 2017) / Sebastian Barry
9. The Sleepwalker (Doubleday, 2017) / Chris Bohjalian
10. The Stolen Child (Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 2017) / Lisa Carey

11. Dragon Springs Road (William Morrow, 2017) / Janie Chang
12. Transit (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / Rachel Cusk
13. Dalila (Jonathan Cape, 2017) / Jason Donald
14. All the News I Need (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017) / Joan Frank
15. Swimming Lessons (Fig Tree, 2017) / Claire Fuller
16. The Night Brother (The Borough Press, 2017) / Rosie Garland
17. Different Class (Touchstone, w2017) / Joanne Harris
18. Confessions (trans. from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu–Zeid) (W.W. Norton, 2017) / Rabee Jaber
19. Human Acts (trans. from the Korean by Deborah Smith) (Hogarth, 2017) / Han Kang
20. The Traitor’s Niche (trans. from the Albanian by John Hodgson) (Harvill Secker, 2017) / Ismail Kadare

21. The Signal Flame (Scribner, 2017) / Andrew Krivak
22. The Fall Guy (Jonathan Cape, 2017) / James Lasdun
23. Who Killed Piet Barol? (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Richard Mason
24. The Crossing (Europa Editions, 2017) / Andrew Miller
25. A Cup of Rage (trans. from the Portuguese by Stefan Tobler) (New Directions, 2017) / Raduan Nassar
26. Adventures in Modern Marriage (Quercus, 2017) / William Nicholson
27. Welcome to Lagos (Faber & Faber, 2017) / Chibundu Onuzo
28. The Horseman (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) / Tim Pears
29. Behind Her Eyes (HarperCollins/Flatiron Books, 2017) / Sarah Pinborough
30. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (St Martin’s Press, 2017) / Kathleen Rooney

31. Class (Little, Brown, 2017) / Lucinda Rosenfeld
32. Lucky Boy (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2017) / Shanthi Sekaran
33. The Chosen Maiden (Doubleday Canada, 2017) / Eva Stachniak
34. Her Every Fear (William Morrow/Faber & Faber, 2017) / Peter Swanson
35. The Vanishing (Simon & Schuster UK, 2017) / Sophia Tobin
36. No Man’s Land (Nan A. Talese, 2017) / Simon Tolkien

FIRST NOVELS
1. The Bear and the Nightingale (Del Rey, 2017) / Katherine Arden
2. Miss Treadway and the Field Stars (4th Estate, 2017) / Miranda Emmerson
3. Little Deaths (Picador/Hatchette Books, 2017) / Emma Flint
4. History of Wolves (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017) / Emily Fridlund
5. Montpelier Parade (Harvill Secker, 2017) / Karl Geary
6. Rockadoon Shore (John Murray, 2017) / Rory Gleeson
7. Swallowing Mercury (trans. from the Polish by Eliza Marciniak) (Portobello Books, 2017) / Wioletta Greg
8. Homegoing (Viking, 2017) / Yaa Gyasi
9. West Virginia (The Unnamed Press, 2017) / Joe Halstead
10. The Dry (Little, Brown/Flatiron Books, 2017) / Jane Harper

11. The Nix (Picador, 2017) / Nathan Hill
12. The Keeper of Lost Things (Two Roads, 2017) / Ruth Hogan
13. English Animals (Little, Brown, 2017) / Laura Kaye
14. The Transition (4th Estate, 2017) / Luke Kennard
15. Sirens (Doubleday, 2017) / Joseph Knox
16. The Patriots (Spiegel & Grau, 2017) / Sana Krasikov
17. Ancient Tillage (trans. from the Portuguese by K.C.S. Sotelino) (New Directions, 2017) / Raduan Nassar
18. Under the Udala Trees (Granta Books, 2017) / Udala Okparanta
19. Savage Theories (trans. from the Spanish by Roy Kesey) (Soho, 2017) / Pola Oloixarac
20. The Evenings (trans. from the Dutch by Sam Garrett) (Pushkin Press, 2016) / Gerard Reve

