Granta

Dept. of Speculation

By Jenny Offill

Undermajordomo Minor

By Patrick deWitt

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

By Janet Malcolm

Leaving the Atocha Station

By Ben Lerner

Orkney

By Amy Sackville

The Radetzky March

By Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann

The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot

By Rebecca Mead

The Faraway Nearby

By Rebecca Solnit

The Luminaries

By Eleanor Catton

Granta 148: Summer Fiction (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

By Sigrid Rausing

The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

By Masha Gessen

May We Be Forgiven

By Homes, A.M., A. M. Homes

The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and its Arabs

By Andrew Hussey

The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary

By Caspar Henderson

Mountains of the Mind: a History of a Fascination

By Robert Macfarlane

Jokes for the Gunmen

By Mazen Maarouf

The Topeka School

By Ben Lerner

This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History

By Esther Rutter