21. The Second Mrs Hockaday (Algonquin Books, 2017) / Susan Rivers
22. A Word for Love (Riverhead Books, 2017) / Emily Robbins
23. Idaho (Random House, 2017) / Emily Ruskovich
24. The Fractured Life of Jimmy Dice (Tinder Press, 2017) / Ronan Ryan
25. Fever Dream (trans. from the Spanish by Megan McDowell) (Riverhead Books, 2017) / Samanta Schweblin
26. Spring Garden (trans. from the Japanese by Polly Barton) (Pushkin Press, 2017) / Tomoka Shibasaki

STORIES
1. Doctorow: Collected Stories (Random House, 2017) / E.L. Doctorow
2. The Man Who Shot Out My Eyes Is Dead (Ecco, 2017) / Chanelle Benz
3. Signals: New and Selected Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Tim Gautreaux
4. Difficult Women (Grove Press, 2017) / Roxane Gay
5. Bad Dreams (Jonathan Cape, 2017) / Tessa Hadley
6. The Burrow (trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann) (Penguin Classics, 2017) / Franz Kafka
7. Record of a Night Too Brief (trans. from the Japanese by Lucy North) (Pushkin Press, 2017) / Hiromi Kawakami
8. Always Happy Hour (Liveright, 2017) / Mary Miller
9. Homesick for Another World (The Penguin Press, 2017) / Ottessa Moshfegh
10. Heritage of Smoke (Dzanc Books, 2017) / Josip Novakovich

11. Tumbleweed (Esplanade Books/Véhicule Press, 2017) / Josip Novakovich
12. The Burning Ground (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) / Adam O’Riordan

POETRY
1. Illuminate (Salmon Poetry, 2017) / Kerrie O’Brien
2. The Burning Ground (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) / Adam O’Riordan
3. Moon for Sale (Carcanet Press, 2017) / Richard Price
4. Falling Ill: Last Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / C.K. Williams

NONFICTION
1. The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) / Daniel Beer
2. The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables (Particular Books, 2017) / David Bellos
3. The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan (Harper, 2017) / Patricia Bosworth
4. The Long-Winded Lady (Stinging Fly Press, 2017) / Maeve Brennan
5. Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation (Simon & Schuster, 2017) / Alan Burdick
6. The Correspondence (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) / J.D. Daniels
7. Bears in the Street: Three Journeys Across a Changing Landscape (St Martin’s Press, 2017) / Lisa Dickey
8. African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918 (Caliber, 2017) / Robert Gaudi
9. Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love (Harper, 2017) / Brad Gooch
10. Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up (Chatto & Windus, 2017) / Xiaolu Guo

11. Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films (Yale University Press, 2017) / Molly Haskell
12. Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017) / Bethany Hughes
13. Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum (4th Estate, 2017) / Kathryn Hughes
14. Island People: The Caribbean and the World (Canongate, 2017) / Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
15. The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis (Liveright, 2017) / Patrick Kingsley
16. Nothing But a Circus: Misadventures Among the Powerful (Allen Lane, 2017) / Daniel Levin
17. A Mother’s Tale (Mad River Books, 2017) / Phillip Lopate
18. Age of Anger: A History of the Present (Allen Lane, 2017) / Pankaj Mishra
19. The Pen and the Brush: How passion for Art Shaped Nineteenth-Century French Novels (trans. from the French by Adriana Hunter) (Other Press, 2017) / Anka Muhlstein
20. Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago (Ecco, 2017) / Anna Pasternak

21. The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad (Harvard University Press, 2017) / Alexis Peri
22. Molly Keane: A Life (Virago, 2017) / Sally Phipps
23. The Holocaust: A New History (Viking, 2017) / Laurence Rees
24. Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea (Oxford University Press, 2017) / Jan Rüger
25. Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes (Bloomsbury USA, 2017) / Michael Sims
26. The New Book of Snobs: A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery (Constable, 2017) / D.J. Taylor
27. Taking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America’s Lingua Franca (Bellevue Literary Press, 2017) / John McWhorter

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